Genealogy Vocabulary

The history/ background traced back to an ANCESTOR

• Maternal

• Paternal

• Ancestry

• Genealogy

The act of leaving your country to live in another

• Immigrate

• Emigrate

• Emigrant

• Immigrant

Paternal

• Relation through father

• Relation through mother

• Both A&B

• Neither

Maternal

• Relation through father

• Relation through mother

• Both A&B

• Neither

The origin/background of something

• Genealogy

• Ancestor Background

• Ancestry

• Family Background

Obituary

• a notice of death

• a official count

• a notice for a doctors appointment

• A Death Record

A public institution for the care of orphans

• Orphan Home

• Foster Care

• Orphan Asylum

• Public Orphanage

What does unk. stand for?

• United Kingdom

• Unknown

• Uncertain Knowledge

• United Nation of Kangaroos

A list of passengers on a ship

• Passenger list

• Census

• Death Record

• Guest List

a ascending line noting you and direct ancestors

• a.k.a.

• Census

• birth record

• ancestral chart