Genealogics - Scandinavia

[Leslie Mahler]

For persons who use the Genealogics database, I should point
out the following entries are inaccurate:

This person has been given a Finnish name:
https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00530705&tree=LEO

He is actually Carl Adlerfelt, and apparently lived only in Sweden:
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Adlerfelt


This person was named Axel:
https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00711063&tree=LEO

He has been given the Finnish name Akseli, yet he lived
entirely in Sweden according to this:
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Wrede_Sparre

This one is given as "Yrjö Henrikki":
https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00533644&tree=LEO

He was actually a Swedish person named George Henrik:
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Henrik_Lybecker_(1720%E2%80%931776)

This Bishop of Vaxjo has been tagged as living in Finland:
https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00491164&tree=LEO

He actually lived in Sweden:
https://sv-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Nicolaus_Krokius?_x_tr_sl=sv&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

This person who was born & died in Stockholm:
https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00488834&tree=LEO

was actually named Carl Gustaf, not Kaarle Kustaa:
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustaf_Bielke

This person given as "Kustavi Aadolf":
https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00748733&tree=LEO

was actually Gustaf Adolf, and lived in Sweden:
https://www.adelsvapen.com/genealogi/Von_Meijerhelm_nr_1151#TAB_2

Also this Justiciar of Uplandia, High Councillor of Sweden
https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00713059&tree=LEO

has been tagged as a resident of Finland. Details about him are at:
https://sv-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mickel_Nilsson?_x_tr_sl=sv&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

I am sure that there are other persons like who this, whose names
and nationalities have been changed.

Leslie

[Peter Stewart]

On 23-Oct-22 6:56 AM, Leslie Mahler wrote:
>
>
> For persons who use the Genealogics database, I should point
> out the following entries are inaccurate:
>
> This person has been given a Finnish name:
> https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00530705&tree=LEO
>
> He is actually Carl Adlerfelt, and apparently lived only in Sweden:
> https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Adlerfelt

<snip>

Although I'm sure Leo would have taken responsibility for entering the
information you dispute, this came to him unsolicited from a former SGM
participant whose self-proclaimed knowledge he (reluctantly) accepted as
genuine.

Leo was on the receiving end of a prolonged barrage of emails from
Finland that were sometimes followed up with a menacing tone if he did
not update Genealogics accordingly.

Peter Stewart

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[Leslie Mahler]

Some of the inaccuracies probably happened after Leo's time. The good news
is that some of them are scheduled to be corrected, with evidence attached.

The list of updates here shows that the barrage from Finland is still happening:
https://www.genealogics.org/whatsnew.php

In some months, there have been hundreds of new inhabitants of Finland added
to the database. Most of the world has no interest in these people.

Leslie

[Peter Stewart]

Most of the world has no interest in any medieval people, of course, but
those with Finnish ancestry have as much right an everyone else to
consider their forebears worthwhile. I can't see how nationality or
place of residence should disqualify a person from Genealogics.

Peter Stewart