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===== Passenger Lists, PERiodical Source Index ===== | ===== Passenger Lists, PERiodical Source Index ===== | ||
*A record type used in the Locality and Research Methodologies sections of the PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) to identify articles that contain information about passenger lists. | *A record type used in the Locality and Research Methodologies sections of the [[Periodical Source Index (PERSI)|PERiodical Source Index (PERSI)]] to identify articles that contain information about passenger lists. | ||
===== Passport application ===== | ===== Passport application ===== | ||
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*A document that is evidence of a crown land grant received by a person in what is now the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Québec. Quebec began issuing these grants in 1764 and Ontario in 1795. These grants were especially popular after the American Revolutionary War because all Loyalists or their children were entitled to free land in Canada. These grants were abolished in 1827 except for relatives and descendants of Loyalists. Patent-certificates give the name of the grantee, a description of the land, and the date of the grant. | *A document that is evidence of a crown land grant received by a person in what is now the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Québec. Quebec began issuing these grants in 1764 and Ontario in 1795. These grants were especially popular after the American Revolutionary War because all Loyalists or their children were entitled to free land in Canada. These grants were abolished in 1827 except for relatives and descendants of Loyalists. Patent-certificates give the name of the grantee, a description of the land, and the date of the grant. | ||
===== Patriarchal blessing, Latter-day Saint ===== | ===== Patriarchal blessing, Latter-day Saint ===== | ||
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===== Peculiar court, England and Wales ===== | ===== Peculiar court, England and Wales ===== | ||
* | *In the Church of England: a parish, church, chapel, or ecclesiastical court exempt from the jurisdiction of the diocese in which it is physically located. A Peculiar court is a local court authorized to handle probate matters outside the jurisdiction of the archdeacon and bishop for the surrounding area.<br> | ||
===== Pedigree chart ===== | ===== Pedigree chart ===== | ||
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*A publication produced at fixed intervals that deals with topics of interest to specific groups of people. | *A publication produced at fixed intervals that deals with topics of interest to specific groups of people. | ||
===== Periodicals, | ===== Periodicals, FamilySearch Catalog™ ===== | ||
*A subject heading used in the | *A subject heading used in the FamilySearch Catalog to categorize publications produced at fixed intervals that deal with topics of interest to specific groups of people. | ||
===== Permission to emigrate ===== | ===== Permission to emigrate ===== | ||
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*A government-sponsored place where poor people are cared for. | *A government-sponsored place where poor people are cared for. | ||
===== Poorhouses, Poor Law, Etc., | ===== Poorhouses, Poor Law, Etc., FamilySearch Catalog™: ===== | ||
*subject heading used in the | *subject heading used in the FamilySearch Catalog to categorize records related to the care and support of poor people. | ||
===== Population ===== | ===== Population ===== | ||
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*A pattern of changes over time that affect or characterize the people in an area, such as births, deaths, immigration and emigration, gender, ethnicity, and so forth. | *A pattern of changes over time that affect or characterize the people in an area, such as births, deaths, immigration and emigration, gender, ethnicity, and so forth. | ||
===== Population, | ===== Population, FamilySearch Catalog™ ===== | ||
*A subject heading used in the | *A subject heading used in the FamilySearch Catalog to categorize information that describes the people who live in an area. | ||
===== Port city ===== | ===== Port city ===== | ||
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*Records kept after 1783, when the Revolutionary War ended. | *Records kept after 1783, when the Revolutionary War ended. | ||
===== Postal and Shipping Guides, | ===== Postal and Shipping Guides, FamilySearch Catalog™ ===== | ||
*A subject heading used in the | *A subject heading used in the FamilySearch Catalog to categorize information about postal and shipping guides. | ||
Postal directory: An alphabetical list of everyone living in an area. | Postal directory: An alphabetical list of everyone living in an area. | ||
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===== Probate Act, also known as probatum ===== | ===== Probate Act, also known as probatum ===== | ||
*A short | *A short record found at the end of most wills, giving the date the will was proved, and the name(s) of the person(s) to whom court authorization was given to execute the terms of the will. The names were usually the executor or executrix. | ||
===== Probate court, general ===== | ===== Probate court, general ===== | ||
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*An account of how an estate was probated in court. | *An account of how an estate was probated in court. | ||
===== Probate Records, | ===== Probate Records, FamilySearch Catalog™ ===== | ||
*A subject heading used in the | *A subject heading used in the FamilySearch Catalog to categorize legal documents dealing with the distribution of an individual’s property after his or her death. | ||
===== Probate records, general ===== | ===== Probate records, general ===== | ||
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*An archive in England that collects records of the central government, such as parliamentary papers and court records. | *An archive in England that collects records of the central government, such as parliamentary papers and court records. | ||
===== Public Records, | ===== Public Records, FamilySearch Catalog™ ===== | ||
*A subject heading used in the | *A subject heading used in the FamilySearch Catalog to categorize information about records available to the public. | ||
===== Public service claim ===== | ===== Public service claim ===== | ||
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