Description & Citation--Study No. 9443 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 9443 |
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| Persistent URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09443 |
| Title: | Inheritance Patterns in the United States, 1685-1980 |
| Principal Investigator(s): | Carole Shammas |
| Funding Agency: | National Science Foundation. Law and Social Science Program |
| National Endowment for the Humanities. Research Program | |
| Grant Number: | SES-8208620 |
| RO-20466-83 | |
| Bibliographic Citation: | Shammas, Carole. INHERITANCE PATTERNS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1685-1980 [Computer file]. Milwaukee, WI: Carole Shammas, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Dept. of History [producer], 1990. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1990. doi:10.3886/ICPSR09443 |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | 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. |
| Subject Term(s): | eighteenth century, estate planning, financial assets, historical data, inheritance, legacies, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, twentieth century, wills |
| Geographic Coverage: | United States |
| Time Period: | 1685 - 1980 |
| Date(s) of Collection: | 1983 - 1985 |
| Data Type: | event/transaction data |
| Data Collection Notes: | 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. |
Methodology | |
| Data Source: | Probate records (wills, administrations, and inventories) for Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Los Angeles County, California |
Access and Availability | |
| Note: | A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest. |
| Original ICPSR Release: | 1990-12-04 |
| Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2006-01-12. |
| 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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