Issue (genealogy)

In genealogy and wills, a person's issue are all their lineal descendants.

Lineal descendants

Issue typically means a person's lineal descendants—all genetic descendants of a person, regardless of degree. Issue is a narrower category than heirs, which includes spouses, and collaterals (siblings, cousins, aunts, and uncles). This meaning of issue arises most often in wills and trusts. A person who has no living lineal descendants is said to have died without issue.

A child or children are first-generation descendants and are a subset of issue.

See also

• Legitimacy (family law)
• Primogeniture
• Royal bastard
• Royal descent

References

1. Genealogy
2. Issue
3. Genealogy of Jesus
4. Genealogies in the Bible
5. Lineal descendant
6. Genetic genealogy
7. Irish Republican Army
8. Genealogy tourism
9. Ancestry.com
10. Royal descent
11. New England Historic Genealogical Society
12. Irish genealogy
13. Non-paternity event
14. GEDCOM
15. Genealogical Office
16. Residential Genealogy
17. Genealogical certificate
18. International Genealogical Index
19. FamilySearch
20. Genealogies of Genesis