The Bure kinship (Swedish: Bureätten) is a Scandinavian kinship, centered in the Skellefteå area, today's Bureå in Northern Sweden. The claims about the kinship are based on a Bure family genealogy written in the beginning of the 17th century by Johannes Bureus, in his manuscript Om Bura namn och ätt. In his genealogy Bureus included all the family ancestors and descendants, whether male or female and regardless of what social standing or legitimacy each family member might have represented, thus making it possible for many modern-day families to trace their ancestry back to the Bure kinship. Many of the claims made in the genealogy have, however, long since been proven to be based on misread/misinterpreted texts on runestones in central Sweden, and many have been proven to be pure myths,