With new research, information, and technology as well as all of the new resources available online, it is time for a new Finnish genealogy reference book: Modern Finnish Genealogy. Anticipated now in Spring 2019, this new reference is the culmination of extensive personal and professional research since 1978.
Using modern QR ("Quick Response") code technology, this book will connect interactively with this website.
by Greg Isola, genealogist
independent Finnish researcher
President/Partner, Finnesota LLC
Book outline:
- High-level sections*
- next-level sections will be added*
- Dedication
- Preface
- Notations
- Table of Contents
- Genealogy
- General issues
- Relatives
- Generations
- US Federal Census Records
- State Census Records
- US National Archives
- Family stories
- Filing systems
- Ancestor Cards
- Software/Online
- Finland
- History outline
- Identity
- Finnish-Americans
- Finnish-Canadians
- Church history
- Tornedalen
- Kven
- Swede Finns
- Forest Finns
- Saami
- Karelians
- Ingrians
- Estonians
- Finndians
- Russian ancestors
- Nobility
- Old inheritance
- Emigration and Immigration
- Definitions
- Who, when, where
- Migration Institute
- Tornedalian Emigrant Database
- IHRCA
- FAHC archives
- Languages
- Finnish
- Swedish
- Others in the records
- Norwegian
- Family and genealogy terms
- Who? Names
- Types
- Forms of names
- What? Records
- Forms: Lutheran Church of Finland records
- Where to find
- When? Dates
- Calendar
- Styles
- Where? Places
- Finnish historical administrative structure
- Borders prior to 1809
- Place names
- "In" or "at" a place
- Why? Reasons
- How? Strategies in researching
- DNA
- Bibliography
- Author's biography
< *all details subject to change at any time without notice
Anticipated in Spring 2019.
Published by Finnesota LLC.
Printed at TheBookPatch.
QR codes created at QRStuff.
[about QR codes: what are they? and good information in a blog]
Permanent MartinTM Internet short links on the premier domain gene.mn provided as a service by Finnesota LLC.
Current plan: 8.5" x 11", color cover, B&W content, perfect bound.
Final number of pages as yet undetermined.
This book project is made possible with the support of a generous 2017 grant from Finlandia Foundation National.
Updated 29 Apr 2017, 31 Aug 2018