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Obituaries
An obituary may be one of the most valuable tools in genealogical research. It is the last published record of the life of an individual. Sometimes a person will take great pains to prepare his/her own obituary in advance. But, generally, the immediate family is responsible for the information that will be submitted to the local newspaper by the funeral home. Sometimes that information will include a photograph of the deceased. At the request of the family, a copy of the information may also be... -
Old Handwriting
Some links to resourses on the web.
- Swedish Workshop - FamilySearch
- Swedish Genealogical Dictionary - with handwriting examples
- Läs dig läsa Tyska stilen (Stads- och kommunhistoriska institutet vid Stockholms universitet)
- Deciphering Old Handwriting. From a course taught by Sabina J. Murray
- English Handwriting 1500-1700 – an online course (Faculty of English, University of Cambridge)
- Handwriting styles (Denmark)
- Kimberly Powell: Reading Old Handwriting (Online Document
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Naturalization
"Naturalization records can help you find the date, ship, and port of arrival, and the place of birth for your ancestor. How much information is found on them will depend on when the naturalization was done. The naturalization process did not have to happen in one court, or in one state. Not all aliens became citizens, and not all completed the process once they started it"source
Naturalization is the legal procedure by which an alien becomes a citizen of a ... -
Passenger lists
In 1819, the United States Congress enacted legislation to regulate the transport of passengers from foreign ports to the United States. As a provision of this act, ships' captains were required to submit a list of passengers to the collector of customs in the district in which the ship arrived. These passenger lists comprise the vast majority of immigration records.... -
Census records online
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Ancestor's Names
Sometimes the name changes and spelling variations of immigrants from Finland can be frustrating. They followed no rule-of-thumb. Often, the farm name was dropped and only the patronymic name was used. At other times, a rather long Swedish or Finnish surname was shortened. Occupational names were sometimes translated into their English counterparts. Swedish or Finnish surnames were Anglicized. But there are occasions where there seems to be little rhyme or reason as to why an entirely different n... -
Death Records
The most important documents for you to collect are the vital records for each of your ancestors, starting with the most recent and working backward in time. The place to start is with death certificates of relatives who died on this side of the ocean. These generally contain the date and place of death, age or date of birth, cause of death, place of residence, cemetery where buried, name of funeral home, attending physician, and person giving the information. Sometimes the names of parents and... -
Marriage and Birth Records
After collecting death records, the next step should be to obtain all civil and church marriage and birth records available for yourself, your parents or grandparents who were born on this side of the ocean. It is a serious mistake to depend only upon home sources, such as the family Bible, for this information because it can result in inaccurate or incomplete records. Since most of your families came to this country or Canada either late in the last century or after the turn of this century,... -
Census records
Census records are the backbone of genealogical research. They are available for research on microfilm from their beginning in 1790 up through 1920 at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., or at any of their regional field branches located in Anchorage, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Fort Worth, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Seattle. If you do not live near one of these cities, most of them are also available through the Mormon Family History branch...
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by HasseSyrene Forsman has collected material to this exhibition which will be shown in Åbo, Finland during the festival "Finland in our hearts", July 1st–4th, 2011. Additionally an exhibition based upon the same material will be presented at the San Diego FinnFest in August, 2011. The lowres images of the entire exhibition can be seen here but this requires login, ie. the exhibition is open to registered users only. [Otherwise the link will only give an errormessage/-screen]...30-06-11, 10:14
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by HasseDid your grandfather come from Finland? Are you looking for your relatives in Finland, connecting with your roots? - Did your grandfather's brother emigrate from Finland to US, Canada or some other country? Have you lost contact with your relatives "over there"? The "Guide" section hopefully will give you some ideas how you may trace your relatives and at the same time get an interesting hobby - genealogy. At the moment there is a subsection for Finnish Genealogy and US Genealogy. With time we...30-06-11, 09:49
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by Hasseby "Snoberg"
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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by HasseSFHS, The Swedish-Finn Historical Society, has several material collections on the Internet. You can navigate between these pages using the SFHS top menu at the top of every page.
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