Finnish Immigrants - Family History & Genealogy Message Board

Ggfather from Finland

BCJBlack — 2013-02-15 19:50:58Z

All that is known, name sounded like RUSKALENI. He was born 12/24/1854 in Finland, changed his name to Charles V. Thompson when he came to the US as a young man. I don't know the ship or port of entry. Is there any hope?

Re: Eva and Maria Räsänen

Champlain9 — 2012-07-30 12:48:36Z

Hi
I don't know why Ancestry.com doesn't accept my credit card. I guess it would be easier to find some information.

Have you contacted Ancestry about your card?

Janice

Ancestry Admin

Eva and Maria Räsänen

jaanarasa — 2012-07-23 20:17:57Z

Try to find some information about my great grand aunts Maria (1 Jan 1886) and Eva or Eeva (16 Dec 1890) Räsänen from Kaavi Finland. Maybe they wrote there surname without dots (Rasanen).

I know for sure that they arrived to Ellis Island 23 Jun 1912 (saw the document). I also know that Maria had worked in Ashtabula Ohio years 1907-1911.

My mother told that Maria and Eva had sent a parcel to their sister Ida to Siikajärvi, Nilsiä in 1952. It was lack of everything and my mother (1938)still remembers a Sami dress and a few dollars for handkerchiefs she'd got.

Either of Maria or Eva had got married and had got children. Some of the children had sent some letters to their aunt Hilja Puustinen in Kuopio. At that time English was not so widely used in the countryside.

I don't know why Ancestry.com doesn't accept my credit card. I guess it would be easier to find some information.

Interested in any information! I can share my Family Tree here in the web site (not completed yet).

Re: Baanan

Best4buckeyes1 — 2012-07-10 14:30:46Z

Thanks for your help. I have also seen that but I was not sure because there is no mention of my great grandmother, Sophia. I always thought that they came together. I have searched for her but no luck. Her maiden name was Mackey possibly spelled Maki. My dad always said they came in through Fairport Harbor, but now I am unsure.

Bonnie Best

Re: Baanan

RobertJerin — 2012-07-10 00:01:04Z

1940 Howland, Trumbull Co Ohio census living at 189 Market St Extention
Name Age
Ivar Paanan 59 occupation Farmer
Sophia Paanan 66

Are you saying their ship landed at Fairport Harbor Ohio? This would NOT be the case. In fact here is a record for

Name: Ivar Paananen
Arrival Date: Sep 1901
Age: 20years 8months
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1881
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England
Ship Name: Commonwealth
Port of Arrival: Boston, Massachusetts
Last Residence: Findland
Destination to Harbor, OH

Evidently he left out of the Port of Goteburg Sweden
Name: Ivar Paananen
Birth Year: abt 1881
Gender: Man (Male)
Place of Origin: Finland Sf
Destination: Harbor Ohio
Record Date: 6 sep 1901
Port of Departure: Göteborg
Database Name: EmiHamn
Archive Call Number: 68:299:10642
Principal Person: Paananen Ivar

Robert

Re: Baanan

kh440 — 2012-05-30 01:30:10Z

I found this by searching for first names (or parts of 1st names) only:

1920 US Census
Howland, Trumbull County, Ohio

-Iria Varyes 38 (c. 1882) b. Finland, Immigration 1900 (1902?); Alien status; labor - saw mill
-Sophia Varyes 45, b. Finland, Immigration 1900; Alien status
-Elmer Varyes 16, (c. 1904), b. OH
-Helia Varyes 15, (c. 1905), b. OH
-Walford Varyes 17, (c. 1903), b. OH

The handwriting on the census page is something else!

Other info.:

from Ohio Department of Health. Ohio, Deaths:

Name: John Ivar Baanan
Death Date: 3 Nov 1942
County of Death: Trumbull

&

Elmer Baanan
b. 24 Jun 1903
d. 20 Aug 1966
Last Residence: Warren, Trumbull, Ohio
Certificate # 65181

Also try searching at:
https://familysearch.org/

You may have to end up searching one county with only those born in Finland and go name by name.

