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My grandfather was Carl Oskar Nilsson, born 1896 in the small town of Varberg in Sweden. His mother was Alma Olivia Johansson, born 1862 in the same place. She was married to a man with name Johan Nilsson from the same town. This Johan Nilsson is registrated in the official records as beeing the father of my grandfather.
A few years ago, I took an Y-DNA-test, and saw that my closest Y-DNA-relative was a man with roots in Norra Vram in Skåne, Sweden. I investigated Johan Nilssons heritage on his mothers side back to the end of the 1600:s and could not find there any connection to the family in Norra Vram.
The same thing repeated itself when taking autosomal DNA-tests both at Ancestry as well with FamilyTreeDNA. I analysed some 1600 matches, and could not confirm one single DNA-match connected to my supposed grandfathers father Johan Nilssons mothers ancestors, from the Nösslinge-Karl Gustav region i Halland, Sweden. (Statisticallt, there should be some 200). Instead I got many matches connected to the mentioned family from Skåne.
After one year of work, trying to connect Johan Nilsson with Norra Vram, I finally gave up and realised, that Johan Nilsson simply cannot be father to my grandfather Carl Oskar Nilsson.(That Carl Oskar Nilsson actually is my grandfather have I satisfactory proof for in other ways). So my conclusion was: I actually am not of ”Johan Nilsson”-stock, but of ”Norra Vram-stock”.
How could it be? Norra Vram and Varberg are distant from each other by some 250 km and my grandfathers mother have probaby never been away to Norra Vram in Skåne.
I started to study the lists of inhabitants in the town of Varberg during the second half of the 1800:s and found, that there was but one person with descent from this family in Norra Vram. The person in question moved in to Varberg in 1895 from Norra Vram (the year before the birth of my grandfather), lived there a few years, then moved away to another town.
As I mentioned previously, my grandmothers mother Alma Olivia was already married, so there was evidently no future together for my grandfathers real father and my grandfathers mother. Probably my grandfathers father never came to know at all that he actually was the father to my grandfather. However, nowadays, I actually consider him, the man from Norra Vram, as my ancestor and myself as a decendant to him and a member of this family, with roots in Norra Vram, Skåne, Sweden.
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A few years ago, I took an Y-DNA-test, and saw that my closest Y-DNA-relative was a man with roots in Norra Vram in Skåne, Sweden. I investigated Johan Nilssons heritage on his mothers side back to the end of the 1600:s and could not find there any connection to the family in Norra Vram.
The same thing repeated itself when taking autosomal DNA-tests both at Ancestry as well with FamilyTreeDNA. I analysed some 1600 matches, and could not confirm one single DNA-match connected to my supposed grandfathers father Johan Nilssons mothers ancestors, from the Nösslinge-Karl Gustav region i Halland, Sweden. (Statisticallt, there should be some 200). Instead I got many matches connected to the mentioned family from Skåne.
After one year of work, trying to connect Johan Nilsson with Norra Vram, I finally gave up and realised, that Johan Nilsson simply cannot be father to my grandfather Carl Oskar Nilsson.(That Carl Oskar Nilsson actually is my grandfather have I satisfactory proof for in other ways). So my conclusion was: I actually am not of ”Johan Nilsson”-stock, but of ”Norra Vram-stock”.
How could it be? Norra Vram and Varberg are distant from each other by some 250 km and my grandfathers mother have probaby never been away to Norra Vram in Skåne.
I started to study the lists of inhabitants in the town of Varberg during the second half of the 1800:s and found, that there was but one person with descent from this family in Norra Vram. The person in question moved in to Varberg in 1895 from Norra Vram (the year before the birth of my grandfather), lived there a few years, then moved away to another town.
As I mentioned previously, my grandmothers mother Alma Olivia was already married, so there was evidently no future together for my grandfathers real father and my grandfathers mother. Probably my grandfathers father never came to know at all that he actually was the father to my grandfather. However, nowadays, I actually consider him, the man from Norra Vram, as my ancestor and myself as a decendant to him and a member of this family, with roots in Norra Vram, Skåne, Sweden.
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