Two of my grandparents died before I was born and didn't have anything much to leave, and a third left everything to his wife, the one grandparent I knew really well. She outlived both her children, so we did inherit directly from her. Her sister, who was unmarried and childless and had inherited family money due to taking care of her old uncle, left half her estate to her niece and nephew and the other half among her great-nieces and -nephews. I remember my mother being slightly grumpy about this (not more than slightly) as the previous family custom had been to leave money down at most one generation at a time.
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Two of my grandparents died before I was born and didn't have anything much to leave, and a third left everything to his wife, the one grandparent I knew really well. She outlived both her children, so we did inherit directly from her. Her sister, who was unmarried and childless and had inherited family money due to taking care of her old uncle, left half her estate to her niece and nephew and the other half among her great-nieces and -nephews. I remember my mother being slightly grumpy about this (not more than slightly) as the previous family custom had been to leave money down at most one generation at a time.