Emigration

SOURCES FOR GENEALOGISTS

Emigration

Emigration and human migration are not new phenomena. Over the centuries wars have been fought and the borders and status of kingdoms have changed. The movement and settlement of individuals and demographic groups has been both temporary and permanent and the reasons for emigration have been manifold. Historically significant have been, for example, the Forest Finns in Sweden and Norway in the 16th–17th Centuries and the settlement of Ingria in the 17th Century.

The biggest waves of subsequent Finnish emigration have been the departure of over 300 000 Finns to North America at the turn of the 20th century. Also approximately 400 000 Finns moved to Sweden in the 1950s–1970s. Today there are Finns all over the world. According to The Migration Institute of Finland, there are about 1,5 million people living abroad with Finnish ancestry. Migration to Finland has also been significant. For historical reasons most have come from nearby: the Baltic Sea, Sweden and Russia. In past centuries soldiers, merchants, craftsmen and civil servants have arrived in Finland. For example the emergence of the German and Russian minorities dates back to these times.

This page presents foreign online sources for genealogy and key materials relating to Finnish settlement history and migration. The beginning of the page shows material for general research into immigration and on immigrants who left Finland. After this the materials are presented by country or region

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General information

Emigration from Finland

USA

Passenger lists

Alaska

Michigan

Minnesota

Montana

Wyoming

Hanna, Carbon County

Canada

Passenger lists

Ontario

Sault Ste. Marie

Sudbury

British Columbia

Nanaimo

Sointula

Saskatchewan

New Finland

Australia and New Zealand


Australia

New Zealand

Sweden

Directories, adress and phone books

Graves and obituaries

Maps

Stockholm

Migration, refugees, and emigration from Finland

Finnish war children (Sweden and Denmark)

Norway

Baltic countries

Estonia

Latvia

Lithuania

Germany

Russia

Finns in Russian Alaska

Finns in Russia and the Soviet Union

Ingria


Emigration