The accusation that an individual must prove four generations of maternal Jewish descent to attain such a lease is simply ludicrous.

She was born in Brooklyn, New York City and is of Polish maternal descent.

Their population is built upon a matrilineal system where these strong hierarchical groups of individuals are connected by maternal descent.

Briefly, she filed based on maternal descent from her Natchez grandmother.

Her suit was based on her maternal descent from a Natchez maternal grandmother.

Leuci was married to Regina, a German woman of some maternal Italian descent.

Analysis of mtDNA, which is inherited exclusively by maternal descent, confrms the above results.

Elise's maternal descent is of the Songhai people.

O'Donnell is of paternal Irish and maternal German descent.

She is of maternal Spanish descent.