ancestor

Converse of object

• trace: Family History Trying to trace an ancestor with a canal or river connection.
• originate: Many ancient cultures have legends that their ancestors originated from the Pleiades.

Adjective modifier

• ape-like: That still doesn't explain how a human can evolve from an ape-like ancestor, does it?
• paternal: Lot went to Sodom to become the paternal ancestor of the Ammonites and Edomites.
• distant: They also suggest that at some point in the past, the distant ancestors of modern humans were able to break down cellulose too.
• maternal: Scarlett Johansson's maternal ancestors originally came from Poland.
• prehistoric: Archibald also states our evolutionary distance of millennia from our prehistoric ancestors.
• deceased: It is wise to obtain a copy of any Admon for a deceased ancestor " just in case " .

Modifies a noun

• cult: However, the importance of Bugis sacred places still exists and an ancestor cult conduct pilgrimages to sacred non-Islamic graves.
• worship: They were used during religious rituals and ancestor worship, and were buried in the tombs of the deceased.

Noun used with modifier

• hunter-gatherer: Specifically the set of information-processing machines were designed to solve problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors.
• primate: Once it was accepted that humans had evolved from primate ancestors, the quest for the chronology of events was on.
• Viking: As a gift King Canute returned some of the land that had been taken from the Bishops of Durham by his Viking ancestors.
• immigrant: It is particularly useful when our overseas members supply information regarding their English immigrant ancestor.
• mining: The contents would be of immediate interest to any researcher with Cornish mining ancestors who emigrated to the USA, Canada or Australia.

Possessives

• tomb: While the vampires inhabit a gigantic castle that houses their ancestor's tombs the lycans live underground in a dilapidated sewer cave.

Possessives

• husband: If this turns out to be your husband's ancestor then I have a family tree that will take the pedigree back many generations.

Preposition: of

• earl: Aubrey was the ancestor of the earls of Oxford and held as tenant-in-chief in Cambridge, Essex, Huntingdonshire, and Suffolk.
• clan: It may be that some of the earlier stones were set up to hold the spirits of powerful heroes or ancestors of the clan.
• tribe: These people may have been the ancestors of tribes that live in the area today.