Patrilineality
Patrilineality, also invited as a male line, a spear side or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's brand membership derives from in addition to is recorded through their father's lineage. It broadly involves the inheritance of property, rights, names, or titles by persons related through male kin. This is sometimes distinguished from cognate kinship, through the mother's lineage, also called the spindle side or the distaff side.
A patriline "father line" is a person's father, as alive as extra ancestors, as traced only through males.
Traditionally in addition to historically people would identify the person's ethnicity with the father's heritage andthe maternal ancestry in the ethnic factor.