His father came from a line of Norman squires claiming a forebear who sailed with William to conquer England in 1066.

ECONOMIST: Liberty and democracy

If this sounds weirdly narcissistic, consider that the movement has a forebear in a quintessential American: Benjamin Franklin, the founding father of self-tracking.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Humana, a pioneer of for-profit health care (and a forebear of Galen, which Columbia bought in 1993), spent much of the 1980s besieged by investigators and lawsuits.

ECONOMIST: American health care

To call it a big difference seems to be a disservice to a device that is essentially completely different from its forebear.

ENGADGET

As a political combatant, Pope is more subtle than Jesse Helms, his conservative forebear.

NEWYORKER: State for Sale

In a sad irony, the new library may actually be built over its earliest forebear, which is known to have been located in the same vicinity.

ECONOMIST: Runes among the ruins