Does this help?
Collect dead people = Genealogy...use: "I collect dead
people."
Cemeterying = Going to a cemetery (often involves a hatchet, a
machete, lots of bug spray and hard labor)... use: "I went
cemeterying last week with cuzzin' Juanita and we dug up some of
grampa's family."
Dig up relatives = To Find... use: see above, and above.
Cuzzin' = often much more related than a cousin... use:
"Cuzzin Juanita' and Mom are 1st, 3rd and 4th cuzzins and her
husband Cuzzin' Merriman and Mom are 3rd and 7th cuzzins. What's
that make me and her daughter? Can we get married or not?" (Yes,
there is a cuzzin' Juanita and cuzzin' Merriman. "Mom" is
actually my grandmother. Amazingly only one of their children
married a relative... I think.)
Stoned = To have a tombstone... use: "I remember Cuzzin
Juanita was buried right here, but she didn't get stoned, so it's
hard to dig her up."
Docs = Documentation... use: "I don't believe you, you got any
docs to prove it?"
I'm sure I could come up with others given more time.
Patrick Hays
CC Custer Co., CO, Hancock, Daviess, Jefferson and Henry Cos., KY,
Mecosta Co., MI
CoCC Blackford Co., IN
SC INGenWeb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry & Teri Cleaveland" <pastor751(a)greenapple.com>
To: <COGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 5:30 AM
Subject: Re: [COGEN-L] Re: COGEN-D Digest V00 #200
Thanks Scott. I will add them to my list. I'm not sure some of
them would work because although we abbreviate them, when we
say them aloud we say the entire word. Fiche is probably slang,
because we've shortened it from microfiche. BLM is the same
since when we speak, we don't ever use the full words.
Never thought about it all until now.
Thanks again!
Teri
> At 04:00 AM 9/21/00 -0700, COGEN-D-request(a)rootsweb.com wrote:
>
> > #1 [COGEN-L] Slang in Genealogy ["Terry & Teri
Cleaveland"
>
> >As a class assignment for tongiht's class, I need to come up
with a
list
> >of "slang used in a group in which you are a
member".
>
> How about the abbreviations we use,
> Inf.
> Mar.
> cir
> Abt
> Bef
>
> All I could think of off the top of my head.
>
>
> D. Scott Scheibe
> alamosa(a)altavista.net
> Alamosa Co., Colorado Coordinator, USGenWeb Project.
>
http://www.rootsweb.com/~coalamos/
> Rio Grande Co., Colorado Coordinator, USGenWeb Project.
>
http://www.rootsweb.com/~coriogra/
> If you receive scrambled e-mail, please let me know, it is a
problem I
> have with Eudora 3.0x 16 bit..
>
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