Finlander

Are you wondering about surnames and given names you're finding when digging for your roots in Finland?

The SFHS Article collections contain several articles

• Place names and person names
• Naming customs
• Search for Origin and Definition of Place Names
• How common is a surname

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The Finland's Family History Association is an association founded in 2004, founded to provide an online source of archived materials such as communion books, census records etc. for everyone interested in genealogy.

The project can be found at this web address.
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Have you ever asked that question?

The Population Information System of Finland has an on-line service anyone can use to see how popular the name is and has been during the time the the Population Register Center has been collecting data.

You can access the Name Service here ...

As you all have seen, every software update results in changes. I haven't updated the Finlander Forum in a very long time but now it had to be done. As you all can see the old menues and links have completely changed. The commands are all there but in different places.

The "Log in" ...

The HisKi project includes lists of christenings, marriages, burials and moves and is a good starting point if you want to find ancestors in Finland.

The database contains most but not all parishes in Finland. Many of these until 1850. Since church records have ...