If You Will It
Court process that validates a person's will
What is probate?
Gift of real estate by an authority as incentive or reward
What is a land grant?
Separate, freestanding burial ground not associated with a specific place of worship
What is a cemetery?
Type of DNA inherited equally from mother and father
What is autosomnal?
Document detailing those traveling on a ship or plane
What is a passenger list / manifest?
Written instructions for distributing your personal property after death
What is a will?
Government issued certificate indicating right to claim land
What is a land warrant?
Burial ground adjacent to a church
What is a graveyard?
The molecule that contains each cell's genetic code
What is DNA / Nuclear DNA?
Citizen of a country other than the one they are living in
What is an alien?
One appointed to carry out the instructions of a will
What is an executor?
Legal document that shows how a larger tract of land is divided
What is a plat map?
Section of the federal census listing people who died that year
What is a mortality schedule?
Genetic material passed down from father to son that confirms genealogical links through a paternal line
What is Y-DNA?
The act of entering and settling in another country
What is immigration?
Person named in will to receive assets or property
What is a beneficiary?
Number, street name, and postal code of a home or piece of land
What is an address?
Description of a person who died without leaving a will
What is "intestate"?
Type of DNA inherited exclusively from mothers, and that remains unchanged from generation to generation
What is mtDNA / mitochondrial DNA?
Place where an immigrant lands
What is a port of entry/arrival?
The person who makes and signs a last will and testament
Who is the testator?
Map that shows the boundaries and owners of land for tax purposes
What is a cadastral map?
An upright stone marker placed specifically at the front of a grave
What is a headstone?
Unit measuring shared DNA length between 2 relatives
What is a centimorgan / cM ?
The legal process by which a foreign national becomes a U.S. citizen
What is naturalization?