Kangasniemi Parish, Mikkeli, Finland Genealogy

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

History
Kangasniemi is a municipality in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the Southern Savonia region, Finland. The distance to the national capital, Helsinki is 160 miles. Its neighbour municipalities are Hankasalmi, Hirvensalmi, Joutsa, Mikkeli, Pieksämäki and Toivakka. The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

Villages
As of 1939 the following villages were found in this parish: Ahventaipale, Hokka, Hännilä, Istruala, Kangasniemi, Koittila, Koivula, Kutemajärvi, Läsäkoski, Synsiälä, Tahkomäki, Unnukkala, Vuojalahti, Äkryntaipale.

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
 * 1659-1895 (*); Kangasniemen seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1682-1892 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1684-1850 (*); Kangasniemen seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1725-1909 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1868-1937 (*); Kangasniemen seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * Kangasniemi at Finland's Family History Association (FFHA) (Suomen Sukuhistoriallinen Yhdistys ry) &mdash; images
 * Kangasniemi 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