Possible Clues:

• Present journal includes most original of titbits passed on
• Some peers are dithery in revolt
• Present journal, including end of manuscript passed on
• Present tense used in journal passed down through generations
• Like some titles, following a line women may have no interest in?
• Handed on, as present, chronicle — about time
• Ancestral
• Coming down the line to this place, a dirty drunk
• Genetic
• Family from present time in journal