Provenance

Noun

 * 1) Place or source of origin.
 * 2)  The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.
 * 3)  The history of ownership of a work of art
 * 4)  the copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data utilized to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance)
 * 5)  The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)
 * 6) (of a person) Background; history; place of origin; ancestry.

Thesaurus
beginning, commencement, conception, derivation, fountain, genesis, grass roots, head, inception, origin, original, origination, provenience, radical, radix, rise, root, source, stem, stock, taproot, well, wellspring, whence