On Thursday, June 28, 2018 at 3:20:23 AM UTC-10, graham wrote:

> An aunt was a resource in our village for people searching the B&D
> records in the church. As she was familiar with the dialect and accent,
> she could transliterate the phonetic spellings that the parsons had used
> over the centuries.

Genealogy is a big part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They probably have the biggest, most comprehensive, database of family connections on the planet. They've spent a lot of time and money collecting this data and have been doing so since the mid-eighties.

Family trees are getting very popular since it's become so easy peasy to get the info. My guess is that most of the internet genealogy services pay the Mormon Church a fee for using their data or these services are a part of the Mormon Church. My guess is that once they get the name of every single name of whoever has lived, Jesus will return back to mankind.