Den 9 november 1861 var för Svärdsjö och Envikens jordägare en betydelsefull dag. Då undertecknade kung Karl den XV beslutet om att två skogstrakter skulle avsättas för de jordägande sockenmännens gemensamma behov i Svärdsjö och Enviken. Det här skedde i samband med storskiftesregleringen som pågick under åren 1849-1864.
Saturday, October 09, 2021
Helena, Mitochondria Of My Swedish Grand Mother, Mother, Myself and My Daughter
Nadene Goldfoot
Then she had a son when she was 45. This was taken before she fell down and broke her hip in about 1940, about 70 years old. She was born in 1870. She was 85 when she died, and she still looked like this as I remember her. She had beautiful skin, a flawless face without wrinkles. She had always taken care of her face in Sweden using Sheep fat, real aloe, i believe it turns out to be. My mother inherited this practice but used lovely creams in jars instead. 
Dorothy Olson who died in Sioux City, Iowa in 1910, was born in 1903. She had been 7 and died of appendicitis. 
Grandma was the professional cook for a millionaire family in Sioux City. It was the John Pierce family and they lived in a mansion which is today's Sioux City Public Museum. At the time she was married to her 1st husband, Swen Fred Olson. They married May 18, 1897. 
In the rear of the house is the kitchen, where there are shelves in two corners displaying antique chinaware.
The Pierce family lived in the house from 1891 to 1893 when John Pierce, a wealthy businessman, lost his fortune in the national depression. John Peirce built this 23-room house in 1890 for the cost of $80,000. In today’s money that would be $2,223,000! What a statement piece this was, and still is. No other home in Sioux City comes close to this ostentatious dwelling.
A major promoter during Sioux City's boom years, Peirce become involved in the real estate business. He was instrumental in developing the north side, grading the hills and building a cable line the full length of Jackson Street all the way to 40th Street. At its end, the cable line looped around a wooden pavilion that provided shelter and soft drinks for customers. Dances held at the pavilion were a popular activity. A power plant at 29th and Jones Streets provided power for the cable line and street lights in the area.
Pierce was active in promoting projects for the development for Sioux City including cable lines, businesses and railroads. He built a stone mansion for his family at 29th and Jackson (which later served as the site of the Sioux City Public Museum for nearly 50 years). In 1893, Pierces sold their old home at 21st and the Boulevard to the Sisters of Mercy as a site for a hospital. Apparently, the Pierces left all of the furnishings behind for the sisters, including the horse, buggy and cow.
Mr. Pierce lost most of his fortune in the financial panic of 1893. He sold his mansion though a lottery, which later was shown to be fixed. What did my grandmother do for work? On February 12, 1901, Pierce and his family left Sioux City for Seattle. It was at that time that Pierce delivered his bittersweet "Farewell to Sioux City." She probably cooked for the next owners of the mansion. The abstract for Peirce's mansion actually reveals that a warranty deed transferring title to William Barbour was drawn up on December 17, 1900, nineteen days before Barbour was known to hold the "winning ticket". The lottery had most likely been fixed.
Pierce was active in promoting projects for the development for Sioux City including cable lines, businesses and railroads. He built a stone mansion for his family at 29th and Jackson (which later served as the site of the Sioux City Public Museum for nearly 50 years). In 1893, Pierces sold their old home at 21st and the Boulevard to the Sisters of Mercy as a site for a hospital. Apparently, the Pierces left all of the furnishings behind for the sisters, including the horse, buggy and cow.
Mr. Pierce lost most of his fortune in the financial panic of 1893. He sold his mansion though a lottery, which later was shown to be fixed. What did my grandmother do for work? On February 12, 1901, Pierce and his family left Sioux City for Seattle. It was at that time that Pierce delivered his bittersweet "Farewell to Sioux City." She probably cooked for the next owners of the mansion. The abstract for Peirce's mansion actually reveals that a warranty deed transferring title to William Barbour was drawn up on December 17, 1900, nineteen days before Barbour was known to hold the "winning ticket". The lottery had most likely been fixed.
Barbour sold the mansion to William Gordon, in exchange for bonds which were issued by the company operating the Combination Bridge. Gordon, in turn, sold the house to Dr. J.N. Warren.What happened to house after that? 1908 Thomas S. Martin, founder of the T.S. Martin Department Store, bought the mansion. The family lived there until 1920. Grandma might have cooked for all these owners!
When Dorothy had her appendicitis attacked, Grampa Frank carried her to the doctor who didn't save her. That was on January 3, 1910.
She married my grandfather, Frank Hugh Robinson, in 1910. My mom was born in 1913. 
I believe this is her older sister, Anna Lisa holding a grandchild. Anna, b: 1855 married John Lindquist in about 1889 in Sioux City. She's the sister that traveled with Grandma to the States with her son, Charles Karl August Gustavsson Johnson.
My mother inherited her abilities. Grandma's first husband was a Swedish tailor and she worked for him, and she did excellent work as well. My mother also excelled in sewing being my grandma was a hard taskmaster, demanding perfection, according to my mother. My mother and uncle were from her 2nd marriage to a Robinson.
My grandmother, mother, myself and my daughter belong to the clan of Helena (H2a1), the name of one of Eve, of Adam and Eve's 7 daughters. Helena had 2 daughters. All men and women carry 2 kinds of sex DNA, the Y haplogroup, a male line, and Mt (Mitochondria) a female line. Men carry both the Y and the mtDNA but they pass down to their sons only the Y line, whereas women carry the mtDNA only and pass it down to both sons and daughters. 47% of Europeans carry the Helena line.
