My boss and good friend is Lutheran and is from Ames where some of his family still lives. Though being Lutheran and from this area (and northwards) is pretty darn common. I guess I was going somewhere like, "Oh, do you know so-and-so," but that's kind of like my wife getting the old, "Oh, you're from England? I had a great aunt from Ipswitch. Do you know the Mortensons?"
Never mind.