Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Information Forms (hierarchy name)
5. information forms (objects)
6. document genres
7. [documents by function]
8. records (documents)
9. [records by form or function]
10. financial records
11. [financial records by function]
12. bookkeeping records
13. accounts

Narrower term/s

• estate inventories [NP][+]
  • room-by-room inventories

Anotations

Scope note:

Accounts detailing the process of probate including inventories, final expenses, and the dispensation of property. Historical probate accounts were mostly filed by women and therefore these accounts provide unique information on women's experience in handling property and the history of property relations between men and women.