- abstract
- ad litem
- administration
- affidavit
- Ahnentafel
- aliquot parts
- ancestor
- Ancestral File
- ancestry
- assignment
- autosomal DNA
- banns
- bequeath
- birth place and date
- BLM
- block number
- bond
- bounds
- bounty land
- cemetery records
- census
- Christian name
- chromosome
- cluster genealogy
- collateral line
- collateral relative
- common ancestor
- consanguinity
- credit patent
- deed
- descendants
- dissenter
- DNA
- dowager
- dowry
- enumeration districts
- estate
- family group record
- Family History Library (FHL)
- gazetteer
- GEDCOM
- gene
- genealogy
- genetic marker
- good brother
- good sister
- good son
- grandam
- haplogroup
- haplotype
- heir
- heir apparent
- holographic will
- homestead
- homestead
- Homestead Act of 1862
- International Genealogical Index
- intestate
- Julian calendar
- kindred
- land claim
- land grant
- land patent
- land-entry case file
- legacy
- legal land description
- Letters Testamentary
- lien
- local history
- maiden name
- meridian
- metes and bounds
- military records
- Miracode system
- mitochondrial DNA
- mortality schedule
- mulatto
- National Archives and Records Administration
- naturalization records
- New England Historical and Genealogical Register System
- nuncupative will
- olographic will
- oral history
- Palatinate
- paleography
- passenger list
- pedigree
- pension
- Periodical Source Index
- plat
- primary source
- probate records
- public land
- Quaker
- quarter section
- range
- real property
- rectangular survey system
- relict
- relicta
- relictus
- secondary source
- section
- Social Security Death Index
- Soundex
- state land
- township
- tract
- ultimo
- vestry
- vidua
- viduus
- virgo
- visitation number
- vital records
- vivandière
- voter registration
- will
- witness
- writ of attachment
- writ of summons
- Y chromosome