Definition of Lineage

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Definition of Lineage
	Lineage Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage. Related Definitions: Ascending, Common, Descending, Descent, From, In, Line, Of, Offspring, Or, Parentage, Progenitor, Progeny, Race

Lineage Quotations

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
Alex Haley

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.
Leon Kass

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.
Rick Moody

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?
Jim Hodges

Lineage Translations

lineage in Afrikaans is herkoms
lineage in Danish is afstamning
lineage in Dutch is komaf, afstamming, afkomst
lineage in French is lignage
lineage in German is Abstammung {f}
lineage in Italian is derivazione
lineage in Latin is progenies
lineage in Spanish is linaje, filiacion

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