Finns Abroad
Olavi Koivukangas, Director, Institute of Migration Studies, Åbo. Extracted from “Finland, a Cultural Encyclopedia”. Translated by June Pelo. The greatest emigration among Finns has been to America, Australia and Sweden.… Read More
Olavi Koivukangas, Director, Institute of Migration Studies, Åbo. Extracted from “Finland, a Cultural Encyclopedia”. Translated by June Pelo. The greatest emigration among Finns has been to America, Australia and Sweden.… Read More
By Anders Myhrman, 1972. Excerpted from “Finlandsvenskar i Amerika” (The Finland-Swedes in America) Translation by June Pelo. The number of emigrants from Finland to America during the years 1871-90 was… Read More
From: “Roots in the Past – Seeds for the Future” Published 2001 in Duluth, MN by Clover Valley/French River Community History Committee. June Pelo Eli Johnson was born in Nedervetil,… Read More
Extracts from Journal of Finnish Studies, “Exploring Ostrobothnia” by Mari Niemi. Translated by June Pelo The first Finns and Swedes came to America in the 1600’s when Finland was still… Read More
By Ruth B. Pelo, November 21, 1941. Translated from Swedish by her niece, June Pelo Anders Pelo was born 16 August 1838 in Nedervetil. He married Greta Sofia Skriko, born in Nedervetil 9 December… Read More
This is the story of the life of Aina (Teeri) Maki Nyman, born in Kampinkyla, Kurikka, Finland on 1 January 1907. Aina died at age 85 on 2 August 1992… Read More
“Rödsöboken”, by Ole Granholm English translation by June Pelo The great emigration to North America began at the close of the 1800’s and the beginning of the 1900’s. It was… Read More
June Pelo’s information gleaned from: Excerpts from “Children of Labor: A Finnish-American History” & from author, Mayme Sevander’s three books: “They Took My Father”, “Red Exodus” &, “Of Soviet Bondage”.… Read More
Written by Marlene Sjöblom, published in “Gammalt och Nytt”, Föglö, March 1996. Translated from Swedish by Hjördis Sundblom. Submitted by June Pelo. Image courtesy of the Genealogical Society of Finland… Read More
By June Pelo. Folke Johansson of Karleby, Finland, asked for help in locating information of his grandmother’s brother’s children in America. Matts Leander Mattsson Backa-Bäckman, was born in 1856 in… Read More