- expatriate: a person who is forced to leave his or her native country. to exile or banish
- genealogy: an account of ancestors and descendants
- genesis: the beginning, origin, or way in which something was created
- genetics: the branch of biology that deals with heredity
- maternity: the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother
- matriarch: the mother who rules the family or tribe
- matrimony: the state of being husband and wife, the act of being married
- matronly: like a married woman; dignified, stately
- paternal: fatherly; of or like a father; on the father's side of the family
- patrician: a noble, high-ranking person