Titel: SV: Death Dates
Skrivet av: Staffan Bergh skrivet 2022-01-01, 01:58
Well, since any one of the male descendants may have fathered a child without it being recorded, it's certainly possible that there simply doesn't exist any written record tying the young Mad Trapper, whatever his name, to a descendant of Gustaf and Britta ...
Also, in Sweden up until 1917, mothers could give birth and be guaranteed anonymity (see "Barnamordsplakatet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide_Act_%28Sweden%29)"), which would have the same effect on the chain-of-evidence.
In any of these cases, it will take a lot of DNA matching to work out the relationships ...