Good luck! That is a challenge.
Kathleen

Re: Baanan

Best4buckeyes1 — 2012-05-29 22:56:56Z

Ithanks for responding. His birthdate was Jan 17' 1881. I know that they must have come before 1903 because my grandmother was born here. They settles in Warren, Ohio.

Re: Baanan

kh440 — 2012-05-29 19:55:46Z

Hi,

Your post didn't indicate what was the birth date of your Great Grandfather. Hopefully it was on the WWI Draft Registration you found (or was it WWII?). Where did they settle after first arriving? What are the possible years that they did arrive?

I found on a manifest that this person's destination was Athens, Ohio:

Name: Ivar Paananen
Arrival Date: 9 Sep 1905
Birth Year: abt 1884
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Ethnicity/Race-
/Nationality: Finnish
Port of Departure: Southampton
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: St Louis

I'm not saying that is your G-Grandfather. I found it by just working with the surname. And, the surname may not even be correct.

Here are some resources for your search:

Finnish Heritage Museum of Fairport Harbor
http://finnishheritagemuseum.org/

Emigration from Finland
http://sydaby.eget.net/swe/emi_ref.htm

Ellis Island
http://stevemorse.org/ellis2/ellisgold.html

Re: Finnish immigrants to US MA

bNelson30 — 2012-05-28 18:24:50Z

Does anyone have family they are searching for that came from Kivijarvi Finland?
My fathers parents both came from there.
Alfred Nelson, and Sylvia Marie Piispanen.
They came to the Boston area, settled in West Quincy, where they were married Jan 1908,
Alfred died in 1941, and Sylvia in 1978.
They had one son(my dad) Arvo who died in 1952.

Karoline Kinnunen was my great grandmother(grandmothers mother) and her father was Laurie Piispanen, who I believe came to Boston in 1893 or so maybe on the SS California(n),
My grandmother and all but 1 of her sibblings came to Boston too by 1900.

Frank Nelson, Hjalmar Nelson, (his wife Selma>
Some records I've gotten say Selma was Alfred's wife but that is wrong, both couples lived near each other in West Quincy, so there probably was an error in taking the inf, by census taker.

b

Baanan

Best4buckeyes1 — 2012-05-28 02:44:17Z

I am looking for any information on my great grandparents. My father always told me that they came to the US from Finland and arrivd in Fairport Harbor Ohio. They had three children who were all born in the US. Elmer, Hilja (my grandmother) and Wolfred. I am not sure if the spelling of their name was changed or not. Their name may have been spelled Pbaanan in Finland. My grandmother was born in 1903 I think. My great grandparents names were. John. Ivar. And Sofia. I came across a draft registration for him after he was in the US but that is all I can find,

Isomursu

1_mclamp — 2012-04-09 17:14:58Z

I am looking for information regarding the Isomursu family that lived in Cloquet, Minnesota in 1884. Father's name was Anders Abram and mother was Vappu (Walborg).

Re: John anton silander

Champlain9 — 2012-03-07 17:51:39Z

Contact m if you want the Border Crossings: From Canada to U.S., 1895-1956 about John Selander

Regards

Janice

John anton silander

hooochiema11 — 2011-08-27 00:24:50Z

born-nov-22-1883
Jaala Finland
Death-Dec 6-1964 Canada
Immigrated Dec 11-1907 to US New York-New Yoron Hellig Olv
Ellis Island
Departure Coppenhagen
can you help me find his parents etc.

Re: Finnish Immigrants

sharonsteele99 — 2011-05-01 02:54:52Z

So are you related to Marita Puukangas? I have since met her when I was in Helsinki a couple of years back and we've discovered that we're something like 8th cousins, lol.

Re: Finnish immigrants

cassgorman — 2011-01-25 01:26:11Z

Hi Staffan,

I can find my grandmother coming over but that it. Can not find any family of hers have you heard of Suvitie Family Her name was Hilja. Any help would be great

Re: Finnish? Swedish?

