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Project Background:

The Saami's genetic distinctiveness from other European populations have made them some of the most genetically mapped indigenous populations and they are NOT as believed in classical theories and popular myth of Siberian and Asian origin, but are genetically Europeans.

Their genetics shows signs of strong foundereffects and genetic drift due to their isolation and small non-expanding population. The Saami mtDNA and Y-chromosomal are totally dominated by the maternal hg V and U5b1b1, and the paternal hg I1a and N3a.

Today the Saami culture as seen in language is quickly dimishing and is only alive in some remote locations in the far north. In recorded history the Saami culture where found almost all over Fenoscandia influencing the early Nordic and Finnish cultures in the south.

This projects goal is to gather genetic data found within the Saami areas as well as genetic footprint outside these areas combining it with geneological depth. You may join if a) your a Saami b) suspect your Saami from family oral or written history c) DNA result strongly suggest your your direct father or mother line was a Saami.

The suggested immigration route for Saami Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups:

Interesting article. Thanks for posting.

This isn’t exactly news to me however. My dad was born in Norway and lived there until he was about 9.

He used to get irritated when people would refer to Finland and its people as Scandinavian as he knew their language and culture was distinctly different and used to say they are more Russian than Scandinavian.

My dad of course could speak Norwegian and could understand enough Swedish, Danish, Icelandic and even German to hold a conversation with speakers of those languages and visa versa, they with him. He could not however understand a word of the Finnish language.

Ironically my dad’s first name was Finn (meaning “from Lapland or Finland”).

Sápmi (area)

Blam, there are a couple of other "marker genes" they can use, and for which there are some doggone good tests.

One such gene is for Celiac Disease ~ and the other such gene has to do with how the liver processes heme. There are 86 variations, with 85 of them having an Arctic origin.