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baba
    Afrikaans word for "baby."
babbo
    Italian word for "father."
babina
    Czech word for "grandmother."
babka
    Polish word for "grandmother."
bacallarius
    Latin word for "bachelor."
backe
    Swedish word for "hill."


===== Background information  =====
===== 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.
*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.
backstugusittare
    Swedish word for "one who owned a small cottage, dugout dweller."
Bad
    German word for "spa, resort."
bad(plaats)
    Dutch word for "resort, spa, bath."
badatel
    Czech word for "researcher."
Badeort
    German word for "spa, health resort."
bagare
    Swedish word for "baker."
bagbygning
    Danish word for "a building behind the main building."
bager
    Danish word for "baker."
Baggage list
    A list of the luggage and other personal belongings of the crew and passengers on a ship or train.
baillivus
    Latin word for "bailiff."
baixo (a)
    Portuguese word for "low."
bajo (a)
    Spanish word for "low."
bakalarz
    Polish word for "teacher, bachelor."
bakari
    Icelandic word for "baker."
bakbygning
    Norwegian word for "back building (additional residence behind the main building)."
baker, Dutch
    Dutch word for "dry nurse."
baker, Norwegian
    Norwegian word for "baker."
bakke
    Norwegian word for "hill."
bakker
    Afrikaans and Dutch word for "baker."
bakom
    Swedish word for "behind."
bal
    Hungarian word for "left (direction)."
The Henry R. Baldwin Genealogical Records, Ohio (Baldwin collection)
    A collection of church, military, cemetery, court, and family information about people from eastern Ohio from 1867 to 1913.
baltycki
    Polish word for "Baltic."
bambina illegittima
    Italian word for "illegitimate girl."
bambini
    Italian word for "children."
bambino illegittimo
    Italian word for "illegitimate boy."
bambino, -a
    Italian word for "child, baby."
ban (le)
    French word for "the territory."
banchiere
    Italian word for "banker."
band, Danish
    Danish word for "volume."
Band, German (Bd.)
    German word for "volume."
bandi di matrimonio
    Italian word for "marriage banns, notices."


===== Bankruptcy  =====
===== 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.
*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.
bannlyse
    Norwegian word for "excommunicate."
bannorum, liber
    Latin word for "register of marriage banns, announcements."


===== Banns  =====
===== 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.
*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.
bannum
    Latin word for "bann, marriage proclamation."
bans
    French word for "marriage banns, announcement(s)."
baptisatus
    Latin word for "baptized."


===== Baptêmes  =====
===== Baptêmes  =====
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*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 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.
baptisma
    Latin word for "baptism." Necessitate baptismo means "(being) an emergency baptism."


===== Baptismal date  =====
===== Baptismal date  =====
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*Records created when an individual participates in the rite or ordinance of baptism to become a member of a church.
*Records created when an individual participates in the rite or ordinance of baptism to become a member of a church.
aptismatis
    Latin word for "of baptism."
baptismo
    Portuguese word for "baptism."
baptismus
    Latin word for "baptism."
baptist
    Norwegian and Swedish word for "Baptist."


===== Baptist 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.
*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.
Baptist, German
    German word for "Baptist."
baptista
    Hungarian word for "Baptist."
Baptiste
    French word for "Baptist."
baptisé
    French word for "baptized."
baptisé sous condition
    French word for "conditionally baptized."
baptizar
    Portuguese word for "to baptize."
baptizatorum, liber
    Latin word for "register of baptisms."
baptizatus est
    Latin word for "he was baptized, has been baptized."
baptizavi
    Latin word for "I baptized, have baptized."
baptême d'urgence
    French word for "emergency baptism."
Baptêmes
    The French word for baptisms.
bar
    Danish, Norwegian and Swedish word for "carried."
bar barnet
    Danish, Norwegian and Swedish word for "carried or held the child (at baptism font)."
bara
    Swedish word for "only."
barbiere
    Italian word for "barber."


===== Barbour Collection  =====
===== 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.
*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.
barca, fabbricatore di
    Italian word for "boat maker."
barcaiolo
    Italian word for "boatman."


===== Barcino  =====
===== Barcino  =====


*A term used in Catholic Church registers to describe a person from Spanish-speaking Latin America whose ancestry is a mix of Indian, African, and Caucasian. Racial classifications were often based on physical appearance or social status; therefore, they were not always accurate.
*A term used in Catholic Church registers to describe a person from Spanish-speaking Latin America whose ancestry is a mix of Indian, African, and Caucasian. Racial classifications were often based on physical appearance or social status; therefore, they were not always accurate.
barco, Portuguese
    Portuguese word for "boat."
barco, Spanish
    Spanish word for "ship."
bare
    Norwegian word for "only."
barilaio
    Italian word for "cooper, barrel maker."
barista
    Italian word for "bartender."
barkahósti
    Icelandic word for "croup."
barn
    Icelandic word for "child."
barn
    Danish and Norwegian word for "child."
barn, Swedish
    Swedish word for "child(ren)."
barna
    Icelandic word for "make pregnant."
barna, Hungarian
    Hungarian word for "brown."
barna, Norwegian
    Norwegian word for "children."


===== Barnardo, Thomas John  =====
===== Barnardo, Thomas John  =====
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*A term used in Catholic Church registers to describe a person from Spanish-speaking Latin America whose ancestry is a mix of Indian, African, and Caucasian. Racial classifications were often based on physical appearance or social status; therefore, they were not always accurate.
*A term used in Catholic Church registers to describe a person from Spanish-speaking Latin America whose ancestry is a mix of Indian, African, and Caucasian. Racial classifications were often based on physical appearance or social status; therefore, they were not always accurate.
barnbarn
    Swedish word for "grandchild(ren)."
barnbok
    Swedish word for "preconfirmation roll (in Finland)."
barndom
    Danish and Norwegian word for "childhood."
barnebarn
    Danish and Norwegian word for "grandchild."
barnedåb, Danish
    Danish word for "child's baptism."
barnedåp, Norwegian
    Norwegian word for "child baptism."
barnefader
    Danish word for "child's father."
barnefar
    Norwegian word for "child's father."
barnlaus
    Icelandic word for "childless."
barnlös
    Swedish word for "childless."


===== Baron  =====
===== Baron  =====
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