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What exactly are "ancestors"?

people use it to refer to someone died while others say relatives that are alive??

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Answer #1

You’re ancestors are people in you’re family that are in a different generation. Not your immediate family.

Answer #2

Ancestors are your past bloodline generations that have died. They become ancestors when their estate has been passed down, which only happens after death.

Answer #3

I stand corrected. They have died if it’s an ancestor.

Answer #4

The key word in what Colleen wrote is “bloodline.” In other words, not aunts and uncles. But your great-grandparents (8), great-great grandparents (16), etc., all the way back to either Adam and Eve or some nameless protozoa (depending on what you believe about human origins).

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