---------- From: Diana Flynn[SMTP:ivie@tima.com] Sent: Saturday, October 18, 1997 8:01 PM To: debbiem@waymark.net Subject: GLOSSARY CHART M - Z >Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 19:49:09 -0500 >To: ky-footsteps@sirius.dsenter.com >From: Diana Flynn <ivie@tima.com> >Subject: GLOSSARY CHART M - Z > > >>>This is part 2 of the final chart of the series. Other charts included >>> OCCUPATION CHART and DISEASE CHART. Please share this >>>information and feel free to re-publish. >>> >>>Dan Burrows >>>dburrows1@juno.com >>>dburrows2@juno.com >>> >>>MAIDEN NAME - A girl's last name or surname before she marries. >>>MANUSCRIPT - A composition written with the hand as an ancient book or an >>>un-printed modern book or music. >>>MARRIAGE BOND - A financial guarantee that no impediment to the marriage >>>existed, furnished by the intended bridegroom or by his friends. >>>MATERNAL - Related through one's mother, such as a Maternal grandmother >>>being the mother's mother. >>>MEASUREMENTS - Link - 7.92 inches; Chain - 100 Links or 66 feet; >>>Furlong - 1000 Links or 660 feet; Rod - 5 1/2 yds or 16 1/2 ft (also >>>called a perch or pole); Rood - From 5 1/2 yards to 8 yards, depending >>>on locality; Acre - 43,560 square ft or 160 square rods. >>>MESSUAGE - A dwelling house. >>>METES & BOUNDS - Property described by natural boundaries, such as 3 >>>notches in a white oak tree, etc. >>>MICROFICHE - Sheet of microfilm with greatly reduced images of pages of >>>documents. >>>MICROFILM - Reproduction of documents on film at reduced size. >>>MIGRANT - Person who moves from place to place, usually in search of work >>>MIGRATE - To move from one country or state or region to another. (Noun : >>>migration) >>>MILITIA - Citizens of a state who are not part of the national military >>>forces but who can be called into military service in an emergency; a >>>citizen army, apart from the regular military forces. >>>MINOR - One who is under legal age; not yet a legal adult. >>>MISTER - In early times, a title of respect given only to those who held >>>important civil officer or who were of gentle blood. >>>MOIETY - A half; an indefinite portion >>>MORTALITY - Death; death rate. >>>MORTALITY SCHEDULES - Enumeration of persons who died during the year >>>prior to June 1 of 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 in each state of the United >>>States, conducted by the bureau of census. >>>MORTGAGE - A conditional transfer of title to real property as security >>>for payment of a debt. >>>MOTHER-IN-LAW - Mother of one's spouse. >>>NAMESAKE - Person named after another person. >>>NECROLOGY - Listing or record of persons who have died recently >>>NEE - Used to identify a woman's maiden name; born with the surname >>>of.NEPHEW - Son of one's brother or sister. >>>NIECE - Daughter of one's brother or sister. >>>NONCUPATIVE WILL - One declared or dictated by the testator, usually for >>>persons in last sickness, sudden illness, or military. >>>ORPHAN - Child whose parents are dead; sometimes, a child who has lost >>>one parent by death. >>>ORPHAN'S COURT - Orphans being recognized as wards of the states, >>>provisions were made for them in special courts. >>>PASSENGER LIST - A ships list of passengers, usually referring to those >>>ships arriving in the US from Europe. >>>PATENT - Grant of land from a government to an individual. >>>PATERNAL - Related to one's father. Paternal grandmother is the father's >>>mother. >>>PATRIOT - One who loves his country and supports its interests. >>>PEDIGREE - Family tree; ancestry. >>>PENSION - Money paid regularly to an individual, especially by a >>>government as reward for military service during wartime or upon >>>retirement from government service. >>>PENSIONER - One who receives a pension. >>>PERCH - See measurements. >>>POLE - See measurements. >>>POLL - List or record of persons, especially for taxing or voting. >>>POST - Latin prefix meaning after, as