Ancestry's Concise Genealogical Dictionary

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Book Review: A handy guide to genealogical terminology
Summary: 5 Stars

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.

Summary of Ancestry's Concise Genealogical Dictionary

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.

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