Ancestor

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An ancestor, also known as a forefather, fore-elder, or a forebear,^[1] is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent and so forth). Ancestor is "any person from whom one is descended. In law, the person from whom an estate has been inherited."^[2]