Just took a look at the list of words and its a very good one. Very interesting. I did notice, however, a small mistake in the definition listed for "Consort". The listed definition is "Wife of the deceased", which I believe is incorrect. My understanding of the term "Consort" is that the spouse, namely the wife, died before the husband. A woman who outlived her husband was therefore a "Relict", ie, the "wife of the deceased". I apologize for being so picky. I just thought I would forward this since Consort and Relict are quite often found in both Wills and on grave and tombstones and the terminology can be confusing. Michael Sellers -----Original Message----- From: Sherri Hall [mailto:ldrbelties@earthlink.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 01:49 AM To: SELLERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SELLERS] FW: [ARCHIVES] Early Words in Deeds, Wills, etc. Forwarded with permission from the Archives mail list. ~Sherri Von Mings Stachon has been transcribing and contributing court records, deeds and wills for several counties in Virginia. So far, she has completed 562 documents and is still going. In the process, she has collected a list of words that appear in these documents whose meanings may not be known by the average reader. These words and their definitions may be seen at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/special/earlywords.txt Feel free to pass this list on in your mail lists, or place them in your archived records. Mike