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New "Ain't no such thing", alt. "Used to be all of it".
The Flower of the North confides:
As I understand it for me the territory where my "folks" came from was a Finnish island under Swedish rule (I don't remember which island at this point.........
There's no such thing as "a Finnish island under Swedish rule"; there haven't been any border disputes for pretty much exactly two centuries now, so all islands under Finnish rule are Finnish and all islands under Swedish rule are Swedish. Oh, sure, there are pockets of the opposite *language* (and thus I guess you could say "*culturally* Finnish islands under Swedish rule") in both countries... but everybody is pretty much satisfied with the citizenship they have; I know for sure that Finland-Swedes cheer on Finnish, not Swedish, athletes at international competitions.

Unless you mean your ancestors emigrated before 1809; then *all* Finnish islands -- as well as the mainland -- were "under Swedish rule", because they were just simply a part of Sweden. But that was no kind of *foreign* "rule" (as your way of putting it seems to imply); there never was an independent entity "Finland" before the Czar created the semi-autonomus Grand Duchy out of his newly-acquired ex-Swedish territories.
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New Re: "Ain't no such thing", alt. "Used to be all of it".
The statement is what I got from my father. I do not know if my "folks" were originally Finnish or Swedish though the Surname points to the latter.

Your point is well taken :)
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     After reading of admin and Silverlock...... - (molbdron) - (33)
         We take it to the extreme ! - (orion) - (3)
             I dunno if we're >that< extreme?!?! -NT - (bepatient)
             Uhmn.... No. - (Silverlock)
             Re: We take it to the extreme ! - (molbdron)
         Heh. - (Silverlock) - (5)
             Re: Heh. - (molbdron) - (4)
                 quote should be attributed to Groucho Marx. - (a6l6e6x) - (1)
                     Re: quote should be attributed to Groucho Marx. - (molbdron)
                 ........if it's for free...... it's for me ;) - (Arkadiy) - (1)
                     Grammar police! Grammar Police! - (wharris2)
         Geez... and to think... - (folkert) - (2)
             Re: Geez... and to think... - (molbdron) - (1)
                 I *like* this guy. - (Silverlock)
         Any Swedish ancestry, "North-Flower"? - (CRConrad) - (19)
             Re: Any Swedish ancestry, "North-Flower"? - (folkert) - (8)
                 What's a "Goomba"? And why, then... - (CRConrad) - (6)
                     Re: What's a "Goomba"? - (a6l6e6x)
                     didnt watch Mario brothers the movie? - (boxley) - (1)
                         Ah Mario brothers - (wharris2)
                     Re: What's a "Goomba"? And why, then... - (folkert) - (1)
                         Re: What's a "Goomba"? And why, then... - (molbdron)
                     Re: What's a "Goomba"? And why, then... - (molbdron)
                 Re: Any Swedish ancestry, "North-Flower"? - (molbdron)
             Re: Any Swedish ancestry, "North-Flower"? - (molbdron) - (9)
                 Sounds like me - (ben_tilly) - (6)
                     Re: Sounds like me - (molbdron) - (5)
                         Don't believe anything you have heard about me... - (ben_tilly) - (2)
                             Correct...we understate everything about you ;-) -NT - (bepatient) - (1)
                                 Except stories about how much beer Scott got me to drink? -NT - (ben_tilly)
                         "Ain't no such thing", alt. "Used to be all of it". - (CRConrad) - (1)
                             Re: "Ain't no such thing", alt. "Used to be all of it". - (molbdron)
                 Aha... Thanks. - (CRConrad) - (1)
                     Re: Aha... Thanks. - (molbdron)

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