1.   Americans who define themselves as black vary so widely in skin color because nearly all of them have white ancestors somewhere along the line.

2.   And McCain, who had ancestors who fought for the South during the Civil War, has been as uncomfortable as Bush on the Confederate flag issue.

3.   At one point, the census categorized some blacks according to how many white ancestors they had.

4.   Because many Herero women were forced into sexual slavery to survive after the rebellion, many Herero today have German ancestors, and German is widely spoken here.

5.   A few of the attendees had ancestors on both sides of the conflict.

6.   All crops, garden plants and domestic animals have wild ancestors.

7.   But later investigation revealed that Ms. Laborit had had deaf ancestors.

8.   Everyone but me seemed to have an ancestor on the Mayflower.

9.   His dogged exorcism has its ancestors in hard-boiled detective fiction and film noir.

10.   I have ancestors who fought for the Confederacy, none of whom owned slaves.