I have an account in https://www.familysearch.org which I refer to often. It is called - if only to myself - fact checking check. When I find something in this record, I look to see where the researcher found it, and then I go to that source to confirm, and then I return to family search and submit the document if it has not already been done, so that a new researcher can check out that source themselves, and fact check my fact check. I do not take this lightly.
This last statement does not mean I don't muddle the puddle. Neither does it mean I am always correct. A dose of self doubt encourages my careful and repetitious study. I try not to overdose. And still, I encourage you to check for yourselves if you have questions.
Today I unhinged a husband from Maria Carolina - Lena - on the Family Search file. I try to not undo someone else's work if I can add a correction or update instead. The marriage to Sven Vilhelm Anderson could never be confirmed, through many checks, including LDS Ordinance checks, which I cannot access, but a kind, sincere missionary did check to confirm that dates and names did not jive.
Of course I did not eliminate the man, he seems real enough in someone else's family, just not Lena's. If I can take such an action, I realize someone else can do likewise when they find a record I overlooked that changes the report of our family history. I say: Wonderful!
In Grinneröd Parish, Maria Carolina's birth is noted as occurring at Fokeröd on the 22 of September 1848, with christening on the 24th, her mother was 35. Living on a few different farms as she grew up, Lena would eventually live in the City of Goteborg after a stay in Lundby where her sister Inger lived. The growth in inflyttade creates a challenge for today's researcher (or, maybe just me), but we find Maria Carolina Backman in Göteborgs Karl Johan, Göteborgs Oskar Fredrik and Hagga parishes, some of these not due to her movements but the realigning of parish administration.
In Karl Johan parish Lena married Andreas Nilsson on the 1st of May, 1870, in the witness of her brother and mother. I used this record as verification that there had been no earlier marriage, as had been suggested in the record I spoke of earlier.
Sweden's Household Records span a decade, plus or minus, and reflect changes in notes, crossing out, page changes etc. One record, from ArkivDigital online, in Göteborgs Karl Johan BI:3 (1861-1869) image 238/page 468 [1869 In- och Utflyttnings-längd ör Carl Johan Församling.] has the birth of her daughter Beda, and possibly one more, and her marriage and her birth all pressed into the space around her name, making it a very busy box.
A later record listing the household with husband Andreas Nilsson in Oscar Fredrik suggests Lena and Beda are no longer in the parish in 1886. I took this to mean they left in 1886, but have learned that when the parish closed out the book for that reporting period they, simply, were no longer members of the congregation. This makes the later report of Maria Caroline [sic] being baptized in Salt Lake City in 1877 the more reliable.
But I have not yet found WHEN she left Sweden. Could she have also stayed with Charlotte in Liverpool? This information will come to light, in time and add another step in her story.
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