Noun: family line
- People descended from a common ancestor; blood relations
"his family line has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower";
- family, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, fam [informal], kith and kin
Derived forms: family lines
Type of: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock