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‘A line can be maternal.’

[⟨det line.n⟩ maternal.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Another mtDNA result and maternal line has been posted to the Acadian Ancestral Home on the mtDNA Proven Origins page.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

But the rules for marrying in Israel are different than the requirements for immigrating and the rabbinate will only accept documentation from the maternal line.
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The maternal line descended from Jewish conversos of the Monz n area.
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Given that she asked Bishop thelwold, one of her beneficiaries, to intercede for her “mother’s soul”, she may have done so through the maternal line.
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The “contemporary” interpretation (“") defines the nine grades of relations to be four generations from the paternal line, three from the maternal line, and two from the wife’s.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

It’s not as much for dad’s company as it is for my mother and our family name on the maternal line.
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In Wikipedia:

These authors claim that such a reversal was not the case, but rather these prehistoric cultures had a social structure that included matrilineality, that is, parentage traced through the maternal line (Eisler 1987, Gimbutas 1989, Christ 1997, Dashu 2000).
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It also sheds light on human evolution; for example, analysis of variation in the human mitochondrial genome has led to the postulation of a recent common ancestor for all humans on the maternal line of descent.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

That is why it is necessary to know your direct maternal line.
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“The sam way the word” Slowianin “or” Slav “most likely means” Man who can understand the Word, “and” Niemiec “or” German “most likely means” Man who cannot understand the word; “and similar way as the Jewish Semites inherit after the maternal line of the family, and the Arab Semites after the paternal; the Slavs tend to call their homelands Motherlands, and the Germans Fatherlands.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

So, having thought all my life I would never be able to connect the dots among my Canadian ancestors the way my proud wasp maternal line had done way back to Castle Donnington, England (don’t get excited, we lived outside the walls and it’s now a speedway…
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In Wikipedia:

The genetic test determined that her maternal line originated among the Kpelle ethnic group, in the area that today is Liberia.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

My mother and I each retained the Bosmer appearance because the straight maternal line is almost all Bosmer.”
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

However my maternal line has been in Chatham forever.
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A maternal line, the Great Family includes every culture, religion, ethnicity, and race.
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He was the son of king Indravarman I’s daughter, Mahendradevi, and was married to his aunt, a half – sister of king Yasovarman I. Because there were no clear rules of succession, his claim for the throne through a maternal line seemed to be valid.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

My cousin Ginger is my mom’s first cousin but her maternal line comes from my mother’s paternal line and I’ve always been under the assumption my’ ‘female’’ genetics come more from my mother’s maternal line.
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In Wikipedia:

Tylor interpreted his results as indications of a general evolutionary sequence, in which institutions change focus from the maternal line to the paternal line as societies become increasingly complex.
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John Robinson, who accompanied the Pilgrims to Holland and thence to America, was his earliest ancestor in this country and in the maternal line he is of French Huguenot descent.
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Queried on 2013-05-24.