A Glossary of Genealogical Terms: Difference between revisions

__NOTOC__ {{Genealogical terms}}  

===== Allen County Public Library  =====

===== alles  =====

===== Annuals Index  =====

===== annuel  =====

===== apteekkari  =====

*Finnish word for "pharmacist, druggist."

===== apud  =====

*Latin word for "at the house of, at, by, near."

===== apéndice, Spanish  =====

*Spanish word for "appendix."

===== apêndice, Portuguese  =====

*Portuguese word for "appendix."

===== após, Hungarian  =====

*Hungarian word for "father-in-law."

===== após, Portuguese  =====

*Portuguese word for "after."

===== apótekari  =====

*Icelandic word for "pharmacy."

===== aqua  =====

*Latin word for "water."

===== aquel (la)  =====

*Spanish word for "that."

===== aquele (a),  =====

*Portuguese word for "that."

===== aquí  =====

*Portuguese and Spanish word for "here."

===== araldica  =====

*Italian word for "heraldry."

===== Arapaho Indians  =====

*A tribe of Native Americans living in the Great Plains from southern Canada to northern Texas.

===== aratore  =====

*Italian word for "plowman."

===== arbeider  =====

*Afrikaans, Dutch and Norwegian word for "laborer."

===== Arbeiter  =====

*German word for "laborer, worker."

===== arbejder  =====

*Danish word for "laborer."

===== arbetare  =====

*Swedish word for "worker, laborer."

===== arbre généalogique  =====

*French word for "family tree, pedigree."

===== Archdeacons' transcripts  =====

*Copies of parish registers sent by Church of England parish ministers to their archdeacons each year. An archdeacon was the church official over an archdeaconry, which was part of a diocese. An archdeacon was under the authority of the Bishop of the diocese.

===== Archdiocese  =====

*An ecclesiastical division that is headed by an archbishop.

===== archidiaconus  =====

*Latin word for "archdeacon."

===== archief  =====

*Dutch word for "archive."

===== archiepiscopus  =====

*Latin word for "archbishop."

===== Archiv  =====

*German word for "archive."

===== Archival quality  =====

*Acid-free folders, acid-free boxes, and archival-safe plastic sleeves made of polyester, polypropylene, or polyethylene are archival quality and the only safe way to store documents and photographs.

===== Archive Section of the Family Group Records Collection  =====

===== archives  =====

*French word for "archive."

===== Archives du Royaume  =====

*French word for "state archives (Belgium)."

===== Archives Nationales  =====

*French word for "state archives (France)".

===== archivi  =====

*Italian word for "archives."

===== archivi di stato  =====

*Italian word for "state archives."

===== archivo  =====

*Spanish word for "archive."

===== archivum  =====

*Latin word for "archive."

===== archiwum  =====

*Polish word for "archive."

===== archív  =====

*Czech word for "archive."

===== arcularius  =====

*Latin word for "carpenter."

===== Julia Hoge Spencer Ardery Collection (Ardery collection)  =====

*A collection of abstracted court records, deeds, family Bibles, family histories, and correspondence about families from Kentucky and Virginia.

===== argief  =====

*Afrikaans word for "archive."

===== Arid  =====

*Dry, lacking in water, a desert.

===== arkisto  =====

*Finnish word for "archive."

===== arkistoluettelo  =====

*Finnish word for "archive list."

===== arkiv  =====

*Danish and Swedish word for "archive."

===== arm  =====

*German word for "poor."

===== arma  =====

*Latin word for "coat of arms."

===== armentarius  =====

*Latin word for "herdsman."

===== armiger  =====

*Latin word for "gentleman, squire."

===== armoiries  =====

*French word for "coat of arms."

===== armorum  =====

*Latin word for "of coats of arms."

===== Armut  =====

*German word for "poverty."

===== Aroostook War (Maine)  =====

*A dispute in 1839 about the boundary between the state of Maine and what is now the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Troops were called out, but there was no battle. The boundary was finally settled by a treaty between the United States and Britain in 1842.

===== Article, periodicals  =====

*A mechanic in the British military who makes and repairs machinery.

===== As Enumerated, 1881 British Census  =====

*An index of the 1881 British census that is organized in the same order as the original census. It can help identify households and neighbors living on the same street.

===== ASCII  =====

*A type of data format for computers. ASCII contains a specified set of letters, numbers, characters, and spaces.

===== Assembly of God  =====

*The largest Pentecostal religion in the world. Its official name is the General Council of the Assemblies of God. Pentecostalism grew out of the religious revival of the early 1900s. Its doctrines include the infallibility of the Bible, the fall and redemption of man, divine healing through prayer, baptism by immersion, eternal punishment for the unsaved, and the return of Christ to rule on earth. Pentecostals believe that every Christian should be filled with the Holy Spirit.

===== Assessment roll  =====

*A list of property owners, the value of their property, and the amount in taxes each owner owes.

===== Assistant surgeon, British  =====

*An organization for professional genealogists.

===== Atlantic provinces, Canada  =====

*A book or computerized collection of geographical maps and charts.

===== Audencia, New Mexico  =====

*Books containing information about personal payments for provisions, sewing, nursing, and wagon use during the Revolutionary War. The records cover from 1784 to 1800.

===== Aufgebote, Germany  =====

*A German word for marriage banns or proclamations.

===== Author/Title Search  =====

===== Authority  =====

*The right and power to make decisions, take action, enforce law, or influence others.

===== 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.