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Nabb Research Center Tools - Dictionaries & glossaries



* Featured dictionaries and glossaries

Illustrated dictionary of colonial items
Illustrated dictionary of items found in 17th-century probate inventories and other records.


* Selected items in the Nabb Center collections

Books, Articles, Pamphlets

Drake, Paul. What Did They Mean By That A Dictionary of Historical and Genealogical Terms Old and New.
Accession: PE1667.D73 2003

Fitzhugh, Terrick. The Dictionary of Genealogy.
Accession: CS6.F58 1998

Halliwell, J.O. Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words.
Accession: 1989.57.291

Glossary of Unusual Words found in Inventories.
Accession: 1984.10.17



* Useful dictionary sites

Glossary of Quaker Terms   -   The Quaker Corner, Rootsweb
Frequently used abbreviations and additional information about Quaker records.

Glossary of Symbols and Terms for Studying Cemeteries   -   Colonial Williamsburg
Definitions and possible interpretations of symbols and terms in cemeteries.

Medical Terms: Diseases and epidemics   -   Shirley Hornbeck, Rootsweb
Definitions of diseases, from Ablepsy to Yellow fever, and epidemics from 1657 to 1851.





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