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 The&nbsp;first available list was dated 1658.&nbsp; Living at Henkelstorp was "Jenns Tordsen, wife, female farmhand, and Tord Andersen and wife.&nbsp; The name "Tord" is not the most common of names, so, we took a bit of license and made the assumption, until otherwise proved false,&nbsp;this was probably Jöns Tordson's father.&nbsp;&nbsp;Information from the tax lists has extended the pedigree line yet another generation!
-The 1660 list shows the taxables are Jens Thorsen, his wife, and a female farmhand, and in another household, Tor Andersen and wife.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+The 1660 list shows the taxables are Jöns Thorsen, his wife, and a female farmhand, and in another household, Tor Andersen and wife.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
 In 1662 Jöns Toereson and wife, and Torre Andersön and wife show up again at Henkelstorp.
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-The next available list was 1680 where we started the search in the tax lists. (See Step _____)&nbsp;&nbsp;Jôns Torson and Asmund Torson are both listed as single taxables i.e. no wives&nbsp;being taxed.&nbsp; Perhaps that is the year&nbsp;Jôns first wife died, and Asmund had not yet married.&nbsp; We can't say for sure, as the parish registers don't exist, but, the supposition has some merit.
+The next available list was 1680 where we started the search in the tax lists. (See Step 4)&nbsp;It is interesting to&nbsp;note that both Jöns Torson and Asmund Torson are&nbsp;listed as single taxables i.e. no wives&nbsp;being taxed.&nbsp; Perhaps that is the year&nbsp;Jôns first wife died, and Asmund had not yet married.&nbsp; We can't say for sure, as the parish registers don't exist, but, the supposition has some merit.
-Remember, we began the study by trying to find the birth place of Elena Asmundsdotter.&nbsp; She had the direct ancestor in&nbsp;Barsebäck parish.&nbsp; Elena also died there - but she wasn't born there.&nbsp;&nbsp;The clue found in her death record in&nbsp;Barsebäck parish, plus information found in the church registers of Västra Karaby parish, plus the tax list&nbsp;information has given a good outline of her ancestry to this point.&nbsp; However, we wanted to find more to now fill in the outline.
+Remember, we began the study by trying to find the birth place of Elena Asmundsdotter.&nbsp; She was the mother of&nbsp;the direct ancestor, who was born in&nbsp;Barsebäck parish.&nbsp; Elena also died&nbsp;in Barsebäck parish - but she wasn't born there.&nbsp;&nbsp;The clue found in her death record in&nbsp;Barsebäck parish, plus information found in the church registers of Västra Karaby parish, plus the tax list&nbsp;information has given a good outline of her ancestry to this point.&nbsp; However, we wanted to find more to now fill in the outline.
-The catechism records were those next searched.&nbsp;&nbsp;These are found in the Family History Library Catalog under the name of the parish - Church Records&nbsp; {pull in link}
+The catechism records were those next searched.&nbsp;&nbsp;These are found in the Family History Library Catalog under the name of the parish - Church Records&nbsp; {pull in link}
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-A study of the record for&nbsp;Västra Karaby parish shows, at least here,&nbsp;the format was to list the&nbsp;heads of household and the names&nbsp;where a confirmation age child (children) resided, whether that was their own child (children), or the farmhands and farmgirls working for them, It is possible the head of the house was responsible for seeing that these young people knew their Lutheran catechism.
+A study of the catechism record for&nbsp;Västra Karaby parish show, that at least here,&nbsp;the format was to list the&nbsp;heads of household and the names&nbsp;where a confirmation age child (children) resided, whether that was their own child (children), or the farmhands and farmgirls working for them, It is possible the head of the house was responsible for seeing that these young people knew their Lutheran catechism.
 For&nbsp;Västra Karaby parish the lists useful for our searches were those of&nbsp;1696 (no date), 13 Jun 1699 and 4 Jul 1701.&nbsp; Each list was completley searched.&nbsp; Unfortunately, the names of the farms and villages were not listed, so we&nbsp;searched for the first and patronymic names we knew.&nbsp;&nbsp;As was hoped, the information found did allow us to&nbsp;fill in more of the family members!: