line-of-descent

(n) the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors filiation, lineage, descent,
(n) the descendants of one individual
- his entire lineage has been warriors
ancestry, bloodline, blood line, lineage, pedigree, stemma, parentage, blood, descent, origin, stock, line,

filiation lineage descent ancestry bloodline blood line pedigree stemma parentage blood origin stock line