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From: "Ronald Hatton" <>
Subject: [OHHURON-L] Abbreviations in Genealogy
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 08:23:19 -0400

Frederick Lewis Weis, in his
"Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists [7th Ed.]".

adm. - admitted
ae., aet. - aged
aft. - after
als. - alias
ante - before; by
app. or appt. - apparently
b. - born
bap., bapt. - baptized
bef. - before
betw. - between
bur. - buried
ca. - about (circa)
Cal. - Calendar
cf. - compare
cit. - the work cited (citato)
Co. or co. - county
coh. - co-heir
Coll. - College
cr. - created (as a peer)
d. - died
d.c.c - writ of diem clausit extremum ("he has closed his last ay")
d.s.p. - died without issue (sine prole)
d.s.p. legit (not d.s.p.l.) died without legitimate issue
d.s.p.m. - died with mael issue
d.v.p. - died during father's lifetime (vita patris)
d.y. - died young
dau. - daughter
dea. - deacon
disp. - dispensation
div. - divorced
dtd. - dated
ff. - following
fl. - flourished or living (only approximate date known)
frm - freeman, a voter in a colony. The date following is the date he
was admitted.
gen(s) - generation(s)
gent. - gentleman
gr. - granted
GS - gravestone
h. - heir (or heiress)
H.C. - Harvard College
husb. - husband
i. - issue
I.P.M.; Inq.p.m. - An inquest held to determine the deceased's land
holding. (Inquisition post mortem, usually dated by "regnal year",
which is expressed, as an example: 3 Hen. 4: 3 Hen IV - Third year of
the reign of Henry IV) (many old dates are given in this manner,
particularly those of the Inq.p.m.)
ibid. - the same
J.P. - Justice of the Peace
j.u. - jure uxoris, right of wife
k. - killed
K.B. - Knight of the Bath
K.G. - Knight of the Garter
K.T. - Knight of the Thistle (Scotland)
knt., kt. - knight
lic. - license
liv. - living
loc. cit. - place cited
m. - married
m. (1); m. (2); m. (3) - married first; married second; third, etc.
M.I. monumental inscription
M.P. - Member of Parliament
matric. - matriculated (entered and recorded at college or university)
ment. - mentioned
Mich. - Michaelmas, the feast of St. Michael (many old dates are given
as of a Saint's feast day, or days preceding or following it.)
ms. - manuscript
N., N.N. - name not known
n.i. - no issue
N.S. or n.s. - new series
nr. - near
ob. - died
occ. - occurs
op. cit. - the work cited above (opere citato)
p.; pp. - page; pages
P.C. - Privy Council
PCC - Prerogative Court of Canterbury
perh. - perhaps
pres. - presumed
pro. - probated or proved (will)
prob. - probably
psh. - parish
pub. - published
purch. - purchased
q.v. - quod vide, which see
ref(s) - reference(s)
regnal year - the date most often used in medieval documents referring
to the number of the year of the reign of the monarch at the time the
document was dated.
Rot. - Roll; Rolls (rotalus). A term used for many types of early
records.
s. - son
s.p. - without issue (see d.s.p.)
sett. - settled
sh. - shortly
suc. - succeeded
succ. - successively
summ. - summoned
suo juris - in his (or her) right
surv. - survived
ult. - ultimo (last)
unkn. - unknown
vol. - volume
wid. - widow
y. - young
yr. - younger
yr(s). - year(s)
yst. - youngest

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