Dr. Shaler says one technique may enable his office to identify victims through their maternal heritage, even though initial DNA tests did not produce a match.

Australian Guantánamo Bay inmate David Matthew Hicks applied for British citizenship in 2005 after the previous 2002 legislation allowed citizenship by virtue of maternal heritage.

Robert Li blinked, the fair skin of his maternal Scandinavian heritage at odds with features bequeathed him by a paternal Hong Kong Chinese grandfather.

Though born and brought up in Oxford, she had a fondness for Scotland, which was the destination for many family holidays and part of her maternal heritage.

Surprisingly, the British maternal heritage turned out to be more like that of northern Europeans than British Y chromosomes are.

Newman lives in Brisbane with his wife Lisa (who is of mixed Lebanese paternal and Irish maternal heritage) and their two daughters, Rebecca and Sarah.

She had inherited some of Darken Rahl's cruelly perfect features, but her maternal heritage and guileless nature altered them into bewitching femininity.

There are two dominant theories about Nancy's maternal heritage:

His paternal heritage is Aboriginal Australian and his maternal heritage is British of convict and free settler origins.

Clans, the next level of resident social structure, are composed of pods with similar dialects, and common but older maternal heritage.