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Matrilineal - encyclopedia article about matrilineal. Matrilineality is a system in which descent is traced through the mother and maternal ancestors.

matrilineal - encyclopedia article about matrilineal.

Matrilineality is also a societal system in which one belongs to one's matriline or mother's lineage, which can involve the inheritance of property and/or titles. A matriline is a line of descent from a female ancestor to a descendant (of either sex) in which the individuals in all intervening generations are mothers – a mother line.

In a matrilineal descent system an individual is considered to belong to the same descent group as her or his mother.