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Summary of essential facts in a document or record |
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ADMINISTRATOR / ADMINISTRATRIX |
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Masculine and feminine forms, respectively, for one appointed by a court to administer the estate of a person who died without a valid will |
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Bond posted by an administrator to guarantee the proper performance of his duties |
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A written or oral statement made under oath |
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List of ancestors in numerical order |
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AHNENTAFEL NUMBERING SYSTEM |
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System used to number a person’s ancestors |
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Foreign-born resident of a country who has not been naturalized |
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Person from whom another person is descended--for example, a parent, grandparent, or great-grandparent |
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Form for recording genealogical information on several generations of a person’s ancestors; also known as a pedigree chart |
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APPLICATION FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION |
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Written request submitted to a court asking for authorization to act on behalf of the estate of a decedent |
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Christian ceremony by which water is applied by sprinkling, pouring, or immersion as a sign of admission to membership in a church |
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Written account of a baptism |
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History of a person's life written by another person |
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Written account of a birth in the form of a certificate created for and maintained by a government agency |
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Written accounot of a birth |
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Relationship between persons descended from a common ancestor |
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Written account of a burial |
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Abbreviation for “circa”— about |
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Listing of items, such as the holdings of a library, arranged systematically |
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Periodic official enumeration of the population |
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Day set by law for the federal or state censuses to begin; - also - “as of” date for which certain statistics were taken |
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Population enumeration taken every ten years as required by the U.S. Constitution |
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Transcribed copy of a document signed and certified as a true copy by the official with custody of the original |
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Reference to a source of information |
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Record created by and for a government agency |
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One of two or more persons conveying land by deed |
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Relationship between persons descended from a common ancestor, but not in the direct line--for example, a great-aunt, uncle, cousin, or nephew |
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Mutual ancestor of two or more persons |
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Collection of information or materials from various sources |
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COMPLEX MILITARY SERVICE RECORD |
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A term used by the National Archives for a jacket containing cards with information about an individual’s military service abstracted from original documents |
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Local group of a religious denomination |
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Blood relationship--relationship among descendants of a common ancestor |
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Person not in one's direct line with whom one has ancestors in common |
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Person with whom one has grandparents in common and his/her ancestors |
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Person descended from a common ancestor, but by a different number of generations; one generation would be “once removed,” two generations would be “twice removed” |
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Person with whom one has in common great-grandparents and his/her ancestors |
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Person with whom one has in common great-great-grandparents and his/her ancestors |
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Abbreviation for National Society Daughters of the American Revolution |
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Written account of a death in the form of a certificate created for and maintained by a government agency |
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Brief account of a death published in a newspaper |
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Written account of a death |
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Document filed by an alien in a court declaring his or her intention to apply for citizenship after fulfillment of the residency requirement; also known as “first papers” |
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Document that transfers title to property from one private party to another |
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Document that transfers title to property from one private party to another without a normal purchase price |
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Document by which two or more persons who are co-owners of property divide the property into individual ownership of distinct parts of the property |
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DELAYED BIRTH CERTIFICATE |
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Birth certificate issued, often many years after the event, to a person whose birth was not officially recorded when it occurred |
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Material based upon an original source;
Abstracts, compilations, databases, indexes, transcripts are examples of derivative sources |
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Person who is the offspring of another person; for example, a child, grandchild, or great-grandchild |
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Relevant information that answers a question or solves a problem without additional information |
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Right of a widow to a life estate in a portion of the real property owned by her deceased husband |
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Number assigned to a dwelling, including a single household or multiple households, on a census schedule |
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Reference to a source of information or comment placed at the end of a complete work |
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Beginning in 1880, the district of not more than 4,000 persons assigned to a federal census enumerator |
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Property composing the assets of a decedent |
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Evidence that is relevant to the problem; it is either direct or indirect |
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The process used to determine the validity of a source, information, or evidence |
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Word-for-word copy of part of a document or record; it is enclosed in quotation marks |
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Form for recording genealogical information on a husband and wife and their children |
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Local branches of the Family History Library |
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FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY (FHL) |
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Genealogical library of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah |
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FEDERAL POPULATION CENSUS |
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Enumeration of the population by the federal government taken every ten years since 1790 |
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Petition for naturalization with supporting affidavits filed by an alien in a court |
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Declaration of intention filed by an alien in a court |
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Reference to a source of information or comment placed at the bottom of the page to which it pertains |
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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT |
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Law permitting access to public records maintained by government agencies |
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Study of the origins and descent of families; a written history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor |
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Person who collects and compiles information on the descendants of an individual or the history of a family |
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Person’s first or middle name |
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Person to whom land is conveyed by deed |
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Person who conveys land by deed |
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Calendar system created by Pope Gregory to correct accumulated errors in the old (Julian) calendar; also known as the New Style calendar |
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Person with whom one has one parent in common |
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Person with whom one has one grandparent in common |
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Secondhand information such as oral history or family tradition |
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Person who inherits the property of a decedent |
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Person designated by law to inherit the estate of a person who died without a valid will |
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Persons who live together in a house or dwelling |
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In the same place;
Latin abbreviation used in a list of citations to refer to the immediately preceding entry |
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Digital, film, or photo image; provided that it has not been altered, it is treated as an original |
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Person who enters a country of which he or she is not a citizen with the intention of establishing permanent residence |
