So far,the SCS New Sweden DNA Project is … I turned to the FTDNA Advanced Matching tool again but even though many of his New Sweden Finn ancestors were Forrest Finns deported to the colony as punishment for slash-and-burn agriculture, he only matched one person in the FTDNA Forrest Finn Project. The use of DNA-analysis for genealogical research opens up new fascinating possibilities for tracing family and for studying how people have migrated to our part of the world thousands of years ago.. The Swedish Society for Genetic Genealogy works for promoting the use of Genetic Genealogy for: When I ran him against the Swedish DNA Project, he had no matches at all.

Membership is available for all parties interested in the history of the New Sweden Colony and the early Swedes and Finns in America. The Swedish Colonial Society Welcomes New Members. News; Project Statistics; Join the conversation! This project studies the various genetic backgrounds of those individuals who are direct descendants of the New Sweden colonists of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania during the 1600s. We have a Facebook group for our project members. Swedish heritage is not a requirement. I1 originated in northern Europe, probably in Denmark.

No Swedish relative or ancestry is required – only an interest in the colonial history of our nation. by Rev.

Swedish Colonial Society DNA Project. From the middle (about 1638) to the end of the 17th century, Swedish and Finnish colonists came to settle along the Delaware River valley in what was to become the United States. Swedish expansion into the Baltic States – DNA explanation Scandinavian countries have had established political organizations for more than 1000 years, but the actual geographic boundaries have shifted substantially, repeatedly, during this time. Cynthia Forde-Beatty and Becky Griswald at Family Tree DNA.com. Launched in 2003, the Scandinavian Y-DNA Project brings together people from Greater Scandinavia to explore the population history of North Western Europe using Y-DNA.

In "The Swedish DNA Project", Y-DNA haplogroups include, in descending order of frequency, I1, R1b, R1a, N, I2, Q, E1b, J2, and G. This is consistent with other studies that show about 35-40% of Swedish males carry I1 or its subclades. The project is a geographic project. In the project are participants with I1 (L22-) itself as well as I1b, I1d, I1d1, and I1d4. Genetic Genealogy is growing rapidly among hobby genealogists in Sweden. Update.