descendent

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He is an ethnic Ovaherero descendent who is also a town councillor in the city of Swakopmund, where many of the atrocities took place.

From BBC

Germany’s Basic Law states that former German citizens who between 1933 and 1945 were deprived of their citizenship on political, racial or religious grounds and their descendents can have their citizenship restored.

From Reuters

A member of a doomed 1845 Arctic voyage has been identified by researchers who matched his DNA with that of a living descendent from South Africa.

From BBC

As a descendent of Christian IX and Victoria, Philip’s blood ties extend far into European royal families.

From Washington Times

Some are descendents of Nationalist troops trapped in Myanmar, then called Burma, at the end of China’s civil war in 1949.

From Reuters