Juankoski Parish, Kuopio, Finland Genealogy

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

History
Juankoski is a former town and municipality of Finland located in the province of Eastern Finland and was part of the Northern Savonia region. Juankoski formally became a town in 1998. Neighbouring municipalities of Juankoski were Juuka, Kaavi, Tuusniemi, Kuopio, Nilsiä and Rautavaara. The municipality was unilingually Finnish. In March 2014, the Juankoski city council decided that town was going to merge with Kuopio in the beginning of 2017. The Swedish name is Strömsdal .

Villages
As of 1939 the following villages were found in this parish: Akonvesi, Juankoski.

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

Taxation Records

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