Barks once stated that his paternal ancestors were Dutch and his maternal ancestors were Scottish.

His maternal grandparents were Carl Johnson and his wife Suzanna Massey, but little else is known about his ancestors.

His father, Achille La Guardia, was a lapsed-Catholic from Cerignola, and his mother, Irene Coen, was a Jew from Trieste, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ; his maternal grandmother Fiorina Luzzatto Coen was a Luzzatto, a member of the prestigious Italian Jewish family of scholars, kabbalists and poets and had among her ancestors the famous rabbi Samuel David Luzzatto better known as Shadal.

The Senoi appear to be a composite group, with approximately half of the maternal DNA lineages tracing back to the ancestors of the Semang and about half to later ancestral migrations from Indochina.

His paternal ancestors were of Scoto-Norman heritage ( originating in Brix, Manche, Normandy ), and his maternal of Franco-Gaelic.

Williams ' paternal ancestors were a mix of Welsh and Irish, and his maternal ancestors were of Mexican and French descent.

Modesty, Tubman's maternal grandmother, arrived in the United States on a slave ship from Africa ; no information is available about her other ancestors.

Much of this was from their imperial ancestors, the Franconian emperors, and a part from Conrad's maternal ancestry, the Saarbrücken.

Among his maternal Protestant ancestors were several famous Prussians, including Field Marshal August von Gneisenau.

He came from a family of prosperous Burgundian lawyers-on both his paternal and maternal side, his ancestors had held legal posts for at least a century.

Matrilineality is a system in which descent is traced through the mother and maternal ancestors.

The melodrama was written by Lillian Hellman, whose maternal ancestors were all natives of Demopolis.

* Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon. com ; his maternal ancestors were settlers from Greece who lived in Texas.

His maternal ancestors were settlers who lived in Texas, and over the generations acquired a 25, 000 acre ( 101 km < sup > 2 </ sup > or 39 miles < sup > 2 </ sup >) ranch in Cotulla.

This, combined with Mirabeau's resemblance to his maternal ancestors and his fondness for his mother, contributed to his father's dislike of him.

Although the Berbers are the most probable ancestors of the Guanches, it is deduced that important human movements ( e. g., the Islamic-Arabic conquest of the Berbers ) have reshaped Northwest Africa after the migratory wave to the Canary Islands " and the " results support, from a maternal perspective, the supposition that since the end of the 16th century, at least, two-thirds of the Canarian population had an indigenous substrate, as was previously inferred from historical and anthropological data.

Fan charts depict paternal and maternal ancestors.

His ancestors included two well-known men of the Greek War of Independence, namely his paternal grandfather and namesake Ioannis Papadiamantopoulos ( 1766 – 1826 ), born in Corinth but of ultimately Epirote ancestry, ( he was executed after the fall of Missolonghi ) and his maternal granduncle Iakovos Tombazis ( c. 1782 – 1829 ), a renowned Arvanite from Hydra, who became one of the first admirals of the Greek navy.

Gregory comments on his choice of title in the book's primary dedication, addressing his maternal ancestors,

Addressing his maternal ancestors again,

Through maternal ancestors, the Gonzagas inherited also the imperial Byzantine ancestry of the Paleologus, that earlier ruling family of Montferrat.

His maternal ancestors included Major Robert Holt, a successful planter and a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1655.

On being raised to the bench he was created Baron Ellenborough, of Ellenborough, in the County in Cumberland, taken from the village where his maternal ancestors had long held a small patrimony.

This Estrid was the maternal grandmother of the chieftain Jarlabanke of the Jarlabanke clan.

A child belongs to the clan and village community of its mother, and wealth, as well as social position, are inherited, not from father to son, but from maternal uncle to nephew.

As a child he contrasted the social order represented by his maternal grandfather with the clan mentality of his Scottish father and frequently drew analogies between the Highland clans and the Māori tribes.

However, there have been several cases where a descendant through the maternal line has changed their surname in order to claim the chiefship of a clan, such as the late chief of the Clan MacLeod who was born John Wolridge-Gordon and changed his name to the maiden name of his maternal grandmother in order to claim the chiefship of the MacLeods.

To prevent Emperor Ping's maternal uncles of the Wei clan from becoming powerful, he ordered that they, along with Emperor Ping's mother Consort Wei, not be allowed to visit him in the capital.

While LeFlore was not said to be popular among the full-blood tribal men, he became powerful and influential within the tribe at an early age, largely because of his mother's clan and maternal uncle's position and his own skills.

The key to their decision was that Prince Xiang's maternal clan was domineering and might repeat the behaviors of the Lü clan, while the clan of Prince Heng's maternal clan, the Bos, were considered to be kind and humble.

Some historians conclude that his maternal line was of the Ermy clan, because his maternal uncle Organa was possibly of that clan.

The Welsh give him a twin sister, Morvydd, and as Arthur's maternal nephew he is a cousin to Gawain and the Orkney clan.

