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Amazon.com Genealogy Bookstore - Dictionaries

The following are individual book titles of interest for this topic. The book links below point to the Amazon.com bookstore online where you may purchase the book if you wish. These links are provided to bring these published resources to your attention as an aid to your research. Follow the links to books of interest to make note of their title, author, publisher, and ISBN. You might then use this information to obtain the book from your local library or your favorite corner book shop.

AmeriSpeak: Expressions of Our Ancestors

Ancestry.com - Terms of Confusement: Dowry and Dower

From Shaking Your Family Tree by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, C.G.

Civil War Soldier Vocabulary

Definition of Early Immigrants

Dictionary of Regional American English

Glossaire Quaker Glossary

This glossary contains only Quaker jargon, i.e. words used in a special sense among Quakers. In French & English.

Glossary of Latin Terminology

Glossary, Acronyms and Abbreviations

Land terms defined from the Bureau of Land Management's Learning the Cadastral Data Content Standard.

Graven Images

Describes the symbolism of motifs on gravestones - from The Olive Tree.

How Many? - A Dictionary of Units of Measurement

How many cloves in a stone? How many bushels to a seam? This is an encylopedic listing of current, historical, and obscure measurements from around the world..

Leicestershire Agricultural Terms

England.

Nicknames List

Plautdietsch Dictionary

A Mennonite Low German dictionary.

Shipping Terminology

With a Prince Edward Island Slant.

Ye Olde English Sayings