re: #230 calochortus

I strongly recommend having ancestors in Sweden or Finland. The Swedish Church was extremely efficient and thorough in their record keeping. Births, deaths, vaccination records, weddings, people moving in and out of the parish (with a note as to where they were going) etc.

The Scandinavians were compulsive family recorders. In the long and dark and cold winters, they had little to do in the evening but sit around and tell stories of who begat whom. And when they finished with that, they went and begat some more.