C genealogical glossary terms: Difference between revisions

     Latin word for "they contracted (marriage)."

     Spanish word for "contracting party in a marriage."

     French word for "against."

     Italian word for "against."

     A guide that lists two sets of microfilm numbers for the same set of microfilms. For example, the Archives of Ontario and the Family History Library both have copies of the same microfilms of vital records of births, marriages, and deaths from the Province of Ontario, Canada. The Archives of Ontario uses one numbering system for those records, and the Family History Library uses another numbering system. The Archives of Ontario has a conversion guide that lists both the Archives of Ontario and the Family History Library film numbers for each roll of microfilm in the set.

     Italian word for "conversion."

     Spanish word for "conversion."

     Portuguese word for "conversion."

     A title deed; a document drawn up to transfer property from one person to another.

     Records of convicts who were deported to colonies of their country. These include records made in the new colony or country while the people were still convicts.

     A subject heading used in the Family History Library Catalog to categorize records of convicts who were deported to colonies of their country. These include records made in the new colony or country while the people were still convicts.

     Italian word for "convulsion(s)."

     Latin word for "of convulsions."

     Spanish word for "convulsion."

     Portuguese word for "convulsion."

*The county in Illinois of which Chicago is a part.

     Latin word for "married (of a woman)."

     Swedish word for "merchant marine."

     A collection of family history information about Quakers and others who lived in southeastern Pennsylvania and Burlington, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Salem counties in New Jersey.

     Italian word for "parish register transcripts."

     Latin word for "they were married, joined."

     Latin word for "of marriage."

     Latin word for "married, joined."

     Latin word for "he married (performed wedding)."

===== Copulerede  =====

*A Danish word for marriages.

     Danish word for "married."

     German word for "to marry."

     Land held subject to the will of the lord of a manor. Title to the land was recorded in the manor court rolls, and the tenant was given a copy. A copyhold could not be inherited unless the heir released the land to the lord and was confirmed by the lord on payment of a fee. The same applied to other copyhold land transfers.

*The exclusive legal right to reproduce, publish, and sell an original literary or artistic work that is granted for a specific time to the author or originator.

     French and Portuguese word for "whooping cough."

     Latin word for "cook."

     Latin word for "in the presence of."

*A manuscript collection of information about people from central and western Massachusetts. It includes local histories, church records, town records, genealogies, and transcripts of Bible and cemetery records. It is helpful for the years 1650 to 1850.

     italian word for "rope maker."

     Spanish word for "rope maker."

     French word for "rope maker."

     Portuguese word for "rope maker."

     French word for "shoemaker."

     Latin word for "tanner, leather worker."

===== Cornet, British  =====

*A court formed in 1850 in independent cities, such as Richmond, to handle minor civil and criminal cases and equity, probate, and orphan matters. In 1902, the circuit courts assumed the duties of the corporation courts.

     Latin word for "body."

*A subject heading used in the Family History Library Catalog to categorize information about jails, prisons, halfway houses, and other correctional institutions.

     Italian and Portuguese word for "current."

*The exchange of written communication, such as a letter and a response.

     Spanish word for "current."

     Italian word for "couier."

     Italian and Portuguese word for "court."

     Portuguese word for "cork."

     Spanish word for "harvest."

     Italian word for "builder."

     Italian word for "thus, so."

     Latin word for "cottager."

     French word for "bed, marital bed." Morte en couches means "died in childbirth."

*A series of conferences held between 1545 and 1563 in Trent, Italy. The focus of the council was to define Catholic beliefs and counteract the Protestant Reformation. The council also formalized record-keeping practices that were being followed in much of the Catholic world.

     The legislative body and court of appeals for the colony of Virginia during its earliest period.  

*A religious movement that occurred during the 1500s and 1600s as the Catholic Church tried to unify its beliefs and stop the spread of Protestantism. It led to a series of wars that occurred when Catholic governments tried to stop the spread of Protestantism in their countries. These wars include civil war in France (1565–1648), rebellion in the Netherlands (1585–1604), conflicts between Spain and England (1585–1604), and the Thirty Years War (1618–1648).

     The highest level of government in a given area.

*A court with countywide jurisdiction over civil, minor criminal, chancery, and divorce cases. These courts existed from 1666 to 1855.

     A court with countywide jurisdiction over probates, marriages, administration, and guardianships.  

*A building that houses a county-level court of law.

===== County directory  =====

*An index to a group of records covering a single county. For example, a countywide index may cover one county of a state within a federal census.

===== Court calendar  =====

*A list of city officers, government officials, and private residents.

===== Court executions, New Jersey  =====

*A court in Alabama with statewide jurisdiction over civil cases appealed from lower courts.

===== Court of common pleas, Delaware  =====

*One of the four superior courts at Westminster. It heard civil cases between commoners. In 1873 it became the Common Pleas division of the High Court of Justice, which was merged with the Queen's Bench division in 1880.

===== Court of common pleas, Indiana  =====

*A division of a provincial superior or supreme court in Canada. The court hears serious civil and criminal cases and has the authority to grant divorces. Also called Court of King's Bench if the reigning monarch is a king and also called Trial Division.

===== Court of schouts and schepens, New Netherland  =====

*The highest court in Scotland. It handles cases that deal with revenue, including debt to the Crown, and cases that lower courts refer to it.

===== Court of the Exchequer, England  =====

*A court in New Jersey with countywide jurisdiction over minor criminal cases, such as desertions, vice, apprenticeship disputes, and bastardy. Before 1704 these courts also had jurisdiction over civil cases. These courts were dissolved in 1947. They are also called county courts.

===== Court order  =====

*A record of a court’s decision on a case. Also called a court decree or court judgment.

===== Court Records, Family History Library Catalog™  =====

*Records kept by courts of law.

===== Courthouse, archive  =====

*A building that houses a court of law or county offices and county records.

===== Coûtume de Paris  =====

*An old French law system, used in the area surrounding Paris in 1664, on which civil law in Québec (Canada) was based.

===== Covenant, general  =====

*A legally binding agreement between two or more parties.

===== Coyote  =====