Women survivors and 1956 intestate wills.

[David Nilsson]

Please can someone tell me:
 
In Sweden in about 1956, when a person died not having made out a will ( died intestate ), would all women survivors have exactly the same beneficiary rights as the men survivors, at least down to the level of nephews and nieces of the deceased?
 
David Nilsson.

[Ingemar Gollungberg]

As far as I can understand there was no differences between men and women as survivor when one  the two of a married couple died. There was other important differences however conserning the children and the survivor which have been changed after 1956. Theese changes are made mainly to get better conditions for the survivor in front of the children (they have together) who has to wait until both parents have died before they receive their inharitance share.

[David Nilsson]

Thank you Ingemar.
Please excuse my lateness in getting back to you.
 
I suppose I should have put my question more to the point, like:
 
If a person dies intestate, and the only survivors are nephews and nieces, were the females/nieces dicriminated against by some old beneficiary law, or did they just have equal inheritance rights, as in most countries?
 
I see in your answer, that you have not mentioned any different rights between male and female children, so I geuss it was the same rights for all male and female situations, that are of equal relation distance from the deceased.
 
Thank you again,  
David Nilsson.

[Anna-Carin Betzén]

David,  
 
Since 1845, male and female children have equal inheritance rights in Sweden.

[David Nilsson]

Anna-Carin and Ingemar.
 
Thanks, knowing the above will allow me to confidently pursue a couplle of family possibilities.
I hope they will lead me to finding my Swedish grandparents, or alternatively put the families out of my mind.
 
Thank you very much,
David Nilsson.