Updated 10 March 2002

Sources and Links

Laaksonen genealogy

1. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, U.S. Social Security Death Index (This data is only accurate as of 30 Sep 2000), and the Family Search. In addition to extensive social security death index files, the site also has an International Genealogical Index and Vital Records Index in addition to numerous links related to genealogy.

2. Finnish Church Records, also genealogia.fi. Genealogia.fi has on-line church records of birth, marriage and death dates over variable time periods for many Finnish parishes. The site also has information on emigration from Finland, genealogy in general and links. If records are not on-line (as is frequently the case), Finnish parish records are very extensive (a genealogist’s heaven). But it can take up to half a year for overworked church clerks to get around to looking for family records in some parishes, our excuse for not having yet extended our ancestor line further back than 1843.

3. Ellis Island Records is maintained by the American Family History Center. Over 22 million persons passed through Ellis Island between 1882 and 1924. This site has attractively packaged information on the passengers, the ships that brought them and even ship manifests.

4. The Institute of Migration is a Finnish emigration research center that provides on-line access to passport records and passenger records over variable time periods for Finns emigrating or traveling abroad.

5. Family Records.

 

Finland, its history and language

1. Virtual Finland is the best on-line introduction to Finland and its language, institutions and culture that I have yet found. The site is maintained by the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

2. Tasavallan presidentin kanslia (the President’s Office): Pictures and information on the current and previous Presidents of Finland.

3. The Finnish Defense Forces have among other things an over-all history of the Finnish Armed Forces and an interesting day-by-day account of the Winter War, with a picture on each page. The account seems to be buried in the site. I found it using the search machine.

4. Pasi Kuopppamäki’s Web History of Finland has a lot of good links in addition to a history of Finland.

5. Professor Ulla-Maija Kulonen of the Department of Finno-Ugrian Studies at the University of Helsinki allowed me to use a shortened version of her excellent text written for Virtual Finland  on Finno-Ugric Languages.

6. The University of Tampere Department of Translation Studies has an interesting article on Finglish by Jenni Tuominen.

7. Genealogia.fi also has an in-depth article on Finglish written by Selma Siiri Sahlman in 1949. 

 

Kaleva

1. Pentti Yli-Jokipii’s thesis on “The cultural geography of Kaleva, a Finnish Immigrant Community in Michigan”, Acta Geographica 22, Societas Geographica Fenniae, Helsinki, 1971, pp 1-24, was a great help in filling in gaps on the history of Kaleva.

2. Kaleva has its own home page (could use a little work, though).

3. Marvin Larson’s Laaksonen Centennial Farm Application, a 71-page compilation of documents, information and pictures on the Laaksonen farm, its owners and Kaleva, was also of great help in writing the history of Kaleva and the Laaksonen farm.

 

Software

1. The free Legacy 3.0 genealogy program was used for data entry and storage. The program allowed easy generation of the Laaksonen pedigree web pages. MicrosoftWord and FrontPage2000 and 2002 were used for editing the pages.

2. TreeDraw for Legacy was used to generate a basic black and white descendent tree chart. The chart was transferred to Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 for editing and then transferred to FrontPage as a picture.

3. FrontPage 2000 and 2002 were used for editing all other web pages.

4. Microsoft PictureIt! and Photo Editor and Ulead Photo Express were used for editing photos.

 

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This Web Site was Created 9 Dec 2001 with Legacy 3.0 from Millennia

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This site was made with the (free) Legacy 3.0 genealogy program, and edited with Word 2000 and FrontPage.

The descendent tree chart was made with TreeDraw for Legacy, PowerPoint and FrontPage.