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Abbreviations and Acronyms Found in Genealogy: D
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Abbreviations & Acronyms Index: Genealogy Terms: [A]
[B] [C] [D]
[E] [F] [G]
[H] [I] [J-K-L]
[M] [N] [O-P]
[Q-R] [S] [T]
[U-V-W-X-Y-Z] [Countries]
[Irish Counties, by Chapman's Codes] [Census
& Soundex]
[Miscellaneous Geography Terms] [Computer
Terms]
Abbreviations & Acronyms: D
d & h -- daughter and heiress
d. & coh. -- daughter and coheiress
d. -- died; death; daughter
DA -- district attorney
da. -- daughter; day
DAB -- Dictionary of American Biography
DAC -- National Society of the Daughters of the American Colonists
DAR -- Daughters of the American Revolution
dau. or daugr. -- daughter
dau-i-l or dil. -- daughter-in-law
daus. -- daughters
DAV -- Disabled American Veterans
DB -- Domesday Book
DC -- District of Columbia; deputy clerk; deputy county clerk
DCG -- Descendants of Colonial Governors
d.c.e. -- writ of diem clausit extremum (he has closed his last day, died)
DCW -- National Society of Daughters of Colonial Wars
d'd. -- deceased
dea or deac. -- deacon
dec. or dec'd -- deceased; decedent
decis. -- decision
degr. -- degree
dep. -- deputy; depot; deposed
depos. -- deposed; deposition
dept. -- department
desc. -- descendant
DFPA -- Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America
devis. -- devised
dii -- died in infancy
dio. -- diocese
dis. -- discharge
discip. -- discipline
diss. -- dissertation
dist. -- district
div. -- division; divided; divorced; divinity
DLP -- Descendants of Loyalists and Patriots
d/o -- daughter of
do. -- ditto
doc or docum. -- document
dom. -- domestic
dpl. -- death place
DR -- death record; Daughter of the Revolution; Diocesan Registry
dr. -- doctor; dram
DRT -- Daughters of the Republic of Texas
d.s. -- document signed; died single
ds. -- deaths; daughters
dsct. -- descendant
d.s.p. -- decessit sine prole (died without issue)
d.s.p.l. or d.s.p. -- legit decessit sine prole legitima (died without legitimate issue)
d.s.p.m. -- decessit sine prole mascula (died without male issue)
d.s.p.m.s. -- decessit sine prole mascula superstita (died without surviving male issue)
d.s.p.s. -- decessit sine parole superstita (died without surviving issue)
dt. -- date
dto. -- ditto
dtr. -- daughter
dt's. -- delirium tremens
dum. or d. um. or d.u.n.m. -- died unmarried
DUV -- Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War
d.v.m. -- decessit vita matris (died in the lifetime of his mother)
d.v.p. -- decessit vita patris (died in the lifetime of his father)
DVR -- Society of the Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge
d.y. -- died young
Abbreviations & Acronyms Index: Genealogy Terms: [A]
[B] [C] [D]
[E] [F] [G]
[H] [I] [J-K-L]
[M] [N] [O-P]
[Q-R] [S] [T]
[U-V-W-X-Y-Z] [Countries]
[Irish Counties, by Chapman's Codes] [Census
& Soundex]
[Miscellaneous Geography Terms] [Computer
Terms]
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