1. Kin Network Dynamics and Mortality among Older Adults in 19th and Early 20th Century Orkney, Scotland • Julia Jennings, University at Albany.

2. Mortality Differentials of Supporters and the Supported – Impact of Current and Previous Kinship Compositions on Post-Reproductive Female Survival • Kai Willfuehr, University of Oldenburg.

3. Clio and the Health Gradient: Social Class and Sex-Specific Adult Mortality during 200 Years in Sweden • Göran R. Broström, Umeå University; Martin Dribe, Lund University; Sören Edvinsson, Umeå University; Björn Eriksson, Lund University.

4. Fetal Exposure to Cigarette Smoking and Adult and Old Age Mortality: Examining the Effects of the Introduction of State Level Cigarette Taxation 1921-1940 Using Linked Full-Count Census and Mortality Records • Jonas Helgertz, University of Minnesota/Lund University; John Robert Warren, University of Minnesota.