Thanks Naomi, I will look at that site. I've been looking at http://blog.arkivdigital.net/estate-inventory-bouppteckning-reading-example/ and some words are the same or similar, but there are many differences as well. Your link has more examples, and that will help. In the case of omyndig, I know what it means but not why, in the text, it is associated with two maids who are far from under-age. In the case of the opening of the text, I'm keen to know why shoemaker Jöns Olsson is named before the deceased. Did he instigate the estate inventory of his aunt? Best Kevin