There's a good reason the family lines follow the paternal side.

But no festivities or functions are followed that year on the paternal side.

By the time he was old enough to talk, the entire paternal side of his family tree was lost to him.

Her claim is based on the maternal, not the paternal side.

On his paternal side all ancestors were of English origin.

It is also true that the Ashanti inherit from the paternal side of the family.

Father and son completed only the paternal side of the tree and prayed that the teacher would not say anything.

From his paternal side he has German blood.

His paternal side of the family was wealthy land owners.

She is of Russian Jewish descent on her paternal side.