Pälkäne Parish, Häme, Finland Genealogy

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

History
Pälkäne is a municipality of Finland and is part of the Pirkanmaa region and the municipality is unilingually Finnish. Many people from Helsinki and the surrounding cities own summer cottages and residences in Pälkäne. From the begining of 2007 Palkäne and Luopioinen were merged to a new municipality of Pälkäne.

Villages
As of 1939 the following villages were found in this parish: Harhala, Iltasmäki, Laitikkala, Luikala, Pohjalahti, Pälkäne, Äimälä.

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

Church Records

 * 1604-1908 (*); Pälkäneen 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
 * 1711-1851 (*); Pälkäneen seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1725-1909 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1736-1881 (*); Pälkäneen seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1866-1900 (*); Pälkäneen seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * Pälkäne at Finland's Family History Association (FFHA) (Suomen Sukuhistoriallinen Yhdistys ry) &mdash; images
 * Pälkäne at HisKi, Genealogical Society of Finland (Suomen Sukututkimusseuta) &mdash; index. More information about the church

Emigration and Immigration

 * 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