Kittilä Parish, Lappi, Finland Genealogy

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

History
Kittilä is a municipality in northern Finland. The church, which was built in 1831, is one of the few structures in the municipality that survived the Nazi withdrawal from in 1944.

Villages
As of 1939 the following villages were found in this parish: Hanhivaara, Helppi, Kallo, Kaukonen, Kelontekemä, Kiistala, Kittilä, Köngäs, Molkojärvi, Pallastunturi, Pokka, Raattama, Sirkka, Tepasto.

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

Surrounding Parishes
Inari, Sodankylä, Rovaniemi, Kolari, Muonio, Enontekiö

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
 * 1778-1918 (*); Kittilän seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1790-1878 (*); Kittilän seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1869-1905 (*); Kittilän seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * Kittilä at Finland's Family History Association (FFHA) (Suomen Sukuhistoriallinen Yhdistys ry) &mdash; images
 * Kittilä at HisKi, Genealogical Society of Finland (Suomen Sukututkimusseuta) &mdash; index. More information about the church

Court Records

 * 1728-1807 (*); Kihlakunnanoikeus (Länsipohjan pohjoinen tk.) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1810-1860 (*); Kihlakunnanoikeus (Kemin tuomiokunta) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1815-1868 (*); Kihlakunnanoikeus (Lapin tuomiokunta) at FamilySearch Catalog - 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