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Family ancestry
Systematic research and trace of past events relating families and their history.
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Domesday
Genealogy; Family ancestry
A written record of a survey of England ordered by William the Conqueror in 1066. William was an attempting to register the landed wealth of the country in a systematic fashion and to determine the ...
Clan
Genealogy; Family ancestry
A Celtic group esp. In the Scottish Highlands comprising a number of households whose heads claim descent from a common ancestor.
Testament
Genealogy; Family ancestry
The act by which a person determines the disposition of his or her property after death.
Codicil
Genealogy; Family ancestry
An addition to a will to change, explain, revoke or add provisions which overrule the provisions in the original will.
Double date
Genealogy; Family ancestry
A double date appears on some documents as a result of two changes introduced by the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 to resolve the error caused by the ...
Trustee
Genealogy; Family ancestry
A natural or legal person to whom property is legally committed to be administered for the benefit of a beneficiary.
Primogeniture
Genealogy; Family ancestry
1. The state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents 2. An exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest son.