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Alphabetical listing of names, places, titles, subjects, etc., with page numbers, document numbers, or other identification as to where they can be found |
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Information relevant to the research question that does not answer the question on its own; it has to be combined with other information to solve the problem |
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Person who gives information; for example, the person who provides information about the decedent and his family for a death certificate |
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Latin word meaning “current month” |
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Book in which records of burials are recorded by a cemetery |
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Detailed listing of property included in an estate |
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Calendar in use before the adoption of the Gregorian calendar;
also known as the Old Style calendar |
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Abbreviation for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
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Relationship between persons descended from a common ancestor in the same line; for example, a parent, grandparent, child, or grandchild |
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Written account of a birth / marriage / death recorded by a town, city, or county |
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City, town, township, or other subdivision of a county |
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Photocopy of a vital record |
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Surname of an unmarried woman |
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Document executed to guarantee that no impediments existed to an intended marriage |
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Written account of a marriage created for and maintained by a government agency; also, a document given to the newly married couple by the person who performed the marriage |
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Report of the facts of a marriage to a town or county certified by the officiator |
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Permission granted, usually by a parent, for the marriage of a minor |
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Notice of an intended marriage published by a New England town |
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Document issued by a town or county authorizing the performance of a marriage |
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Written account of a marriage |
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Written record of marriages performed in a civil or ecclesiastical jurisdiction |
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Report of the facts of a marriage returned to a town or county by theofficiator |
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Surname of a married woman |
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Ancestors of one’s mother |
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Film containing reduced photographic copies of printed or other graphic material |
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Person who assists in childbirth |
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Written account of an individual's military service |
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In the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), the equivalent of a congregation in other denominations |
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MORTALITY CENSUS SCHEDULE |
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Federal census form for enumeration of deaths during the twelve-month period preceding the census taken at the 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 censuses |
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION (NARA) |
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Repository of the permanently valuable records of the U.S. federal government |
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Adjective used to describe a person who acquired citizenship by birth |
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Legal process by which citizenship is conferred on an alien |
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Document created during the naturalization process |
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Person who acquired citizenship through the naturalization process |
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Name used as a substitute for a person’s given name |
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Newspaper article about a death |
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The clerk’s official copy; it is treated as the original when the original does not exist or cannot be accessed |
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Record created at the time of, or shortly after, an event by someone with personal knowledge of the facts, or the testimony of a person involved in the event; the record is in its first recorded form |
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Document listing names of persons who arrived in the destination country on a ship or by air |
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Ancestors or forebears of one’s father |
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Form for recording genealogical information on several generations of a person’s ancestors; also known as an ancestor chart |
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Collection of documents relating to the application by a veteran or his dependent(s) for a pension based on military service |
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Publication issued at regular intervals, such as a newsletter, magazine, or journal |
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Set of calendars for finding the day of the week for a given date during a wide range of years |
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PETITION FOR NATURALIZATION |
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Application for citizenship filed by an alien with supporting affidavits;
also known as “final papers |
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Written application to a court to admit a will to probate and give the executor authority to carry out its provision |
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POPULATION CENSUS SCHEDULE |
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Federal census form for enumeration of the population at ten-year intervals since 1790 |
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Port from which a ship sails |
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Port at which a ship arrives |
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Details provided by a person with firsthand knowledge of an event |
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Envelope or jacket in which have been filed the probate records pertaining to the estate of a decedent |
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Record created in the process of settling the estate of a decedent |
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Book, periodical, newspaper, microfilm, or other media which makes information widely available to the public |
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Document transferring the interest the grantor has in the property; does not guarantee that the grantor is the sole owner or has a clear title to the property |
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Standing professional army, as distinguished from a volunteer militia or a group drafted for a particular war |
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Written account of a baptism, marriage, burial, or other event recorded by a religious congregation |
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Library, courthouse, archives, or other place where books, manuscripts, documents, and other materials are housed |
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Previously published book reprinted without revision |
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Abbreviation for “soldier’s certificate” |
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Second-hand or hearsay information; the details are provided by a person without first-hand (primary) knowledge |
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Certified transcription of a vital record |
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Federal census form for enumeration of slaves in 1850 and 1860 |
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SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH INDEX |
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Database of information about persons who were receiving benefits at the time of their deaths and whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration |
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Numbered certificate awarded to a veteran who qualified for a federal pension based on military service; number used to access a pension application file |
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Soundex - Partially phonetic indexing system in which names are arranged alphabetically by the first letter of the surname, a numerical code representing the remaining letters of the surname, alphabetically by first name or initials of the head of household, and alphabetically by state of birth of the head of household |
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An artifact, book, document, person, website, etc.;
a source is something we can touch or see, and it contains information |
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Reference to a source of information |
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Repository of historical documents maintained by a state government |
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Organization interested in preserving the history of a state |
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STATE VITAL RECORDS OFFICE |
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Agency of a state government in which birth and death (and sometimes marriage) records are filed |
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Guarantor; one legally liable for the debt, default, or failure of another |
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Person’s last name or family name |
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Copy a document or record word for word |
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Word-for-word copy, usually of an entire document or record |
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Abbreviation for “Township” |
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Latin word meaning “month preceding the current month”
Abbreviated ult. |
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Abbreviation for United States Citizenship and Immigration Service, the successor agency of the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Services) |
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Written account of a birth, death, or marriage |
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