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*Norwegian word for "the previous day."

*A territory created in 1861 that included all of present-day North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and northern Wyoming.

*A war in which Sweden won much of Denmark's and Norway's territory.

*A large collection of information, usually stored in a computer.

*The date an immigrant enters a new country.

*An historical organization for women in which membership is based upon having an ancestor who served in the American Revolution, 1775 to 1783.

*A collection of transcriptions from Bible records, cemetery records, church records, marriages, deaths, obituaries, wills, and so forth. This collection is an ongoing project of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

*A commission that the United States federal government organized to exchange the lands of the Five Civilized Tribes for pieces of land allotted to individual members of the tribes. The land was in Indian Territory before it became the state of Oklahoma.

*Records of land grants given to individual members of the Five Civilized Tribes. The government of the Five Civilized Tribes was dissolved, and the United States government granted parcels of their land to qualified native individuals.

*Polish word for "formerly."

*Roman numeral for "six-hundred."

*Roman numeral for "seven-hundred."

*Roman numeral for "eight-hundred."

*Czech word for "daughter."

*Czech word for "daughters."

*Dutch word for "the."

*Swedish word for "they."

*Swedish word for "those."

*Swedish word for "these."

*French word for "of the, some."

*An ecclesiastical division that is headed by a dean, the official who presides over a cathedral. The term deanery can also refer to the dean's residence.

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*An official government document that records information about a person's death.

*A public notification detailing the deceased individual’s place of birth (or origin), parents’ names, and children’s names. Death notices are a valuable source of information about people from South Africa.

*A document containing information about an individual’s death, such as the date, place, cause, and so forth.

*The deaths schedule lists the people who died during the twelve months before 2 April of the federal census year of 1871. The records usually give the name, age, sex, province of birth, month and year of death, and cause of death.

*The deaths schedule was taken by federal census officials. You will find the records with the microfilms of the 1871 personal census schedules at the National Archives of Canada. The deaths schedule is not at the Family History Library.

*Spanish word for "weakness, disability."

*Latin word for "illness, weakness."

*Italian word for "weakness of old age."

*Latin word for "deanery, section of a diocese."  

*Latin word for "deacon."  

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*A file of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who died between 1941 and the present.

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*The French word for deaths.

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