My grandmother passed hers onto my mother. She was from Sweden, a little village called Lumsheden. Lumsheden is located in the region of Dalarna. Dalarna's capital Falun (Falun) is approximately 36 km / 23 mi away from Lumsheden (as the crow flies). The distance from Lumsheden to Sweden's capital Stockholm (Stockholm) is approximately 184 km / 115 mi (as the crow flies). Right now it's 7:49am Saturday, October 9, 2021 while in Portland, Oregon it is 11:53pm, still Friday night. Some relatives lived in Falun but moved to Lumsheden.
We are welcomed to Lumsheden, a small village in the valley that connects Sandviken in Gästrikland with Svärdsjöbygden in Dalarna. My mother's brother and his wife went to Lumsheden and brought back Ole Lindhah's book of genealogy for me to use in working on our tree.
About 250 people live here today and houses and homesteads are situated close to the country road that winds through the agriculture landscape in the valley. It is a long village. More than 7 kilometers. The forest is close and invite you to enjoy a rich wildlife, fauna and outdoor activities at all seasons. Or to simply listen to the silence.
The centre of the village is situated by lake Lumsen. Here you can stay at the camping, go for put-and-take fishing or take a refreshing swim in the lake. More information is available however mostly in Swedish. Feel free to ask whoever you meet in the village. They will be happy to guide you.
The story of Lumsheden is that it was founded by a renegade priest and a few other people. Those other people included Grandma August Gustafson's birth there eventually. All the women before her direct line were therefore of the clan of Helena. Helena managed to have enough people to spread all out in Europe, not just exclusively Sweden.
If we go back 600 years, we would have 1 million ancestors; 500,000 from our mother and 500,000 from our father. That's only going back to the year of 1421. It was Columbus who sailed the ocean in 1492. The original clan mother, Helena, lived 20,000 years ago. Imagine how many millions of ancestors we have accumulated and carry around in our cells.Our parents make 2; grandparents 4, ggrandparents 8, gggrandparents 16, ggggrandparents 32, gggggrandparents 64, etc.
Fir trees survived through the ice age,.
20,000 years ago was when the ice age was the most severe. Scandinavia was covered with glaciers and permanent ice fields as far south as Berlin and Warsaw. The Baltic sea was frozen over, and so was the North Sea from Denmark to the Humber. (Humber. / (ˈhʌmbə) / noun. an estuary in NE England, into which flow the Rivers Ouse and Trent: flows east into the North Sea; navigable for large ocean-going ships as far as Hull; crossed by the Humber Bridge (1981), a single-span suspension bridge with a main span of 1410 m (4626 ft).) Even the Atlantic Ocean froze in the winter! Britain was joined to Europe by land.
Homo Sapiens (us) came out of Africa. Scientists say that we had dark skin because of the sun but blue eyes. As we migrated northward, our skin became lighter. Swedes wound up with blonde hair to go with their blue eyes. My grandma had brown hair, showing her line came from somewhere else, possibly Finland. Homo Sapiens were first hunter/gatherers. We carry about 38% in our ancient DNA. 8,000 to 7,000 years ago, farmers came and settled. We have about 48% of them in our DNA. Metal age invaders came next and we have about 14% of them. It's great that science can discover our ancient roots today.
DNA autosomal testing can find people carrying our DNA, making them cousins from 1st to 5th and distant. We don't live in clans anymore like clan mother Helena did. We lose track of our cousins quickly in modern days, moving all over for different reasons, usually finding jobs, army stationing, etc.
My uncle, a Robinson, married a lady with the mtDNA of HTb1 from Rechtsupweg, Hanover, Germany Deutschland. I've found 3rd cousins on my mother's father's side, the Robinson side of the family. I have a 1st cousin, Charlotte (Cherie). I've found 2nd to 3rd cousins with the names of Cheryl, Sherie, with surnames I was not familiar with. Interesting that in this case, first names carried through an extended family. More searches in genealogy discovered a connection.
Here's what I was up against in reading Ole's information, and his was in OLD Swedish, a high school exchange student from Sweden told me:
Historia
Resource:
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The science that reveals our genetic ancestry, by Bryan Sykes
https://sweden.places-in-the-world.com/2693687-place-Lumsheden.html
Ole Lindahl, Swedish genealogist and email friend, work of 1979, all in Swedish
Family Tree DNA in Houston, Texas
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/science/mitochondrial-dna-mothers.html?.?mc=aud_dev&ad-keywords=auddevgate&gclid=Cj0KCQjw-4SLBhCVARIsACrhWLXzDCuf3lhGrqtrXTD6r65aRWlReHWp7x3Kw79OjwsT-K2725RnVEAaAnfiEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
GEDMatch/genesis.com
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2013.0373
http://lumsheden.se/in-english/
http://www.svardsjobesparingsskog.se/verksamhet/historia/
me: http://www.svardsjobesparingsskog.se/verksamhet/historia/
https://sciencenordic.com/climate-denmark-earth-science/trees-survived-the-ice-age-in-scandinavia/1462182
http://www.siouxcityhistory.org/historic-sites/104-the-peirce-mansion
http://www.siouxcityhistory.org/notable-people/30-john-peirce
Labels: ancient history, grandmother, Gustafson, H2a1, Helena, ice age, mitochondria, Sweden, village Lumsheden
