Many Northern Finns traveled West, and settled in Northern Norway. Norsk-Finns are sometimes referred to as Kvaen (Kvæn). In order to make life easier; when pressured by the government to become “Norwegianized”, they gave in. Many Finns, and Sami lost their original identities, and were from then on recorded as being ‘Norwegian’.
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This year's annual luncheon will celebrate the 20th year of the Society's existence. In this article you can find, download and print the registration form and mail it to the SFHS office at 1920 Dexter Ave North, Seattle.
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Sometime in December last year it was decided that Quarterly will be published via the Finlander forum in a digital format browsable using ordinary browser applications on your own PC or Mac. For some weeks we have hade the on-line version in a separate subforum on the Finlander discussion forum open for all. Everybody have thus had the chance to try out the method.
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As you have seen the forum was closed today and you probably all got different kind of error messages etc.
What has happened?
The forum needed an update because we get really many spammer attacks every day and the new version much better takes care of them. Thus I have spent a good part of this Friday updating all the bits and pieces, backing up database and website etc. Hopefully this will work as planned.
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Thank you for the information. It sounds promising. I had the info about Johan Viktor as his family was fairly easy to trace. Hopefully I'll find something
I am looking for the birth place of Ida. Spelling of surname found as Haguranen, Hakurainen and Hakkarainen. Birth date 10 Oct 1869.Emigrated 1893. Death
I am looking for the birth place of Ida. Spelling of surname found as Haguranen, Hakurainen and Hakkarainen. Birth date 10 Oct 1869.Emigrated 1893. Death
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Thank you for the information. It sounds promising. I had the info about Johan Viktor as his family was fairly easy to trace. Hopefully I'll find something
Ida Haguranen 10 Oct 1869
Karen Norwillo 13-10-18, 14:40