A Glossary of Genealogical Terms: Difference between revisions

===== amita  =====

*Latin word for "aunt, father's sister."

===== amitinus  =====

*Latin word for "cousin, (child of father's sister)."

===== amma  =====

*Icelandic word for "grandmother."

===== Amman  =====

*German word for "bailiff, magistrate."

===== ammatti  =====

*Finnish word for "profession, occupation."

===== amministratore  =====

*Italian word for "steward, manager."

===== amministrazione  =====

*Italian word for "administration."

===== amo  =====

*Spanish word for "master, owner."

===== amogliato  =====

*Italian word for "took a wife."

===== amonestaciones  =====

*Spanish word for "marriage banns."

===== amptenaar  =====

*Afrikaans word for "official."

===== amtmand  =====

*Danish word for "chief county administrator."

===== amtmann  =====

*Norwegian word for "chief county administrator."

===== an (année)  =====

*French word for "year."

===== anabaptiste  =====

*French word for "Mennonite."

===== Anbauer  =====

*German word for "peasant."

===== ancestral  =====

*Portuguese word for "ancestor."

===== anche  =====

*Italian word for "also."

===== anciano (a)  =====

*Spanish word for "elderly."

===== ancilla  =====

*Latin word for "female servant."

===== ancillus  =====

*Latin word for "male servant."

===== ancora  =====

*Italian word for "yet, still."

===== andarteppa  =====

*Icelandic word for "croup."

===== andast  =====

*Icelandic word for "die."

===== andaður, andaðir (plural)  =====

*Icelandic word "deceased (male), dead."

===== andedictus  =====

*Latin word for "aforesaid."

===== anden  =====

*Danish word for "second."

===== anden gang  =====

*Danish word for "second time."

===== anden, andet  =====

*Danish word for "second, another."

===== ander(s), Afrikaans  =====

*Afrikaans word for "different, other(s)."

===== ander(s), Dutch  =====

*Dutch word for "other."

===== andere  =====

*German word for "other, next."

===== anders genoem  =====

*Afrikaans word for "alias, also known as, differently called."

===== anders genoemd  =====

*Dutch word for "alias, also known as."

===== andiamo  =====

*Italian word for "right away, immediately."

===== andlega vanheill  =====

*Icelandic word for "mentally deficient, weak-minded."

===== andra  =====

*Swedish word for "second, others."

===== andre, Danish  =====

*Danish word for "others."

===== andre, French  =====

*French word for "others, other, next."

===== andtäppa  =====

*Swedish word for "shortness of breath, asthma."

===== andvana fæddur  =====

*Icelandic word for "stillborn child."

===== anetavle, Danish  =====

*Danish word for "pedigree."

===== anetavle, Norwegian  =====

*Norwegian word for "pedigree chart."

===== anfald  =====

*Danish word for "seizures."

===== anfall, Norwegian  =====

*Norwegian word for "seizure, attack."

===== anfall, Swedish  =====

*Swedish word for "seizure(s)."

===== anførelse  =====

*Danish word for "statement, quotation."

===== anført  =====

*Danish word for "entered, mentioned."

===== anførte  =====

*Norwegian word for "entered, mentioned."

===== Angeber  =====

*German word for "informant."

===== angeblich  =====

*German word for "alleged, assumed."

===== angiven  =====

*Swedish word for "given, stated."

===== anglais(e)  =====

*French word for "English."

===== anglia  =====

*Latin word for "England."

===== angol  =====

*Hungarian word for "English."

*A term used in Brazilian Catholic Church registers to describe an African from Angola. Racial classifications were often based on physical appearance or social status; therefore, they were not always accurate.

===== Anne Lea Nicholson Collection  =====

*A collection of documented family group records prepared by Anne Lea Nicholson. It is one of the first sources that should be checked for families from Gloucester, Salem, Burlington, Camden, and Cumberland counties in New Jersey and Philadelphia County in Pennsylvania.

===== Annual report  =====

*A yearly report made by the administrator or executor of an estate to a probate court.

===== Annuals Index  =====

*One of two indexes that comprise the PERiodical Source Index (PERSI). The Annuals Index is a subject index to articles that appeared in genealogical periodicals published in 1986 or later. This index is also on microfiche at the Family History Library™ (FHL fiche 6016864).

===== Anti-Burghers Church, Scotland  =====

*A church that formed out of the Secession Church in 1745. The Anti-Burghers believed that communion should be withheld from people who took the Burgess Oath, which contained a clause that the Anti-Burghers believed gave approval to the Established Church. In 1820 the Burghers and Anti-Burghers reunited.

===== Antirent movement, New York  =====

*A movement that began in 1839 when tenant farmers in New York revolted against the manorial (leasehold) system and the wealthy landowners who had inherited their land from ancestors who lived in the 1600s and 1700s. The tenant farmers had lived on the land for generations and felt that they rightfully owned it. Many farmers had not paid their rent for years, and in 1839 landowners tried to collect back rent. However, angry farmers, disguised as Native Americans, began terrorizing the landowners and county officials in Columbia and Delaware Counties. The farmers formed secret societies that became powerful enough to defeat any political party that opposed them. In 1846 the antirenters had the New York constitution amended in their favor, and the farms were handed over to the tenants in 1847, marking the end of the patroonship system in New York.

===== Appearance docket  =====

*The authority of a court to review and revise decisions made by lower courts.

===== Application, land  =====

*An individual who determines the value of property. When determining the value of a deceased individual's estate, appraisers use an inventory to estimate the estate's value.

===== Apprentice  =====

*An individual, usually a child, who was legally bound to the master of a trade to work for the master and learn the trade. The master provided training, food, and lodging for the apprentice.

===== Apprenticeship tax, Britain  =====

*A tax assessed on the money a master received for an apprenticeship indenture. This tax was assessed from 1710 to 1811. Apprentices put out by a parish or charity were exempt from the tax.

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