Genealogical Terms - J

GENEALOGICAL TERMS LETTER 'J'

J P Justice of the Peace ABBREVIATION

JAAR year DUTCH

JACK young male assistant, sailor, or lumberjack OCCUPATION

JACK FRAME TENTER a cotton industry worker who operated a jack-frame (used to
twist the thread) OCCUPATION

JACK SMITH maker of lifting machinery and contrivances OCCUPATION

JAGGER carrier; carter; peddler or hawker; a boy in charge of the train or
trucks in a coal mine OCCUPATION

JAHRES year GERMAN

JAIL FEVER typhus MEDICAL

JAKES FARMER OCCUPATION

JAM Jamaica PLACE-NAME

JANEIRO January PORTUGUESE

JANUAR January NORWEGIAN

JANUAR, JANNER January GERMAN

JANUARI January DUTCH

JANVIER January FRENCH

JAPANNER one who covers with a hard brilliant coat of any of several varnishes
OCCUPATION

JARDINIER gardener FRENCH

JASMINE, WHITE a flower that represents amiability SYMBOLS

JASPER represents wisdom and courage; birth stone for March (also see
bloodstone) SYMBOLS

JAUNDICE yellowness of the skin, eyes, mucous membranes and bodily secretions,
due to the presence of bile pigments in the blood MEDICAL

JEROBOAM a wine bottle holding the equivalent of 4 normal bottles, about 120
ounces, sometimes called a double magnum MEASURE

JERQUER custom house officer who searched ships OCCUPATION

JERSEY COMBER worker in woolen manufacture in Jersey OCCUPATION

JEUDI Thursday FRENCH

JOAILLIER jeweller; goldsmith FRENCH

JOBBER a buyer in quantity to sell to others; a pieceworker OCCUPATION

JOBLING GARDENER one employed on a casual basis OCCUPATION

JOBMASTER supplied carriages, horses and drivers for hire OCCUPATION

JOINER carpenter OCCUPATION

JOLLY RANT influenza MEDICAL

JONGLEUR traveling minstrel OCCUPATION

JOUCAT a Scottish liquid measure of 1 gill; also jowcat MEASURE

JOUR day FRENCH

JOURNALIER labourer FRENCH

JOURNALISTE journalist FRENCH

JOURNEYMAN one who served his apprenticeship & mastered his craft OCCUPATION

JOUSTER fish monger OCCUPATION

JOWCAT a Scottish liquid measure of 1 gill; also joucat MEASURE

JOYNER carpenter OCCUPATION

JR junior ABBREVIATION

JSY Jersey, CHI PLACE-NAME

JU Jew ABBREVIATION

JUBILATE DEO rejoice in God LATIN

JUEVES Thursday SPANISH

JUGE judge FRENCH

JUILLET July FRENCH

JUIN June FRENCH

JULHO July PORTUGUESE

JULI July DUTCH

JULI July GERMAN

JULI July NORWEGIAN

JULIO July SPANISH

JUNGLE FEVER malaria MEDICAL

JUNHO June PORTUGUESE

JUNI June GERMAN

JUNI June DUTCH

JUNI June NORWEGIAN

JUNIO June SPANISH

JURE DIVINO by divine law LATIN

JURE HUMANO by human law LATIN

JURE PERITUS one learned in the law LATIN

JUS CANONICUM the canon law LATIN

JUS CIVILE the civil law LATIN

JUS DIVINUM the divine law LATIN

JUS GENTIUM the law of nations LATIN

JUVENSIS young man LATIN

JUXTA next to; used in naming places referring to a river or place and often
used to distinguish 2 places of the same name PLACE-NAME