Ancestry® helps you understand your genealogy. A family tree takes you back generations—the world's largest collection of online family history records makes it easy to trace your lineage.

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You can do this by searching for records for the sibling of the oldest ancestor you've found and then looking through the sibling's records to find their parents.

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That chain of parents and children are your ancestors. This means that not every older relative is your ancestor. For example, your aunts and uncles are your relatives but not your ancestors, …

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