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Net <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> 010 01 0<br />

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There are currently 9,885 images in the database.<br />

The other two collections are the Danske billeder <strong>and</strong><br />

Fotograf Tønnies samling (Aalborg).<br />

Ancestry.com<br />

http://www.ancestry.com/search/locality/dbpage.<br />

aspxi=d&tp=1652381&p=5071—Subscription site<br />

At present there is nothing for Denmark except for<br />

a reference to “Sous le masque de “William Shakespeare”:<br />

William Stanley, VIe comte de Derby”<br />

which is a book in French that contains references to<br />

Danemark.<br />

Finl<strong>and</strong><br />

<strong>Family</strong> Search Research Outline for Finl<strong>and</strong>:<br />

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/<br />

Search/RG/guide/Finl<strong>and</strong>.ASP<br />

Finding Records of Your Ancestors<br />

in Finl<strong>and</strong> Before 1900<br />

Color http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/<br />

RG/images/Finding Records Finl<strong>and</strong> 36687.pdf<br />

Finl<strong>and</strong> GenWebProject<br />

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~finwgw/<br />

This site only has some basic information <strong>and</strong> a number<br />

of links.<br />

A little history<br />

In 1808-1809 Sweden lost Finl<strong>and</strong> to Russia. In 1917,<br />

Finl<strong>and</strong> became independent from Russia.<br />

In Eastern Finl<strong>and</strong>, fixed family surnames that<br />

often ended in “nen” were used.<br />

The Genealogical Society of Finl<strong>and</strong><br />

HisKi project<br />

http://hiski.genealogia.fi/hiskien<br />

This site has transcribed <strong>and</strong> indexed church records.<br />

From their Instruction link:<br />

“The data included in the history books<br />

has been put into a database <strong>and</strong> st<strong>and</strong>ardized<br />

so that searches are possible. The data<br />

is intended only for searches <strong>and</strong> not to replace<br />

the original history books or their h<strong>and</strong>written<br />

copies (“black books”). The data may<br />

include mistakes <strong>and</strong> all information should<br />

be checked from the original source. Note that<br />

the database does not include events from the<br />

20th century. Read also the more detailed instructions<br />

for using the books of christened,<br />

married <strong>and</strong> buried as well as of those who<br />

have moved in or out.”<br />

Selecting Alajärvi showed that the following records<br />

were available:<br />

• Christened (1754-1756, 1758-1762, 1764-1855, 1857)<br />

• Married (1754-1863)<br />

• Buried (1754-1864)<br />

• All (1754-1864)<br />

• Statistics (1754-1864)<br />

HisKi Project homepage<br />

Alajärvi Christened: Search results for Anna<br />

Institute of Migration<br />

Siirtolaisuusinstituutti<br />

http://www.migrationinstitute.fi/emreg/rekisteri e<br />

.php—Subscription site<br />

The “List of Databases” at http://www.migrationinstitute.fi/emreg/sr<br />

faq2 e.php includes:<br />

Passenger lists (318,000 records)<br />

“The passenger lists from the Finl<strong>and</strong> Steamship<br />

Company give information on emigrants<br />

Ja n ua ry/Fe b r u a r y 2009 Ev e r t o n’s Ge n e a l o g i c a l He l p e r © 95

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