Pornainen Parish, Uusimaa, Finland Genealogy

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

History
Pornainen, formerly also Kirveskoski and Porneesi, is a municipality of Finland. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Pornainen became a chapel congregation of Porboo in 1729, when it was also allowed to establish its own cemetery. It became an independen parish in 1869. The first church in Pornainen was completed in 1727 and demolished 100 years later. The church which replaced it was destroyed by fire in 1918, and the current church was built in 1924. The Swedish name is Borgnäs.

Villages
As of 1939 the following villages were found in this parish: Borgnäs, Halkia, Laukkoski, Pornainen.

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

Surrounding Parishes
Mäntsälä, Askola, Porvoo, Sipoo

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
 * 1723-1882 (*); Pornaisen seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1725-1909 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1738-1860 (*); Pornaisen seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1760-1861 (*); Pornaisen seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1801-1900 (*); Pornaisen seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * Pornainen - Porgnäs at Finland's Family History Association (FFHA) (Suomen Sukuhistoriallinen Yhdistys ry) &mdash; images
 * Pornainen - Borgnäs 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