VDB - My personal genealogical "provenance" that wasn't!

I never tried it.
When I was just a lad, I would spend time outside of Philadelphia with my Aunt. I recall that first thing each morning she would knock back a shot of some type of liquor. She said it was a cultural thing and the spirits were from “the old country”. Outside of that daily shot I do not recall her drinking alcohol.

 

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That is not coincidental. Lithuania has an unfortunate affinity for alcohol.

As far as alcohol consumption, the countries with the heaviest drinkers are:
(from worldpopulationreview)

1. Belarus
2. Lithuania
3. Grenada
4. Czech Republic
5. France
6. Russia
7. Ireland
8. Luxembourg
9. Slovakia
10. Germany

 

I don't doubt your list, but it fails to mention S Korea. I've seen first hand how they consume liquor. They've got to be in the top 10.

 

The statistic I listed was applicable for the entire population, not by gender.

Here are the 10 countries with the highest rates of alcoholism in males:
(also pulled from worldpopulationreview)

1. Russia (16.29%)
2. Hungary (15.29%)
3. Lithuania (13.35%)
4. South Korea (13.10%)
5. Latvia (11.54%)
6. Belarus (11.43%)
7. Estonia (11.09%)
8. Niue (10.58%)
9. Colombia (10.33%)
10. Thailand (10.18%)

Population does make a difference, but Lithuanias rurality has led to excessive alcohol use and a high suicide rate. Very unfortunate

 

That is sad. I never correlated the two. In S Korea, on their subway system, they have what they refer to as suicide doors. The entire platform, where the train pulls into the station is blocked off by automatic doors. They're closed as soon as the passengers finish boarding the train but before the train departs the station. They don't reopen until the next train pulls in and stops completely.

 

Unfortunately that seems to be more and more common.
Well its safer. So fortunately they do it.

people don't have a sense of purpose anymore

 

Very interesting, always good to know family history. My ancestors came over on the Mayflower and stayed in the New England area until the 1840s. Unfortunately no Massachusetts silver, as far as I know. My great grandfather did put together a really nice collection of indian artifacts. He found them all in or near his farm in Wisconsin.

 

Mayflower? Upper crust. Mine came on one sometime after that.

 

Mine came over with a one way ticket in steerage.

 

They made it, that's what counts. Just think where we'd be had they not made those sacrifices, for whatever their reasons.

 

Touche!

 

Lithuanian descent on my father's side and have tracked my mother's side back through Peregrine White, who in 1620 was the first baby boy born on the Pilgrim ship, Mayflower, in the harbor of Massachusetts, and the first known English child born to the Pilgrims in America.

 

Pretty neat! I really need to grab a Pilgrim Tercentenary commemorative. I don't have the records, but I recall the family ancestry goes back to George Soule (and a couple of other passengers, but I don't remember which ones).