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From: "Special Photo" <>
Subject: [MILLER-L] Fw: Glossary Chart M-Z
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 15:53:34 -0500

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>>MAIDEN NAME - A girl's last name or surname before she marries.
>>MANUSCRIPT - A composition written with the hand as an ancient
>>book or an
>>un-printed modern book or music.
>>MARRIAGE BOND - A financial guarantee that no impediment to the
>>marriage
>>existed, furnished by the intended bridegroom or by his friends.
>>MATERNAL - Related through one's mother, such as a Maternal
>>grandmother
>>being the mother's mother.
>>MEASUREMENTS - Link - 7.92 inches; Chain - 100 Links or 66
>>feet;
>>Furlong - 1000 Links or 660 feet; Rod - 5 1/2 yds or 16 1/2 ft
>>(also
>>called a perch or pole); Rood - From 5 1/2 yards to 8 yards,
>>depending
>>on locality; Acre - 43,560 square ft or 160 square rods.
>>MESSUAGE - A dwelling house.
>>METES & BOUNDS - Property described by natural boundaries, such
>>as 3
>>notches in a white oak tree, etc.
>>MICROFICHE - Sheet of microfilm with greatly reduced images of
>>pages of
>>documents.
>>MICROFILM - Reproduction of documents on film at reduced size.
>>MIGRANT - Person who moves from place to place, usually in search
>>of work
>>MIGRATE - To move from one country or state or region to another.
>>(Noun :
>>migration)
>>MILITIA - Citizens of a state who are not part of the national
>>military
>>forces but who can be called into military service in an
>>emergency; a
>>citizen army, apart from the regular military forces.
>>MINOR - One who is under legal age; not yet a legal adult.
>>MISTER - In early times, a title of respect given only to those
>>who held
>>important civil officer or who were of gentle blood.
>>MOIETY - A half; an indefinite portion
>>MORTALITY - Death; death rate.
>>MORTALITY SCHEDULES - Enumeration of persons who died during the
>>year
>>prior to June 1 of 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 in each state of
>>the United
>>States, conducted by the bureau of census.
>>MORTGAGE - A conditional transfer of title to real property as
>>security
>>for payment of a debt.
>>MOTHER-IN-LAW - Mother of one's spouse.
>>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.
>>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.
>>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 a
>>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.
>>QUAKER - Member of the Religious Society of Friends.
>>QUITCLAIM - A deed conveying the interest of the party at that
>>time.
>>RECTOR - A clergyman; the ruler or governor of a country.
>>RELICT - Widow; surviving spouse when one has died, husband or
>>wife.
>>REPUBLIC - Government in which supreme authority lies with the
>>people or
>>their elected representatives.
>>REVOLUTIONARY WAR - U.S. war for independence from Great Britain
>>1775 -
>>1783.
>>ROD - See measurements.
>>ROOD - See measurements.
>>SHAKER - Member of a religious group formed in 1747 which
>>practiced
>>communal living and celibacy.
>>SIBLING - Person having one or both parents in common with
>>another; a
>>brother or sister.
>>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.
>>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
>>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.
>>ULTIMO - In the month before this one.
>>UNION - The United States; also the North during the Civil War,
>>the
>>states which did not secede.
>>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.
>>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.
>>YEOMAN - A servant, an attendant or subordinate official in a
>>royal
>>household; a subordinate of a sheriff; an independent farmer.
>>
>>
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