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+ |
spouse;also may note priesthood |
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1C |
first cousin (2c, second cousin, etc.) |
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1R |
once removed (2r, twice removed, etc.) |
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Died in the year of his/her age, i.e., a.a.s 84 (anno setatis suae) |
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ACW |
American Civil War |
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Admon. |
Letters of Administration (British wills) |
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AFRA |
American Family Records Association |
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Ag. Lab. |
Agricultural Labourer (British censuses) |
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AGLL |
American Genealogical Lending Library |
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AGRA |
Association of Genealogists and Record Agents (Professional) |
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AIF |
Australian Imperial Forces |
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AMINDEX |
Index of emigrants from British Isles to USA and West Indies |
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APG |
Association of Professional Genealogists, Salt Lake City, Utah |
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ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange - type of file on acomputer that is usually readable / writable by most word processors |
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AIS |
Accelerated Indexing System |
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born |
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BACSA |
British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia |
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BALH |
British Association for Local History |
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bap |
baptized |
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bapt |
baptized |
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BBS |
Bulletin Board System. Phone dial up connection for PC's. |
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BK |
Brother's Keeper, a genealogy program |
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BL |
British Library |
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BMD |
Births, Marriages and Deaths |
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BMP |
Bit Mapped Picture - file format of a computer disk file |
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Bp |
Bishop |
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BT |
Bishop's Transcript (British parish registers) |
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BTW |
By The Way (electronic communication, in general) |
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bur |
buried |
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Eighteenth century (etc.) |
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ca |
circa, about, (as in ca. 1840.) |
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CANINDEX |
Index of emigrants from British Isles to Canada and Newfoundland |
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CC |
County Court |
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CD |
Compact Disk - An optical disk used with some PC's to store lots of data. |
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CFI |
Computer File Index (precursor of IGI) |
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chr |
Christened |
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CIG |
Computer Interest Group (electronic communication, in general) |
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CPAFUG |
a BBS operated by the Capital Personal Ancestral File Users Group strictly genealogy |
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CRO |
County Record Office (British) |
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CRT |
Cathode Ray Tube - usually the incorrect reference to a computer video display terminal. |
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CW |
Civil War ( 1861-1865) |
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died. |
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DAR |
Daughters of the American Revolution |
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DBF |
Data Base Files (specifically for dBASE III and dBase IV) |
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DC |
District Court (USA) |
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DOCS |
Documents/Documentations |
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DOS |
Disk Operating System - Supervisory program on computers that execute different computer commands usually typed in from the keyboard. |
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div |
divorced |
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DRO |
Diocesan Record Office (British) |
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d.s.p. |
Died without issue (decessit sine prole legitima) |
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d.s.p.l. |
Died without legitimate issue (decessit sine prole mascula) |
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d.s.p.m.s. |
Died withoutsurviving male issue (decessit sine prole mascula superstita) |
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d.s.p.s. |
Died without surving issue (decessit sine prole supersita) |
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d.unm |
Died unmarried |
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d.v.p. |
Died in the lifetime of his father (decessit vita patris) |
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d.v.m. |
Died in the lifetime of his mother (decessit vita matris) |
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Type of file on a computer disk or tape that is most often for IBM mainframes. Distinct and different from ASCII. |
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et al |
And others (et alia) |
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Frequently Asked Questions |
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FE |
Family Edge genealogy software program |
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FFHS |
Federation of Family History Societies (British) Benson Room, Birmingham & Midland Institute, Margaret Street, Birmingham,B3 3BS,UK |
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FFV |
First Families of Virginia |
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FGRA |
Family Group Record Archives |
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FGS |
ancestral charts or "Family Group Sheets" |
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FHC |
Family History Center (LDS satellite centers) |
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FHL |
Family History Library (LDS main library in Utah) |
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FHLC |
Family History Library Catalog |
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FHS |
Family History Society; also Family History System, a program by Phillip E. Brown |
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FOIA |
Freedom of Information Act |
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FTM |
Family Tree Maker, a genealogy program from MyFamily.com |
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FTP |
File Transfer Protocol (networking, technical) |
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FWIW |
For What It's Worth (electronic communication in general) |
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FYI |
For Your Information (electronic communication, in general) |
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Born (From German, geboren) |
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GED |
Extension of GEDCOM files; also, a program by Dollarhide Systems for indexing sources. |
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GEDCOM |
Genealogical Data Communications |
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GENEALOG |
Genealogy storage of textual help files on ROOTS-L |
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gest |
died (from German, gestorben) |
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GIF |
A format to hold images on a computer disk file |
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GIM |
Genealogical Information Manager |
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GOONS |
Guild Of One Name Studies |
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GRD |
Genealogical Research Directory |
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GRO |
General Registry Office (St Catherine's House, Brit.) |
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GRB |
General Reference Book |
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GSDS |
Genealogy Software Distribution System |
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Her Majesty's Stationery Office (British) |
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International Genealogical Index |
