claim descent

Some local families still claim descent from these men today.

Many lines of the Fox family today claim descent from him.

There is no evidence of children but many families in Canada have claimed descent from the couple.

Almost every emperor that would claim descent from this woman.

Both are men of ideas who claim descent from Mohammed.

Most of the show's staff claim descent from Confederate soldiers.

She gave birth to a boy, from whom the all the present tribe claims descent.

The community claims descent from the progeny of this marriage.

In other words, to claim descent, either genealogical or spiritual.

Many human tribes, nations, etc claim descent from one man and his women.

And family tradition claiming descent from the famous couple does not count for much, she added.

Only one paternal lineage claims descent more than 600 years.

Two major Korean clans today claim descent from this union.

By so doing, he claimed descent from the Minamoto clan.

A branch of the family claimed descent from several imperial Byzantine families.

A family then consists of those descended or claiming descent from a common ancestor.

There are some people today, though, who claim descent from the Mongol aristocracy.

The tribe often claims descent from one common ancestor-as mentioned above.

These tell us they claimed descent from a female ancestor .

Also, many royal families claimed descent from Odin through other sons.

In contemporary societies, similar men's houses are used by groups of families who claim descent from a common ancestor.

However, several modern day groups claim descent, with varying levels of academic and rabbinical support.

As a sort of pagan high priest, the king often claimed descent from some deity.

He is said to have had seven sons, from which the main clans of the tribe claim descent.

The family claimed descent from the medieval kings of Alania.