Forssa Parish, Häme, Finland Genealogy

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

History
Forssa is a town and municipality of Finland and it is located almost in the centre of a triangle defined by the three largest major cities in Finland Helsinki, Turku and Tampere, in the province of Southern Finland and is also part of the Tavastia Proper region. The name Forssa comes from the Swedish word fors, meaning rapids. The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

Villages
As of 1939 the following villages were found in this parish: Forssa, Haisio, Kalsu.

Place Names
To see what kind of place it is you will need a Finnish gazetteer.
 * Haudankorva
 * Järvenpää
 * Kuhala, Kuusto
 * Linikkala, Lunttila
 * Talsoila
 * Veremä

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
 * 1874-1905 (*); Forssa Oy:n Kutomo ja Kehräämö at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * Forssa at Finland's Family History Association (FFHA) (Suomen Sukuhistoriallinen Yhdistys ry) &mdash; images

Emigration and Immigration

 * 1900-1920 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index

Taxation

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