ancestors

61 Moby Thesaurus words for "ancestors":
      antecedents, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, ascendants,
      author, begetter, beginner, builder, conceiver, constructor,
      craftsman, creator, designer, deviser, discoverer, effector,
      elders, engenderer, engineer, executor, executrix, father, fathers,
      forebears, forefathers, founder, generator, grandfathers,
      grandparents, grower, inaugurator, industrialist, initiator,
      instigator, institutor, introducer, inventor, journeyman, maker,
      manufacturer, master, master craftsman, mother, organizer,
      originator, past master, patriarchs, planner, precursor,
      predecessors, prime mover, producer, progenitors, raiser, realizer,
      shaper, sire, smith, wright