Collocations for ancestry - noun

common, shared
The two species have developed from a common ancestry.

African, Japanese, etc.

claim, have, share
Humans share a common ancestry with chimpanzees.

trace
We can trace our ancestry back to the 17th century.

go back to
The company claims an ancestry going back to 1727.

be of Irish, German, etc. ancestry
He is of Chinese ancestry.