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This slate knife (skifferkniv) was found in Storarmsjö by Johan Albert Häggström born 1889-10-22 in Ström, Bjurholm while digging a ditch. He is a distant relative to me and descendant of Erik Ersson in Knaften. He thinks he hurt the knife with his spade which might have taken the otherwise common elk head (American:moose) ending of from the knife. The culture that made knifes like this is the “slate culture” Skifferkulturen that had its prime 3300-2000 BC and was also present in Norway e.

Just an alternative view of MyHeritage auto cluster results. The following link makes a hairball plot out instead of the ordinary matrix presentation.

Link to hairball plot:

This is the geographical locations of the YFull kits of the interesting branch Q-L804 with closest relatives among the American indians. Non YFull kits gets a highly transparent dot in the predicted branch colour that can show the dencity of Q-L804. Some how the Q-L804 branch seems to have made it to northern Europe at some point, likely through Siberia. The common origin with native americans is likely in Siberia or Beringia.

STOCKHOLMS POSTTIDNINGAR Umeå lappmark den 12 jan 1752. Vid det allmogen , både nybyggare och lappländare till ting , prostvisitation , uppbördsstämma och den vanliga årliga marknaden på tingsplatsen i Lycksele enhälligt voro tillsammans komne samt därför även åtskilliga ståndspersoner och handlande från landet sig infunnit blev åminnelsen av Deras Kungl . Maj:ters vår nu regerande nådiga överhets vid slutet av sistlidna år försiggångna höga kröningsakt , som förr i lappmarken ej kunnat allmänneligen kungöras, således firad Klockan 8 församlades menigheten på marknadstorget , för fogande sig då andra gången ringdes i god ordning och anförda av kronobefallningsmannen med dess ämbetes klacka (som är en stav) i handen förbi prästgården och igenom den upprättade samt tjänligen utsirade äreporten in i kyrkan, varest, sedan ståndspersonerna och prästerskapet sig även infunnit, uppfördes en instrumentalmusik då gudstjänsten börjades.

This is the current status of the family tree of Q-L527 based on the data at YFull (Updated 2020-01-01). Two interesting kits from Belarus and Ukraine on old branches. They might give an indication of a possible migration route to Scandinavia. The main expansion in number of branches of Q-L527 seems to be before the viking age. I have estimated branch length in years with the Ape package in R using maximum likelihood and the “strikt model”.

Fertility based on the database Kråken. The area that is covered is maily northern Ångermanland and southern Västerbotten so many fertile people from for example Skellefteå is missing. I know of at least one woman from Skellefteå with 21 children. The woman with most children, Maria Lovisa Johansdotter,Spöland, had her 22 children Nils Petter Hurtig Olofsson, Vännfors, who had 23 children. The male competition ends with a draw between Erik Nyberg Eriksson, Nyåker, and Mikael Mikaelsson, Armsjö with 29 children each, both with 2 partners.

Well known are the settlements of Finns in Värmland but less known are the settlements in Norrland. So here comes a animated map of the settlements over time of Finns in Norrland. (Right klick and choose “view image” or “open image in new tab” to get it Zoomable). The area south of Dalälven is excluded. It makes the close DNA matches between people in this area and Finland more understandable.

Hans Ersson, 1655, illustrates the impact an individual can have on the genetic make up of a region. 25% of those born 1890-1930 in Sorsele had a strait paternal line to him according to the database Kråken. Quite extrem! To see if there were more extrem cases I made a histogram of the number of “founding fathers” and their number of descendents in the database with a strait paternal line to them.

The maps illustrates the impact of the “Örträsk Finns” on the interior of Västerbotten by three maps showing how their descendants spread. It is based on the database Kråken which is not compleatly finished for all of Västerbotten but it can anyway give a rough picture of how they spread over the land. For illustration three of the founding fathers are used namely: Johan Philipsson Hilduinen ca 1620-1697 Mårten Hindersson ca 1625-1697 Erik ca 1640 only known from his two sons Erik and Håkan The first map shows the proportion of the persons born 1890-1930 who descend from them.