lineally

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Thus Italians owe to the House of Savoy no such agelong allegiance as Hungarians feel toward the Habsburgs, or Japanese toward their 124th lineally descended Emperor.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was lineally descended from Hugh Hastings, of Elsing, and consequently p. 440from Malcolm, King of Scotland. 

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles

From Sir John Thynne, the nephew of Mr. Eymis, who built the magnificent mansion of Longleat, in Wiltshire, the Marquesses of Bath are lineally descended.

From Pope: His Descent and Family Connections Facts and Conjectures by Hunter, Joseph

From this class I am lineally descended; and, at an early age, was duly initiated into all the mysteries of my profession.

From The King's Own by Marryat, Frederick

The pirate with his stout sea chest hidden above high-water mark is lineally descended from the enchanting characters who lived in the shadow land of myth and fable.

From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Paine, Ralph Delahaye