KKRhodes — 2010-11-27 00:43:27Z

I have a friend in Finland whose grandfather was the cousin to your grandmother, Anna Beata Johandottter Ollus. This man will have all the information you would need back many generations, as he is a genealogist with whom I work doing research. Both your grandparents were born in the same parish in Finland. You do not have the village name exactly correct, but I knew instantly what it was, and verified it by looking at the passport records. I was there twice last year.

Karl Metsola and Viljo Hjalmar Andersson (Metsola?)

ullajuva — 2010-06-29 19:51:52Z

I'm seaching information Karl Josefsson Metsola b. 10 Jan 1881 Hausjarvi. He has left from Finland approximately 1920. We know only he left to America, We suppose U.S. or Canada?

His brother Viljo Hjalmar Josefsson Andersson b. 31 Dec 1883 Hausjarvi. He left from Finlad at same time to America.
We don't know whether had they families with them.

I am really happy if one of them can be found in information.

Karl Metsola and Viljo Andersson

ullajuva — 2010-06-25 18:00:35Z

Hi!
I'm looking for Karl Josefsson Metsola b.10 January 1881 Hausjarvi Finland. He has arrived in America around 1918 . I don't be sure he arrived USA or Canada. His relatives know only from his past to America.
I'm looking for his brother Viljo Hjalmar Andersson too. Viljo b. 31 December 1883 Hausjarvi Finland.

Re: Finnish? Swedish?

DKSchultz1959OR — 2010-06-12 09:21:47Z

you might try EllisIsland.org

Finnish? Swedish?

rmattson3251 — 2010-04-15 18:53:46Z

I am looking for information on both my Grandparents that came from Waasan Laani, Wasa Lan according to their passports. Both immigrated around 1900 to Eveluth, Minn. My Grandmother was Anna Biata (or Beata)Johansdotter Ollus and my Grandfather was John Karl (or Knut) Mattson.
I have their passport numbers. Is there a way to look up records by passport number?
I am not able to determine either of their parents.

Re: Brita Johanna Pirttisalo

AliciaKMarshall — 2010-01-18 22:40:47Z

The ships manifest states that she is going to Alfred Maki
in Painesville Ohio.
best regards,
Alicia

Re: Finnish Immigrants

beachtraveler9 — 2009-02-18 05:04:39Z

So, how far is that area from Helsinki? I'll be in Helsinki for a week in December and I'm trying to decide if I'll have time to visit that area. And can I ask, what is your name? My married name is Sharon Steele.

Re: Finnish Immigrants

sukututkija110 — 2009-02-17 09:42:21Z

It's all my pleasure! I'm so addicted to genealogy and it's exciting to find a distant cousin from USA. I think we are actually 3th cousins. The brothers Sakari and Tobias Puukangas are our great-great-great-grandfathers. I just putted one "great" too much to my previous message. English is not my mother tongue so I have sometimes difficulties to write it properly.

I have born and spent my youth in Kokkola which is the town with Kälviä was just consolidated. Now I live in Jyväskylä in Central Finland.

I think that picture of the farm was taken in the late 90´s. I need to say that my kinship to the people who live there nowadays is so distance (they are perhaps my 3th or 4th cousins, too) that I don't actually know them. According to the web pages of Kälviä they have quited agriculture in the early 90's.

Re: Finnish Immigrants

beachtraveler9 — 2009-02-16 18:39:27Z

Wow, good information. So I guess technically we're cousins. How far removed I don't know though! DO you live in the Kalvia area now? Oh, and my mother wanted to know if you knew when that picture of the Puukangas farm was taken?

Re: Finnish Immigrants

sukututkija110 — 2009-02-16 09:55:58Z

Well, Sakari Puukangas (b. 1821), the brother of Tobias Puukangas, is my great-great-great-great-grandfather. Sakari moved from Puukangas farm to Himanka. Their brothers Elias, Antti and Abraham stayed in Puukangas. I think the people who live there nowadays are directly their descendants. Their father Antti Eliaanpoika (Elias' son) Klapuri-Puukangas was a son of cantor. The family moved from the cantor's residence to Puukangas farm after their father dead.

