Digiarkiston keskustelufoorumi

I've been able to follow my grandfather's line back to Henric Rehn 18 Apr 1745 in Säkylä died 22 Apr 1806 in Iso Säkylä I lose track of him and am wondering if he might be a German soldier with the name like Rehn. Is there anyone that has a way to track him back one more generation to see where he c...

This family has so many twists and turns, its better than a mystery. Turns out Johan's father Erik (yes this is the correct Johan) after marrying a second time and having two more children and adopting one, emigrates to the US July 1 1906 leaving behind at least four children, an adopted child and a...

What? Africa? There's no family stories about that at all, what a possibility for a great story.

I do have access to SSHY so I can look up records, not sure about Africa though!

This is great information -- I'll see if I can get some information from Munsala. The birth date matches up, so its very likely.

Thanks for all the good leads, now I have some research to do.

Yes, that is indeed Jacob's naturalization -- I was hoping he put the Finnish city on it, but no luck. Thank you very much for finding the record, this confirms the date of 1904. He marries Lena shortly after, on Dec 28, 1904 and she lists her Naturalization as 1904 as well. That could very well be ...

That Death Certificate is very confusing to me -- Jacob's wife name was Alina Forsbacka and she was known in the US as Lena Erickson (the family changed their name from Forsbacka to Erickson on immigrating). The death date is approx correct but I have a difficult time changing the Ophelia to Lena. L...

This is great -- now I've been able to fill in Simo Ryösä (Sam Maki in the US) family back to the early 1700's. Still searching for Jacob Nyberg as there are so few Nybergs in Kurkijoki I think this is a dead end. Could Nyberg be a shortening of another Finnish name? For example my family name chang...

That was great information on Kurkijoki matching up with my search on the family relocating from Esse. I thought I was in error as I couldn't make sense of why they would move from their centuries old family home -- Esse -- all the way to the Russian border. All of the Erickson boys die at a very yo...

Our family stories say she went back to visit her father Erik Ericsson who was at that time living in Lapinlaks, Kurkijoki, Vilpuri and perhaps John Jacob's family to show them the new children. It could be that his family was from Kronoborg/Kurkijoki as well. At least we now know that the family mo...

No, not related. I have been able to track the Lena/Alina Forsbacka/Erickson family in Esse back to the early 1700's (a few back to the 1650's), they were well documented in the Communion Books. John Jacob marries in to the family only in the US, and no mention of it that I can find in Finland. She ...

I'm having great difficulty trying to find John Jacob Nyberg in Finland -- he emigrated to the US in 1896, was born around June 28, 1875 according to the dates he used on his American documents (although it sometimes is estimated at 1872). He identifies as Finnish, and his native language as Swedish...