The word "descendents" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the people who have descended from an ancestor or lineage. For example, "The royal family had many descendents throughout Europe."
The actor, now playing a slave owner in the film 12 Years a Slave, has in the past acknowledged his ancestors' slave ownership, and revealed that his mother once urged him not to use his real name professionally for fear of becoming the target of reparations claims by the descendents of slaves.
By the third generation descendents of migrants had usually swapped to English alone.
The formation in 2011 of a fundamentalist group called Hefazat-e-Islam ("Protectors of Islam") was a direct response to a plan for legislation which would ensure that all descendents inherit equal portions of an estate.
One possibility is that growth will continue, at a pace fast enough to ensure that however degraded the environment our descendents are better off than we are.
The city authorities are making no attempts to ease some of the discrimination suffered by foreigners resident in the city, especially those of the working class, many of them descendents of those who arrived in the territory centuries ago and who gave their blood in defending it during the Japanese occupation.
But the mir's descendents do not appear to have fallen on hard times.
A few even preferred it (there have been both voluntary slaves, as well as descendents in the USA who were glad their forebears were taken from Africa when they see how they may have lived there).It is a triumph of human spirit that there arose in Europe a principled opposition to this.
Even many public companies still have involvement from the founder's descendents.
In the early 21st century about 2,500 Seminole, largely descendents of those who successfully resisted U.S. government-enforced relocation in the 19th century, were living on several reservations in the southern part of the state.
Vodou is a creolized religion forged by descendents of Dahomean, Kongo, Yoruba, and other African ethnic groups who had been enslaved and brought to colonial Saint-Domingue (as Haiti was known then) and Christianized by Roman Catholic missionaries in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Throughout the colonial period the population of European colonists and African slaves grew slowly, and their mulatto (mixed African and European) descendents now predominate in most regions of the country.