The grandfather of Sakari and Topias and others, cantor Elias Klapuri (lived 1717-1784), was from Klapuri farm. Klapuri farm had fields, cattle and a hop garden. Elias Klapuri's father was Josef Klapuri jr (1659-1734). Elias' mother and Josef's wife Malin Karvonen (1675-1758) was from Veteli and she was the ruler of the Klapuri farm after his husband died. Elias Klapuri's father Josef Klapuri sr. (1617-1697) was also a cantor. And Josef's father was perhaps Lauri Kettunen-Herronen from the Herronen farm. Lauri was probably a son of Olavi Kettunen, a settler from Eastern Finland. He lived in the late 16th century.

I think there's a lot of descendants of Puukangas family in Central Ostrobothnia. Many of them hasn't actually Puukangas as surname because in Western Finland people changed their surnames when they moved from a farm to another.

Re: Finnish Immigrants

beachtraveler9 — 2009-02-15 19:20:17Z

The Tobias Puukangas I have was born in 1825 and was married to Brita Hyyppa. He was my great-great-great grandfather. It's too bad that Kalvia is so far from Helsinki, because I'll be in Helsinki in December. From what I understand, it's about 6 hours by car/train....too far for a day trip. How are you related to Tobias?

How cool that you actually have a picture of the Puukangas farm! Is it still in the family? I'd love to visit it someday. My grandmother will be so excited to see this picture. She's getting very old and losing some of her faculties, and she often regresses into speaking Finnish. Unfortunately, neither my mother or I speak any Finnish other than the swearing we learned from her ;-) Actually, I am trying to learn some basic Finnish for my trip later this year. Kiitos for this information. I'd love to hear more if you have any other information for me.

Re: Finnish Immigrants

sukututkija110 — 2009-02-15 16:15:11Z

Hello from Finland!

I find your post when I googled the name Puukangas. I think that your Tobias Puukangas is either a brother or an uncle of my ancestor in direct paternal line. Is your Tobias born in 1825 or in 1848?

Kälviä is the name of the parish and pitäjä means just "parish". Vaasa means "the province of Vaasa". Kälviä was part of that province and Vaasa was the province's capital.

You can find information about Kälviä from the Wikipedia Article.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4lvi%C3%A4.

Here is also a picture of the Puukangas farm in Kälviä:
http://ww.kalvia.fi/kultt/Kuvat2/210puuk.jpg

Re: Finnish Immigrants

beachtraveler9 — 2009-01-20 04:27:28Z

Yeah, I tried that. Thanks though.

Re: Finnish Immigrants

KParr48 — 2009-01-19 12:37:59Z

I would try to google the name. I have been having luck with google. Enter the name and country when you google.

Re: Finnish Immigrants

beachtraveler9 — 2009-01-18 22:07:23Z

I'm trying to find out where Vaasalanni, Kalvia Pitaja is in Finland. According to the geneology documents I have, my great-great grandfather was from there, yet I can't find any mention of the location online. I can find both Vaasa and Pitaja, but they appear to be in different regions. Is it possible that the names of those places have been changed since 1853? Great-great grandfathers name was Tobias Puukangas and great-great grandmother was Liisa Hyyppa. Any help is appreciated!

Re: Finnish immigrants

csnkibbie — 2008-10-11 23:48:14Z

Thank you so much for posting this website. I went there and was able to find when my grandmother got her passport and also 4 of her brothers. I'm still looking to find her parents and sisters.
Just a note for fellow researchers: Remember to read Introductions. Introductions give important information regarding the database you are searching.
Thanks again, Staffan.
Sincerely,
Char Kibbie

Brita Johanna Pirttisalo

tiinasaxberg — 2008-03-31 19:26:29Z

I'm seeking an information about our relative.
My great grandmother Brita Johanna was born on 16th of January 1873.
Her father's name was Kalle Kustaanpoika Badstubacka (later
Pirttisalo) and her mother's name was Maija Liisa Matintytär.

She left her 4-year-old son (Hugo Ilmari was my grandfather)
and her life in Finland behind.

She left Kälviä, Finland on 8th of April 1902, on that time she was 29 years old. She travelled (by American Line) to North-America, Painesville Ohio.

