{"id":11306,"date":"2025-01-05T18:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T18:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11306"},"modified":"2025-01-05T18:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T18:16:08","slug":"a-little-thought-experiment-on-per-stirpes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11306","title":{"rendered":"A Little Thought Experiment on Per Stirpes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Do you know how inheritance “per stirpes” works?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pretend that my second great-grandfather Habben died yesterday at the age of 166. He didn’t, but this is a thought exercise. His wife was already dead. He has descendants–including me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His children are all deceased. His grandchildren are all deceased. Many of his great-grandchildren are deceased. To determine my share, per stirpes, we’d have to take a look at the family structure getting down to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Great-great-grandpa had five children–all of whom left descendants living today. So there’s an initial split five ways. One of those initial five children was my great-grandpa, Mimka whose branch of the family would get his fifth of the whole estate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My great-grandpa had 7 children (including my Grandma Dot)–all are deceased, but only 6 of Mimka’s children have descendants, so his share gets split 6 ways. This means Grandma Dot’s family gets 1\/30 of the estate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grandma Dot had three children–all deceased but only one has descendants living today (my Mom). Mom’s family would then still get 1\/30 of the estate. My Mom has two children living meaning that we’d each get 1\/60th of the estate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I played this little game with another great-great-grandmother who I pretended died in 2025. In that case, I’d get 1\/24 of the estate. She had three children who left descendants, my great-grandma had 4 children who left descendants, my granddad had 1 child who left descendants, and my Mom has two living children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kind of a fun little exercise to see if you know who in your family left descendants and who did not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

–Michael<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was recently posted to my Genealogy Tip of the Day page on Facebook and we’re sharing it here for others.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you know how inheritance “per stirpes” works? Pretend that my second great-grandfather Habben died yesterday at the age of 166. He didn’t, but this is a thought exercise. His wife was already dead. He has descendants–including me. His children are all deceased. His grandchildren are all deceased. Many of his great-grandchildren are deceased. To […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11307,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11306\/revisions\/11307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}