kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, family line, sept, folk, family - people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"

breed - a special lineage; "a breed of Americans"

side - a family line of descent; "he gets his brains from his father's side"

family tree, genealogy - successive generations of kin

hereditary pattern, inheritance - (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents

breed, strain - a lineage or race of people

descent, extraction, origin - properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"

bloodline, pedigree - ancestry of a purebred animal