Kuhmoinen Parish, Häme, Finland Genealogy

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

History
Kuhmoinen is a municipality of Finland and it is located in the province of Western Finland it is also a part of the Central Finland region. There are all together even 316 lakes in Kuhmoinen. Kuhmoinen lies on the west coast of Lake Päijänne. Biggest lakes in Kuhmoinen after Päijänne are Vehkajärvi and Isojärvi. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Neighbour municipalities are Jämsä, Kangasala, Luhanka, Orivesi, Padasjoki and Sysmä.

Villages
As of 1939 the following villages were found in this parish: Kuhmalahti, Vehkajärvi.

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

Church

 * 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
 * 1691-1850 (*); Kuhmoisten seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1691-1918 (*); Kuhmoisten seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1725-1909 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1750-1879 (*); Kuhmoisten seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1865-1905 (*); Kuhmoisten seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * Kuhmoinen at Finland's Family History Association (FFHA) (Suomen Sukuhistoriallinen Yhdistys ry) &mdash; images
 * Kuhmoinen at HisKi, Genealogical Society of Finland (Suomen Sukututkimusseuta) &mdash; index. More information about the church

Emigration and Immigration Record

 * 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