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     Spanish word for "accusation, denunciation."

     Latin word for "publication of marriage banns." Factis tribus denunciationibus means "after the publication of three marriage banns (three marriage banns having been published.)."

*A court in Colorado that has jurisdiction over appeals from the Denver County Court. The superior court shares jurisdiction over minor civil matters with the district courts.

     Portuguese word for "accusation, complaint."

     Spanish word for "district, department."

Departmental archive, France: An archive that collects records for a department of the French government. Departmental archives have collected most French records of genealogical value, including civil registration records, pre-1792 church records, census records, some notarial records, and military conscription records. The French term for these archives is archives départementales.  

     An archive that collects records for a department of the French government. Departmental archives have collected most French records of genealogical value, including civil registration records, pre-1792 church records, census records, some notarial records, and military conscription records. The French term for these archives is archives départementales.

*An individual who cannot or will not provide for his or her own support.

     Portuguese word for "after."

*The testimony of a witness, given in either oral or written form, that was not given in court but is meant to be used in court.

     French word for "since."

     German word for "the."

     Danish word for "there, who, which."

     German word for "the, of the."

     Norwegian word for "there."

     Swedish word for "their."

     Afrikaans and Dutch word for "third."

     Spanish word for "law."

     Danish and Norwegian word for "their."

     Danish and Norwegian word for "therefore."

     United States citizenship granted to individuals based on military service or family relationships.  

     French word for "last rights."

     Portuguese word for "stroke."

     Portuguese word for "seizure, stroke."

     Spanish word for "stroke."

     German word for "the same."

     Dutch word for "thirteen."

     Afrikaans word for "thirteen(th)."

     Dutch word for "thirteenth."

     Dutch word for "thirty."

     Afrikaans word for "thirty (thirtieth)."

     Dutch word for "thirtieth."

     Dutch word for "in the evening."

     Dutch word for "in the afternoon."

     Dutch word for "in the morning."

     Dutch word for "in the night."

     Dutch word for "of the."

     French word for "of the, some."

     German word for "of the."

     Spanish word for "disagreement."

     Spanish word for "disagreement.

*A computer screen in Ancestral File that shows a person's descendants (children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc.).

     Portuguese word for "descendant."

     Spanish word for "descendant."

     Portuguese word for "unknown."

     Spanish word for "unknown."

     Spanish word for "description."

*A surname based on a unique attribute of a person.

     Italian word for "description."

     Portuguese word for "description."

     Portuguese and Spanish word for "since."

     French word for "of the said (pl.)."

     Icelandic word for "December."

     Afrikaans word for "December."

     Norwegian word for "December."

     Czech word for "ten."

     Portuguese word for "exemption from."

     Latin word for "engagement."

     Latin word for "engaged."

     Spanish word for "after."

     Portuguese word for "legally separated."

     Portuguese word for "legal separation."

     Swedish word for "his, her, its."

     Portuguese word for "of that."

     French word for "lower, below."

     French word for "above."

     Portuguese word for "of this."

     Italian word for "right (direction)."

     Czech word for "tithing."

     Czech word for "on the tenth."

     Czech word for "tenth."

     Danish and Norwegian word for "it, that, the."

     Swedish word for "that."

     Swedish word for "this."

     Swedish word for "the, it."

===== Detroit District Manifest Records of Aliens Arriving from Foreign Contiguous Territory, Canada  =====

*A Canadian border crossing list that lists everyone who crossed the Canadian border through Detroit, Michigan, and other Michigan ports from 1906 to 1954.

     A genealogical society organized in Detroit, Michigan.  

     Spanish word for "after, behind."

     Italian word for "said, alias, also know as."

     Afrikaans word for "by, through."

     Latin word for "God."

     German word for "German."

*A German lineage book, which is a major collection of published genealogies of middle-class German families.

     German word for "Germany."

     French word for "two."

     French word for "second."

     Czech word for "ninety."

     Czech word for "on the ninetieth."

     Czech word for "ninetieth."

     French word for "in front of."

     Czech word for "nineteen."

     Czech word for "on the nineteenth."

     Czech word for "nineteenth."

     French word for "to become."

     French word for "should."

     Czech word for "on the ninth."

     Czech word for "ninth."

===== Diacritic  =====

*A mark over a letter that changes the sound and sometimes the alphabetical order of a word.

===== Diary  =====

*An individual’s daily or frequent account of his or her life. Also called a journal.

===== Dictionary  =====

*A seven-volume genealogical dictionary by Cyprien Tanguay that gives information about a large number of French-Canadian families in the Province of Québec. It contains marriage, christening, and burial information from the late 1500s to about 1800. The text is in French.

===== Dictionnaire généalogique des familles du Québec, Canada  =====

*A genealogical dictionary by René Jetté that attempts to list the entire population of Québec before 1730. The text is in French.

===== Dielman-Hayward File, Maryland  =====

*A collection of 250,000 obituary and marriage notices and other biographical items printed in Maryland newspapers from the late 1700s to the present. This collection is at the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore, Maryland.

===== Digest  =====