Monday, February 13, 2012

Genealogy Terms in Other Languages

I'm starting a compiled list of genealogy terms in other languages.  If you have a page or post on your website or blog, leave me a comment here or an email at vrojomit@gmail.com and I'll add it to this compendium:

Frenchhttp://www.acadian-home.org/translations.html  by Lucie Consentino

French Canadian, including abbreviations
http://homepage.mac.com/steveeno/Enaud_Cards/French_Words_for_Web.html by Stephen Charles Eno

German, three vocabulary lists thanks to reader Muriel Parker!
http://genealogy.about.com/od/germany/p/word_list.htm
http://www.ogsa.us/pdf-files/Guide.pdf
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/ArticlePrint/german-glossary 

Hawaiianhttp://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/02/hawaiian-genealogy-words.html

Hebrew - http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/tombstones.html  Thanks to Jennifer Schoer

Spanish - http://www.cubagenweb.org/gloss.htm  (there is one error, cuñado is brother-in-law says Randy Clark who contributed this link.  He also adds sobrenombre, apodo = nickname, matrimonio = couple, and pareja= partner, couple)


Wabanaki http://www.nedoba.org/lang_people.html  kinship, family, and other vocabulary in the Wabanaki language (Native Americans in New England, Quebec and the Maritime provinces)

Also

Babelfish translation service - http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

Not very reliable, but use this in a pinch http://translate.google.com/

From Familysearch.org this is a link to several major European languages with genealogy word guides
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/frameset_rhelps.asp?Page=./research/type/Word_List.asp&ActiveTab=Type

When we have several links here, you can bookmark this post and keep it for future reference!

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Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo


5 comments:

  1. Please make first the English Terms List assembled with the definition of those terms. Then I would try to translate them into Japanese.

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  2. Baba Age, I have no list of terms. You can look at the two examples I listed first (Hawaiian and French) for examples. Anything you can provide on kinship, months and dates, family relationships in Japanese would be greatly appreciated.

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    1. OK. I'll try some later as an exercise of myself (the problem is my poor English :P, but for now I'm struggling to make the first official release of Zelkova Tree Beta, our multi-lineage genealogy builder. So give me sometime please. 馬場英治(Baba Age)

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  3. Heather, Here is the French list that I always refer to. It's not mine, but it's good. http://homepage.mac.com/steveeno/Enaud_Cards/French_Words_for_Web.html

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  4. Thank you for this post. I have a lot of relatives from France so I think this french link will be very helpful. I love doing internet genealogy but it gets frustrating when I don't know what it says! Thanks again!

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