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Keywords: Descent, Ancestor, Ancestry, Pedigree, Foucault

Related Terms: Pedigree, Clan, Ancestor, Ancestral, Ancestry, Blood, Consanguinity, Cousin, Descendant, Family, Issue, Kin, Lineage, Matrilineal, Monophyletic, Offspring, Patrilineal, Phylogeny, Phylogenetic, Polyphyletic, Sept, Tribe, Purebred, Clade, Cladistics, Cladogram, Aumakua, Outgroup, Paraphyletic, Synapomorphy, Descent Group, Cladogenesis, Symplesiomorphy, Phylogenetic Tree, Plesiomorphy, Anagenesis, Ahnentafel, Pedigree Chart, Common Ancestor, Lineage, Mrca, Ingroup, Kindred, Line Breeding, Monophyletic Group, Ancestors, Bloodline, Apomorphy, Family Tree, Pedigree

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An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.

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An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree.

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Regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor; pedigree; lineage.

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Research to identify ancestors; family history.

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