A Glossary of Genealogical Terms: Difference between revisions

===== arpent  =====

*French word for "acre."

===== arpenteur  =====

*French word for "surveyor."

===== arpète  =====

*French word for "errand boy, apprentice."

===== arquibispo  =====

*Portuguese word for "archbishop."

===== arquivo  =====

*Portuguese word for "archive."

===== arrendamiento  =====

*Spanish word for "rent."

===== arrendator  =====

*Swedish word for "tenant farmer, leaseholder."

===== arrivo  =====

*Italian word for "arrival, immigration."

===== arrière  =====

*French word for "great (as in great-grandparents)."

===== Arrondissement  =====

*An administrative division of some large cities in France or the largest division of a department in the French government.

===== arroz  =====

*Portuguese word for "rice."

===== artefice  =====

*Italian word for "maker."

===== arton  =====

*Swedish word for "eighteen."

===== artífice  =====

*Portuguese word for "journeyman."

===== arv  =====

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

===== arve  =====

*Danish word for "inherit."

===== arvelodd  =====

*Norwegian word for "share of inheritance."

===== arving  =====

*Norwegian word for "heir."

===== arvinge  =====

*Swedish word for "heir."

===== arvo  =====

*Finnish word for "title, rank, status."

===== arvskifte  =====

*Swedish word for "distribution of an inherited estate."

===== arzobispo  =====

*Spanish word for "archbishop."

===== Arzt  =====

*German word for "physician."

===== ascendente  =====

*Portuguese word for "ancestor."

===== ascendiente  =====

*Spanish word for "ancestor."

===== ascesso  =====

*Italian word for "abscess."

===== asema  =====

*Finnish word for "station, class, standing."

===== asevelvollinen  =====

*Finnish word for "conscript soldier."

===== asi  =====

*Czech word for "perhaps, about, maybe, circa."

===== asiakirja  =====

*Finnish word for "document, record."

===== asilo, Portuguese  =====

*Portuguese word for "asylum, poorhouse."

===== asilo, Spanish  =====

*Spanish word for "asylum, shelter."

===== asma  =====

*Afrikaans, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish word for "asthma."

===== asmi  =====

*Icelandic word for "asthma."

===== assento  =====

*Portuguese word for "record, entry."

===== assessore comunale  =====

*Italian word for "alderman."

===== assinatura  =====

*Portuguese word for "signature."

===== asszony, Hungarian  =====

*Hungarian word for "married woman, wife."

===== astma  =====

*Norwegian word for "asthma."

===== asua  =====

*Finnish word for "live, reside."

===== asuinpaikka  =====

*Finnish word for "place of residence."

===== asukas  =====

*Finnish word for "inhabitant, resident, lodger."

===== asunto  =====

*Finnish word for "residence."

===== asutuksen yleisluettelo  =====

*Finnish word for "general register of inhabitants."

===== asystencya  =====

*Polish word for "assistance."

===== aszkór  =====

*Hungarian word for "dehydration."

===== asztalos  =====

*Hungarian word for "cabinet maker; joiner; woodworker."

===== asztma  =====

*Hungarian word for "asthma."

===== at, Latin  =====

*Latin word for "but."

===== at, Norwegian  =====

*Norwegian word for "that."

===== ata  =====

*Portuguese word for "record, document."

===== atd.  =====

*Czech word for "and so forth."

*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  =====

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

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