3
people(kind, group, line, house, family)
2
birth(noun, kind, line, rank, stock)
2
blood(kind, group, line, rank, house)
2
clan(noun, kind, group, strain, line)
2
explorer
2
forbears
2
genealogy(noun, kind, group, line, rank)
2
harbinger
2
line(noun, kind, group, strain, issue)
2
precursors(noun, precursors)
2
prototypes(noun, precursors)
2
root
2
roots
2
strain(noun, kind, group, line, issue)
1
ancestries
1
announcer
1
antecedent
1
antecessors(noun, precursors)
1
avant-garde
1
bellwether
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