Aleneva is a settlement of Russian Old Believers whose ancestors settled in Woodburn, Oregon, after the October Revolution forced them out of Russia.
Most of their ancestors originally settled in the Cape Colony, where they became assimilated into the Afrikaner and Afrikaans population.
They became Polynesians after their ancestors settled in the Fiji Islands, Tonga and Samoa.
His ancestors settled on the Chester River in the 17th century and his father served in Caldwell's Company of John Haslet's Regiment in the American Revolution.
It has been a score-of-score years since our ancestors settled here.
His ancestors settled in Vincennes before Indiana became a state and was a prominent part in the development of that part of the country.
Only about 15 percent of all Jews are Sephardi, the rest being Ashkenazim, whose ancestors settled in middle or northern Europe after the Romans expelled them from Israel.
It showed in every perfect line and arch, in the marble busts of the ancestors settled in their alcoves and the single springing athlete in bronze.
This early ancestor settled with the clan on an island in Goa called "Chudamani" (today's Chorao or Chodan).
For his wife, Iola, it was a sort of homecoming, as her ancestors originally settled in Ridgefield.