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Aksel Horvei

Born 1940s.

Ancestors

Son of Kjell Horvei and Agnes (Busvold) Horvei

[sibling(s) unknown]

Father of [private daughter (1970s - unknown)]

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Profile last modified 14 May 2024 | Created 12 Jul 2019

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Biography

Aksel Horvei was born in Norway

I was born in Oslo, grew up in neighbouring Bærum. Cand. real. (MSc) in geophysics in 1973. Moved to Stavanger at the age of 33. I started genealogy around 1990. After I retired in 2009, I have been spending most of my time with genealogy.

My father's father came from Evanger (today part of Voss) in Hordaland with his father's ancestors from the Voss area. My great-grandfather was a travelling salesman and married a woman from Nesna in Nordland, but also with tiny roots in Trondheim. My father's mother came from Bergen, and her ancestors came from Voss, Inner Sogn and Sunnfjord. My mother's father should have inherited a farm in Romedal (now Stange) in Hedmark that had been in the family for 600 years. My grandfather, however, decided to give the farm to his brother in exchange for more education, so he took a doctorate in chemistry in Zürich, Switzerland. In 1939 he was probably the first Norwegian who took colour slides in Bergen. (http://marcus.uib.no/instance/collection/2ec7fc832fea095773c8af3082b868f7f4d442cc). I have written a "book": "Slekta fra Busvold gjennom 600 år". (Since the document contains hundreds of hyperlinks directly into scanned primary sources, it cannot be published as a printed book.) His mother had her ancestors from Gausdal area in Oppland. My mother's mother came from Flekkefjord in Vest-Agder with ancestors also from southern Rogaland, from Mandal and Kristiansand areas in Vest-Agder and also from Thisted in Denmark. So all-in-all I come from all over Norway. Among other things I have collected a lot of hyperlinks to probate, deed and court records from the 17th and 18th centuries from all these areas. My database contains more than 11000 people mostly from 17th and 18th century.

I have done the Big-Y with FTDNA.

My Y-haplogroup is G-Z39539^[1] (formed 1450 ybp, TMRCA 275 ybp)^[2] (also called G-FGC37630 and G-BY144476^[3]) with earliest known Y-ancestor from Evanger in Voss, Hordaland and possibly further from Dale in Vaksdal, Hordaland. It is said that this subgroup, primarily found in coastal areas W and NW of Bergen, has celtic origin (viking slaves from Ireland?). We are 3 Norwegians with no known common ancestor in this group.

My mtDNA-haplogroup is U5a1i1 with earliest known mt-ancestor from Lund, Rogaland, Norway

Sources

First-hand information. Entered by Nils Aksel Horvei at registration.

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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. Paternal line Y-chromosome DNA test-takers:

Aksel Horvei: Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 67 markers, haplogroup G-Z39539, FTDNA kit #320989

Maternal line mitochondrial DNA test-takers:

Aksel Horvei: Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup U5a1i1, FTDNA kit #320989

It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Aksel:

100.00% 100.00% Aksel Horvei: Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T676346 [compare], FTDNA kit #320989
~1.56% Torstein Frogner : MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch H778720 [compare]

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Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Aksel:

Aksel Horvei is a Wonderful WikiTreer Mar 7, 2022.
Aksel Horvei is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jan 12, 2021.
Aksel Horvei is a Wonderful WikiTreer Sep 16, 2020.
Aksel Horvei is a Wonderful WikiTreer Apr 2, 2020.
Aksel Horvei is a wonderful WikiTreer Mar 19, 2020.

Comments: 29

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Barbara (Blegen) Olson

Thank you for cleaning up and adding sources to all our Norwegian profiles.

posted Apr 10, 2024 by Barbara (Blegen) Olson

Karen (Loeffler) Carpenter

Thank you for all the corrections! I really appreciate you editing and making it correct.

posted Mar 25, 2024 by Karen (Loeffler) Carpenter

Heidi P

Hei Aksel

Tusen takk. Thank you for the help and thanks for adding some wonderful connections to Vossa Boki. I am slowly adding family as have to go back to Didital Arkivet and Gravminner to get the links. Enjoying it. So working between Voss and Borge. Tusen takk Beste helsing Heidi

posted Feb 04, 2024 by Heidi P

Alec Story

Thank you for adding links to my family members' church records. As someone who does not speak Norwegian, it's a huge help!

