> ABBREVIATIONS: > 1C - first cousin (2c, second cousin, etc.) > 1R - once removed (2r, twice removed, etc.) > ACW - American Civil War > AFRA - American Family Records Association > AGLL- American Genealogical Lending Library > AGRA - Association of Genealogists and Record Agents (Professional) > APG - Association of Professional Genealogists, headquartered in Salt Lake > City, Utah. > ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange - type of file on > a computer that is usually readable / writeable by most word processors > AIS - Accelerated Indexing System > b - born > bap or bapt - baptized > BBS - Bulletin Board System Phone dial up connection for PC's. > BK - Brother's Keeper, a genealogy program > BMD - Births, Marriages and Deaths > BMP - Bit Mapped Picture - file format of a computer disk file > Bp - Bishop > bur - buried > C18 - Eighteenth century (etc.) > ca - circa, about, (as in ca. 1840.) > CANINDEX - Index of emigrants from British Isles to Canada and Newfoundland > CC - County Court (USA) > CD - Compact Disk - An optical disk used with some PC's to store lots of > data. > CFI - Computer File Index (precursor of IGI) > chr - Christened. > CW - Civil War > d - died. > DAR - Daughters of the American Revolution > DC - District Court > DOCS - Documents / Documentations > div - divorced. > d.s.p. - died without issue (from Latin: decessit sine prole) > FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions > FFV - First Families of Virginia > FGRA - Family Group Record Archives > FGS - ancestral charts or "Family Group Sheets" > FHC - Family History Center (LDS satellite centers) > FHL - Family History Library (LDS main library in Utah) > FHLC - Family History Library Catalog > FOIA - Freedom of Information Act > FTM - Family Tree Maker, a genealogy program from Banner Blue Software > FTP - File Transfer Protocol (networking, technical) > GEDCOM - GEnealogical Data COMmunications > GIF - A format to hold images on a computer disk file > GIM - Genealogical Information Manager > GOONS - Guild Of One Name Studies > IGI - International Genealogical Index > IOOF - Independent Order of Odd Fellows > ISO - In Search Of > LDS - Latter Day Saints (Mormons) > LOCIS - Library of Congress Information System > NARA - National Archives and Records Administration > NATF - National Archives Trust Fund > NEHGS - New England Historical Genealogy Society > NGC - National Genealogical Conference > NGS - National Geographical Society > PAF - Personal Ancestry File, genealogy program of the Mormon Church (LDS) > ROOTS-L - a mailing list of subscribers who are interested in genealogy > RW - Revolutionary War > SAR - Sons of the American Revolution > SASE - Self Addressed, Stamped Envelope > SOUNDEX - A method of translating a name to a one letter code followed by > three numerical digits. The aim of the translation is to render all names > which sound alike (or sufficiently similar) to the same code. > TMS - Tiny Tafels Software genealogy program also Tafel Matching System > WW1 - World War One > WW2 - World War Two ----------------------