21.   His family lives in his ancestral village nearby, but he is able to visit them only twice a month.

22.   Most of their Chechen neighbors had fled to their ancestral villages, but the Russians had nowhere to go.

23.   The dictator, who transformed his ancestral village into a monument to kleptocratic kitsch, lies buried in Morocco.

24.   When Russian forces started bombing and shelling the capital of the breakaway republic of Chechnya, many Chechens headed for their ancestral villages to escape the fighting.

25.   Most Colombo residents have left the city for their ancestral villages to celebrate the New Year.

26.   Most residents of Colombo were out of the city, visiting their ancestral villages to celebrate the New Year.