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== Inheritance records and wills (Akte warisan) == | == Inheritance records and wills (''Akte warisan'') == | ||
Research use: Provides linking information for family relationships. | Research use: Provides linking information for family relationships. | ||
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Reliability: Good.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 2000.</ref> | Reliability: Good.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 2000.</ref> | ||
== Guardianship records (Akte wali) == | == Guardianship records (''Akte wali'') == | ||
Research use: Valuable in cases of death or divorce of parents with minor children. | Research use: Valuable in cases of death or divorce of parents with minor children. | ||
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Inheritance records and wills (Akte warisan)[edit | edit source]
Research use: Provides linking information for family relationships.
Record type: Wills, inventories, distribution of estates.
Time Period: 1642-present.
Content: Names of individuals, their parents, children and grandchildren, dates, relationships, sometimes places of events, race, civil status.
Location: National Archives, local courts.
Population coverage: 10%.
Reliability: Good.[1]
Guardianship records (Akte wali)[edit | edit source]
Research use: Valuable in cases of death or divorce of parents with minor children.
Record type: Orphan’s chamber records of guardianship dispositions, orphans, adoption records, legitimations and decisions.
Time Period: 1700-present.
Content: Names of children, guardians, parents, ages, dates of birth, residence, legal acknowlegements.
Location: National Archives, municipal archives.
Population coverage: 5%.
Reliability: Good.[1]