Ancestry's Concise Genealogical Dictionary
Save 13%
Original price
$14.95
Original price
$14.95
-
Original price
$29.95
Original price
$14.95
Current price
$12.95
$12.95
-
$27.95
Current price
$12.95
SKU 9780916489069
Is your research time wasted looking up words like “beamster,” “grimgribber,” “anascara,” and “wainbote” in regular dictionaries? Ever heard of a “gossip's wheel” or a “shank's mare”? These and other unusual terms are defined in Ancestry's Concise Genealogical Dictionary. You will find this book a useful and entertaining reference. The authors spent years collecting, researching, and verifying definitions of terms they discovered while researching cemetery, probate, court, medical, and other records. The mystery of terms and abbreviations that many researchers face has been solved with this essential, quick-reference source geared to the needs of the genealogist. Now you can have at your fingertips accurate and easy-to-find definitions for troublesome or unfamiliar words encountered in the research process. With thousands of concise definitions, all arranged alphabetically, this dictionary is an essential for any genealogist's home, office, or briefcase.
We earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.
Book details
- Author
- Maurine Harris
- Imprint
- Ancestry.com, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Reference › Genealogy & Heraldry
- Topics
- genealogy · historical terminology · abbreviations · probate records · cemetery records · family history research · reference glossary
- ISBN-13
- 9780916489069 (Paperback)9781630269906 (Hardcover)
About the author
MAURINE HARRIS is a genealogical compiler and researcher and the co-author, with Glen Harris, of Ancestry’s Concise Genealogical Dictionary.
Harris’s dictionary, published in Salt Lake City, Utah by Ancestry Publishing in 1989, contains thousands of concise definitions of archaic and obscure terms drawn from sources including the Oxford English Dictionary and Black’s Law Dictionary. It has been recommended as a reference tool by multiple university library guides.