ancestry records
Lineage paper trail
Ancestry records are documents that trace family lineage and genealogical history—birth certificates, marriage licenses, census data, immigration papers, and similar materials.
The term often refers specifically to digitized historical records available through genealogy services: I found my great-grandmother's ship manifest in the ancestry records.
Also called genealogical records.
- ship manifestsLists of vessel contents
- death certificateOfficial record of passing
- family treeChart of ancestors
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- census dataCollected demographic statistics
genealogy · heritage · birth certificate · parish register · family Bible · maiden name · marriage license · tribal affiliation · oral tradition · coat of arms · ancestral language · naturalization certificate · descendants · distant relatives · family reunion · microfilm · kinship · pedigree
- genealogy recordsbirth certificates, death certificates, marriage licenses, vital statistics, family trees
- Canadian genealogyancestors, descendants, family history, family tree, family trees
- pedigree recordspedigree chart, bloodlines, genetic lineage, family tree
- livestock recordsstud book, stud books, pedigree, pedigree papers, ear tags
- nobilityking, queen, prince, princess, duke
- genealogyfamily trees, family history, descendants, ancestors, pedigrees