Säkylä Parish, Turku-Pori, Finland Genealogy

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

History
Säkylä is located on the shore of Lake Pyhäjärvi in Säkylä and is therefore the second largest lake municipality in Finland. The municipality of Köyliö was merged to Säkylä on 1 January 2016. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The municipality of Säkylä was founded in 1869. Säkylä is known to have had its own church at least as early as 1455. According to the land register of 1540, there were 19 homes in the village of Ison-Säkylä, 11 in the village of Vähän-Säkylä, and a total of 16 in the villages of Korve and Pyhäjoki. Säkylä was originally Eura's chapel parish and it became independent as its own parish in 1639. The current wooden church in Säkylä was completed in 1777.

Villages
As of 1939 the following villages were found in this parish: Löytänä, Otajoki, Säkylä.

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

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
 * 1680-1850 (*); Säkylän seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1682-1892 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1684-1899 (*); Säkylän seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1725-1909 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1730-1860 (*); Säkylän seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1790-1900 (*); Säkylän seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * Säkylä at Finland's Family History Association (FFHA) (Suomen Sukuhistoriallinen Yhdistys ry) &mdash; images
 * Säkylä 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