Lumijoki Parish, Oulu, Finland Genealogy

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

History
Lumijoki is a municipality of Finland located in the Northern Ostrobothnia region. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The first mention of the village is in 1496, when a Russian army rampaged through the coastal villages of Liminka. In 1684 the Lumijoki chapel was founded as part of Liminka parish. Lumijoki was separated as an independent parish in 1899, but the separation was not realized in practice until 1917. The municipality of Lumijoki was founded in 1867. The archive of the Lumijoki parish was almost completely destroyed in the fire of the church in 1882, and the remaining shreds of the archive were finally destroyed in the fire of the Lumijoki parsonage on January 17, 1902.

Villages
Between 1919 and 1931 the following villages were found in this parish: Hirvasniemi, Lapinniemi and Lumijoki. As of 1939 the following villages were found in this parish: Lumijoki.

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
 * 1682-1892 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1725-1909 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index

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