Finland Genealogy

Welcome
FamilySearch Wiki is a community website dedicated to helping people throughout the world learn how to find their ancestors. Through the Finland page you can learn how to find, use, and analyze Finnish records of genealogical value. The content is variously targeted to beginners, intermediate, and expert researchers. Please visit the Contributor Help page to learn more about using the site. The Finland Page is a work in progress, your contributions and feedback are essential!

See the tutorials at FamilySearch Learning Center on Scandinavian Research and on Reading Scandinavian Gothic Handwritten Records.

Featured Article
Records of births, marriages, and deaths are commonly referred to as vital records because they refer to critical events in a person’s life. Civil registration is the vital records made by the government. Vital records of Finland have traditionally been kept by the church.

Research Tools
Wiki articles describing online collections are found at:


 * Baptisms (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Burials (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Marriages (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Useful Websites
1. Finland Genealogy links

2. Finland GenWeb

3. Finland Letter Writing Guide Wiki article

4. Finnish Genealogical Word List Wiki article

5. Germany Handwriting

6. HisKi project in English

7. Hiski Project Suomeksi

8. Hiski Project på Svenska

9. Institute of Migration - Siirtolaisuusinstituutti (Main page)

10. Libweb - Directory of Libraries in Finland

11. Family Tree Magazine: Finnish Toolkit

12. Federation of East European Family History Societies (FEEFHS)

13. Digized Finnish Church Records by FFHA

14. Digitoidut kirkonkirjat (digiarkisto)

15. Finska kyrkoböcker i digitalformat

16. http://digi.narc.fi/digi/search.ka (Digital Archives of Finland online church record for Finland)

17. http://evl.fi/EVLKuvailutiedot.nsf/Yhteystietolista?ReadForm&amp;StartKey=Kaikki&amp;type=1&amp;lang=FI (contact information for parish churches to be able to obtain information not listed in the online church records)

Help Wanted
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