After that we know nothing about her. Recently my two aunts
told that their mother (my grandmother) said many years ago
that Brita Johanna had got married. Is that true, we don't know.

We would be so happy if we found our relatives in the USA.

Best Regards, Tiina Saxberg (maiden name Pirttisalo)

Re: Finnish Immigrants

LSULLIVAN138 — 2007-04-04 04:29:15Z

Sir,
I'm looking for parish name for kortesjarvi. A William Erickson supposed to be born there emigrated to US in 1888-9. Thanks for any help, oh, also church for Kurikka.
lsullivan

Finnish immigrants

@@staffan.storteir@e-brev.nu — 2006-11-20 20:48:42Z

Hello list!

I can't find any messages at this board , so I will add a link to a site where you can find many pages about Finnish immigrants and resources for researching emigration from Finland.

Regards,
Staffan
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Emigration - immigration: Emigrant ships & passenger lists from Finland and Scandinavia
http://sydaby.eget.net/swe/emi_intro.htm

Re: Finnish Immigrants

@@staffan.storteir@e-brev.nu — 2006-11-20 20:48:42Z

The name is obviously Hungarian. I searched it earlier but now I can't find my search results. I'll try to return to your query later on.

Regards,
Staffan

Re: Finnish Immigrants

@@staffan.storteir@e-brev.nu — 2006-11-20 20:48:42Z

Kathleen,

The Finnish and Hungarian people and languages are related. They branched off from a common Proto-Uralic origin quite long ago however so one can't find many similar words today. Please see for instance ´WHERE DO FINNS COME FROM? ´ http://sydaby.eget.net/swe/jp_finns.htm

Please try the Hungary Genealogy Forum http://genforum.genealogy.com/hungary where I for instance see the name Lajos Reich whom I have earlier been in touch with.

Google search reveals that the name Csurolyai occurs in Sweden but I suggest they are descendants of Hungarian immigrants.

Best regards,
Staffan

Re: Finnish Immigrants

2005-01-24 00:59:00Z

Staffan:::Again I thank you for all of your information. I will try all of these web sites and try to find my Grandmother. Sometimes I dont think she had a last name. I do no that
there are 2 names I am looking for and that is Janos or Marton
Csuroylai ( its supposed to sound like scissorly). I just cant
find them. Again thank you for your time.

Great appreciation
Kathleen Parr

Re: Finnish Immigrants

AliciaKMarshall — 2005-01-22 15:34:22Z

Hello
Sorry that I am unable to help you with your surname. Perhaps you need to post on another board and a native of that county can help you with the spelling.
If you post her married name (full) and husbands name and any of the children it would be helpful in lookups. Also where they lived in the U.S. A.
alicia

Re: Finnish Immigrants

2005-01-22 01:53:07Z

I am just looking everywhere, I am having a hard time finding
my Grandmother so a few people said to try The Baltics
I have heard that Finnish is also a part of Hungarian Language.
Maybe they were wrong but at least they helped me try.
Rudabanya,Hungary or Slovakia. It is possible to be born
in Finland or the Baltics and still be Hungarian. Magdolna
Csurolyai, Father, possibly Janos or Martin Csuroylai and Mother is Maria Radyai. Thank you for taking the time to read and reply.

Thank you
Kathleen Parr

Re: Finnish Immigrants

2005-01-22 01:43:57Z

Thank you for taking the time to search for me I really appreciate it. Was'nt part of the Hungarian language Finnish
or Baltic ? I will be waiting for you to get back to me, take your time.

Thank you
Kathleen Parr

Re: Finnish Immigrants

AliciaKMarshall — 2005-01-19 16:18:23Z

Hi,
that is the worst spelling of a Finnish name that I have seen.
:O) What was her husbands name etc. where they lived.
alicia

Re: Finnish Immigrants

KParr48 — 2005-01-01 00:05:12Z

Staffan:::I too am looking for Finnish Immigrants and I cannot get anywhere but I wont give up. I am looking for my Grandmother Magdolna Radai Csurolyai. Does that sound Finnish to you ? I would appreciate any info.

Thank you,
Kathleen Parr