Mäntsälä Parish, Uusimaa, Finland Genealogy

Guide to Mäntsälä parish, Finland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

History
Mäntsälä is a municipality of Finland, about 40 miles north of Helsinki. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Mäntsälä became a chapel parish to Porvoo in 1585. At that time, the first church in the locality was built in Mäntsälä. In 1616, Mäntsälä became independent as its own parish. The parish is home to Mäntsälä estate (Mäntsälän kartano). The estate was formed in 1620, when the two manors of Mäntsälä village which were formed in 1573 were combined.

Villages
As of 1939 the following villages were found in this parish: Hautjärvi, Hirvihaara, Kaukalampi, Levanto, Mäntsälä, Numminen, Ohkola, Saarentaus, Soukkio, Sälinkää.

Place Names
To see what kind of place it is you will need a Finnish gazetteer.

Surrounding Parishes
Kärkölä, Orimattila, Pukkila, Askola, Pornainen, Sipoo, Tuusula, Järvenpää

Census

 * 1760-1779 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Church Records

 * 1657-1890 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1657-1915 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index & images
 * 1658-1927 (*); Mäntsälän seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1671-1850 (*); Mäntsälän seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1682-1892 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1725-1909 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1734-1907 (*); Mäntsälän seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1743-1863 (*); Mäntsälän seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * Mäntsälä at Finland's Family History Association (FFHA) (Suomen Sukuhistoriallinen Yhdistys ry) &mdash; images
 * Mäntsälä at HisKi, Genealogical Society of Finland (Suomen Sukututkimusseuta) &mdash; index. More information about the church

Emigration and Immigration Records

 * 1900-1920 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index

Taxation Records

 * 1809-1915 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images