JUNE 27, 2021 In Disney’s The Lion King, the Pride Lands were the areas that King Mufasa and his pack of lions had control over within the kingdom, as a group of lions is traditionally called a pride of lions. In my ancestry, Pride remains a proper noun, but instead of describing a block of land, it resembles a branch of my family tree; in other words a group of people in my ancestral line. Week 25: Groups Copyright: Disney. When I first took up researching my family’s genealogy on my mom’s side, I studied a lot of the notes and information shared with me from my grandparents and great aunts. Their trees stretched back to my 2nd great grandparents definitively, Nathan & Elizabeth (Rockwell) Dixon. But my 3rd great grandparents on the Dixon line were shrouded in a bit more mystery. Nathan Dixon and Elizabeth (Rockwell) Dixon, tintype portrait. Nathan Dixon’s father’s given name was thought to be something along the lines of James, Joseph, or John. As of yet, I believe it to ha...