Useful Info
Abbreviations Used in Genealogy
- AKA - Also Known As
- BMD - Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers
- FHC - Family History Center
- FHL - Family History Library (in Salt Lake City)
- FHS - Family History Society
- GRO - General Registrar’s Office (or Government Record Office)
- H.O. - Home Office (UK only)
- IGI - International Genealogical Index at the FHL (see above)
- LDS - Latter Day Saints (Mormons)
- ONS - One Name Study (when someone tracks ALL people with a particular surname)
- NA - National Archives at Kew, UK
- NLW - National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, Wales
- PR - Parish Registers
- PRO - Public Record Office in the United Kingdom
- RG - Registrar General
- SOG - Society of Genealogists
Latin Phrases in Parish Registers
Baptisms
- filius - son of
- filia - daughter of
- et - and
- baptizavi - I have baptised
- natus - born (male)
- nata - born (female)
- gemelli, gemini - twins
- trigemini - triplets
- spurius - illegitimate
Marriages
- nupsit - married
- matrimonium - matrimony
- connubium - marriage
- licentiam - by licence
- bannum - by banns
Burials
- obit - (he or she) died
- mortus - died
- obit sine prole (o.s.p.) - (he or she) died without offspring
- sepult, sepultavi - I have buried
- dormit -sleeping
- corpus - the body
- requiescat in pace (R.I.P.) - rest in peace
General
- parochia - parish
- in comitatu - in the county of
- in agro - in the county of (literally in the field of)
- ibidem - of the same place
- extraneus - a stranger
- uxor (ux, vx) - wife
- mater - mother
- pater - father
- vir, conjugatus - husband