Sottunga Parish, Ahvenanmaa, Finland Genealogy

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

History
Sottunga is an island municipality of Åland, an autonomous territory of Finland. The municipality is the smallest when it comes to population in Åland and in Finland. The municipality is unilingually Swedish, with 88.7% of the inhabitants speaking Swedish as their native language. Sottunga comprises many islands, of which only three, Husö, Finnö and Storsottunga, are inhabited. Storsottunga is usually called Sottunga and there are five villages in the municipality: Finnö, Husö, Hästö, Mosshaga and Sottunga.

Villages
As of 1939 the following villages were found in this parish: Sottunga

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

Surrounding Parishes
Vårdö, Kumlinge, Brändö, Houtskari, Kökar, Kökar

Indexed Collections
FamilySearch Historical Records
 * Suomen Sukututkimusseura = Genealogical Society of Finland - HisKi: Sottunga, More information about the parish
 * Historical Records Collections - Finland
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Taxation

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

FamilySearch Catalog

 * Sottungan seurakunta,
 * Sottungan seurakunta,
 * Sottungan seurakunta,