However widespread knowledge of its origins may be, the term itself continues to spread.

The author of the message, or anyone with knowledge of its origins, is invited to contact the City section by E-mail at thecity@nytimes.com.

Their children, put in orphanages to be brought up as Soviet, with no knowledge of their own origins.

Deprived of any knowledge of his origins, the boy lived like a man haunted by ghosts.

But you must not let your new knowledge of your origins affect your self-worth.

Having certain knowledge of my origins would give me an experience no human has.

This character had been introduced with no knowledge of his true origins.

More likely the knowledge of their origins was simply lost over the ages.

She had said he was suffering only as an orphan, a man starved for more knowledge of his origins.

If the tradition had survived, even if the knowledge of its origins had not, then Chen might just know who wore the other four.