Salo Parish, Turku-Pori, Finland Genealogy

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

History
Salo is a municipality of Finland. Salo's neighbouring municipalities are Koski Tl, Lohja, Kemiönsaari, Marttila, Paimio, Raseborg, Sauvo and Somero. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Salo chapel congregation, which was founded in the 1440s, was part of Uskela parish. Salo became a town in 1887. In the same year, it suffered a large fire which destroyed a large part of the center of the town. The church of stone constructions was built in 1832.

Villages
As of 1939 the following villages were found in this parish: Salo.

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

Surrounding Parishes
Halikko, Uskela

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
 * 1667-1863 (*); Salo-Uskelan seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1682-1892 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1725-1909 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1831-1897 (*); Salo-Uskelan seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * Salo at Finland's Family History Association (FFHA) (Suomen Sukuhistoriallinen Yhdistys ry) &mdash; images
 * Salo at HisKi, Genealogical Society of Finland (Suomen Sukututkimusseuta) &mdash; index. More information about the church

Court Records

 * 1810-1870 (*); Kansallisarkisto (Helsinki) 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