TIP #508 - ANSWERS TO POP QUIZ How did you do? Are you an experienced genealogist or do you need to keep a dictionary in front of you like most of us do? Here are the answers. 1. A kimmel was a round wooden bucket used for salting beef and pork. 2. A jade is a worn out horse. 3. Sand was used by many early pioneers to cover the dirt floors. 4. Talesmen were often called to fill out the jury. 5. Goose house was a term used for a small temporary prison. 6. A gore is an irregular piece of land left over after other surveys have been made 7. A name carved at the bottom of a tombstone with sc beside it indicated the sculpturist 8. Scald foot was a painful condition of people who walked through mud and water. 9. Curdled milk didn't taste too good but was called slip down. 10. Sherry vallies 11. Black Mariah. 12. Scrofula 13. Some of the wife's own property was involved in the sale, likely willed to her by her father. 14. People had to pay taxes on closets as they were considered another room. 15. As long as she remained single she was "natural." 16. It means absolutely nothing. Many urban myths say the position meant something, it didn't 17. A paper town was one that had been drawn up on paper but never came into existence. 18. Summer kitchen or wash house. 19. Headsman 20. Death-bed baptism 21. Grantee index books. 22. Duck - someone was dumping out a bucket of slop. 23. On credit. 24. Old Style - using the old calendar. 25. Ordinary 26. A larding stick poked holes in poultry while cooking 27. You would go to a circus to see a kuntiput - he was the clown! 28. Two businesses under one roof were joint stores - one was many times a lodge. 29. Independent planter 30. Ignoramus 31. Householder 32. Holographic 33. Habeus Corpus 34. Galloping 35. Buck 36. Fip 37. Epilepsy 38. Broadside 39. Football coach 40. Diapers 41. Heavy stick to beat clothes - preceded the wash board 42. This is an old English term which meant that when a prisoner was sentenced to die, all of his property rights are forfeited. He cannot inherit property, he couldn't sue any one. 43. Stray, normally cows or horses 44. An old spelling for mystery meaning an occupation to be learned 45. Stray's pen 46. A string or rope stretched over a table with newspapers hanging down over the string. Another string was fastened to this and when people ate, the lady of the household pulled up and down on the string to shoo away the flies. 47. Cordoroy roads 48. Self-marriage: Repeated vows between bride and groom with no clergy. Implied marriage - no documents can be found to prove the marriage but implied by other documents such as wills and deeds. Woods/bridge marriage: normally held when parents objected. Married in the woods or on a bridge with bride coming from one end, the groom the other and meeting the clergy in the middle. 49. Dividing the lands between heirs. 50. A fingerboard painter painted signs to go on buildings such as "Joe's Mercantile" or signs shaped like a finger pointing to a town or business (Dry Gulch 5 miles) Scoring: 40-50 correct You are a master of genealogical trivia 30-40 correct You are almost ready to pass into the Family Tree High School 20-30 correct You need to repeat Genealogy 101 10-20 correct Welcome to the new world of genealogy; you need a good dictionary of old terms 0-10 correct Have you considered another day job? I hope you have enjoyed these. (c) Copyright 23 Sept 2004, Sandra K. Gorin, All Rights Reserved Colonel Sandi Gorin SCKY Links: http://www.public.asu.edu/~moore/Gorin.html Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html Gorin Publishing: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/