Cognatic kinship is a mode of
descent calculated from an
ancestor
An ancestor, also known as a forefather, fore-elder, or a forebear, is a parent or ( recursively) the parent of an antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent and so forth). ''Ancestor'' is "any person from ...
counted through any combination of male and female links, or a system of
bilateral kinship where relations are traced through both a father and mother.
Such relatives may be known as cognates.
See also
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Matrilineality
Matrilineality, at times called matriliny, is the tracing of kinship through the female line. It may also correlate with a social system in which people identify with their matriline, their mother's lineage, and which can involve the inheritan ...
Kinship through the female line
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Patrilineality
Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through their father's lineage. It generally involves the inheritanc ...
Kinship through the male line
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References
Kinship and descent
Descendants of individuals
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