The Swedes of Gammalsvenskby (Swedish: Svenskbybor) are descendants of the Swedish-speaking minority Estonian Swedes that resided on the Baltic sea island of Hiiumaa, and emigrated to Novorossiya in the 1780s where they founded Gammalsvenskby.

[2] In 2017, as part of a DNA project led by a genetics professor at Uppsala University, researchers collected saliva samples from 25 people in Ukraine and from Gammalsvenskby descendants on the Swedish Baltic Sea island of Gotland in order to determine the genetic origin of the Swedish villagers in Gammalsvenskby.

[3][4] The preliminary results showed that the Swedish villagers were more genetically similar to Balts than other groups in Sweden.

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