Which Relatives are Ancestors?

It seems I've been neglecting this blog.

Here's a little challenge question. What are your closest eight direct ancestral surnames?

Mine are:
Barnett, Turner, Covert, Eates, Myers, King, Sherwin, Goodgasell.

 Although we use the term loosely; not all relatives are ancestors.

An ancestor is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent, and so forth). Ancestor is "any person from whom one is descended.