Keitele Parish, Kuopio, Finland Genealogy

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

History
Keitele is a municipality of Finland and it is part of the Northern Savonia region. Neighbour municipalities are Pielavesi, Pihtipudas, Tervo, Vesanto and Viitasaari. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The church was built in 1876.

Villages
As of 1939 the following villages were found in this parish: Keitele, Porttila, Tossavanlahti, Vuonamonlahti.

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

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
 * 1877-1901 (*); Keiteleen seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * Keitele at Finland's Family History Association (FFHA) (Suomen Sukuhistoriallinen Yhdistys ry) &mdash; images

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