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| PAF |
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Acronym For: Personal Ancestral File®. A widely used, genealogy software program created by the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
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| PASSENGER LIST |
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| A ships list of passengers, usually referring to those ships arriving in the U.S. from Europe. |
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| PATENT |
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| Grant of land from a government to an individual. |
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| PATERNAL |
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| Related through one's father, such as, the paternal grandmother is the father's mother. |
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| PATRIOT |
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| One who loves his country and supports its interests. |
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| PEDIGREE |
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| 1) A list of ancestors; record of ancestry; family tree. 2) Descent; lineage; ancestry 3) A recorded or known line of descent. |
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| PEDIGREE CHART |
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| A report showing an individual along with parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc. for a specified number of generations. |
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| PEERAGE |
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| A book containing a list of peers with their genealogy, history, and titles. |
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| PENSION |
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| Money paid regularly to an individual, especially by a government as reward for military service during wartime or upon retirement from government service. |
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| PENSIONER |
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| One who receives a pension. |
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| PER STIRPES |
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| (Latin) Term used to designate a system of inheritance under which children take among them the share which their parent would have taken had he survived the decedent. Thus the children are said to claim their shares by representing their parent. |
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| PERCH |
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| 1) unit of length - 16 1/2 feet. 2) unit of length - 5 1/2 yards. 3) a unit of length equal to a square rod (25.293 square meters). |
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| POLE |
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| 1) unit of length - 16 1/2 feet. 2) unit of length - 5 1/2 yards. 3) a unit of length equal to a square rod (25.293 square meters). |
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| POLL |
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| List or record of persons, especially for taxing or voting. |
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| POPULATION SCHEDULE |
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Also called a Decennial Census, the POPULATION CENSUS is a census taken of the population every ten years by the Federal Government. Census taking for the United States began in 1790 and has continued to present.
The Population Schedule is the main part of the federal census, which lists the inhabitants of an area, with varying degrees of other personal data. [See also Decennial Census] . |
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| POST |
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| Latin prefix meaning after, as in post-war economy. |
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| POSTERITY |
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| Descendants; those who come after. |
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| POSTHUMOUS |
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1) Following or occurring after death. 2) Born after the death of the father. 3) Published after the death of the author. |
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| POWER OF ATTORNEY |
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| A legal document in which a person gives another the power to act for him or her. The authority may be general or it may be restricted. |
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| PRE |
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| Latin prefix meaning before, as in pre-war military build-up. |
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| PRE-EMOTION RIGHTS |
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| Right given by the federal government to citizens to buy a quarter section of land or less. A land unit equal to a quarter of a section is 160 acres. |
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| PRIMARY RECORD |
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| A record created at the time of the event (birth, marriage, death, etc.) as opposed to records written years later. |
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| PRIMOGENITOR |
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| An ancestor or forefather. |
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| PRIMOGENITURE |
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| 1) The state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents. 2) An exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest son. |
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| PROBATE |
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| Legal process of determining that a will is valid before authorizing distribution of the estate, appointment of someone to administer an intestate estate, and overseeing the settlements of an estate. |
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| PROGENITOR |
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| 1) A direct ancestor. 2) The originator of a line of descent. |
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| PROGENY |
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| Descendants of a common ancestor; issue; children. |
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| PROVEN WILL |
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| A will established as genuine by probate court. |
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| PROVOST |
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| A person appointed to oversee, or to preside over something. |
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| PROXIMO |
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| In the following month, in the month after the present one. |
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| PUBLIC DOMAIN |
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| 1) Land owned by the government. 2) Creative works whose copyright has expired. |
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