title: The coexistence of generations and the availability of kin in a rural community at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
abstract: "To study the influence of the city on the demographic behavior of rural people, family genealogies extending back to the beginning of the eighteenth century were reconstructed for a community near the city of Geneva [Switzerland].... The article examines kinship relations and kin network in this community at different ages.... The findings reveal a small kinship group surrounding the stable family unit, with generations overlapping sufficiently to assure the transmission of landed property as well as social reproduction without discontinuity and without the need to appeal to collateral kin for help."
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authors.lastname: Perrenoud
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D005060:Europe; D005190:Family; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005195:Family Relations; D005789:Genealogy and Heraldry; D012942:Social Sciences; D013557:Switzerland
keywords: Demography; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Europe; Family And Household; Family Characteristics; Family Reconstitution; Family Relationships; Family Research; Genealogies; Generations; Historical Demography; Intergenerational Transfers; Kinship Networks; Microeconomic Factors; Social Sciences; Switzerland; Western Europe