Friday, September 17, 2010

Finnish family estates in the web

For those who are looking information on a particular family estate should have a look at the Finnish Agricultural Museum's website. They provide information about family estates in Finland. You can search for estates in the following address: http://sukutilat.sarka.fi.

Currently there is over 26 000 family estates listed. You can do searches by municipality ("kunta"), village ("kylä"), estate name ("tilanimi") and owners surname ("omistajan sukunimi").

The resulting description (in finnish) has basic data on the estate and in many cases a picture of the last owner. You can copy-paste the descrition to Google Translate in order to get an English version.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Common causes of death in Finnish archives

Below are listed some of the typical causes of death found in Finnish church records. This list may be of help when using the HisKi database. The swedish word is the one found in the records.


English

Swedish

Finnish

shortness of breath

andtäppa

hengenahdistus

childbirth

bardnsbörd

synnytys

stomach ache

bukref

vatsanväänne

(typhoid)

brännsjuka

polte (lavantauti)

sudden death

bråddöd

äkkikuolema

pneumonia

bröstfeber

rintakuume

born dead

dödfödd

kuolleena syntynyt

cholera

frossa

vilutauti, kolera

high fever

hetsig feber

korkea kuume

cough

hosta

yskä

pleurisy or pneumonia

håll och stygn

rintapisto

pertussis, whooping cough

kikhosta

hinkuyskä

cancer

kräfta

syöpä

smallpox

koppor

isorokko

diarheall disease

lifsjuka

ripulitauti, vatsatauti

tuberculosis

lungsot

keuhkotauti

stomach ache, colic

magref

ähky, mahanpurut

measles

mässling

tuhkarokko

typhoid fever

nervfeber

hermokuume (lavantauti)

unknown disease

oangiven sjukdom

tuntematon sairaus

dysentery

rödsot

punatauti

scarlet fever, scarlatina

scharlakansfeber

tulirokko

stroke

slag

halvaus

pleurisy or pneumonia

styng

pistos

weakness

svaghet

heikkous

abscess, tumor, swelling

svullnad

ajos, turvotus

pining

trånsjuka

näivetystauti

typhoid fever

tyfus

lavantauti

swelling

vattusot

vesitauti, pöhö

old age

ålder, ålderdom

vanhuus


Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Private archives

Private archives are a resource that should not be neglected by a genealogist. They can provide lots of useful information on diverse subjects. Here I present some of the finnish private archives which may be useful in genealogical research. A full database of Finnish private archives that receive state support or are maintained by official archive institution is available at http://www.narc.fi/cgi-bin/db2www/yarek.mac/input.

Archive of the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK)

SAK is the oldest employee confederation in Finland. Founded in 1907, it has looked after the interests of employees for a century. The archive was founded in 1976, it's purpose is to support the study of the trade unions. Archive contains various documents related to the history of the trade unions in Finland.

People's Archive (Kansan Arkisto)
People's Archive is an archive of the labour movement. It works in cooperation with other private and official archives recording labour movement history.

Worker's Archive (Työväen Arkisto)
Worker's Archive is also a labour movement archive that was originally based for the Social Democratic party of Finland in 1906.

Central Archives of the Finnish Business Records (Suomen Elinkeinoelämän Keskusarkisto, ELKA)
The central archives of Finnish Business Records maintain records of finnish business and related associations.

Finnish Sport Archive (Suomen Urheiluarkisto)
Finnish sport archive is maintained by Finnish Sport Museum foundation. It contains documents of sport associations, sportsmen and sport leaders. The eldest documents date back to 1850's.

Urho Kekkonen's Archive
This archive contains archives related to former Finnish president Urho Kekkonen and his colleagues. It contains some private collections, diaries and mail correspondence. Material that is older than 25 years is freely usable, for other material concerning Finnish internal politics a permission is needed as parts of the material are under foreign Ministry's secrecy requirements.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Military records


Finnish military records are mostly located in two archives: in the War Archive and in the National Archive. Some of the archive material is accessible on internet too.

National Archive's Militaria Collection contains documents on military personel from 18th century until the beginning of the Finnish autonomy period (approximately 1812). Military records of the National Archive are available also in provincial archives as microfilms.

The other archive containing finnish military records is War Archive. It was created on 1918 and contains archive material beginning from the year 1812 until nowadays. Most of the material is produced by the Ministry of Defence, Defence Forces and the National Border Guard, but in addition it contains material from donated and purchased private collections.

War archive also maintains a database of the fallen Finnish soldiers during the second world war (1939-1945). The database can be freely accessed on the internet in http://kronos.narc.fi/menehtyneet/ This database contains over 95 000 persons that can be searched by surname, first name, date of birth or death, home town, etc.
 
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