“Lineage as used here means a group of people recognizing descent from a common progenitor and using that shared descent as the basis for their social identity … .
“The record of the Jaredites is similar. Nothing makes that clearer than the genealogy we find in Ether 1:6–32. Some of the leaders listed were kings and some others claimants to the throne, but all of them were of the lineage of Jared. Jared’s descendants carried the right to rule (Ether 6:22–25), as with Nephi’s descendants—the ruling line—who kept the official account during the much later era” (Sorenson, Ancient American Setting, 50–52).