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Revision as of 03:49, 19 March 2007
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
- 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