Sentence examples for descendant through from inspiring English sources
He belonged to the Cherokee Nation as a descendant through his mother, Blanche.
Edited by Shannon Lanier, a descendant through Sally's son Madison Hemings's line, the portraits that emerge are as generous and jumbled as America itself.
Nearby is a painted disc composed of traditional basket designs by the Cahuilla of Southern California (of which deSoto is a distant descendant through his paternal great-grandmother) encircled by the Latin word for smallpox.
OF the 30 swell young ladies who will be formally introduced to high society during the International Debutante Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria on Dec. 29, the most swell may be Hadley Marie Nagel — a German countess, according to her mother, Susan Nagel, and also a direct descendant, through her father, Jon (a lawyer), of two signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Michael Ibsen, a furniture maker from Canada, had already been identified as a direct descendant through the maternal line of Anne of York, Richard's sister.
(By 'direct relic' I mean occupying the original position in the genes and descendant through replication).
The descendants' group, the Monticello Association, decided to continue to restrict membership to Jefferson's descendants through his daughters Martha and Maria.
Genealogies go back many generations to a single ancestor; the descendants (through the male line) of each person in the genealogy thus form a territorial kinship group.
In 2008, Paolo Benvenuti's film "Puccini e la Fanciulla" examined the possibility that Puccini had a son from an affair and descendants through that line.
To the fore in this analysis was music, the music of slaves and their descendants, through which vast numbers of New World citizens interpret their personal experience.
Punch's mother, Iphigene, was Adolph's only child, and her descendants through her marriage to Arthur Hays Sulzberger have considered themselves not just the owners, but the stewards, of the New York Times.
