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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.

===== 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.

===== 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.

===== Baptism certificate  =====

*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  =====

*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.

     Hungarian word for "Baptist."

     French word for "Baptist."

     French word for "baptized."

     French word for "conditionally baptized."

     Portuguese word for "to baptize."

     Latin word for "register of baptisms."

     Latin word for "he was baptized, has been baptized."

     Latin word for "I baptized, have baptized."

     French word for "emergency baptism."

     The French word for baptisms.

     Danish, Norwegian and Swedish word for "carried."

     Danish, Norwegian and Swedish word for "carried or held the child (at baptism font)."

     Swedish word for "only."

     Italian word for "barber."

===== 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.

     Italian word for "boat maker."

     Italian word for "boatman."

===== 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.

     Portuguese word for "boat."

     Spanish word for "ship."

     Norwegian word for "only."

     Italian word for "cooper, barrel maker."

     Italian word for "bartender."

     Icelandic word for "croup."

     Icelandic word for "child."

     Danish and Norwegian word for "child."

     Swedish word for "child(ren)."

     Icelandic word for "make pregnant."

     Hungarian word for "brown."

     Norwegian word for "children."

*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.

     Swedish word for "grandchild(ren)."

     Swedish word for "preconfirmation roll (in Finland)."

     Danish and Norwegian word for "childhood."

     Danish and Norwegian word for "grandchild."

     Danish word for "child's baptism."

     Norwegian word for "child baptism."

     Danish word for "child's father."

     Norwegian word for "child's father."

     Icelandic word for "childless."

     Swedish word for "childless."