- lineage: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
- inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
- An ancestor is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an ancestor (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent, and so forth).
- The ancestry of the people of the United States is widely varied and includes descendants of populations from around the world, some presumably extinct elsewhere. ...
- Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent; A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent
- For a replicator L in a clade C, the ancestry of L in C is: (1) L, (2) all ancestors of L that are also in C. If the clade is uniparental the ancestry of L is a sequence of replicators L = L^0, L^1, L^2, . . ., L^n where L^k+1 = the parent of L^k and L^n is the founder of C. ...
- Denotes all of your ancestors from your parents as far back as they are traceable.
- 1. Family descent or lineage 2. Ancestors collectively
- Line of descent, therefore a person, plant, animal or object that is related to one existing at a later point in time
- a person's nationality group, lineage, or the country in which the person's parents or ancestors were born before they came to the United States.
- To trace a family line from parents to as far back as can be traced.
- A person’s line of descent.