Uurainen Parish, Vaasa, Finland Genealogy

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

History
Uurainen is a municipality of Finland. Neighbouring municipalities are Jyväskylä, Laukaa, Multia, Petäjävesi, Saarijärvi and Äänekoski. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The church wass formed as a prayer house separated from Saarijärvi in 1801, and parts of what was then Laukaa were also attached to it. The parish chapel was completed in 1856, and it became independent as its own parish in 1886. The Swedish name is Urais.

Villages
As of 1939 the following villages were found in this parish: Höytiä, Jokihaara, Uurainen.

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
 * 1805-1860 (*); Uuraisen seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1805-1890 (*); Uuraisen seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1807-1979 (*); Uuraisen seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * Uurainen at Finland's Family History Association (FFHA) (Suomen Sukuhistoriallinen Yhdistys ry) &mdash; images
 * Uurainen 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