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The fa all the children of cousins and second cousins The family was so extensive that he was forced to create a database in his iBook He used the NotePad programme (ibriumse), one of those full-value products that two e had created and distributed as shareware for a pittance on the Internet Few prograative journalist Each faiven his or her own document in the database

The family tree could be traced back to the early sixteenth century, when the nainated froe could be traced as far back as the twelfth century

Inin Sweden with King Jean Baptiste Bernadotte in the early nineteenth century Alexandre Vangeersad was a soldier and not personally acquainted with the king, but he had distinguished hiiven the Hedeby estate as a reward for his service Alexandre Vangeersad also had his own fortune, which he used to purchase considerable sections of forested land in Norrland His son, Adrian, was born in France, but at his father’s request he moved to Hedeby in that remote area of Norrland, far from the salons of Paris, to take over the ad and forestry, using new methods imported from Europe, and he founded the pulp and paper randson was naer He developed trade with Russia and created a small merchant fleet of schooners that served the Baltics and Ger the er diversified the fa business, as well as several of Norrland’s first er and Gottfried, and they were the ones who laid the basis for the high-finance Vanger clan

"Do you know anything about the old inheritance laws?" Vanger had asked "No"

"I’er and Gottfried fought like cats - they were legendary competitors for power and influence over the fale threatened the very survival of the company For that reason their father decided - shortly before he died - to create a system whereby all members of the family would receive a portion of the inheritance - a share - in the business It was no doubt well-intentioned, but it led to a situation in which instead of being able to bring in skilled people and possible partners fro only of family members"

"And that applies today?"

"Precisely If a family member wishes to sell his shares, they have to stay within the fa consists of 50 percent family members Martin holds more than 10 percent of the shares; I have 5 percent after selling so others My brother Harald owns 7 percent, buthave only one or half a percent"

"It sounds medieval in some ways"

"It’s ludicrous It means that today, if Martin wants to i operation to ensure support from at least 20 percent to 25 percent of the shareholders It’s a patchwork quilt of alliances, factions, and intrigues"

Vanger resuer died childless in 1901 Or rather, hters, but in those days women didn’t really count They owned shares, but it was the men in the family who constituted the ownership interest It wasn’t until woht to vote, well into the twentieth century, that they were even allowed to attend the shareholders’ s"

"Very liberal"

"No need to be sarcastic Those were different tier, had three sons: Johan, Fredrik, and Gideon Vanger They were all born towards the end of the nineteenth century We can ignore Gideon; he sold his shares and erated to America There is still a branch of the faer er took out a photograph albuallery of characters as he talked The photographs from the early 1900s shoo men with sturdy chins and plastered-down hair who stared into the caenius of the faineer, and he developed theindustry with several new inventions, which he patented Steel and iron became the basis of the fir textiles Johan Vanger died in 1956 and had three daughters: Sofia, Marit, and Ingrid, ere the first women automatically to win ads

"The other brother, Fredrik Vanger, was my father He was a businessman and industry leader who transformed Johan’s inventions into incoeh he had turned over daily operations to eneration - but in reverse Johan had only daughters" Vanger showed Blo-busted wo parasols "And Fredrik - my father - had only sons We were five brothers: Richard, Harald, Greger, Gustav, and myself"

Blomkvist had drawn up a faether He underlined the na in 1966 and thus, at least theoretically, who could have had soer’s disappearance

He left out children under the age of twelve - he had to draw the line soer If the patriarch had had anything to do with the disappearance of his brother’s granddaughter, his actions over the past thirty-six years would fall into the psychopathic arena Vanger’s hty-one, could reasonably also be eli were twenty-three faer, had to be included in the group of "suspects" Seven of these were now dead, and several had now reached a respectable old age