Buy this book: A TO ZAX; A COMPREHENSIVE DICTICTIONARY FOR GENEALOGISTS & HISTORIANS. by Barbara Jean Evans pub by Hearthside Press. can be ordered from J&W Enterprises Genealogical Publications & Materials 8505 Dixie Blanchard Rd. Shreveport, LA 71107-8176 318-929-1730 cost is $15.00 [plus shipping...dont know] This is the best $15 I ever invested in research material. you can probably find it at books sites on the net. Try this one: http://members.aol.com/GenShoppe/genshoppe.htm this is the Genealogy Shoppe in Seminole, OK toll free #: 800-959-9968 terms cover: medical, geographical, foreign, historical, legal, relational, occupational, household, religious, colloquial, monetary, ethnic. Rebecca ---------- > From: Melissa Jones <tsaritsa@ix.netcom.com> > To: ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ARDREW-L] legal terminology for women and property > Date: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 2:07 AM > > Beth Thurman (terrilee@ipa.net) wrote: > > >I know this is not about Drew Co., but there are many Drew Co. people > >running into terminologies that we cannot understand unless you are smarter > >than I.......perhaps this might help some of you w/ some of yours > > > Hi, all, > > Guess I must have missed the discussions of folks having trouble > researching because of running into unknown terms! (I'm still trying to > catch up on mail from over Christmas!) > > If this is a widespread problem, then we should make up a web page of > obscure and/or legal terms which genealogists run across in their > research. I would be happy to host such a page on the Bradley County > site. > > If you have terms you would like to see listed on such a page, e-mail me > and I'll get started looking up definitions. If we get the terminology > page posted on the Bradley County site, perhaps Judy H. will put a link > to it on the Drew Co. site? > > Thanks for alerting us to this problem, Beth! > > --Melissa