The authoress deals with development of a family and its structure. The village community consisted mostly of small farmer families, who were beside farming occupied also with baking and selling of their good bread (the so-called »krušarstvo«). The data, taken from the parish registers, indicate that demographic changes are in close mutual relation with economic and social changes. Typology of a family and marriages is determinated by the estate, and also by the number of adult family members. A multi-strata view into a family life makes possible also the analysis of the most important periods of life of an individual (birth, marriage, death). Both, family and collective relations changed in Dolina at the end of the 19th century, when the industrial influence of Triest increased.