| Acronym
| Meaning
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| BCG
| Board for Certification of Genealogists; their web site is here
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| CBI
| Captured by Indians, usually used to refer to the fate of a settler captured during the Frontier Wars of American history. Some CBI setters managed to escape. Some were ransomed, while others were killed. In a good many instances, they adopted the Indian way of life, and became members of the tribe by whom they were captured, or another tribe.
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| DAR
| Daughters of the American Revolution
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| DOB
| Date of Birth
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| DOD
| Date of Death
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| DOM
| Date of Marriage
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| FFHS
| Federation of Family History Societies
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| GEDCOM
| GEnealogical Data COMmunication.
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| HTML
| HyperText Markup Language
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| IGI
| International Genealogical Index
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| KBI
| Killed by Indians, usually used to refer to the fate of a settler killed during the Frontier Wars of American history.
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| MSC
| ManuScript Collection
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| POB
| Place of Birth
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| POD
| Place of Death
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| POM
| Place of Marriage
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| SSDI
| Social Security Death Index
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| TRS
| Township-Range-Section
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| V&V
| Verification and Validation
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| Abbreviation
| Meaning
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| abt.
| About/Circa
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| aft.
| After a certain year, as in "aft. 1776"
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| b.
| Year of birth, as in "b. 1776"
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| bef.
| Before/prior to a given year, as in "bef. 1776"
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| c.
| circa, about, to indicate an approximate date
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| ca.
| About/Circa
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| d.
| Year of death, as in "d 1776"
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| m.
| Marriage
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| <
| earlier than a certain year, as in "<1776"; not good in computer code
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| >
| after a certain year, as in ">1776"; not good in computer code
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| =
| married, as in "John Walker married Ann Houston" (John Walker = Ann Houston)
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