I became member in 2010 and I am a person who is studying documents and books about the profiles I am adding, I also try to study documents about the profiles I am merged into - if possible.
I am looking for sources in churchbooks, wills and tax records (mantal). I am two times a year in Göteborg in libraries and in Stockholm at the Kungliga Bibliotek which has all books ever printed in Sweden. I will be there again in July this year. They have all the DAA's and the "Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser" - I will check this sources.
I also use to check the Jöns Jönssons, Anders Anderssons and similar names before I accept a merge with a cousin or an aunt. I am not a fan of being the 16th or 28th cousin of some Andersson.
There are simple rules in genealogy: Unless there are churchbook entries there should be contemporary sources - if possible at least two. Before the 17th century we have to rely on different documents about nobilities. Some are falsified. Therefore I didn't use to look into the medivial stories.
Not before I noticed (geni's relation software has improved quite a lot) that my family is related to almost everybody in geni and especially to Odin (which now is disconnected), Ramses, Attila aso. Althso Attila might have 10 million descendents and Ramses II even more I do not believe that any living person today can prove a descendancy - even if they might to be related.
Geni had become a fantasy land for "I don't know who". I know some of them who send messages every other day that they are related with "this and this" king - one of the worst was Ulf, related to everybody in the world - are you related to the POTUS?
I also noticed that my family is related to Bröt-Anund. For several reasons this was the trigger to start to fight against the fantasy monsters. Ulf, be aware that you will be cut of all the Heimskringla profiles. You better start to look for decent sources. Anund will be disconnected like Odin before him.
And by the way - for Bengt Snivil you better publish Saxo's original text, and also documents which are 300 years older.
There are very few historians in Sweden who still believe in the old legends (sagas). They disappeared in the studies and became legends. People like Bengt Snivil don't even appear in litterature - unless Ulf proves otherwise. But please not Heidenstam.
I did not want to cut of Anna - I just wanted sources which we did not get yet.
I allow you to dispute my lines - that's what we here for - to discuss, to dispute aso -maybe after this we could get closer to the (what is called) "truth". At least everybody who ever been in this disputes could agree on a common solution - that's what family. work and life is all about I have been doing this for more than 30 years at ASEA/ABB.
Critisize whenever possible and whenever relevant.
ANNA is not really a person who has a descent source.
Well, well - my family - besides me - stems from Göteborg, Majorna, Askim and Onsala. What they accomplished is still existing and alive - among others the ostindia ship Götheborg, from Onsala, the graves of the privateer Lasse i Gatan and from Linköping the grave of a bishop. Just samples.
I do not need Ramses or Attila - any relation to them just diminishes every work i have done in geni - it becomes a joke and makes me a funny man´. Ulf should not become the keeper of the medivial history, stay where you are and keep it cool and low.
Ulf wants me to be cut from geni forever, he thinks that I am a troll. Well we will have a fight to remove all the Heimskringla profiles from geni - I prefer Bröt Anund to be the first to be disconnected.