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Family ancestry
Systematic research and trace of past events relating families and their history.
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marriage record
Genealogy; Family ancestry
A formal document normally kept by a church of marriages conducted within their congregation. Besides the names of the individuals being married, it may also contain their ages, occupation and ...
clan
Genealogy; Family ancestry
A Celtic group esp. In the Scottish Highlands comprising a number of households whose heads claim descent from a common ancestor.
primary record
Genealogy; Family ancestry
A record created at the time of the event (birth, marriage, death, etc. ) as opposed to records written years later.
onomastics
Genealogy; Family ancestry
The science or study of the origin and forms of proper names of persons or places.
sine prole
Genealogy; Family ancestry
Without offspring, sometimes seen as D. S. P. - died sine prole.
ancestor
Genealogy; Family ancestry
Any person from whom one is descended, especially one earlier in a family line than a grandparent; forefather; forebear.
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