(from the box) A great fortune has been amassed and it is your chance to prove your connection and take your share of the riches. Several great estates in Europe are soon to be auctioned off if you can be the first to prove your link to the family. For five years, researchers have exhausted every avenue of linking paternal lines and have now begun to link grandmothers.Most people can not think back more than about 3 generations and prove who the mother was, and her mother, etc. Now, its your chance to prove your maternal line back 6 generations, and win.Game involves collecting, trading and taking cards representing females in your family line. Once you have the right number of people you must prove that each person is the parent of the one you played below it, while the other players try to disprove any connections. - BoardGameGeek