lineage vs succession

lineage

noun
  • Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage. 

  • A number of lines of text in a column. 

  • A fee or rate paid per line of text. 

succession

noun
  • A race or series of descendants. 

  • In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another. 

  • An act of following in sequence. 

  • A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order. 

  • A right to take possession. 

  • A sequence of things in order. 

  • A passing of royal powers. 

  • Rotation, as of crops. 

How often have the words lineage and succession occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )