Genealogy Glossary
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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
- patronym
- personal name based on the name of one's father
- Romanization
- linguistic representation of a word in the Roman (Latin) alphabet