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*A publication produced at fixed intervals that deals with topics of interest to specific groups of people.
*A publication produced at fixed intervals that deals with topics of interest to specific groups of people.


===== Periodicals, Family History Library Catalog™  =====
===== Periodicals, FamilySearch Catalog™  =====


*A subject heading used in the Family History Library Catalog to categorize publications produced at fixed intervals that deal with topics of interest to specific groups of people.
*A subject heading used in the FamilySearch Catalog to categorize publications produced at fixed intervals that deal with topics of interest to specific groups of people.


===== Permission to emigrate  =====
===== Permission to emigrate  =====
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*A government-sponsored place where poor people are cared for.
*A government-sponsored place where poor people are cared for.


===== Poorhouses, Poor Law, Etc., Family History Library Catalog™:  =====
===== Poorhouses, Poor Law, Etc., FamilySearch Catalog™:  =====


*subject heading used in the Family History Library Catalog to categorize records related to the care and support of poor people.
*subject heading used in the FamilySearch Catalog to categorize records related to the care and support of poor people.


===== Population  =====
===== Population  =====
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*A pattern of changes over time that affect or characterize the people in an area, such as births, deaths, immigration and emigration, gender, ethnicity, and so forth.
*A pattern of changes over time that affect or characterize the people in an area, such as births, deaths, immigration and emigration, gender, ethnicity, and so forth.


===== Population, Family History Library Catalog™  =====
===== Population, FamilySearch Catalog™  =====


*A subject heading used in the Family History Library Catalog to categorize information that describes the people who live in an area.
*A subject heading used in the FamilySearch Catalog to categorize information that describes the people who live in an area.


===== Port city  =====
===== Port city  =====
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*Records kept after 1783, when the Revolutionary War ended.
*Records kept after 1783, when the Revolutionary War ended.


===== Postal and Shipping Guides, Family History Library Catalog™  =====
===== Postal and Shipping Guides, FamilySearch Catalog™  =====


*A subject heading used in the Family History Library Catalog to categorize information about postal and shipping guides.
*A subject heading used in the FamilySearch Catalog to categorize information about postal and shipping guides.


Postal directory: An alphabetical list of everyone living in an area.  
Postal directory: An alphabetical list of everyone living in an area.  
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*An account of how an estate was probated in court.
*An account of how an estate was probated in court.


===== Probate Records, Family History Library Catalog™  =====
===== Probate Records, FamilySearch Catalog™  =====


*A subject heading used in the Family History Library Catalog to categorize legal documents dealing with the distribution of an individual’s property after his or her death.
*A subject heading used in the FamilySearch Catalog to categorize legal documents dealing with the distribution of an individual’s property after his or her death.


===== Probate records, general  =====
===== Probate records, general  =====
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*An archive in England that collects records of the central government, such as parliamentary papers and court records.
*An archive in England that collects records of the central government, such as parliamentary papers and court records.


===== Public Records, Family History Library Catalog™  =====
===== Public Records, FamilySearch Catalog™  =====


*A subject heading used in the Family History Library Catalog to categorize information about records available to the public.
*A subject heading used in the FamilySearch Catalog to categorize information about records available to the public.


===== Public service claim  =====
===== Public service claim  =====
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