Kinship and Demographic Behavior in the Past

I. Family and Kin as Immediate Providers of Well-being for Its Members

1. Introduction
Tommy Bengtsson, Geraldine P. Mineau

2. Marriage and the Kin Network: Evidence from a 19th-Century Italian Community
Matteo Manfredini, Marco Breschi

3. Mortality in the Family of Origin and Its Effect on Marriage Partner Selection in a Flemish Village 18th–20th Centuries
Bart Putte, Koen Matthijs, Robert Vlietinck

4. Villages, Descent Groups, Households, and Individual Outcomes in Rural Liaoning, 1789–1909
Cameron Campbell, James Lee

II. The Importance of Family and Kin over the Life Course

5. The Presence of Parents and Childhood Survival: The Passage of Social Time and Differences by Social Class
Frans Poppel, Ruben Gaalen

6. When Do Kinsmen Really Help? Examination of Cohort and Parity-Specific Kin Effects on Fertility Behavior. The Case of the Bejsce Parish Register Reconstitution Study, 17th–20th Centuries, Poland
Krzysztof Tymicki

7. Places of Life Events as Bequestable Wealth: Family Territory and Migration in France, 19th and 20th Centuries
Lionel Kesztenbaum

8. Inheritance, Environment, and Mortality in Older Ages, Southern Sweden, 1813–1894
Tommy Bengtsson, Göran Broström

III. Kinship as a Marker of Genetic Proximity

9. The Influence of Consanguineous Marriage on Reproductive Behavior and Early Mortality in Northern Coastal Sweden, 1780–1899
Inez Egerbladh, Alan Bittles

10. Postreproductive Longevity in a Natural Fertility Population
Alain Gagnon, Ryan Mazan, Bertrand Desjardins, Ken R. Smith

11. Familial Aggregation of Elderly Cause-Specific Mortality: Analysis of Extended Pedigrees in Utah, 1904–2002
Richard Kerber, Elizabeth O'Brien, Ken R. Smith, Geraldine P. Mineau

12. Distant Kinship and Founder Effects in the Quebec Population
Marc Tremblay, Hélène Vézina, Bertrand Desjardins, Louis Houde

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Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General SOC000000