By Marjatta Pulkkinen. Translated by June Pelo. Toward the Vetil River Valley A solitary wanderer shuffled through the backwoods with his knapsack. Along the shore of the river was a…
Excerpts from an article by Jorma Kalliokoski in“A New Journey For North American Finns”, July 1999.June Pelo. One wonders what the first farm house looked like far back in time.…
From Historisk Nedslag, Österbottningen 125 År. English translation by June Pelo. On 11 December 1891 a boy was born in Nedervetil who was named Anders by his father. He never…
By Donald Widjeskog.Norden, 30 May 2010.English translation by June Pelo. When the cold winter is a mere memory, we all set our sights on the coming summer and families with…
Assembled by Elof Sänkas. Norden 21 Apr 2005. Translated by June Pelo. When my mother died in 2000, I found an old American letter from my father’s sister Ellen Kamb…
Finland, always a leader in social distancing, has been named the happiest country in the world for three years running. Our natural inclination to steal away into the forest…
As you know, we are living in difficult and uncertain times. The Coronavirus pandemic is growing exponentially around the world. Here in Seattle we are currently under a stay-at-home order.…
By June Pelo. In the best of all worlds, genealogically, I estimate that one would have about 16,777,216 grandparents going back 25 generations. So I sat down one day and…
Written by Mrs. Sadakichi Bartmann traveling from New York to Paris. Published in the Boston Evening Transcript December 21, 1892.Submitted by June Pelo. This article might provide some insight into…
By Jonathan Riikonen FAR, January 2019 June Pelo When Finland achieved her independence on December 6, 1917, according to Parliament’s manifest the country was a sovereign republic. However, less than…