The inheritance of property is the most substantive issue in the family relationship. It concerns interests of each kinsfolk.
The Czech Republic takes a tough line with the handful of remaining Sudeten Germans. Conversely, countries like Germany and Ireland (and Israel) are happy to restore ties with far-flung kinsfolk.
The event of Tess Durbeyfield's return from the manor of her bogus kinsfolk was rumoured abroad, if rumour be not too large a word for a space of a square mile.
After the study of the kinsfolk appellation system recorded in Mourning Apparel in Ceremonial Etiquette , we can find a great many traces related to the marriage customs of remote past or the family forms of that age.
Often in their haste to get to the "Land of Echoing Screams, " the goblin paradise, they may "accidentally" take a few of their younger kinsfolk with them.