A Glossary of Genealogical Terms: Difference between revisions

===== atque  =====

*Latin word for "and."

===== atrás  =====

*Portuguese word for "behind, in back of."

===== att  =====

*Swedish word for "that (know that he died)."

===== attacco  =====

*Italian word for "seizure."

===== Attained  =====

*Achieved, reached a goal, as in Hawaii attained statehood.

===== attaque  =====

*French word for "seizure."

===== atten  =====

*Danish and Norwegian word for "eighteen."

===== attende  =====

*Danish and Norwegian word for "eighteenth."

===== attesa  =====

*Italian word for "awaiting."

===== attest  =====

*Danish, Norwegian and Swedish word for "certificate."

===== atti diversi  =====

*Italian word for "miscellaneous records."

===== atto di matrimonio  =====

*Italian word for "marriage certificate."

===== atto di morte  =====

*Italian word for "death certificate."

===== atto di nascita  =====

*Italian word for "birth certificate."

===== atya  =====

*Hungarian word for "father."

===== au  =====

*French word for "at the, in the."

===== au dessus  =====

*French word for "over."

===== au matin  =====

*French word for "in the morning."

===== au même endroit  =====

*French word for "at the same place."

===== au soir  =====

*French word for "in the evening."

===== aubergiste  =====

*French word for "innkeeper."

===== auch  =====

*German word for "also, too."

===== aucun(e)  =====

*French word for "no, none."

===== auf  =====

*German word for "on, upon, at."

===== aufbieten  =====

*German word for "post banns."

===== Aufenthaltserlaubnis  =====

*German word for "residence permit."

===== Aufenthaltsort  =====

*German word for "residence."

===== auglýsing  =====

*Icelandic word for "proclamation."

===== august  =====

*Danish and Norwegian word for "August."

===== August, German  =====

*German word for "August."

===== augusti  =====

*Latin and Swedish word for "of August."

===== Augustus  =====

*Dutch and Latin word for "August."

===== Augustus, Afrikaans (VIII)  =====

*Afrikaans word for "August."

===== augusztus  =====

*Hungarian word for "August."

===== aujourd'hui  =====

*French word for "today."

===== aukko  =====

*Finnish word for "gap (missing records)."

===== auparavant  =====

*French word for "former."

===== aurifaber  =====

*Latin word for "goldsmith."

===== auriga  =====

*Latin word for "driver."

===== aus  =====

*German word for "from, out of."

===== aussi  =====

*French word for "also, as, since."

===== austriacki  =====

*Polish word for "Austrian."

===== austriaco  =====

*Italian word for "Austrian."

===== Auswanderer  =====

*German word for "emigrant."

===== Auswanderung  =====

*German word for "emigration."

===== Auszehrung  =====

*German word for "consumption or emaciation (especially from TB)."

===== Auszug  =====

*German word for "extract."

===== aut  =====

*Latin word for "or."

===== autant  =====

*French word for "as much."

===== autem  =====

*Latin word for "but, however, moreover."

===== autio  =====

*Finnish word for "uninhabited."

===== auto de fé, Portuguese  =====

*Portuguese word for "trial of faith, sentence handed down by the Inquisition."

===== auto de fé, Spanish  =====

*Spanish word for "sentence given by the Inquisition."

===== autorisation  =====

*French word for "permission."

===== autour  =====

*French word for "around."

===== autre  =====

*French word for "other."

===== auxentium  =====

*Latin word for "Alsace."

===== außen  =====

*German word for "outside."

===== außer Dienst (a.D.)  =====

*German word for "formerly employed, retired."

===== außerehelich  =====

*German word for "illegitimate."

===== av, Norwegian  =====

*Norwegian word for "of, at, by, from."

===== av, Swedish  =====

*Swedish word for "of."

===== ava  =====

*Latin word for "grandmother."

===== ava materna  =====

*Italian word for "maternal grandmother."

===== ava paterna  =====

*Italian word for "paternal grandmother."

===== Aveux et dénombrements, Canada  =====

*A type of land record used in the mid-1700s in Québec, Canada, roughly translated as "land descriptions" or "censuses of land and inhabitants." The aveux et dénombrements list the name of the principal habitant (occupant) of each farm in each seigneurie (manor) but not family members or farm workers. The information required in this record was very precise and included the exact location of the land, its size, the streams that flowed through it, the number and condition of buildings and mills on the lands, the number of tenants and the rents they paid, and the acres of cultivable land.

===== Avocat  =====

*A French term for lawyer.

===== Award books  =====

*Records of land grants given to settlers in Hawaii between 1836 and 1855.

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