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     Spanish word for "butcher."

     Latin word for "carpenter."

*A person who works with wood; also the officer in the British navy who examined the wooden parts of a ship.

     Portuguese word for "carpenter."

     Spanish word for "carpenter."

     Italian word for "wheelwright."

     Spanish word for "road."

     Latin word for "deed, charter, map."

*The Spanish term for dowry records.

     French word for "map."

     Italian word for "maps, charts."

     Portuguese word for "archive."

     Italian, Portuguese and Spanish word for "house."

     Portuguese and Spanish word for "married."

     Spanish word for "married to."

     Latin word for "estate, village."

     Portuguese word for "marriage."

*An identification number assigned to a case file.

     Spanish word for "to marry."

     Portuguese word for "to marry."

     Italian word for "dairy farmer."

     Latin word for "cottager."

     An identification number assigned to a case file.

*The collection of records relating to a person's purchase of federal land.

     Italian word for "chest, cash, cashier."

     Italian word for "chest."

     Spanish word for "caste, racial lineage."

     Italian word for "land agent."

     Italian word for "castle."

     Portuguese word for "castle."

     Spanish word for "castle."

*A description of items available in a library's or archive's collection. A catalog usually gives you the call number or other information needed to find the item within the collection.

     Latin word for "land, property record."

     Italian word for "land register."

     Spanish word for "land census."

     Portuguese and Spanish word for "cathedral."

*A series of laws passed to restore to Roman Catholics in Ireland the rights that had been taken away in the Penal Laws passed between 1695 and 1728.

     Latin word for "Catholic."

     French word for "Roman Catholic."

     Spanish word for "fourteen."

     Portuguese word for "fourteen."

     Italian word for "Roman Catholic."

     Portuguese and Spanish word for "Catholic."

     Latin word for "innkeeper."

     Latin word for "cause, sake, because of." Ex causa means "on account of, for the sake of."

     Portuguese word for "gentleman, knight, nobleman."

     Italian word for "knight."

===== Caveat  =====

*A warning notice issued by an interested person to a probate court that no action is to be taken in granting a probate without his case being heard.

     Spanish word for "hunter."

     Portuguese word for "hunter."

     Spanish word for "sugar cane."

     Roman numeral for "two-hundred."

     Roman numeral for "three-hundred."

     Roman numeral for "four-hundred."

     Italian word for "us."

     French word for "it."

     French word for "this, that."

     Czech word for "guild."

     Transfer, give up control. When Spain ceded Florida to the United States, it gave up control of the area.

     Portuguese word for "early."

     The Canadian army that served in World War I.

     Polish word for "brick maker."

     Portuguese word for "blind."

     French word for "yesterday."

     French word for "today."

     Latin word for "turner."

     Italian word for "solemnize a marriage."

     Latin word for "they celebrated, were married."

     Italian word for "bachelor, bachelorette, single, unmarried."

     French word for "this one, she."

     French word for "the latter (f.)."

     French word for "the former (f.)."

     French word for "this one, he."

     French word for "the latter (m.)."

     French word for "the former (m.)."

     Czech word for "entire."

     Portuguese word for "one hundred."

     Spanish word for "cemetery."

===== Cementerios  =====

*An alphabetical list of cemeteries in Indiana. This file is at the Indiana State Library. The Family History Library™ has a microfilm copy.

     Portuguese word for "cemetery."

     Italian word for "census."

*The word used in Spanish and Portuguese for census. The Catholic Church and the government took censuses. Some censuses were taken of military men and their families in outlying areas.

     An official count and description of the people living in a country, colony, state, county, township, or city.

     An index to the 1881 census that is arranged alphabetically by surname, then by place of birth, first name, and age in descending order.

     A number assigned by the Public Record Office in England to each section of the census returns, 1841 to the present. Also called a piece number.

===== Census district  =====

*In Canada, census districts are voting districts, not counties. Though the census district may have the same name as a county, it may not include the same townships.

     A civil boundary created for collecting information about the population of an area. The boundary of a census district was determined by the government and was based on the population in the area. Each district was divided into subdistricts, and each subdistrict was divided into enumeration districts.

     A geographic boundary created for collecting information about the population of an area. In Scotland, this area is the same as the civil or ecclesiastical boundary.

     In Canadian national censuses, the smallest area covered by the census. Canadian provinces are divided into census districts. Districts are divided into subdistricts. Only sometimes are the subdistricts divided into two or more divisions.

===== Census index  =====

*A special census taken in 1911 in Arkansas of all living veterans who served in the Confederate Army.

===== Census Place Index, 1881 British Census  =====

*An index to the 1881 British Census that is organized alphabetically by surname then alphabetically by the census place.

===== Census schedule  =====

*A record type used in the Locality and Research Methodologies sections of the PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) to identify articles that contain information about census records.

===== Central Bureau of Statistics, Sweden  =====

*A grouping of Canadian provinces comprising Québec and Ontario.

===== Century Farm Applications, Iowa  =====

*A collection of records gathered by the Iowa American Revolution Bicentennial Commission. These records contain information about farm owners in Iowa whose property had remained in the family for 100 years or longer.

===== Certificate of arrival  =====

*A legal document given to immigrants after they have met all immigration requirements and have been sworn in as citizens of the United States. Also called a Certificate of Naturalization and Form 2207.

===== Certificats  =====

*A French term for marriage certificate, a record that documents the date and place of a couple's marriage.

===== Chamizo  =====

*A clergyman in charge of a chapel; also a person who serves in the military as a clergyman. The chaplain is considered an officer.

===== Charles Carroll Gardner's Collections, New Jersey  =====

*A collection of cemetery records from Connecticut. The collection has cemetery inscriptions from more than 2,000 cemeteries. It also includes notices of deaths and marriages listed in newspapers.

===== Cherokee  =====

*The French term for the highest ranking title in the French gentry (petite noblesse). A chevalier is equivalent to a British knight.

===== Chicago fire, USA  =====

*A city in Cook County, Illinois.

===== Chickasaw  =====

*A tribe of Native Americans who originally lived in northern Mississippi, western Tennessee, and northwestern Alabama. In 1837 they moved to Indian Territory.

===== China  =====

*Pertaining to something or someone from China; also the languages used by the people of China and other countries.

===== Chino  =====