Received this from another list that I belong to and wanted to share. You all may already know all this, but a lot of the abbreviations I did not know and do not know. Hope this will help someone. Pat A useful list taken from Indiana-L > > From: "Eugene Hubbard" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, April 15, 1999 10:04 PM > > >I recently ran across some abbreviations in a genealogy which I didn't > >understand, so I sent an enquiry out. Not getting a specific reply, I > >tried other avenues of finding out what they might mean. I found the > >following definitions in a work by Frederick Lewis Weis, in his > >"Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists [7th Ed.]". I thought I > >might share them with you. You will recognize some of them, but others > >are rather esoteric. Anyway, the list should help the unitiated. > > > >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 day") > >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 > > > > Dr J A Ballard <[email protected]> > Graduate School, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, > Australia > Tel +61 2 6249 5487 Fax +61 2 6249 4829 > > ----------------------------------------------- > List problems? > Check > your WELCOME message FIRST > http://php.indiana.edu/~stephenl/problems.htm SECOND > then contact [email protected] > >