Issue No. 9 (July 2023)

The VHC Blog

This blog is meant as a discussion forum for participants in the Y-DNA project the Värmland-Hedmark Cluster. The blog will also be used to post news and general information about the project, as a complement to the newsletter that comes out now and then.

The oil painting pictured on the left is from 1924 and shows the ferry across the river Klarälven in Ransäter, Värmland. The artist is Gumme Åkermark (1847-1927). Source: Värmlands Museum (public domain mark 1.0).

Issue No. 9 (July 2023)

7/30/2023

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I have now finished the new issue of the newsletter The Värmland-Hedmark Cluster. On this occasion I could do that one day ahead of my self-imposed deadline (end of July). A bigger margin than usual!

Many of you might not have a strong enough interest to read the newsletter. But if you are a little bit interested, I recommend having a look at the new version of the tree (included on page 2; also available in a separate file). Studying the tree for a while is a quick way of getting an impression of how the project develops. Also, for those of you who read Swedish, there is a summary in that language on the last page. Please consider doing some advanced Y-DNA testing yourself (if not having a Y chromosome, one can test a relative – or an unrelated friend).

The headings of the newsletter serve as a good indication of its content:

The Cover Picture: Sven Wilhelm Didrik Maechel
The New Version of the VHC Tree
Unknown-Father Investigations
Investigative Genetic Genealogy---Two New Books
Memoirs by Three Siblings Born in 1852, -56, and -64
Pictures of Hedmark

The new issue is downloadable from this link:

www.johanlagerlof.com/uploads/2/9/8/4/29840707/vhc-newsletter-july-2023-v1-reduced.pdf

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Bruno Steiner

8/6/2023 09:54:26 am

Very interesting with the painting of Sven Vilhelm Didrik Maechel 1900-1906! I have him and his family in my family tree. I don’t have a direct relationship with him but in eleven steps on my paternal grandmother’s side. My relation to VHC is on my maternal grandfather’s side, Tester 4. I then can’t he confirm he is a part of VHC. Sven Vilhelm Didrik Maechel’s brother Rolf Jonas Diderik Maechel has at least one grandchild now living in Karlstad, Värmland. There are plenty of interesting persons in his tree, like merchants, militaries, noblemen and they have moved geographically quite a lot over the generations. The closest to VHC seems to be Sven Vilhelm Didrik Maechel’s grandmother born 1853 in Gillberga, Värmland. (I think of Tester 15 with Gillberga as oldest known paternal ancestor, born 1742.) Her parents are born in Bro, Värmland and Karlstad, Värmland, though.

Johan Lagerlöf link

8/6/2023 12:54:17 pm

Thanks for that, Bruno. It’s interesting to hear, and it’s a fun coincidence that you have him in your tree. I picked the portrait for the cover only because I liked it as a picture, in particular the colors.

On the other hand, many people with ancestry from Värmland are related to each other. The population has not been very large and people have married other people from a fairly small area in Värmland. I suspect (and I have confirmed this on one or two occasions) that many of the testers in the project are related to each other also along other lines than the straight male line.

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