Peter Sjolund's presentation on YDNA maps Scandinavian Family Trees from Medieval Times and the Viking Age from the 2015 International Conference on Genetic Genealogy.

1. Peter Sjölund
Y-DNA maps Scandinavian Family Trees
from Medeival Times and the Viking Age

2. Number of tested people in Sweden
NKDL Effect

3. Family Finder
Common Matches
Circle
www.dnagen.net

14. TaxRecords
LegalRecords
Church
Records 1900
1700
1500
DNA

15. The Bure kinship
The most Legendary Swedish Medieval Family
How Genetic Genealogy revealed the Truth

16. The Bure Family Chronicle
Johannes Bureus
1568-1652

18. The Bure Family History
has been drowning in
fabricated claims of
famous ancestry

19. No written sources exist for northern Sweden
in medieval times.
The Bure Family History was built on hearsay.
Could DNA prove/disprove the story?
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24. NorwayDenmark

26. NorwayDenmark

35. DNA deprived the Bure Noble
Family their alleged paternal
Bure lineage
but
It gave the Bure Family a new
(remote) relative:
Ötzi the Iceman

38. YDNA37
match
Bergman
family
Vorontsov
Russian Noble Family

40. DF29
M253
Z131
L22 Z58 Z63
P109 L205 Z74 L300 Z59 Z138
L287 Z60 Z382
Z140 Z73/L1301 L573 L1248
L1302
I1
L803
L813
200 AD

42. How can we make a Reliable Family Tree from this?

45. BIGy
Now 90+ Big Y tests in the Project
Send the results to
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55. Kievan
Rus
L1302
L1301

56. 1.Monitor Project Members for new Matches
2.Contact Matches to get them into the Project
3.Show them the Big Tree we’re creating
4.Advocate to Test Big Y to be
included in the Tree
5. (if needed) Get Members to Sponsor Tests
The Way to Create a Big Y Tsunami

58. How did mtDNA
haplogroup C4a1c
end up in Sweden?
Only found in one
woman across the
whole of Europe

59. How did Haplogroup C4a1c end up in Sweden?

60. The Evenks in Siberia

61. How did Haplogroup C4a1c end up in Sweden?
From Sibiria sometime prior to the 17th Century

62. Peter Sjölund
dna@sjolunds.se
Thank You!