in post-war economy. >>>POSTERITY - Descendants; those who come after. >>>POWER OF ATTORNEY - When a person in unable to act for himself, he >>>appoints another to act in his behalf. >>>PRE - Latin prefix meaning before, as in pre-war military build-up. >>>PRE-EMOTION RIGHTS - Right given by the federal government to citizens to >>>buy a quarter section of land or less. >>>PROBATE - Having to do with wills and the administration of estates. >>>PROGENITOR - A direct ancestor. >>>PROGENY - Descendants of a common ancestor; issue. >>>PROVED WILL - A will established as genuine by probate court. >>>PROVOST - A person appointed to superintend, or preside over something. >>>PROXIMO - In the following month, in the month after the present one. >>>PUBLIC DOMAIN - Land owned by the government. >>>QUAKER - Member of the Religious Society of Friends. >>>QUITCLAIM - A deed conveying the interest of the party at that time. >>>RECTOR - A clergyman; the ruler or governor of a country. >>>RELICT - Widow; surviving spouse when one has died, husband or wife. >>>REPUBLIC - Government in which supreme authority lies with the people or >>>their elected representatives. >>>REVOLUTIONARY WAR - U.S. war for independence from Great Britain 1775 - >>>1783. >>>ROD - See measurements. >>>ROOD - See measurements. >>>SHAKER - Member of a religious group formed in 1747 which practiced >>>communal living and celibacy. >>>SIBLING - Person having one or both parents in common with another; a >>>brother or sister. >>>SIC - Latin meaning thus; copied exactly as the original reads. Often >>>suggests a mistake or surprise in the original. >>>SON-IN-LAW - Husband of one's daughter. >>>SPINSTER - A woman still unmarried; or one who spins. >>>SPONSOR - A bondsman; surety. >>>SPOUSE - Husband or wife. >>>STATUTE - Law. >>>STEP-BROTHER / STEP-SISTER - Child of one's step-father or step-mother. >>>STEP-CHILD - Child of one's husband or wife from a previous marriage. >>>STEP-FATHER - Husband of one's mother by a later marriage. >>>STEP-MOTHER - Wife of one's father by a later marriage. >>>SURNAME - Family name or last name. >>>TERRITORY - Area of land owned by the united States, not a state, but >>>having its own legislature and governor. >>>TESTAMENTARY - Pertaining to a will. >>>TESTATE - A person who dies leaving a valid will. >>>TESTATOR - A person who makes a valid will before his death. >>>TITHABLE - Taxable. >>>TITHE - Formerly, money due as a tax for support of the clergy or church. >>>TORY - Loyalist; one who supported the British side in the American >>>Revolution. >>>TOWNSHIP - A division of U.S. public land that contained 36 sections, or >>>36 square miles. Also a subdivision of the county in many Northeastern >>>and Midwestern states of the U.S. >>>TRADITION - The handing down of statements, beliefs, legends, customs, >>>genealogies, etc. from generation to generation, especially by word of >>>mouth. >>>TRANSCRIBE - To make a copy in writing. >>>ULTIMO - In the month before this one. >>>UNION - The United States; also the North during the Civil War, the >>>states which did not secede. >>>VERBATIM - Word for word; in the same words, verbally. >>>VITAL RECORDS - Records of birth, death, marriage or divorce. >>>VITAL STATISTICS - Data dealing with birth, death, marriage or divorce. >>>WAR BETWEEN THE STATES - U.S. Civil War, 1861 - 1865. >>>WARD - Chiefly the division of a city for election purposes. >>>WILL - Document declaring how a person wants his property divided after >>>his death. >>>WITNESS - One who is present at a transaction, such as a sale of land or >>>signing of a will, who can testify or affirm that it actually took place. >>>WPA HISTORICAL RECORDS SURVEY - A program undertaken by the US Government >>>1935 - 1936 in which inventories were compiled of historical material. >>>YEOMAN - A servant, an attendant or subordinate official in a royal >>>household; a subordinate of a sheriff; an independent farmer. >