What is line of descent?

Some articles on line of descent, line:

House Of Estridsen - Line of Descent - From Christopher I To Margaret I
... Erik Christoffersen Løvenbalk, his male line descendants, the Løvenbalk family, died out after 1598 Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein descends ...

More definitions of "line of descent":

  • (noun): The kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors.
    Synonyms: descent, lineage, filiation

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    “For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.”
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    “Genealogy. An account of one’s descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.”
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    “Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever really lost.”
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