Terjärv Emigration
By Ole Granholm, Österbottningen newspaper, 2 Feb 2003.Translated by June Pelo. A search of the church archives reveals that 1,800 Terjärv residents emigrated to the United…
Genealogy
Korpilainen Homestead in Korplax Village, Karleby Parish
By Hans-Erik Krokfors; Asst. Professor of Marketing at Åbo (Turku) Finland. Krokfors special hobby is genealogy in Karleby Parish, and he has a database of over…
Warg Family in Gamlakarleby
By Leo Nyholm, Genos 1997, Vol. 4.I thank TM Helvi Ukkola who negotiated completion of the information, and Helge Smedjebacka of Terjärv who kindly gave me…
Ådjers Family of Michigan—Sought & Found Roots in Lappfjärd
Written by Rita Nordström for the Norden Newspaper 20 Nov 1997. Translated by June Pelo. At the end of September [1997] the Ådjers family in Lappfjärd received…
Clerical Surveys—Parish Records
Written by June Pelo, based on her personal notes. The Swedish Church Law of 1686 required parish ministers to keep a record of everyone who attended…
Sorting Out Grandpa—A Deep Dive into Deception
By Maggie Backman PattersonRead more family history uncovered by Maggie Patterson in the article Sofia’s Story. “Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it.”[1] So said…
Roots of Swedish Genealogy
Tre Kronor Castle For mankind daunting questions have long baffled us. Who are we? Why are we here? What happens after life? And where did we…
Reunion with Wisconsin guests at Småbönders
Written by Anette Forsstrom for the Norden, August 5, 2004. Translated by June Pelo. Descendants of Ingvald and Gerda Storbacka Gather Jannis farm is located at…
Nyberg Family
By June Pelo. One of my major genealogy discoveries came as a result of a visit to cousins in Michigan. Because of my interest in genealogy,…
Johan Richard Nyström
By June Pelo. Several months ago I received an e-mail request from a family in Finland, for help in finding descendants of their relative Johan Richard…
Vörå Descendant Finds His Roots
By Maria Holmström, Helsingfors for Norden, 2 March 2000. Submitted by June Pelo. Most Finlanders have some relatives in the US. While some have had contact with…
Swedish Medical Dictionary
By June Pelo From time to time someone will ask me to translate the Swedish words pertaining to illness and death that they find in records…