posted Jul 21, 2023 by Alec Story

Kim Cowles

Thank You for sharing information of my Grandmother Martha (Monson ) Erikson that was very thoughtful.

posted Mar 08, 2023 by Kim Cowles

Magnus Borene

Thank you for adding the sources to my ancestor’s Ragnhilde, Gjertrud and Arne Tostensen/Torstensen Thompson’s family. It has helped a lot because I have little time to add more information and sources here. I have been doing all my work on ancestry.com for the most part. So I appreciate it when people help out here. Thank you very much Aksel.

posted Jan 27, 2023 by Magnus Borene

Karen (Trandem) Kapphahn

AkseI I can't thank you enough for all the information on my great-grand parents in Norway. My dad was very proud of his Norwegian heritage. My daughter and I went to Norway in 1999. I saw Hansen/Hanson on your family tree. My grandmother was Christine Bertine Hansen born 11 Jun 1880 Storjord Farm Meloy Communne, Nordland Fylke, Norway and her dad was Jon Edvard Hansen. He was born 23 Feb 1852 Kilvik Farm, Meloy Commune, Nordland Fulke, Norway. I will be 73 years old in 11 days and researching my family trees are so important to me. Again thank you so much Aksel. I'm not having any luck trying to do a gedcom file to add to Wiki. :-(. Have a wonderful week Aksel. Our Minnesota football team are the Vikings. Karen

posted Oct 12, 2022 by Karen (Trandem) Kapphahn

Aksel Horvei

Thank you, Karen, for the kind words! I am more than willing to continue helping you in your search for Norwegian ancestor.

posted Oct 12, 2022 by Aksel Horvei

Wendy (Skillings) Taylor

Hi Aksel

I noticed you have been merging away profiles with the explanation “ … is a fictitious person.”

Please see [Help: Recycling WikiTree IDs]

Many thanks Wendy

posted Feb 25, 2022 by Wendy (Skillings) Taylor

Aksel Horvei

Are you saying that all those profiles, which some overambitious "genealogists" have given names and very precise birth dates already in the 17th century, should just be renamed Unknown and detached from their created parents/siblings/children? Or should they be left as fictitious siblings to real persons? Or just detached from all others?

posted Feb 25, 2022 by Aksel Horvei
edited Feb 25, 2022 by Aksel Horvei

Robin Lee

No, please read through the following guidelines, you merely need to add these templates depending upon which is appropriate.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Template:Uncertain_Existence https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Disproven_Existence

For the larger picture you can read https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Deletion_FAQ

posted Feb 25, 2022 by Robin Lee
edited Feb 25, 2022 by Robin Lee

Lee Dustrud

Thanks for sending me the Norwegian Naming Conventions for this site. Looks like I have a couple of profiles in need of an update. :-)

https://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Tostensen Gravningsgaard Aarvelta Dusterud-1

posted Feb 21, 2022 by Lee Dustrud

Joyce Vander Bogart

I just noticed that you thanked me for posting the long quotation from Giants in the Earth, about Norwegian names. I'm so glad that someone read and appreciated it. Thank you!

posted Oct 14, 2021 by Joyce Vander Bogart

Debi (McGee) Hoag

Hi Aksel,

Thanks for taking responsibility for more Orphaned Profiles. It looks like you are already doing the things recommended by the After Adopting Orphans FAQ. We really appreciate you becoming the caretaker of profiles!

Debi

posted May 25, 2021 by Debi (McGee) Hoag

Lauren Ward

Your comment about my GGGgrandmother, Anne Aarestad- about her last name not her true last name- thank you, and yes, I’m aware of this. I’m actively researching my Norwegian family-Ole’s last name was not Walhood either, same with Sandbeck. Sandbeck is a farm name and I am looking into how Walhood came about.

posted May 18, 2021 by Lauren Ward

Aksel Horvei

I am pretty certain Walhood comes from "modifying" Vålhovd in Nordre Land

https://www.norgeskart.no/#!?project=norgeskart&layers=1002&zoom=13&lat=6771724.77&lon=233972.47&markerLat=6772002.444292039&markerLon=234029.7702686207&panel=searchOptionsPanel&sok=V%C3%A5lhovd

Aksel

posted May 18, 2021 by Aksel Horvei
edited May 18, 2021 by Aksel Horvei

Janice (Anderson) Horn

Aksel, Your comment that my great-grandfather, Amund Dahl, received that surname when he immigrated to the United States is true. His surname in Norway was Snertingdal, the name of the farm in Vestre Gausdal that his father owned.

