From the homes of families with agricultural properties, a large number of property files have joined in recent years in the public archives and have been made ​​available to scholars. It is an essential background for the study of rural societies of that in this book the nature and great value for historical research is analyzed. Fruit of the experience of the authors in the treatment of a number of endowments , the book explains the process of formation , says the main types proposes guidelines for archival processing (identification, classification and description) and relates about a 400 background of these characteristics of the Girona region.n