| Summary: | This article explores the connections between household composition and patrimonial transmission among Ukrainian immigrants established about 1895 in Brazilian rural areas. One part of the discussion derives from indicators acquired from the reconstitution of families of this community. The other part substantiates itself in the memories of the local inhabitants. This is made in an attempt to measure the rhythms of familiar shifts among immigrants, under the premise that familiar practices derive from customs begotten in Eastern Europe, although wielded in Brazil. The main objective of this work is to present the links that the original Ukrainian immigrant community has established between household composition, life cycle and property transmission, whose basis lays in the “main ancestral family” and in the heritage preferentially reserved to the last-born.
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