- Let's get started with some Family History terms- it will make it easier if you become conversant with these definitions:
- Abstract - summary of important points of a text of document
- Administrator - person appointed to manage or divide the estate of a deceased person, especially one who died without a will, feminine: administratrix
- Alien - noun: a foreigner, citizen of another country; verb: to transfer property to another
- Ancestor - person for whom you are descended; a forefather; a forbear
- Ancestry - all forebears of a person, from parents backwards in time
- Archives- records of a government, organizations, institution, the place where such records are stored
- Attest - to affirm: to certify by signature or oath
- Banns - public announcement of an intended marriage
- Bequeath - to give personal property to a person in a will, noun: bequest
- Bond - a binding agreement to perform certain actions or duties or be required to pay a specified sum of money as a penalty; at different times rewired of estate administrators or executors, grooms, certain elected officials. A bondsman, often a relative, acted as surety.
- Bounty land - land promised as reward or inducement for enlisting in military service
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