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In 2021, DNA from a living descendant allowed researchers to identify John Gregory, Engineer of HMS Erebus.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

"I am a descendant of the Urartians, their grandson," he said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

Goode’s third, “Monsters of God,” premiering Thursday on HBO, is both a direct descendant and forges a new path.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

His dynastic claim was that he was a descendant of Eowa, the brother of Penda, a great Mercian warrior who had lived a hundred years before.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Actually, I was not the only legitimate living descendant of the Laughing Man.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

And the people coming back for them were not the European descendants of yore.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

Caribbean nations campaigning for slavery reparations have won support from an unexpected source -- the descendants of some of Britain's most prominent families to have benefitted from the slave trade.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

They added a new draft human remains policy proposed that they were only displayed "where there is documented and informed consent from the deceased individual or, in appropriate circumstances, their descendants".

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

The pain of the Holocaust, however, endures in the lives of survivors and their descendants, and in our collective memory of the war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The modern United States is a European-molded society, occupying lands conquered from Native Americans and incorporating the descendants of millions of sub-Saharan black Africans brought to America as slaves.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond