As I finally determined the problem in knowing about them was the DATE OF IMMIGRATION. First of all, they didn't emigrate ~ they were rounded up by Swedes (probably on the orders of a fellow who is ancestral as well) in winter, put on boats and shipped to America to cut trees. Second, all that happened in the early to mid 1600s.
The English kept decent records on their people ~ even their slaves. The Swedes didn't keep any records worth a darn, and those they did were in Latin or Swedish ~ so most of our knowledge of that period in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania comes from non-Sa'ami, or from a handful of Bibles.
For a variety of reasons the Sa'ami stuck together, and in 1701 when they abandoned Lancaster Pennsylvania, they moved to York and set up 5 designated Sa'ami settlements in Penn and 2 in Maryland. From that point on Sa'ami emigration out of Scandinavia seems to have regularized around those destination points.
Once the American Revolution was finished (and remember the Maryland 400 ~ Flying Geese, and those guys with bare feet at Valley Forge, and the guys pushing off the ice from George Washington's boat while he crossed the Delaware? Guess who that was) the Sa'ami began making a bee-line West leaving in their wake a myriad of towns, townships and counties with "deer", "elk", "Christmas" and "union" in their name.
I was actually born in a place once called "MULES CROSSING" (now Seymour) ~ (settled by a fellow named Silverskjold, and Renno, and Crane, and a whole bunch of Swedish nobles apparently run off from Finland in 1810). BTW, that "MULES" is not a "mule", but a "reindeer". We call the territory Amaroosia, which is a phrase that if flipped around is the name of the capital city of Lapland County in Finland in SKOLT!
None of that was known until I began tracking down the stray threads ~ on the other hand the genetic problems, and advantages, typifying the Skolt pretty well tell the story of what's going on in all those colonial outposts established by the Sa'ami.
Now, does any of that seem familiar to any of you folks with gluten intolerance? It should because up until about 900 AD the Sapma (Sa'ami land) had no grain, and it had no wine and was otherwise genetically isolated from Europe. Grass allergies come with your genes, and many Sa'ami of all the nations are born without the genes to make the enzymes to metabolize alcohol.
There are other things that don't get metabolized either ~ like Versed (a sedative used in light surgery), anti-cholesterol drugs, and probably common garden vegetables!
I think we are primarily carnivorous from the thousands of years in the Arctic and subarctic. Our diet is naturally reindeer, fish, seal and lingonberries. Stepping outside those four major food groups we risk bowel cancer, liver trouble, blindness, skin diseases, and a bunch of other things too numerous to mention, On the other hand, there's "Sa'ami male potency" (a real plus), ability to withstand cold weather and cold water, good night vision, and what seems to be a natural inclination to hop on skis and do stuff ~ no training needed.
Now not everybody in America of Sa'ami ancestry is a pureblood ~ probably nobody. But you inherit half your genes from each parent, and they probably know less about Sa'ami ancestry than you do, so you may be getting a double-dose and that will bring out all the auto-somal recessives ~ and boy do the Sa'ami have a lot of those.
I encourage everyone to read everything on the net that they can about Sa'ami, and look for Skolt because they show up in all the studies you need to know about.
Does that connection make it as far down as Eastern Europe?