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TENNESSEE

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TENNESSEE

KNOX


COUNTY


TENNESSEE

KNOX


COUNTY


TENNESSEE

American History &

Genealogy Project

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.

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