The names in this database were extracted from my files and source material, and consist mainly of emigrants from the Swedish-speaking area of Finland. In many instances their destination and date or place of death are not known. However, this data may be helpful to researchers by providing them with additional vital statistics about their emigrant ancestors, such as birthdate and place in Finland, and spouse's name, if known. 7/27 2003
The Genealogical Society of Finland has set up an Identified Emigrant Register at: http://www.genealogia.fi/emigrants/indexe.htm This database lists only those emigrants from Finland whose birthdate, place, death date and place are known, whereas my database includes emigrants whose final destination and death dates are not known. In addition, the Society's database includes emigrants from areas other than Ostrobothnia.
The Digital Archives is the National Archives Service's storage and presentation system for digitised documents. Approximately 3.7 million files containing material from the National Archives Service were digitised in 2009 through a designated allowance granted by the Ministry of Education. During the digitising project in 2010 about 5.5 million files was digitised, mainly church records.
As of 31 January 2012, the Digital Archive has over 11.700.000 files containing material from the National Archives Service.
The members of the expedition anchored at a rocky point on the Minquas Kill that is known today as Swedes' Landing on March 29, 1638.
A couple of days ago a new service was launched to bring old Finnish maps available online. The project is named after researcher Heikki Rantatupa who has worked with the maps for years. Thanks to his efforts the service covers about 5400 maps in 6350 pictures. Most of the maps in the service are from the years 1600-1800 but some maps exist until 1950's.
The map service is hosted by University of Jyväskylä and it is unfortunately currently available only in Finnish, but it is easy to use if you know the name of the place you are looking for. Just look for the upper corner of the search page where there is the search field witht the finnish text "Karttahaku". Type the name of the location you are searching for and you will get listing of maps relevant to your search. Link to the Heikki Rantatupa historical maps portal.