descendants

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Today, Larrie and Lisa own 50% of the company, and Jack’s descendants own the other half.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

That was until BBC teams tracked down his descendants in Central Asia, far away from Jersey in the far east of Uzbekistan.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

If the Y chromosome from these remains matches that of living descendants, it would strengthen historical records and family lineage reconstructions.

From Science Daily • May 4, 2026

Boucher is now in the process of applying for "proof" of Citizenship - under the new law, descendants are automatically considered Canadian, so the application is not to become Canadian, but to prove one's Canadian-ness.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

In the early eighteenth century, large numbers of these Ulster Scots—or Scotch-Irish, as they called themselves—and their descendants pulled up stakes and crossed the Atlantic to the British colonies there.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz