That by one calculation all people on earth are related to one another, being no more distant than 51st cousin.
That for 99.9% of the millions of years that man has been a species life expectancy was been less than 25 years.
That about 1/3 of the present-day Swedish nobility has ancestral roots outside of Sweden.
That in 1608 Archbishop of Sweden Olaus Martini (1557-1609) instructed the Swedish clergy to keep records of all betrothals, marriages, and baptisms. Although it was many years before this actually came to pass, the archbishop's decree paved the way toward Swedish church records of great genealogical value.
From Tidningen, 2006.
June
That for 99.9% of the millions of years that man has been a species life expectancy was been less than 25 years.
That about 1/3 of the present-day Swedish nobility has ancestral roots outside of Sweden.
That in 1608 Archbishop of Sweden Olaus Martini (1557-1609) instructed the Swedish clergy to keep records of all betrothals, marriages, and baptisms. Although it was many years before this actually came to pass, the archbishop's decree paved the way toward Swedish church records of great genealogical value.
From Tidningen, 2006.
June
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