Ylihärmä Parish, Vaasa, Finland Genealogy

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

History
Ylihärmä is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated together with Alahärmä and Kortesjärvi to Kauhava on 1 January 2009. The municipality was unilingually Finnish. Ylihärmä became a chapel in 1816 and an independent parish in 1859. The church was completed in 1787.

Villages
As of 1939 the following villages were found in this parish: Pakka, Ylihärmä.

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

Surrounding Parishes
Alahärmä, Kauhava, Lapua, Ylistaro, Isokyrö, Vöyri

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
 * 1682-1892 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1725-1909 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1776-1915 (*); Ylihärmän seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1788-1850 (*); Ylihärmän seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1792-1864 (*); Ylihärmän seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1859-1900 (*); Ylihärmän seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * Ylihärmä at Finland's Family History Association (FFHA) (Suomen Sukuhistoriallinen Yhdistys ry) &mdash; images
 * Ylihärmä 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