Oulu Parish, Oulu, Finland Genealogy

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

History
Oulu is a city and municipality in the region of Northern Ostrobothnia. It is the most populous city in Northern Finland and the fifth most populous city in the country. There are no larger cities, apart from Murmansk and Norilsk, Russia, that are more northerly than Oulu.

Villages
As of 1939 the following villages were found in this parish: Oulu, Toppila, Tuira.

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

Church Records

 * 1633-1855 (*); Oulun seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1633-1887 (*); Oulun seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 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
 * 1700-1867 (*); Oulun seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1725-1909 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1854-1908 (*); Oulun seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1855-1869 (*); Suomen Tarkk'ampujapataljoona srk. at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * Oulu - Uleåborg(tksrk - df) at Finland's Family History Association (FFHA) (Suomen Sukuhistoriallinen Yhdistys ry) &mdash; images
 * Oulun tuomiokirkkoseurakunta - Uleå 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