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Agnate and Cognate

An agnate is a person related through exclusively male blood or adoption lines, while a cognate is related through one or more female lines. An agnate of someone can be in their ascending line, such as a father, grandfather, or great-grandfather. A cognate is not exclusively male-linked and can include relationships such as a mother's father. Both agnates and cognates can be in someone's descending line, like a son, daughter, grandson or granddaughter, but cognates also include relationships through female ancestors like a mother's mother.

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Agnate and Cognate

An agnate is a person related through exclusively male blood or adoption lines, while a cognate is related through one or more female lines. An agnate of someone can be in their ascending line, such as a father, grandfather, or great-grandfather. A cognate is not exclusively male-linked and can include relationships such as a mother's father. Both agnates and cognates can be in someone's descending line, like a son, daughter, grandson or granddaughter, but cognates also include relationships through female ancestors like a mother's mother.

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Agnates” and “Cognates

Agnate means a person related to wholly through males either by blood or by adoption.
The agnatic relation may be a male or a female.

Cognate means a person related not wholly through males. Where a person is related
to the deceased through one or more females, he or she is called a cognate. Thus son’s
daughter’s son or daughter, sister’s son or daughter, mother’s brother’s son, etc. are
cognates, whereas one’s father’s brother, or father’s brother’s son or father’s son’s son
or father’s son’s daughter are agnates.

A cognate or agnate may be in ascending or descending line. The following sketches


may illustrate the position:

Agnates
Ascending line

In the above illustration, F, FF, FM, FFF and FFM are the agnates of A in ascending
line. MF is not the agnate. F stands for father and M for mother.

Descending line
In the above illustration S, D, SS and SD are the agnates of A in descending line. DD
and DS are cognates of A in descending line. Here S stands for son and D stands for
daughter.

Cognates

In the above illustration MF, MFF and MMF are cognates of A. M stand for mother, MM
stands for mother’s mother and MF stands for mother’s father.

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