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*A term used in Catholic Church registers to describe a person from Spanish-speaking Latin America whose ancestry is a mix of Indian, African, and Caucasian. Racial classifications were often based on physical appearance or social status; therefore, they were not always accurate.

     Latin word for "glover."

     German word for "surgeon."

     French word for "surgeon."

     Italian word for "surgeon."

     Latin word for "surgeon."

     Italian word for "whoever."

     Czech word for "peasant, country fellow."

     Czech word for "boy."

     Polish word for "peasant, country fellow."

     Polish word for "boy."

===== Choctaw  =====

*A term used in Catholic Church registers to describe a person from Spanish-speaking Latin America whose ancestry is a mix of Indian and Caucasian. Racial classifications were often based on physical appearance or social status; therefore, they were not always accurate.

     Polish and Czech word for "disease."

     An ordinance performed on a baby by the minister of the local parish in the Church of England, Wales, and Ireland. The child is baptized, given a name, and received into the church.

     Latin word for "merchant."

     Afrikaans word for "Christianlike, religious."

     Afrikaans word for "Christian."

Christening records: Records created when an individual is christened (a religious ceremony in which an individual is baptized or an infant is given a name).  

     Records created when an individual is christened (a religious ceremony in which an individual is baptized or an infant is given a name).

*A church founded in 1857 in the United States by people who separated from the Dutch Reformed Church (now called the Reformed Church in America). It adopted its current name in 1904. The church follows the teachings of John Calvin and Huldrych Zwingli, maintaining a conservative, orthodox interpretation of doctrine and practices. It used to conduct its services and keep its records in Dutch.

     German word for "December."

     Polish word for "christened."

     Polish word for "christening."

     Polish word for "godparent(s)."

===== Church Almanac, Latter-day Saint  =====

*A lay officer in a parish or district of the Church of England. The churchwarden helps the minister with various administrative duties and represents the parishioners in church matters. Most parishes have two churchwardens, who are elected on Easter Tuesday. Before large parishes were broken down into divisions, they may have had up to four churchwardens to represent various areas of the parish. Also called churchman, churchmaster, church reeve, and kirkmaster.

     Polish word for "temporarily."

     French word for "castle."

     French word for "owner of a castle."

     Italian word for "there, us, to us."

     Roman numeral for "one-hundred-one."

     French word for "below here."

     French word for "above here."

     Italian word for "cobbler."

     Portuguese word for "city."

     Portuguese word for "citizen."

     Spanish word for "blind."

     Spanish word for "one hundred."

     Spanish word for "one hundred one."

     Hungarian word for "gypsy."

     Czech word for "gypsy."

===== Cimarrón  =====

*A term used in Mexican and Guatemalan Catholic Church registers to describe a person whose ancestry is a mix of Indian (1/4), African (1/2), and Spanish Caucasian (1/4). Racial classifications were often based on physical appearance or social status; therefore, they were not always accurate.

     Latin word for "cemetery."

     French word for "cemetery."

     Italian word for "cemetery."

     Portuguese and Spanish word for "five."

     Spanish word for "fifty."

     Latin word for "gypsy."

     French word for "five."

     Italian word for "fifty."

     French word for "fifty."

     Italian word for "fiftieth."

     French word for "fiftieth."

     Italian word for "five."

     French word for "fifth."

     Portuguese word for "fifty."

     Hungarian word for "burial ground."

     Polish word for "aunt."

     Italian word for "that is, namely."

     Hungarian word for "shoemaker."

     Danish word for "approximately."

     German word for "about."

     Italian word for "about, approximately."

     Latin word for "about, around, round about."

     Swedish word for "about, approximately."

     Latin word for "about, approximately."

===== Circuit court guardian docket  =====

*A court in Wisconsin with countywide jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases and some appeals.

===== Circuit superior court of law, West Virginia  =====

===== Citizen, early England and Wales  =====

*A book used to record the names of people who had received the rights to citizenship. These books were frequently kept in Germany, where they were called Bürgerbücher or Bürgerlisten.

===== City census  =====

*A court in Kansas with citywide jurisdiction over minor criminal cases and traffic matters. Also called magistrate court.

===== City directory  =====

*Records, such as those for births and deaths, kept at a city level.

===== Civil case  =====

*An area covered by a Danish court. In Danish they are called herred and birke.

===== Civil government  =====

*A government record of marriages performed by various civil and religious officials. A register is usually a record in a bound book.

===== Civil registration office  =====

*A type of war in which two or more factions within the same country are at war with each other.

===== Claim  =====

*A settler who was part of a system that filed headright grants by time period. These particular settlers arrived in Texas from 1 January 1840 to 1 January 1842 and received headright land grants from the Republic of Texas.

===== Clergy directory  =====

*A list of the religious leaders in an area or religion.

===== Clerical register of souls, Norway  =====

*A roll kept in Sweden that lists all members of a parish, their place of residence, and their knowledge of catechism. The Evangelical Lutheran Church (Svenska Kyrkan) passed a law in 1686 requiring ministers to keep these records. Some records exist for as early as 1700, but most start much later. From about 1820, surveys are available for most parishes. In Swedish the word for clerical survey records is husförslängder.

===== Clerk  =====

*A government official who keeps the records of a court.

===== Clipping file  =====

*A file of obituaries and other articles cut out of newspapers.

===== Coast Guard  =====

*An emblem used on shields and other implements of war. Coats of arms, invented in the Holy Land during the Crusades, were introduced to England by Richard I. They were originally painted on the shields of Christian soldiers to identify them. Later, the Crown granted the right to use a coat of arms to an individual to identify him in battle. Then a coat of arms became a reward for performing a heroic deed, making a notable achievement, or holding a prominent position.

===== Codicil  =====

*A signed supplement, change, or addition to a will.

===== Cofradías, Spain  =====

*An organization in Spain whose membership was restricted to persons of hidalgo status (untitled Spanish nobility). In Spanish, the terms órdenes militares, confradías and confraternidades refer to military orders of chivalry that were established during the Crusades (1100–1450) to provide a fraternal religious life among the Spanish nobility. The orders were dedicated to retaking Spain from the Moors and protecting pilgrimages to the Holy Land. These orders functioned under the direction of the Pope and were independent of other ecclesiastical or civil authority. However, as the orders grew in wealth and power, they came into conflict with the Spanish Crown. By 1587 most of the orders fell under the control of the monarch. The orders became honorary in nature.

===== Cohabitation certificates  =====

*A record that states the legal marital status of freed slaves.

===== Collection Fabien, Canada  =====

*A collection of Catholic marriage records at the National Archives of Canada. It covers marriages that occurred from 1657 to 1974 in counties surrounding Montréal and on both the Québec and Ontario sides of the Ottawa River Valley.Collection Gagnon, Canada<br>Collection Gagnon, Canada: A collection of marriage indexes, church records, and vital records about French Canadians. This collection is at the city library of Montreal.

===== Collection Rhode Island Family Records  =====

*A list of property owners and how much tax they paid in a given year.

===== Colonel  =====

*Usually the senior staff or administrative officer in the army, air force, or marines who commands a regiment. The British often gave this as an honorary title to members of noble families.

===== Colonial census  =====