His face revealed traces of distant human ancestry.

By Chinese standards, his face was long and craggy; he might have had a foreign devil or two in his distant ancestry.

No matter how distant that ancestry - whether it goes back 10 generations or more - marriage within the gotra is forbidden.

He was the fierce and lonely Highlandman of his distant ancestry, come to life again.

Critics say some tribes are trying to reclaim children, some of whom have only distant Indian ancestry, from their adoptive parents.

More distant relationships would correspond to a more distant common ancestry.

Could the two people with a shared distant ancestry and family resemblance have interbred?

Some of her distant ancestry also includes Irish and other European roots.

The third option were Brazilian-born women of distant Portuguese ancestry.

She is of mostly French Canadian descent, with more distant Irish ancestry.