Inheritance Patterns in the United States, 1685-1980 (ICPSR 9443)
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Carole Shammas
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09443.v1
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This data collection was designed to study changes in American inheritance patterns over three centuries. Major areas of investigation include equality of treatment among children, legacies to sons versus daughters, estate planning strategies, treatment of spouse in will, women's testamentary power, charitable bequests, bequests to extended kin and non-kin, legacies of chattel, realty, and financial assets, and the naming of executors and guardians.
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Marylynn Salmon, University of Maryland, Department of History, and Michel Dahlin, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, Department of History, collaborated with Carole Shammas in the preparation of this data collection.
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Probate records (wills, administrations, and inventories) for Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Los Angeles County, California
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1990-12-04
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- Shammas, Carole. Inheritance Patterns in the United States, 1685-1980. ICPSR09443-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1990. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09443.v1
2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 11 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
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