descendants

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Some of the Rubén’s direct descendants would win the award once again 30 years later.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

The Pitcairn Islands has a population of about 50 people and most of the residents are descendants of mutineers from the Royal Navy warship HMS Bounty who settled there in 1790.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

Boucher is now in the process of applying for "proof" of Citizenship - under the new law, descendants are automatically considered Canadian, so the application is not to become Canadian, but to prove one's Canadian-ness.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

Over the centuries, the Rothschild fortune—and name—has been divided among dozens of descendants in England, France and elsewhere.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

Some of these traumatized common people, and their descendants became the settlers who would cross a vast ocean, drawn by the promise of their own land and higher status.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz