Beata Andersdotter Härmälä - Beata has two mothers

Church records in general are not available before 1680s and much of the early ones were destroyed in the Great Wrath.

The sources needed in this case would therefore likely be 1600-1700s land registries, estate inventory deeds and court books.

Unfortunately these are not as easy as church records to access or understand and only a minority of genealogists are comfortable working with them.

The profile information could have come from old investigations, possibly done ~50 years ago or so, by genealogists who have already passed away a long time ago.

Thank you for that information, Cousin Markus Åberg. Do we need to make a note on both women's profiles and on Beata's profile that her mother is unclear at this time?

Perhaps it needs to be in Finnish, Swedish, and English. I am not sure. Or would a curator say that unless we know for sure, no mother should be attached to Beata?

There is no mandatory process for this so leaving the "double mothers" for now clearly shows everyone that there are unsolved issues.

I can add a brief note, English is fine as most people can read it.

Thanks, Markus Åberg.

In my database I have Beata Mårtensdotter as the mother. The source for this is "Släkt och bygd 35, s [page] 37". SoB is published by Jakobstadsnejdens släkt- och bygdeforskare. Sadly, I do not know which year it is from, and I do not own a copy of it myself, a fellow genealogist sent me xeroxed copies of articles from SoB, regarding some of the families that I am descended from, more than 20 years ago. If someone has access to SoB 35, maybe the article could be consultted.