Genealogy Glossary
Anglicisation
- process of making something English
DNA
- acronum: deoxyribonucleic acid
- a nucleic acid that carries genetic information
DTD
- acronym: Document Type Definition
GEDCOM
- acronym: Genealogy Data Communication
- a format for exchanging genealogy data
matronym
- personal name based on the name of one's mother
patronym
- personal name based on the name of one's father
Romanization
- linguistic representation of a word in Roman (Latin) alphabet
XML
- acronym: Extensible Markup Language