Glossary

An "Accordion" is a vertical list of Toggles each of which can be expanded to show more detail. Click where you see or to alternatively expand and contract the item. Opening one Toggle automatically closes the others.

Ague (A-gyoo) is a severe fever that's marked by recurring chills, shivering, and sweating. Sometimes, ague refers just to the chills and shivering, topped off by joint and bone pain. Up until the nineteenth century, however, ague was the English word for malaria — a mosquito-borne disease that causes fever and chills. Malaria is usually associated with the tropics, so it sounds weird that the disease was a major cause of sickness and death in England from 1564 to the 1730s. Chalk it up to a bad combination of climate change, brackish water in rivers and marshes, and, of course, mosquitoes. Ague was prevalent enough that Shakespeare mentioned it in nine of his plays. You'll also see ague surface in Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island, and Gulliver's Travels. From Cliffs Notes.

Birth, Marriages, and Deaths

As you move around the TNG pages you can 'bookmark' () any person or screen, and you can use the My Bookmarks menu option to get back to your bookmarked people etc. at any time. Your bookmarks only apply to this computer and this browser, and are lost when you delete cookies.

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host (computer) to another host (computer) over the Internet, or other network.

GEDCOM (GEnealogical Data COMmunication) is a specification for transferring genealogical data between systems. Version 5.5 was issued in 1995 and is the current standard. It has many problems, but attempts to develop a new internationally accepted standard have not yet succeeded.

General Register Office

The hearth tax was levied between 1662 and 1689 on each householder according to the number of hearths in his or her dwelling.

The Huntingdonshire Cyclists Battalion was used mostly for home defence duties and were based in Yorkshire for a lot of the time, watching the east coast. For this reason they were know by many as the 'forgotten regiment'. Many local soldiers who served in the army in World War 1 had been in the Cyclists Battalion first. Click here to go to a website with more information.

International Genealogical Index, the on-line database created by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) and available at familysearch.org

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Optical Character Recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic conversion of scanned or photographed images of typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded/computer-readable text.

Generally, Open Source (Wikipedia) refers to a computer program in which the source code is freely available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design. Open-source code is typically created as a collaborative effort in which programmers improve upon the code and share the changes within the community.

A one-place study (OPS) considers people and families in their physical and social context in any location across the globe. By learning about your ancestors’ neighbours and studying the historical environment and events that took place within a village, you can gain a greater understanding of your own genealogy. An OPS researches the residents of a particular place by gathering a full range of historical records, memorabilia and stories that mention those individuals, and analyse them to gain insights into the social and economic workings of that place.

Palaeography is the study of old handwriting

prosopography is an investigation of the common characteristics of a historical group, whose individual biographies may be largely untraceable, by means of a collective study of their lives, in multiple career-line analysis

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TablePress is a WordPress plugin that enables you to create and manage tables on your WordPress site.

Most timelines comprise two parts at different scales, one showing the detail, and the other a more summary form. You can drag a timeline, or scroll through it, to move both parts earlier or later. Some of the events may have comments and these can be seen by clicking on them.

TNG stands for The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding by Darrin Lythgoe. It is a software system used by thousands of people worldwide to store and display family trees. I have used it to show information about people, families, and what happened to them. Some of the pages of this website are "TNG" pages (they do not have a sidebar, but they do have a second, thinner menu bar), and others are not. For more information click on the image

Generally, with a toggle you can alternate back and forth between two states by clicking the same button. We use toggles in this website to enable content to be alternately hidden and revealed, as indicated by and .

WordPress (WP) has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. It is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it, and it is free to use.