Kalajoki Parish, Oulu, Finland Genealogy

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

History
Kalajoki is a municipality of Finland and is unilingually Finnish. It became a chapel of Salo parish in 1525 ad became a parish in the 1570s. Kalajoki's brick church is from the late 1870s.

Villages
As of 1939 the following villages were found in this parish: Etelänkylä, Jokisuu, Kalajoki, Metsä, Pohjankylä, Roukala, Siironen, Tynkä, Vasankari.

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

Surrounding Parishes
Pyhäjoki, Merijärvi, Alavieska, Rautio, Himanka

Census

 * 1540-1809 (*) 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
 * 1675-1904 (*); Kalajoen seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1682-1892 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1688-1850 (*); Kalajoen seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1725-1909 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1865-1905 (*); Kalajoen seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1782-1857 (*); Kalajoen seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * Kalajoki at Finland's Family History Association (FFHA) (Suomen Sukuhistoriallinen Yhdistys ry) &mdash; images
 * Kalajoki 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