Was curious to see the original parish record of John's birth/baptism. The scanned records which survive are available online through the Digitalarkivet website.

Wow. The danger which that Frei parish record barely survived is quite obvious --
John's record is barely visible at the bottom of the two page record -
http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read?idx_kildeid=6415&i...