Genealogy Glossary : I
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illegitimate : child born to a woman who is not married to the father.
immigrant : person moving into a country from another country.
immigration
: movement of a person or persons to a new country to live.
imp. (abbr) : imported.
indentured servant : person who is bound into the service of another person for a specified period.
index
: an alphabetical list of names that
were taken from a particular set of records.
inf. : infantry.
infant : person under legal age.
inhab (abbr) : inhabitant; inhabited.
instant : of this month.
intestate : used to denote a person who died without leaving a will.
inventory
: legal list of all the property in a deceased person's estate.
issue : children, descendants, offspring.
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