1.   Dozens of countries have smoothed the way for people, with or without ancestral ties, to have their feet firmly planted in two or more lands.

2.   Other revelations here lend credence to common theories that early Florida inhabitants had trade and ancestral ties with Indians in the Midwest, Carr said.

3.   She said some police on the U.S. East Coast have asked that their vests be donated to specific cities, particularly in England, because of ancestral ties.

4.   Some dinosaurs with putative ancestral ties to birds appear to have evolved feathers, too, and they were unrelated to flight.

5.   The Delawares, asserting ancestral ties to the Jersey Shore, would ask the federal government to take the land in trust for the tribe.

6.   He and two others were eligible because of ancestral ties to Italy that qualified them for dual citizenship.

7.   Shahebb says age and ancestral ties keep him in the village.