In two days, they visit Jerusalem, the sea and the children's ancestral villages.

The ancestral village is a long walk from the road through pathways of brilliant green.

But, the partition forces Hindu people to leave their ancestral village.

Even those living in the newer communities return to their ancestral villages for ceremonies.

In southern China, clan members could form a village known as an ancestral village.

The country seems close to allowing some of its citizens to visit their ancestral villages on the mainland.

He enjoyed a triumphant return in 1972, visiting his ancestral village.

When we meet the Dorais again in the book's next section, they are exiles from their ancestral village.

The ancestral villages of Eastern Europe were ancient history to him.

It also may describe the ancestral village of the family when used as the actual surname.