Friday, September 17, 2010
Finnish family estates in the web
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
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
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.