Jämsä Parish, Häme, Finland Genealogy

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

History
Jämsä is a town and municipality of Finland and it is located in the province of Western Finland it is also is part of the Central Finland region. The municipality is Finnish. The municipality of Kuorevesi was consolidated with Jämsä in 2001, the municipality of Längelmäki was partly consolidated with Jämsä in 2007 and the municipality of Jämsänkoski was consolidated with Jämsä in the beginning of 2009.

Villages
As of 1939 the following villages were found in this parish: Alhojärvi, Arvoja, Hassi, Hopsu, Juhola, Juokslahti, Jämsä, Partalankoski, Patajoki, Turkki, Vaheri.

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



Taxation

 * 1809-1915 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images