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abstract: an abbreviated summary of a document that includes the key information: names, dates, relationships (son, widow), role (witness, executor, bondsman), etc.

citation: the formatted information about a genealogical source that connects that source to each piece of family information it provided.

one that has been copied, digitized, summarized, abstracted, extracted, indexed, transcribed or otherwise created from another source. Try to track derivative records to

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