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IGS |
Irish Genealogical Society |
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IHGS |
Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies |
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inst |
Present month or time (instans) |
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ILL |
Inter-Library Loan |
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IMHO |
In My Humble Opinion ( electronic communication, in general) |
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IMNSHO |
In My Not So Humble Opinion (electronic communication, in general) |
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IOOF |
Independent Order of Odd Fellows |
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IRAD |
Illinois Regional Archive Depository |
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IRC |
International Reply Coupon |
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ISBN |
International Standard Book Number |
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ISO |
In Search Of |
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ISSN |
International Standard Serial Number |
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IVRH |
International Vital Records Handbook |
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Local Area Network - group of computers connected in a network |
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LC |
Library of Congress |
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LCCN |
Library of Congress Card Number |
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LDS |
Latter Day Saints (Mormons) |
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liber |
Book or volume |
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LL |
LifeLines, a genealogy program for UNIX |
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LOC |
Location (rarely, Library of Congress) |
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LOCIS |
Library of Congress Information System |
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married |
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MARC-AMC |
A labeling convention for on-line library catalogs |
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MG |
Minister of the Gospel |
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MI |
Monumental (or Memorial) Inscription |
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National Archives and Records Administration |
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NATF |
National Archives Trust Fund |
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NEHGS |
New England Historical Genealogy Society |
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nepos |
grandson |
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NGC |
National Genealogical Conference |
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NGS |
National Geographical Society |
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NGS/CIG |
a BBS operated by the National Genealogical Society's Computer Interest Group strictly genealogy |
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NLW |
National Library of Wales |
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nunc |
Nuncupative will, an oral will written by a witness |
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He or she died (obit) |
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OBCGS |
Old Buncombe(NC) Genealogical Society |
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obit |
died |
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OCLC |
Online Computer Library Center |
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OLUC |
OnLine Union Catalog |
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OPAC |
Online Public Access Catalogs |
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OPCS |
Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (British) |
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OPR |
Old Parochial Records (for Scotland, kept in the Scottish Registry office) |
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o.t.p. |
of this parish (British records) |
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Public Access Catalog - same as OPAC. |
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PAF |
Personal Ancestry File, genealogy program of the Mormon Church (LDS) |
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PCC |
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (English wills) |
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PCX |
A format to hold image information on a computer disk file |
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PCY |
Prerogative Court of York (English wills) |
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PILI |
(Filby's) Passenger Lists and Immigration Index |
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POE |
Preponderance of Evidence( See Black's Law Dictionary), " evidence which is of greater weight or more convincing than the evidence which is offered in opposition to it....." |
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PRO |
Public Record Office (British) |
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PRONI |
Public Records Office of Northern Ireland |
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Widower or widow (relicts or relictus) |
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RIII |
Roots III (ROOTS3)
genealogy software program
(TM) (Comsoft, Inc) |
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ROOTS-L |
a mailing list of subscribers who are interested in genealogy |
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RSL |
Karen's Roots Surname List |
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RSN |
Real Soon Now |
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RUC |
Royal Ulster Constabulary |
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RW |
Revolutionary War |
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Stamped, Addressed Envelope (British) |
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SAR |
Sons of the American Revolution |
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SASE |
Self Addressed, Stamped Envelope |
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SC |
Superior Court |
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SGCF |
Societe Genealogique Canadienne-francaise |
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sic |
So or thus, exact copy as written |
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SLC |
Salt Lake City |
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soc.roots |
a Usenet newsgroup for people interested in genealogy. |
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SOG |
Society of Genealogists (British) |
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SOUNDEX |
A method of translating a name to a one letter code followed by three numerical digits. The aim of the translation is to render all names which sound alike (or sufficiently similar) to the same code. |
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SIMTEL20 |
Archival storage area for files |
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SoG |
Society of Genealogists (British) |
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SVPAFUG |
Silicaon Valley Personal Ancestral File Users Group |
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SYSOP |
SYStem OPerator - Person that maintains a BBS |
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The American Genealogist, a magazine. |
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testes |
Witnesses |
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TFE |
The Family Edge, a genealogy program |
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TIA |
Thanks In Advance |
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TIB |
Temple Index Bureau file |
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TIFF |
A format to hold image data picture on a computer disk file |
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TMG |
The Master Genealogist, a genealogy program. |
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TMS |
Tiny Tafels Software genealogy program; also, Tafel Matching System |
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TSR |
computer program that is run and then Terminated and Stays Resident in the memory of the computer till it is turned off |
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TT |
Tiny-Tafel |
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Lat (ultimo) |
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USIA |
USIA |
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ux |
(or vs) Wife |
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a computer video display terminal |
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viz |
Namely (videlicet) |
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vs |
wife |
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World War I |
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WWII |
World War II |
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