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.

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