Question of the Week: Do you have Scandinavian roots?

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Do you have Scandinavian roots (i.e. Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland)?

According to my latest AncestryDNA summary I have 1% in Sweden.  But I don't have the paper trail there. Yet.

How about you?

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Three words that struck dread into the hearts of young men everywhere:  compulsory military service.  How old was he (or claimed to be)?  Many young men fudged the facts while looking over their shoulders for the long arm of the military police.  You never know when the Swedish / Russian / French / German navies are going to pull into your new port.

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My father's family came from Norway.  My mother's from various parts of the German Empire.  My DNA says I am almost 60% Scandinavian.  Since some of my mother's ancestors were in northern Germany it is not surprising since they were in the region where much of the 30 Year War was fought, with heavy Swedish Danish participation.  Plus with all the incursuans into Europe during the Viking age, Scandinavian DNA is probably all over the place at some level.

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My Paternal Grandfather is Oscar Wahlstrom from Sweden and my Maternal Grandfather is Johannes Oalai Telstad from Norway, so, yes very Scandinavian.

Trying to figure out how to add Family Search to Wikitree I have tons on my tree.

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Four of my eight great-grand parents were 100 % Norwegian.

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I have a few links to Scandanavian countries. Its more ancient, medieval lines.

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My husband's grandfather was in the Swedish army, it appears.  https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Nystrom-385-5

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You need to trace your ancestors back to the original New Sweden/New Netherland settlements in Delaware. There were a lot of Finns that emigrated to settle that area, just before the Dutch took it away from the Swedes.

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I just saw this post..sorry I'm so slow...I am half Swedish and half Danish..mother was the Swede, and my father was the Danish. Their are so many ways that Christenson or Sen was spelled, and my great grandfather remarried soon after his wife died that no one was suppose to talk about him, so my research stopped. On my Swede side they changed their last name to include part of the parents name.

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My Ancestry.com DNA shows 48% Norway -

Eastern Norway

Southeastern, Central and Northern

Big surprise!!!

Answer 1

I’m from Tahiti, my DNA test from my herytage shows 19,1% scandinave, 3,6 Irish, Sweden, Wales. I think my ancestors are from Danemark family name Orbeck.

Answer 2

Yes. 30% Scandinavia.

Answer 3

Yep.  The tradition handed down for generations in the Mustchin family is that we originated in Scandinavia, before "going through the rape and pillage of England" (at least, that's how Dad puts it).  I think the ancestors of the Mustchin family (aka Mustyan, Mustian, and I think Mustain) came to England during the Norman conquest.  In particular, the Mustains descend from Normans from the Conqueror's time, and are actually related to the Conqueror's wife, Queen Matilda.  Assuming they're the same as the Mustchins, that's my lineage.

And on Mum's side, I've traced my ancestry back to Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

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Oops. Duplicate.

Answer 4

Twenty six (26%) percent.

Answer 5

DNA tests show that I have Scandinavian roots.  I have also been able to trace at least 1 line of ancestry back to these roots via the Gorsuch/Lovelace line, with ancestors back to Rollo, as well as Swedish origins.

Answer 6

Yes, my DNA test said that I'm 8% Scandinavian which was news to me.  I do have ancesters from Yorkshire, so maybe that's where it came from.

Answer 7

I just discovered my Scandinavian connection the other day. I haven't had time to explore, yet.

Answer 8

Yes.

Through my mother, you've got the trail back to Rollo

Through my father, the trail is completely different and a lot more recent. I remember that their family got caught up in the Franko-Prussian War of 1870-1871 and fled to New Zealand

Answer 9

I don't have any Scandinavian roots, because I shave my head about every other day ;)

My scalp, however, is half Norwegian. I have learned a lot about 19th Century Norway while pursuing my mother's side of the family, and have even learned enough Norwegian to scrape through the Digital Arkiv!

Answer 10

Yes, according to family tree DNA 11% Finish, 40% Swedish. Paper trail for my dad yes but need to figure out my mother's side.

