Dear Viktorija,
Primo, mea culpa, by NO MEANS it was an intended step, but a pure mismanipulation due to my lack of experience here. I know that Henn Sarv intervened, and I also wrote to @Erica Howton asking for help. Basically what I wanted to do, was:
a) to remove the wrong title from Andrey Kobyla (my 19th great-grand-father), as of course he was a boyar and not a "great boyar", such title has never existed,
b) to remove his pretended father (which is a hypothesis that most historians disregard for more than 2 centuries now; it is true though that SOME genealogists still do follow that, but the vast majority of the historians do not; and also his "Ivanovitch" is questioned and most authors prefer either to put both versions (Ivanovitch/Alexandrovitch) or none. Personally I always prefer to refer to historically proved facts and mention different hypotheses when any, in the relevant field rather than including contested or purely legendary persons,
c) to remove his wife (despite of 30+ years in geneal. research I've never seen any mention of Kobyla's wife).
I could successfully do the items a) and b), but when trying to disconnect Olga from her supposed husband, I made kind of stupid mismanipulation and did the opposite, disconnecting Andrey Kobyla from his 5 children! That has been solved since, but the issue of Olga remains. I strongly believe that for inclusion or not of persons on Geni we should stick to:
- archives' documents (when it concerns our ancestors...),
- historically most accepted vision (but being ready to change things when new documents are found),
and avoid partisan opinions and marginal hypotheses that some fanatics try to promote.
That's precisely why I wrote to you some 5 weeks ago asking to unblock Pce Ivan Korotopol as you're the curator, because he was shown as father of wrong 2 persons (yes, conform to the official Russian State Rodoslovets, BUT it's now 170 years that it is well known that it's a mistake), but you didn't react (another curator made the asked change). And similarly I had to add 4 lacking children of the Prince St. Daniel of Moscow and obtain that 2 of his fake "daughters" be removed (now everything is fine). Once again, what I am trying to do is to make the Geni tree as close as possible to the current state of historical research, and if I intervene sometimes on different Russian families, it's simply because my knowledge of the matter is "slightly" above the average. But yes sometimes I lack experience in technical aspects of the website and I am sorry for that.
Kindest regards,
Léo
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