When my father A”H was in shidduchim (in the 60s) he went out with a granddaughter of an illustrious Tzadik of the previous Dor. After the date – his Rebbe/Rosh Yeshiva asked him if he thought she was special. When my father replied that she was nice but he didn’t see anything out of the ordinary in terms of middos or Yiras Shamayim – he was told to drop the shidduch. His Rebbe felt that someone with that Yichus should have portrayed exceptional middos and if that was not the case then this was not a shidduch worth pursuing. So I would have to say that Yichus is a plus only if the descendants have absorbed the traits of their ancestors.
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