Genealogists love to abbreviate. Their documents, letters, reports and emails are full of long words crammed into little spaces, or of the same words repeated over and over again. Many of the abbreviations that you come across in genealogy are fairly self-explanatory – ‘gt grandfather’ is your great-grandfather; ‘Fred’k Smith’ is in fact Frederick Smith. But other abbreviations may catch you out for a moment or two, so here’s a list of some of the most common genealogy abbreviations:
b – born
bach – bachelor
bap/bap’t – baptised
bur – buried
c/ca – circa (approximately)
cert – certificate
Chr – christened
d – died
dau/daur – daughter
dec/dec’d – deceased
do – ditto
d/o – daughter of
f – female
FS – female servant
gdau/gdaur – grand daughter
gson – grandson
h/o – husband of
m/mar/marr – married
m(1) – first marriage
m(2) – second marriage
m – months
m – male
MS – male servant
NK – not known
occ – occupation
OTP – of this parish
PM – post mortem
s – single
s/o – son of
un/unm – unmarried
w/wid/widr – widow or widower
w/o – wife of
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Source:http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/genealogy-abbreviations.html
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