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GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY
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                                               NAMESAKE - Person named after another person.
                                               NECROLOGY - Listing or record of persons who have died                                                                                              recently
                                               NEE - Used to identify a woman's maiden name; born with                                                                                                the surname of.
                                               NEPHEW - Son of one's brother or sister.
                                               NIECE - Daughter of one's brother or sister.
                                               NONCUPATIVE WILL - One declared or dictated by the
                                               testator, usually for persons in last sickness, sudden illness,
                                               or military.
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                                               ORPHAN - Child whose parents are dead; sometimes, a                                                                                                    child who has lost one parent by death.
                                               ORPHAN'S COURT - Orphans being recognized as wards
                                               of the states, provisions were made for them in special
                                               courts.
  


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                                               PASSENGER LIST - A ships list of passengers, usually
                                               referring to those ships arriving in the US from Europe.
                                               PATENT - Grant of land from a government to an                                                                                                              individual.
                                               PATERNAL - Related to one's father. Paternal                                                                                                                  grandmother is the father's mother.
                                               PATRIOT - One who loves his country and supports its                                                                                                    interests.
                                               PEDIGREE - Family tree; ancestry.
                                               PENSION - Money paid regularly to an individual,                                                                                                            especially by government as reward for military service                                                                                                    during wartime or upon retirement from government                                                                                                          service.
                                               PENSIONER - One who receives a pension.
                                               PERCH - See measurements.
                                               POLE - See measurements.
                                               POLL - List or record of persons, especially for taxing or                                                                                                  voting.
                                               POST - Latin prefix meaning after, as in post-war economy.
                                               POSTERITY - Descendants; those who come after.
                                               POWER OF ATTORNEY - When a person in unable to act
                                               for himself, he appoints another to act in his behalf.
                                               PRE - Latin prefix meaning before, as in pre-war military                                                                                                  build-up.
                                               PRE-EMOTION RIGHTS - Right given by the federal
                                               government to citizens to buy a quarter section of land or                                                                                                  less.
                                               PROBATE - Having to do with wills and the administration
                                               of estates.
                                               PROGENITOR - A direct ancestor.
                                               PROGENY - Descendants of a common ancestor; issue.
                                               PROVED WILL - A will established as genuine by probate
                                               court.
                                               PROVOST - A person appointed to superintend, or preside
                                               over something.
                                               PROXIMO - In the following month, in the month after
                                               the present one.
                                               PUBLIC DOMAIN - Land owned by the government.
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                                               QUAKER - Member of the Religious Society of Friends.
                                               QUITCLAIM - A deed conveying the interest of the
                                               party at that time.
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                                               RECTOR - A clergyman; the ruler or governor of a                                                                                                            country.
                                               RELICT - Widow; surviving spouse when one has died,
                                               husband or wife.
                                               REVOLUTIONARY WAR - U.S. war for independence                                                                                                    from Great Britain 1775 - 1783.


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                                               SHAKER - Member of a religious group formed in 1747
                                               which practiced communal living and celibacy.
                                               SIBLING - Persons having one or both parents in common.
                                               SIC - Latin meaning  thus; copied exactly as the original                                                                                                    reads. Often suggests a mistake or surprise in the original.
                                               SON-IN-LAW - Husband of one's daughter.
                                               SPINSTER - A woman still unmarried; or one who spins.
                                               SPONSOR - A bondsman; surety.
                                               SPOUSE - Husband or wife.
                                               STATUTE - Law.
                                               STEP-BROTHER / STEP-SISTER - Child of one's step-
                                               father or step-mother.
                                               STEP-CHILD - Child of one's husband or wife from a
                                               previous marriage.
                                               STEP-FATHER - Husband of one's mother by a later                                                                                                        marriage.
                                               STEP-MOTHER - Wife of one's father by a later marriage.                                                                                              SURNAME - Family name or last name.
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                                               TERRITORY - Area of land owned by the united States,
                                               not a state, but having its own legislature and governor.
                                               TESTAMENTARY - Pertaining to a will.
                                               TESTATE - A person who dies leaving a valid will.
                                               TESTATOR - A person who makes a valid will before his                                                                                                  death.
                                               TITHABLE - Taxable.
                                               TITHE - Formerly, money due as a tax for support of the                                                                                                  clergy or church.
                                               TORY - Loyalist; one who supported the British side in the
                                               American  Revolution.
                                               TOWNSHIP - A division of U.S. public land that contained
                                               36 sections, or 36 square miles. Also a subdivision of the
                                               county in many Northeastern\par and Midwestern states of
                                               the U.S..
                                               TRADITION - The handing down of statements, beliefs,                                                                                                  legends,
                                               customs,  genealogies, etc. from generation to generation,
                                               especially by word of mouth.
                                               TRANSCRIBE - To make a copy in writing.


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                                               ULTIMO - In the month before this one.
                                               UNION - The United States; also the North during the Civil                                                                                              War, the non seceding states.


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                                               VERBATIM - Word for word; in the same words, verbally.
                                               VITAL RECORDS - Records of birth, death, marriage or                                                                                                divorce.
                                               VITAL STATISTICS - Data dealing with birth, death,                                                                                                        marriage or divorce.
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                                               WAR BETWEEN THE STATES - U.S. Civil War, 1861 -                                                                                                  1865.
                                               WARD - Chiefly the division of a city for election                                                                                                               purposes.
                                               WILL - Document declaring how a person wants his                                                                                                          property divided after his death.
                                               WITNESS - One who is present at a transaction, such as a                                                                                                sale of land or signing of a will, who can testify or affirm                                                                                                    that it actually took place.
                                               WPA HISTORICAL RECORDS SURVEY - A program
                                               undertaken by the US Government 1935 - 1936 in which
                                               inventories were compiled of historical material.

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                                               YEOMAN - A servant, an attendant or subordinate official
                                               in a royal household; a subordinate of a sheriff; an
                                               independent farmer


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