Eckerö Parish, Ahvenanmaa, Finland Genealogy

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

Indexed Collections
FamilySearch Historical Records
 * Suomen Sukututkimusseura = Genealogical Society of Finland - HisKi: Eckerö, 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

 * Eckerön seurakunta,
 * Eckerön seurakunta,
 * Eckerön seurakunta,

History
Eckerö is a municipality of Åland, an autonomous territory under Finnish sovereignty and the municipality is unilingually Swedish and 90% of the population are Swedish speakers. It is the westernmost municipality of Åland and Finland. The municipality has previously also been known as Ekkerö in Finnish documents, but is today referred to as Eckerö also in Finnish.

Villages
As of 1939 the following villages were found in this parish: Eckerö, Storby.

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

Surrounding Parishes
Hammarland