By using family trees and church records of village births and deaths, researchers found that the genetic mutation connected to early onset Alzheimer's can be traced back to one family in the 1800s. (mindbodygreen.com)
Consider the first - person plurals of the Lord's Prayer («Our Father...»), Jesus's prayers before meals, his blessing of children, the audible prayers both in the Temple and in synagogues (often called «prayer houses»), the stories of national prayer in the Old Testament, and the communal prayers of the early Christian churches recorded in the book of Acts and the letters of Paul. (firstthings.com)
And by poring over Finnish church records from two centuries ago, Virpi Lummaa of the University of Sheffield in England can prove it: sons reduce a mother's life span by an average of 34 weeks. (scientificamerican.com)