Recent validation:

Ingrid Svensson, SWE, 23 Feb 1912-Living. Validated on 2 March 2022.

New validated supercentenarian x3 (9 March 2022):

1. Pauline Emilie Sevaille, (20 Nov 1890 - 29 Aug 2002), 111 years, 282 days, 🇫🇷 France

2. Marguerite Bellion, (12 Feb 1891 - 29 Jan 2002), 110 years, 351 days, 🇫🇷 France

3. Anne Yvonne (Yvonne) Bory, (14 Mar 1891 - 7 Aug 2003), 112 years, 146 days, 🇫🇷 France

Congratulations to their families!

Recent validations, both accepted on 12 March 2022:

Claire Dolphyn, ITA-FRA, 3 Dec 1891 - 14 Feb 2003, 111 years and 73 days.

Raymonde Robert, FRA, 14 Feb 1912 - Living.

Recent validations, both accepted on 15 March 2022:

Hulda Johansson, SWE, 24 Feb 1882 - 9 June 1994, 112 years and 105 days.

Ellen Johansson, SWE, 23 Jan 1887 - 6 July 1997, 110 years and 164 days.

(Edit: thanks, 930310!)

@marco One 'n', two 's'. Johansson simply means Johan's son (in this case daughter) and is one of many last names of that variety that were in use to refer to children until the early 1900s and then these last names just stuck with children born to differently named fathers still maintaining their father's (or mother's) last name.

Ugh, sloppy from my part... I was confused with Herman Smith Johannsen, whose name IS with two s-es. Thanks for being sharp!

New validated supercentenarian (16 Mar 2022):

Kerstin Teresia (Teresia) Lindahl, (10 Jun 1888 - 2 Mar 1999), 110 years, 265 days, of 🇸🇪 Sweden

New validated supercentenarian x5 (17 Mar 2022):

• Hanna Kristina Eriksson, 26 Feb 1891 - 26 Jun 2001, 110 years, 120 days, of 🇸🇪 Sweden
• Hilda Grahn, 10 Jun 1888 - 24 Jun 1998, 110 years, 14 days, of 🇸🇪 Sweden
• Jeannette Gayraud, 12 May 1892 - 31 Mar 2004, 111 years, 324 days, of 🇫🇷 France
• Blanche Marie Thérèse Deltorchio, 24 Oct 1892 - 21 Nov 2002, 110 years, 28 days, of 🇫🇷 France
• Vicenca (Jelisaveta) Veljković, 18 Jul 1904 - 20 Oct 2016, 112 years, 94 days, of 🇭🇷🇷🇸 Croatia/Serbia

[Note: Marco posted about some of the validations, but his post was lost]

I am so happy about Veljkovic being verified, just SO HAPPY

Posted by: @rezet

I am so happy about Veljkovic being verified, just SO HAPPY

Getting her validated was my goal since 2016. It finally happened

Amazing News! Congrats to the people and to those who worked on the validations. Nice job ESO!

Recent validations, all accepted on 19 March 2022:

Jenny Karlsson, SWE, 17 Oct 1891 - 13 July 2002, 110 years and 269 days.

Johanne Svensson, DNK-SWE, 24 Jan 1892 - 29 May 2003, 111 years and 125 days.

Anders Engberg, SWE, 1 July 1892 - 6 Nov 2003, 111 years and 128 days.

@marco Great to see that my efforts for Sweden are paying off. I am hopeful that every submitted case meets the requirements for validation.

New validated supercentenarian (20 Mar 2022):

Encarnacion Cavalieri, 16 Mar 1892 - 9 Dec 2002, 110 years, 268 days, of 🇪🇸🇫🇷 Spain/France

Recent validations, both accepted on 20 March 2022:

Hulda Karlsson, SWE, 2 Feb 1898 - 22 Apr 2008, 110 years and 80 days.

Maria Eriksson, SWE, 27 Mar 1900 - 10 Jan 2011, 110 years and 289 days.

Posted by: @12

I am so happy about Veljkovic being verified, just SO HAPPY

My thoughts exactly. Great to see a SC from the Balkans being validated!

Recent validations, both accepted on 21 March 2022:

Ruth Engström, SWE, 23 Sept 1902 - 2 Dec 2013, 111 years and 70 days.

Lydia Åslund, SWE, 14 Nov 1902 - 19 Nov 2012, 110 years and 5 days.

Recent validation, accepted on 22 March 2022:

Jovan Jovanović, MNE-BiH, 16 Sept 1906 - 1 Oct 2016, 110 years and 15 days.

I did not expect Jovanovic to be 'under review' in the first place. This is great!

@jimjim00 Anything is possible, just a little effort. Also Jovanovic is currently the only Supercentenarian from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Still surprised Jovanovic became verified

Posted by: @12

Still surprised Jovanovic became verified

I'm not - more than enough evidence/documentation has been provided to verify his claim. 😉

Posted by: @12

Still surprised Jovanovic became verified

His biography was already really strong to begin with (he was a university professor), so I wasn't surprised in the slightest when his baptismal record was found supporting his exact claimed age. 

@marco So, but since it is from an area where the myth of longevity is very common, then someone who does not know is simply surprised, and indeed in the Balkans the myth of longevity is very common (ie increasing the number of years and the like). Out of a total of about 10 cases from Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina combined, only two persons are Credible, with Jelisaveta Veljković and Jovan Jovanović. Other claims were exaggerated due to retirement or some other reason. (20% of the total number of claims).

I think the "next frontiers" of supercentenarian validation will be South Africa (there's three claimants I know of - Rosalie Wolpe, Anna von Niekirk, and Johanna Adonis - who have marriage records recording their age from their 20s but I couldn't find their birth or baptismal records in the cases of Niekirk and Adonis) and Russia (the problem is that all those Orthodox church books with baptismal records aren't online yet). Georgia probably also has some validatable claimants with baptismal records but like with Russia they're not online. There might also be some Georgian-American supercentenarian who emigrated to the US when they were like 14 that we don't know of.

New validated supercentenarian (24 Mar 2022):

Wilhelmine Marie Sande, 24 Oct 1874 - 21 Jan 1986, 111 years, 89 days, of 🇳🇴🇸🇪 Norway/Sweden

@seto2001 Her case was a little tricky since her father for some strange reason went by a different last name in her christening record compared to the records for her siblings. Luckily the names, ages, places of residence and everything else was consistent.

Recent validations, all accepted on 25 March 2022:

Elin Karlsson, SWE, 21 Apr 1900 - 27 Sept 2010, 110 years and 159 days.

Agnes Sultan, SWE-USA, 15 Dec 1889 - 4 Sept 2000, 110 years and 264 days.

Gerda Morton, SWE-USA, 11 Jan 1890 - 29 Jan 2000, 110 years and 18 days.

Great job for Swedish supercentenarians' validations in the last weeks!

@wellabove110 I had been neglecting my duties as the ESO-correspondent for Sweden so I felt that I needed to catch up... I am thankful that we have such an ease of access to most documents that are older than 70 years.