Reconsidering the northwest European family system: living arrangements of the aged in comparative historical perspective • Steven Ruggles, University of Minnesota

Dissolution of extended-family households in Northern Orkney, Scotland, 1851-1901 • Julia A. Jennings, Pennsylvania State University ; Corey S. Sparks, University of Texas at San Antonio ; James W. Wood, Pennsylvania State University ; Patricia L. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University ; Timothy M. Murtha, Pennsylvania State University ; Stephen A Matthews, Pennsylvania State University

Familiar structures and the impact of early immigration, Buenos Aires City, 1855 • Gladys Massé, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INDEC)

Family of the south Mexican border, at the first decades of XXth century • Allan Ortega, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Centro INAH Quintana Roo)