Ancestry's Concise Genealogical Dictionary

by Maurine Harris and Glen Harris

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 091648906X
• ISBN13: 9780916489069
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: Ancestry.com
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A handy guide to genealogical terminology

This little gem is an A to Z dictionary containing brief definitions of thousands of words which family historians may encounter.What's cornage?What did a furner do for work?What was kept in a neatry?Who worked with St. Hugh's bones?The answers can all be found in the Concise Genealogical Dictionary.This dictionary will be particularly helpful to family historians confronted with estate inventories which have archaic terms for household goods or farm implements, for translating obscure causes of death, or for determining occupations based on slang or colloquial expressions.It's a handy little volume to have about.