Acknowledgements. Introduction.- Part I: Family and kin as immediate providers of well-being for its members. 1: Marriage and the kin network: Evidence from a 19th-century Italian community. 2: Mortality in the family of origin and its effects on marriage partner selection in a Flemish village, 18th 20th centuries. 3: Villages, descent groups, households, and individual outcomes in rural Liaoning, 1789 1909.- Part II: The importance of family and kin over the life-course. 4: The presence of parents and childhood survival: The passage of social time and differences by social class. 5: When do kinsmen really help? Examination of cohort and parity-specific kin effects on fertility behavior. Case of the Bejsce parish register reconstitution study, 17 20th centuries, Poland. 6: Places of life events as bequestable wealth. Familial territory and migration in France, 19th and 20th centuries. 7: Family effects on mortality in older ages, Southern Sweden, 1829 1894.- Part III: Kinship as a marker of genetic proximity. 8: The influence of consanguineous marriage on reproductive behavior and early mortality in northern coastal Sweden, 1780 1899. 9: Post-reproductive longevity in a natural fertility population. 10: Familial aggregation of elderly cause-specific mortality: Analysis of extended pedigrees in Utah, 1904 2002. 11: Distant kinship and founder effects in the Quebec population.
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Publisher(s): Springer Netherlands
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Author(s): Bengtsson, Tommy - Mineau, Geraldine P.