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Probate Record Analysis

Probate Record Analysis is a documentary archaeological method that systematically examines legal and administrative records of estate distribution following death to reconstruct socio-economic structures, material culture patterns, and kinship networks in historical societies.

15

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597

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6

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2017–2026

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Publications

15

Documentary archaeology in the New World

Choice Reviews Online · 1990 · 157 citations

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Probate Records as a Source for Early American History

Gloria L. Main · The William and Mary Quarterly · 1975 · 47 citations

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Elderly Wards and Their Legal Guardians: Analysis of County Probate Records in Ohio and Washington

Kris Bulcroft, M. R. Kielkopf, Karen B Tripp · The Gerontologist · 1991 · 47 citations

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Underregistration and Bias in Probate Records: An Analysis of Data from Eighteenth-Century Hingham, Massachusetts

Daniel Scott Smith · The William and Mary Quarterly · 1975 · 43 citations

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Where Is the Middle Class? Evidence from 60 Million English Death and Probate Records, 1892–1992

Neil Cummins · The Journal of Economic History · 2021 · 43 citations · Full text

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Authors

15

  1. GL
    Gloria L. Main

    University of Colorado Boulder, United States

    2 publications · 69 citations

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  2. JB
    Joanne Bowen

    Northern Michigan University, United States

    1 publications · 39 citations

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  3. CS
    Carole Shammas

    University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, United States

    1 publications · 34 citations

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  4. NC
    Neil Cummins

    London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 43 citations

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  5. MR
    M. R. Kielkopf

    Western Washington University, United States

    1 publications · 47 citations

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Institutions

6

  1. Université Gaston Berger

    Saint-Louis, Senegal

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    42 citations

  2. Western Washington University

    Bellingham, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    47 citations

  3. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    23 citations

  4. University of South Australia

    Adelaide, Australia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    36 citations

  5. Cummins (United Kingdom)

    Huddersfield, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    43 citations

  6. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    43 citations

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Venues

  1. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History

    JIH · 3 publications · 112 citations

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  2. The William and Mary Quarterly

    2 publications · 90 citations

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  3. Historical Archaeology

    1 publications · 39 citations

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  4. The University of Chicago Law Review

    1 publications · 21 citations

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  5. The Journal of Economic History

    1 publications · 43 citations

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