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Key Genealogical Sources & Their Abbreviations
Compiled by CE Wood -- wood_ce@msn.com
- AACPW = American Ancestors and Cousins of the Princess of Wales (Roberts & Reitwiesner)
- AAP = Ancestors of American Presidents (Roberts)
- AB = Annales de Bourgogne
- AEM = Anuario de Estudios Medievales
- AF = Ancestral File AG = Accredited Genealogist
- AM = Annales du Midi ANS = Anglo-Norman Studies
- AP&P = Adventurers of Purse and Person
- AR7 = Ancestral Roots, 7th ed. (Weis)
- BAF = American Families (1939) (Burke)
- BC = Commoners (Burke)
- BIFR = Irish Families (1976) (Burke)
- BLG = Landed Gentry (Burke)
- BLGI = Landed Gentry of Ireland, 1899,1904,1912,1958 (Burke)
- BN = Bibliotheque Nationale BP = Peerage (Burke)
- BP1 = Presidential_Families, 1st ed. (Burke).
- BPci = Peerage, 101st ed. (Burke).
- BRF = Guide to the Royal Family, 1973 (Burke)
- BRF = Britain's Royal Families (Weir)
- BXB = Dormant and Extinct Baronetcies (Burke)
- BXP = Dormant and Extinct Peerages (Burke)
- CCM = Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale
- CCR = Calendar of Charter Rolls
- CCR = Calendar of Close Rolls
- CF = Colonial Families of the Southern States of America (Hardy)
- CFR = Calendar of Fine Rolls
- CG = Certified Genealogist
- CIM = Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous
- CIPM = Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem
- CLR = Calendar of Liberate Rolls
- CP = The Complete Peerage
- CPR = Calendar of Patent Rolls
- CR = Close Rolls
- CRR = Curia Regis Rolls
- CTG = Collectanea
- DB = Domesday Book (1086 or thereabouts)
- DD = Domesday Descendants (Keats-Rohan)
- DES = Oxford "A Dictionary of English Surnames"
- DNB = Dictionary of National Biography
- DP = Domesday People (Keats-Rohan)
- ECD1 = Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol I (Redlich)
- ECD2 = Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol II (Langston & Buck)
- ECD3 = Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol III (Buck & Beard)
- EHR = English Historical Review
- ES = Europaische Stammtafeln (Schwennicke) (neue Folge)
- ESI = Europaische Stammtafeln (Isenburg)
- ESI/L = Europaische Stammtafeln (Isenburg/von Loringhoven)
- EYC = Early Yorkshire Charters
- F = Plantagenet Ancestry (Faris)
- F of F = Feet of Fines
- FASG = Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists
- FHC = Family History Center
- FHL = Family History Library, Salt Lake City
- Gen. ns = The Genealogist, New Series
- Gen. os = The Genealogist, Old Series
- GM = Genealogists Magazine
- H & G = Herald and Genealogist and Heraldry Books.
- Harl.Soc.Reg.Ser. = Harleian Society (Parish) Register Series
- Harl.Soc.Vis.Ser. = Harleian Society Visitation Series
- HKF = Honors and Knights' Fees (Farrer)
- HOP = History of Parliament
- HR = Historical Research
- HSJ = Haskins Society Journal
- HSRS = Harleian Society (Parish) Register Series
- HSVS = Harleian Society Visitation Series
- IGI [extr.] = International Genealogical Index, extracted entry
- IGI [sub.] = International Genealogical Index, submitted entry
- IMI = International Medieval Index
- JMH = Journal of Medieval History
- LM = Lexikon des Mittelalters
- M&H = Medievalia et Humanistica
- MCS = Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 (Weis et al.)
- MEFR = Mélanges de l'École Française de Rome (Moyen Âge)
- MG&H = Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica
- MGH = Monumenta Germaniae Historica
- MGHSS = Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores Series
- MP = Medieval Prosopography
- NEHGR = New England Historical & Genealogical Register
- NEHGS = New England Historic Genealogical Society
- NGS = National Genealogical Society (USA)
- NGSQ = National Genealogical Society Quarterly
- NK1 = Notable Kin, Vol. I (Roberts)
- NK2 = Notable Kin, Vol. II (Roberts)
- NMS = Nottingham Medieval Studies
- NQ = Notes and Queries
- NYGBR = New York Genealogical & Biographical Record
- NYGBS = New York Genealogical & Biographical Society
- OTG = The Genealogist, 19th & early 20th century British periodical much used by genealogists
- PA = Plantagenet Ancestry, 2d ed. (Faris)
- Paget = The Lineage and Ancestry of H. R. H. Prince Charles of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1977 (two volumes)
- PRF = Pedigree Resource File
- PRO = Public Record Office [London] referring to original documents
- PRS = Pipe Roll Society RD500 = The Royal Descent of 500 Immigrants (Roberts)
- RFC = Royalty for Commoners RFC2 = Royalty for Commoners, 2d ed. (Stuart)
- RHF = Recueil des Historiens de France
- RS = Rolls Series
- Sanders = English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327 (I.J. Sanders)
- SoG = Society of Genealogists, based in London
- Sp = Speculum
- SP = The Scot's Peerage
- TA = The Ancestor
- TAG = The American Genealogist
- TG = The Genealogist as published by Neil Thompson & the American Society of Genealogists
- TGM = The Genealogist's Magazine, publication by
- SoG TPC = The Plantagenet Connection, published by Kenneth Harper Finton
- VCH = Victoria County Histories Weir = Britain's Royal Families (Weir)
- WFT = World Family Tree CD, [vol]:[num] (Broderbund) Caveat lector
- WMC = Magna Charta (Wurts)
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