Answer 11

Yes, I have 17% Scandinavian roots.  Oldest confirmed ancestor is Cynric of (Denmark) Danmark, and Halfdan is the son of Sveidi (Sveidasson) Svidrisson

Answer 12

I have.  My grandparents on my father's side were Swedish Finns.  My grandfather's father sent him to America immigrating from Vasa, Finland in 1903 to escape the Russian draft as he was the second son.  My grandmother came from Helsinki, Finland to visit her sister, who had married a friend of my grandfather from Vasa.  She met my grandfather in South Bend, Washington and they married in the Scandinavian Church in that town.  After having two sons, my grandmother returned to Helsinki with the boys in July 1914 to visit her mother.  They were all trapped in Finland until December 1922 and the First World War and the Russian Revolution were over.  The two boys received most of their schooling in Finland before they were able to return.  My father was born in September 1923 and my grandmother obtained American citizenship as soon as she qualified.

Surprisingly, my DNA came back 39.9% Scandinavian, 40.2% Norman, 16.2% Finnish, 3.7% East European.  My mother is 98% United Kingdom.  Apparently a lot of her UK is Norman.

Answer 13

ISOGG gives I1a1a1b4a~ at rs969680375 (with NCBI), where YSEQ found me A+.  Eupedia says I1a1a1b~ (S7642, rs758721439) is mostly Scandinavian and Baltic.  AncestryDNA, LivingDNA and YSEQ all found my change at I1a1 (CTS6364/Z2336, rs781183295).  AncestryDNA gave me 33% Scandinavia.  23andMe specified chromosomes 1, 3, 7, 11, 13, 18 and 22 with Scandinavian, with a total of 7%.

Answer 14

Yes, 31% according to FTdna, but nothing in my paper trail specifically.  Must be origins of 5 Scottish and Irish Scots great grandparents. And the 1 great great from Guernsey.

Answer 15

Branches on my Mom and Dad's direct bloodlines can be traced to Denmark in the 1500's.

Answer 16

Two years ago my answer would have been no, I've never heard of any links to Scandinavian ancestors. After completing DNA testing through four different companies, my answer is now a resounding Yes.

The very recently updated origination prediction from AncestryDNA now shows 4% Swedish, and results from other companies show as high as 28% Fennoscandian.

WikiTree and other family tree sites have connected me to Erik the Victorious (king of Sweden and Denmark) and his son Olof Eriksson (king of Sweden and co-ruler of Norway after his victory at the Battle of Svolder).

Also Gamel, Lord of Musgrave is my grandfather about 30 generations back. Although Greater and Lesser Musgrave were located in southern Scotland at the time of his rule during the 11th century, it is not known from where he came. It has been said that Gamel is a Danish or Scandinavian name, and he would have been about 30 years old at the time of the 1066 Norman Conquest.

Answer 17

Yes,Norwegian 43%/ Swedish 18% & some Finnish

Answer 18

I’m about 50% Norwegian. My mom’s folks met in Minnesota, and both of their families came to the US from Norway in the 1800s. Lots of Norwegians took up farming in the northern states. For Norwegian settlers, it was expected that you marry within your Norwegian Lutheran church. That’s my understanding, anyway.

Answer 19

My maternal grandfather was 50% Danish, and my maternal grandmother was 3/4 Norwegian & 1/4 Swedish. (Her Swedish grandmother eloped with the Norwegian farmhand....or so the story goes).  

The interesting thing is that her father ended up going back to Norway, remarrying and having another family. My grandmother and her brother stayed in the U.S.  The families lost touch sometime around WWII and I had no idea that I had half-cousins in Norway, until they found me thanks to genealogy. It was crazy that they had pictures of my dad as a baby in their family photo collections.

Answer 20

Ja sure you betcha. My GGpa was from Norway and my 24th GGpa was part of the Norman Invasion of England.