Difference between revisions of "Genealogy Glossary"
m (Add term 'nee') |
|||
Line 27: | Line 27: | ||
: personal name based on the name of one's mother | : personal name based on the name of one's mother | ||
− | ;né, née, : | + | ;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_name#Maiden_and_married_names né], née, : |
: meaning 'had been born', in masculine and feminine variants. Signifies the following surname was used prior to a name change. The change is not merely due to marriage, it can be for any reason including stage & pen names. Often omits the accent and gender distinction when used as the 'nee' [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loanword loanword] from the past participle of the French base term: naître (to be born). Commonly assumed to mean 'formerly' in American documents... which exceeds the original intent of specifically indicating a birthname. | : meaning 'had been born', in masculine and feminine variants. Signifies the following surname was used prior to a name change. The change is not merely due to marriage, it can be for any reason including stage & pen names. Often omits the accent and gender distinction when used as the 'nee' [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loanword loanword] from the past participle of the French base term: naître (to be born). Commonly assumed to mean 'formerly' in American documents... which exceeds the original intent of specifically indicating a birthname. | ||
Revision as of 02:16, 23 November 2019
Languages: |
English • čeština • Deutsch • español • français • עברית • Nederlands • polski • svenska • Türkçe |
Here you find a glossary of genealogical terms. For terms appearing in Gramps see Gramps Glossary.
- Anglicisation
- process of making something English
- DNA
- acronym: deoxyribonucleic acid
- a nucleic acid that carries genetic information
- Family Tree
- generic: a representation of Genealogical data
- in Gramps: a set of Genealogical data collected into a database file
- GEDCOM
- acronym: Genealogy Data Communication
- a format for exchanging genealogy data
- genealogy
- the organized historical accounting of the descent of something that can be traced from an progenitor
- the study of ancestral and descendant lines
- LDS IGI
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (sometimes abbreviated as LDS) International Genealogical Index (IGI) reference identification system. The Ancestral File, Pedigree Resource File, and International Genealogical Index are records systems in the LDS system.
- matronym
- personal name based on the name of one's mother
- né, née,
- meaning 'had been born', in masculine and feminine variants. Signifies the following surname was used prior to a name change. The change is not merely due to marriage, it can be for any reason including stage & pen names. Often omits the accent and gender distinction when used as the 'nee' loanword from the past participle of the French base term: naître (to be born). Commonly assumed to mean 'formerly' in American documents... which exceeds the original intent of specifically indicating a birthname.
- patronym
- personal name based on the name of one's father
- Romanization
- linguistic representation of a word in the Roman (Latin) alphabet