One for Skits

From time to time in my genealogical travails, I'll come across a source that has nothing to do whatsoever with my family, but rather something that is interesting in its own right. Sometimes amusing (Brigham Young's marriage -- to multiple nubile maidens, all on the same day), sometimes shocking ($40,000 for 100 acres during the Civil War?!), and sometimes just for fun.

And so, a few years back, I ordered out the film for Steventon Parish in England.

Jane, daughter of the Rev'd Mr George Austen,

Rector of this Parish, & Cassandra his wife was

privately Baptiz'd Dec'r 17th 1775

Rec'd into the Church April 5th 1776

source: Church of England. Parish Church of Steventon. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah. FHL #1,041,307.