Returns the first ancestor of the Instance whose Instance/Name is equal to the given name.

This function works upwards, meaning it starts at the Instance’s immediate Instance/Parent and works up towards the DataModel. If no matching ancestor is found, it returns nil.

The following code snippet would find the first ancestor of the object named ‘Car’.

local car = object:FindFirstAncestor("Car")

For variants of this function that find ancestors of a specific class, please see Instance/FindFirstAncestorOfClass and Instance/FindFirstAncestorWhichIsA.