Ahlainen Parish, Turku-Pori, Finland Genealogy

Europe Finland  Turku-Pori County Ahlainen parish

Guide to Ahlainen parish, Finland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

Europe Finland  Turku-Pori County Ahlainen parish

Guide to Ahlainen parish, Finland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

History
Vittisbofjärd is the Swedish name for Ahlainen parish.

Place Names
To see what kind of place it is you will need a Finnish gazetteer.

Antora, Bastuhalme, Haapajärvi, Heikkilä, Härky, Isokorpi, Juhola, Kaarankorpi, Kankaanpää, Kataristo, Kielfiera, Knuttila, Korkiakoski, Lambaluoto, Leppäkari, Mannila, Mauluna, Mäkelä, Peinto, Peltomaa, Pirttijärvi, Santala, Takala, Takkaluoto, Vaikela, Viikas, Viitaniemi, Vuorenpää.

Online Church Records

 * Finland's Family History Association (Suomen Sukuhistoriallinen Yhdistys). Click on "Church Records" in the left sidebar.  Select your  parish from the list that comes up.
 * The HisKi Project. Choose a specific parish or click on "All" to search the entire country.
 * Digihakemisto (Digital Directory). In the left sidebar, select your parish.
 * Finnish National Archives has the most complete collection, but it is more complicated to use. Use it when the records you need are not in the simpler indexed records above. Choose the parish you need from the archives listed in the "Tree View".

Online "Census Records" (Actually Communion Books and Pre-Confirmation Records)

 * MyHeritage.com: Finland Church Census and Pre-Confirmation Books, 1657-1915. "Census books" here refers to communion books.
 * Digihakemisto (Digital Directory). In the left sidebar, select your parish. A menu for the parish will show these records, in addition to births, marriages, and deaths.
 * In the Finnish National Archives these records are in the church books for each parish.Choose the parish you need from the archives listed in the "Tree View".

Microfilms of Records for Finland
Microfilms of the original records used for developing the online databases are also available for research. You will find additional records that have yet to be digitized. These microfilms may be viewed at a Family History Center near you. Click on this link to see a list of records for Finland, Turku-Pori.

Writing to the Local Parish
The Family History Library does not have recent church records. You can obtain this information by writing to the local parishes in Finland. If you do not speak Finnish, you may write your letter in English. In your letter, include a statement that you are willing to pay for the services you request. You will be billed when the research has been completed.
 * Parish Contact Information
 * Finland Letter Writing Guide

Help Reading Finnish and Swedish Records

 * Since Finnish was not an official language in Finland until 1863, most records were written in Swedish. To do research in these records, you will need to know some Swedish and Finnish key words and phrases (such as born, died, mother, father, etc.), but you do not have to be fluent in the language.
 * Key words and a glossary of somewhat less common words are found in the Finnish Genealogical Word List and the Swedish Genealogical Word List.
 * This interactive dictionary allows you to enter a word in the search box and receive the translation: Swedish Historical Dictionary Database, SHDD.
 * For help with reading the column headings found in more recent records, see [[Media:Swedenish_Par_Reg_and_Exam_headings.pdf|Swedish Parish Register and Household Exam Roll Headings]].
 * Instructions, document examples, and translations are given for Reading Swedish Birth and Christening Records 1717, 1752, 1771, 1792, 1803, 1834, 1854.

Help Reading Old Handwriting

 * Online lessons are available to teach you how to read old Scandinavian handwriting:
 * Reading Scandinavian Gothic Handwritten Records Lesson 1: Scandinavian Gothic Letters
 * Reading Scandinavian Gothic Handwritten Records Lesson 2: Names, Words, and Dates
 * Reading Scandinavian Gothic Handwritten Records Lesson 3: Handwritten Records


 * Reading Gothic Handwriting for Swedish Genealogy, Lesson 1
 * Spelling and Phonetics for Swedish Genealogy, Lesson 2 — Names, dates, and key genealogical words
 * Reading Gothic Handwriting for Swedish Genealogy: Put It All Together, Lesson 3
 * Birth and Christening Records for Swedish Genealogy