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-'''Background information''': Information about the land, people, history, government, and other characteristics of an area. Background information helps to focus research in the most appropriate types of records for a given area and time period.
+'''Background information'''<br>
-Bankruptcy: The state of being unable to pay one's debts. To formally declare bankruptcy is to seek relief from creditors through a court action. An individual, government, business, or other organization can declare bankruptcy.
+*Information about the land, people, history, government, and other characteristics of an area. Background information helps to focus research in the most appropriate types of records for a given area and time period.<br>
-Banns: A public announcement made by a couple to their local church congregation that they planned to marry. The couple may also have posted a written notice on the church.
+'''Bankruptcy''' <br>
-Baptêmes: The French word for baptisms.
+*The state of being unable to pay one's debts. To formally declare bankruptcy is to seek relief from creditors through a court action. An individual, government, business, or other organization can declare bankruptcy.
-Baptism certificate: A certificate stating the date and place an individual was baptized into a church.
+'''Banns'''<br>
-Baptism for the dead, Latter-day Saint: A priesthood ordinance performed in temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Church members are baptized by proxy in behalf of people who have died.
+*A public announcement made by a couple to their local church congregation that they planned to marry. The couple may also have posted a written notice on the church.
-Baptism, general: An initiation into a Christian church, usually performed by sprinkling the individual with water or immersing the individual in water.
+'''Baptêmes'''<br>
-Baptism, Latter-day Saint: The introductory ordinance into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Church practices baptism by immersion for the remission of sins. The ordinance symbolizes the individual's rebirth as a disciple of Jesus Christ.
+*The French word for baptisms.
-Baptismal date: The day an individual is baptized.
+'''Baptism certificate'''<br>
-Baptismal records: Records created when an individual participates in the rite or ordinance of baptism to become a member of a church.
+*A certificate stating the date and place an individual was baptized into a church.
-Baptist Church: A group of Protestant churches that was founded by John Smythe during the early 1600s while he was a refugee in Amsterdam. The Baptists oppose infant baptism and baptize only adults who have accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior. Baptist churches are governed by local congregations and often organized into separate conventions or associations, such as the Baptist World Alliance and the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland. The Southern Baptist Convention is the largest Baptist organization in the world with 37,000 churches in the United States and its territories. It was organized in 1845 and has offices in Nashville, Tennessee.
+'''Baptism for the dead, Latter-day Saint'''<br>
+*A priesthood ordinance performed in temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Church members are baptized by proxy in behalf of people who have died.
+'''Baptism, general'''
+An initiation into a Christian church, usually performed by sprinkling the individual with water or immersing the individual in water.
+'''Baptism, Latter-day Saint'''
+*The introductory ordinance into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Church practices baptism by immersion for the remission of sins. The ordinance symbolizes the individual's rebirth as a disciple of Jesus Christ.
+'''Baptismal date'''
+*The day an individual is baptized.
+'''Baptismal records'''
+*Records created when an individual participates in the rite or ordinance of baptism to become a member of a church.
+'''Baptist Church'''
+*A group of Protestant churches that was founded by John Smythe during the early 1600s while he was a refugee in Amsterdam. The Baptists oppose infant baptism and baptize only adults who have accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior. Baptist churches are governed by local congregations and often organized into separate conventions or associations, such as the Baptist World Alliance and the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland. The Southern Baptist Convention is the largest Baptist organization in the world with 37,000 churches in the United States and its territories. It was organized in 1845 and has offices in Nashville, Tennessee.
 Barbour Collection: Abstracts of town, church, and other original records from the earliest period of Connecticut's history to the 1850s. The collection is indexed, but the index is incomplete and contains errors.
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