In a message dated 2/12/2009 1:04:53 AM Eastern Standard Time, beso...@calwisp.com writes: > Lew - Thank you for sharing this with us. For one of my Portuguese lines, > I was told that the oldest son inheriated everything and the rest fended for > themselves. So, the rest came to America and the oldest, who was a famous > doctor stayed. Don't know if that's the honest truth, but that all I have to > go on. :) Robin Borba Besotes > What time period are you talking? Entailments, the system by which an estate passed on, undivided, to one designated heir in each successive generation, ended in the last half of the nineteenth century. Of course anyone could still leave all of their property to one child while disinheriting the others or leaving them just the one single dollar. Who was the famous doctor?
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