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Italian, Latin, Medical Word Lists for Genealogy Research

Gaetano Online Italian Occupations and English Equivalents - by Thomas G. Buccigross (2000) from the Wayback Machine.
Italian Abbreviations - very useful list.
Italian to English family history glossary - To help with Family History Documents by Robert Angelo
Italian Genealogy Word List - compiled by Latter Day Saints Family History Center.
Italian Occupations - alphabetical list of Italian occupations and their equivalent English terms.
Italian Occupations List - maintained by Chris and Lou.
Italian Occupations with English Translation - provided by gencampania with some old or dialect words.
Italian Occupations - from the Calitri Homepage.
L D S : Italian Records Extraction Guide - PDFs from Brigham Young University Family History Website with Civil Birth Records, Parish Christening Records, Civil Marriage Records, Italian Handwriting, Numbers and Times, Glossary of Professions and more help for your Italian Family-Tree research from BYU.
D I Z I O N A R I O - Italiano ed Inglese by Ferdinando Altieri printed in London - the WayBack Machine has various google copies (1726, 1750) of this useful old Italian to English dictionary.
Italian to English terminology questions
Genealogical Dictionary - Glossary of Genealogical Terms and Abbreviations.
Genealogy & Archaic Terms Dictionary - contains many of the common "buzzwords", terminology and legal words found in genealogy work.
alphaDictionary * Free Italian Dictionary - Free Italian Grammar
Translator TOOLS by Chiara Zanone
Genealogy Dictionary - "Every man is a quotation from his ancestors" compiled by Dorothy Stanley.
Passenger List Annotations - do you want to know what all those signs and symbols on the Passenger Manifests mean? :: read this information by the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Guide to Interpreting Passenger List Annotations - by Marian L. Smith Historian, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and other helpers on Jewish.gen
Latin in Parish Records by Alison U. Ring, Ladysmith, B.C., Canada [alt]
Church Record Translations - Internet Archive is in English, Latin, Hungarian and Slovak.
Latin Primer for genealogical Terms - List of common Latin number, phrases and words found in genealogy records
Ecclesiastical Abbreviations - A list of many of the Latin Abbreviations which you might find on some of your ancestor records especially Parish Records. Scroll down to the bottom of their Text in order to view Abbreviations
Treasury of Latin Prayers - Thesaurus Precum Latinarum
Latin Genealogy Word List - Classic EASY to view reference from the Mormons (Church of Latter Day Saints).
27,000 Latin Words - Notre Dame Archives : Latin Aid from William Whitaker's Words.
Latin-English/English-Latin Dictionary - interactive Java version. If your computer doesn't have Java enabled scroll down to their HyperText version
Latin-English Translation of Genealogy Words - from an old Newsgroup 2000 posting now archived on Rootsweb.
Heraldic Translator - when choosing the language into which you want the translation choose ALL (makes it easier) Click on their other links too.
Italian-English Glossary Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms - of Causes of Death and other Archaic Medical Terms
Italian - Dizionario Della Salute - health, medicine and anatomy of the human body
Italian Glossary of Medical Terms - Glossario di termini medici a cura dell�isit
Italian: Medical SmartPhrase: Medical Phrases; Parts of the Body; Illnesses etc.; Symptoms; Treatments; Medical People & Places
Diseases in the Olden Days - most damaging, horrific diseases that plagued people in the olden days are now thankfully eradicated. Many are still around today, however simple medicines can help cure
Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms - A Glossary of Archaic Medical Terms, Diseases and Causes of Death. The Genealogist's Resource for Interpreting Causes of Death.
Wayback Machine access to Old Medical Terms for Genealogists - Archaic Medical Terms compiled by Paul Smith includes some slang words & some modern terms.
More Medical & Medicine Links at Cindi's List
Old Disease Names and Their Modern Definitions - Useful tool to understanding those out of date medical terms used on your ancestors death certificates.

*IMPORTANT* - Computer translated text should only be used as an indication of the meaning of the original text

Click here to go to Dialects of Italy - on this site at another page.
YANDEX TRANSLATOR - very good machine translations.
BING TRANSLATOR - Enter text or webpage URL. I was surprised at the fast speed in translating an entire website. This used to be Babelfish so I guess Microsoft took over.
Enchanted Learning - English-Italian Picture Dictionary.
Internet Picture Dictionary: ITALIAN
Italian irregular verbs / Verbi irregolari - list of the most common Italian irregular verbs (in English)
Italian picture dictionary - from Dicts.info - Free dictionaries project
Italian Verbs: conjugate Italian regular verbs and Italian irregular verbs. by Enrico Olivetti
LOGOS Dictionary - interesting concept of translating a word into various languages at once.
WordReference - English-Italian Dictionary
World Lingo - computer translations of text and Web Sites.
InterActive Terminology for Europe (IATE) - The European Terminology Database of the European Union. Type in your search term, use the pull down arrow to indicate the source language and check your target language of interest.

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