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  • abstract
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  • Ahnentafel
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  • ancestor
  • Ancestral File
  • ancestry
  • assignment
  • autosomal DNA
  • banns
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  • 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
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  • 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

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