198 pp. Illus. 5½x8½, soft cover, 1994. Book only: #1396 $17.50 Computer disk (3½" or 5¼"): $2.00 Was your ancestor born on Elftausend Jungfrauentag, but you haven't the faintest idea when that was? Puzzled by the changeover from Julian to Gregorian calendars? Mystified by a Napoleonic-era reference to the month of Nivôse? Help is at hand! This easy-to-use book explains ...
Estate inventories provide something that genealogical charts and tables cannot—a wonderful glimpse into your ancestor's personal possessions. These inventories list a deceased person's possessions. It provides help to read and interpret inventories with sections on writing, spelling, foreign words, abbreviations, currencies, wage rates, commodity prices, and a glossary of archaic words.