DICTIONARIES: GENEALOGICAL TERMS
- Abstract - summary of important points of a given text, especially deeds and wills.
- Administration (of estate) - the collection, management and distribution of an estate by proper legal process.
- Administrator (of estate) - person appointed to manage or divide the estate of a deceased person.
- Administratrix - a female administrator.
- Affidavit - a statement in writing, sworn to before proper authority.
- Alien - foreigner.
- Ancestor - a person from whom you are descended; a forefather.
- Ante - Latin prefix meaning before.
- Apprentice - one who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement or by any means to serve another person for a certain time, with a view of learning an art or trade.
- Appurtenance - that which belongs to something else such as a building, orchard, right of way, etc.
- Archives - records of a government, organization, institution; the place where records are stored.
- Attest - to affirm; to certify by signature or oath.
- Banns - public announcement of intended marriage.
- Beneficiary - one who receives benefit of trust or property.
- Bequeath - to give personal property to a person in a will.
- Bond - written, signed, witnessed agreement requiring payment of a specified amount of money on or before a given date.
- Bounty Land Warrant - a right to obtain land, specific number of acres of unallocated public land, granted for military service.
Source: Provided by Dan Burrows.