As was traditional among the matrilineal Lakota, in which the children belonged to the mother's clan and people, Red Cloud was mentored as a boy by his maternal uncle, Old Chief Smoke ( 1774 – 1864 ).

Genealogically the Dunkeld dynasty is based on Duncan I of Scotland being of a different agnatic clan to his predecessor and maternal grandfather Malcolm II of Scotland.

Because they claimed it through their maternal lineage, they had never used the clan name-Borjigin.

* Ami: given name of maternal grandmother + given name, given name + given name of father, or given name + na + dynastic name + clan name

For instance, chapter 4 defines terms for: paternal clan ( 宗族 ), maternal relatives ( 母黨 ), wife's relatives ( 妻黨 ), and marriage ( 婚姻 ).

William Hayes claimed to have some Cherokee ancestry, while his maternal great-grandfather, Aba Ougi ( also known as Charles ) was a chieftain from Côte d ' Ivoire.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

Albert was chosen as his successor early in 1511 in the hope that his relationship to his maternal uncle, Sigismund I the Old, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, would facilitate a settlement of the disputes over eastern Prussia, which had been held by the Order under Polish suzerainty since the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ).

In 39, Agrippina and Livilla, with their maternal cousin, Drusilla's widower Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, were involved in a failed plot to murder Caligula, a plot known as the Plot of the Three Daggers, which was to make Lepidus the new emperor.

The outer cells become the trophectoderm or trophoblast, which will form in combination with maternal uterine endometrial tissue the placenta, needed for fetal nurturing via maternal blood, while inner cells become the inner cell mass that will form all fetal organs ( the bridge between these two parts eventually forms the umbilical cord ).

His childhood was spent in Swansea, with summer trips to Carmarthenshire to visit Fernhill, a dairy farm owned by his maternal aunt, Ann Jones, the memory of which is used for the 1945 lyrical poem " Fern Hill ".

Thus, the term " maternal surname " means the patrilineal surname which one's mother inherited from either or both of her parents.

Females lactate for approximately seven months following birth, at which point calves are weaned and maternal care begins to decrease.

Due to a combination of ( 1 ) the traditions of dynastic succession in Aragon, which permitted maternal inheritance with no precedence for female rule ; ( 2 ) the insanity of Charles's mother, Joanna of Castile ; and ( 3 ) the insistence by his remaining grandfather, Maximilian I, that he take up his royal titles, Charles initiated his reign in Castile and Aragon, a union which evolved into Spain, in conjunction with his mother.

His maternal grandfather was General Peter Gansevoort, a hero of the Battle of Saratoga ; in his gold-laced uniform, the general sat for a portrait painted by Gilbert Stuart, which is described in Melville's 1852 novel, Pierre, for Melville wrote out of his familial as well as his nautical background.

Many tribes, such as the Haudenosaunee Five Nations and the Southeast Muskogean tribes, had matrilineal systems, in which property and hereditary leadership were controlled by and passed through the maternal lines.

Little else is known about his childhood, although there is a persistent tradition that he was educated by his maternal great-grandfather Jean de St. Rémy — a tradition which is somewhat undermined by the fact that the latter disappears from the historical record after 1504, when the child was only one year old.

Alexandra was a carrier of the gene for hemophilia, which she inherited from her maternal grandmother, Queen Victoria.

Thinking, the capacity to think the thoughts which already exist, develops through another mind providing α-function ( 1962, p. 83 )-through the " container " role of maternal reverie.

After concluding a diplomatic mission to Sparta during the latter part of which Menelaus was absent to attend the funeral of his maternal grandfather Catreus, Paris absconded to Troy with Helen in tow despite his brother Hector forbidding her to depart with them.

Some males had a cognomen that ends in-anus, which was adapted from and commemorated a nomen, sometimes their maternal family or — if they were adopted — their original paternal family.

Economically, for carrier couples of cystic fibrosis, when comparing preimplantation genetic diagnosis ( PGD ) with natural conception ( NC ) followed by prenatal testing and abortion of affected pregnancies, PGD provides net economic benefits up to a maternal age of approximately 40 years, after which NC, prenatal testing and abortion has higher economic benefit.

in 1998 reported on their similar study, in which they found that 13 % of uncles of gay brothers on the maternal side were homosexual, compared to 6 % on the paternal side.

It is this antigen which maternal H-Y antibodies are proposed to both react to and ' remember '.

He returned to Bloomington where he wrote for the family newspaper, The Daily Pantagraph, which was founded by his maternal great grandfather Jesse W. Fell, who had also served as Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager in his 1858 race for the US Senate.

* Pre-eclampsia is a disease which is defined by a combination of signs and symptoms that are related to maternal hypertension.

Contrary to earlier observations, recent studies emerging from some developing countries ( India, Bangladesh and Indonesia ) have strongly suggested that dosing expectant mothers in the population in which vitamin A deficiency is common and maternal mortality is high can greatly reduce maternal mortality ratio Similarly, dosing newborn infants with 50, 000 IU ( 15 mg ) of vitamin A within 2 days of birth, can significantly reduce neonatal mortality