Thank you, Janice Anderson Horn

posted May 14, 2021 by Janice (Anderson) Horn
edited May 14, 2021 by Janice (Anderson) Horn

Nicole (Duchesne) Boorse

Congratulations Aksel


Aksel Horvei is a Wonderful WikiTreer.

posted Apr 03, 2020 by Nicole (Duchesne) Boorse

Pip Sheppard

Thank you, Aksel, for every one of your more than one thousand contributions to our Shared Tree during the month of September. The Appreciation Team honors you for all of your efforts.

Pippin Sheppard

WikiTrees Appreciation Team

posted Oct 02, 2019 by Pip Sheppard

Pip Sheppard

Aksel, thank you for each of your more than 1000 contributions to our Shared Tree for the month of August 2019. All of your work makes our Tree all that much better.

Pippin Sheppard

WikiTrees Appreciation Team

posted Sep 14, 2019 by Pip Sheppard

Robin Lee

Congratulations on your Pre-1500 badge. Please make sure to add pre-1500 to your followed tags, so that you can help others with questions on G2G.

posted Aug 26, 2019 by Robin Lee

Jim Wiborg

On the page for Ales Lauritzsdatter Bratt (abt. 1625 - bef. 1705) you observed: "I strongly doubt that any of these people (except for Lauritz Lauritzen) called themselves Bratt." I agree.

It is interesting that, although I adopted this individual, the WikiTree change log shows me as the originator. I suspect this is an artifact of the way WikiTree works.

But having adopted her, I am responsible to clean up the entry. I will add her to my to do list and clean up when time allows.

Tusen Takk

posted Aug 19, 2019 by Jim Wiborg

Rakelle (Østenstad) Teschner

Thank you for the evidence that Maritte Gautesdatter couldn't have been Gaute Kane's daughter. There are a ton of probably false family connections like that in the old gedcom-imported Norwegian profiles, so any proof for/against the relationships is greatly appreciated!

posted Aug 16, 2019 by Rakelle (Østenstad) Teschner

Pip Sheppard

Hi Aksel!

In July 2019, you made 1000+ (actually, over 1700!) contributions to our Shared Tree! I commend for your time and effort. Keep up the great work!

Pip Sheppard

WikiTree Appreciation Team

posted Aug 02, 2019 by Pip Sheppard

Mindy Silva

Hi Aksel

Thanks for joining us! I hope you're enjoying our site and our community. I just wanted to check in and see how things are going. Have the New Member How-To pages been helpful or left you with questions?

It's great to have you on board. Enjoy your time here, and good luck growing your branches. If you need help just click on my name you'll be transferred to my profile where you can post a message or send me a private message.

Mindy ~ WikiTree Mentor

When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than us. Russell M Nelson

posted Jul 26, 2019 by Mindy Silva

Debi (McGee) Hoag

Hi Aksel,

Congratulations on being Pre-1700 certified!

Because pre-1700 ancestors are shared by many descendants, coordination is essential. Thanks for joining the Norway Project.

Debi ~ Pre-1700 Greeter

posted Jul 22, 2019 by Debi (McGee) Hoag

Deb (Lewis) Durham

Hi there, Nils!

We are delighted to welcome you as a full member of the WikiTree community!

Please start with our New Member How-To pages. They will save you time and energy as you add profiles.

If the links in emails don't work correctly, check the public comments on your profile as the links will work from there.

If you have any questions, please ask as I am always happy to help!

Deb ~ WikiTree Greeter

P. S. By clicking on the tags you follow, you can see which other members share your interests. You may find a long-lost cousin!

Additional tags and/or expanded comments can help you connect with more members. For help with tags, please click here.

posted Jul 12, 2019 by Deb (Lewis) Durham

Ludwig Kraayenbrink

Hi Nils,

Before we can confirm your membership, we need to see that you are interested in genealogy. Please edit your tags and comments to add a little more about your genealogical interests.

For example, add a new tag with the surame "Horvei" and tag comment "Interested to collaborate to expand the Horvei ancestry family tree".

If you need to contact me, click the link to my name above this message.

Thanks very much! Ludwig ~ WikiTree Greeter

posted Jul 12, 2019 by Ludwig Kraayenbrink

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