Nabb Research Center Tools - Dictionaries & glossaries

• Featured dictionaries and glossaries
• Selected items in the Nabb Center collections
• Useful dictionary sites

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.