Kittilä Parish, Lappi, Finland Genealogy

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

History
Kittilä is located in northern Finland north of the Arctic Circle within the Lapland region. Kittilä is also famous for being the location of the lowest recorded temperature in Finnish history: −51.5 °C (−60.7 °F), measured in January 1999 in Pokka. The "midnight sun" is above the horizon from 29 May to 16 July, and the period with continuous daylight lasts a bit longer, polar nights are from 14 December to 29 December.

Villages
As of 1939 the following villages were found in this parish: Hanhivaara, Helppi, Kallo, Kaukonen, Kelontekemä, Kiistala, Kittilä, Köngäs, Molkojärvi, Pallastunturi, Pokka, Raattama, Sirkka, Tepasto.

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

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
 * 1682-1892 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1725-1909 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1778-1918 (*); Kittilän seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1790-1878 (*); Kittilän seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1869-1905 (*); Kittilän seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * Kittilä at Finland's Family History Association (FFHA) (Suomen Sukuhistoriallinen Yhdistys ry) &mdash; images
 * Kittilä 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