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 ## Contact and copyright
 
-It's a fork of [original ancestry](https://github.com/stefankroes/ancestry) gem but adopted to work with Mongoid.
+It's a fork of [original ancestry](https://github.com/stefankroes/ancestry) gem but adapted to work with Mongoid.
 
 All thanks should goes to Stefan Kroes for his great work.