They were technically already citizens by parentage but lacked the documentation.
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Often, the details of parentage are not important elements of the clan tradition.
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Place of birth is not a factor in citizenship determination based on parentage.
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A ballet by Janis Kalnins, a Canadian composer and conductor of Latvian parentage.
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Several different versions of Phineus's parentage were presented in ancient texts.
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Cartier is famous as the shaper for Cheap Moncler Man T-shirt royal parentage.
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Obama a poor fellow of mixed parentage works his way up to become an attorney.
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His nonplussed mother, who thought her son knew his parentage, corrected him.
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Telesio was born of noble parentage in Cosenza, a city in Calabria, Southern Italy.
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Parenthood: the state of being a parent; "to everyone's surprise, parenthood reformed the man"
The kinship relation of an offspring to the parents
Lineage: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
A parent is a caretaker of the offspring in their own species. In humans, a parent is the caretaker of a child (where "child" refers to offspring, not necessarily age). A biological parent consists of a person whose gamete resulted in a child, a male through the sperm, and a female through the ovum. Parents are first-degree relatives and have 50% genetic meet...
Of or pertaining to one's parents, and in particular, the legitimacy of one's birth; The social quality of your class in society; origin; derivation
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Half-blood or pure-blood
A legal determination of who the parents of a child are.