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I have been able to find out much information about my great-great-great grandmother but am interested to see if I can find out more information. Her parents die when she is very young, by age 11, and she becomes a service person and migrates from Eura to Säkylä at age 15 with an older woman (lines ...

Yes, I understand about the clerical errors. My great grandmother was 11 years younger than her husband and the priests almost always recorded this as just one year, shifting the birth year. But I could always find a later record that would correct it to the proper date. It's almost as if up to a ce...

Yes, that looks like the most promising lead so far. I'm not sure why the birth date gets scrambled. My Henric does meet his first wife at the Ehla farm, but by then his birth date has changed. I don't understand why someone would change their birth date, haven't come across this before. The dates a...

I have found 4 out of the 5 children's records but not having any success to Henric's family. The Sparf family is noted in the 1883 baptism, but I can't read Swedish to find out if this is any help. Searching Hiski doesn't turn up any Henric Jöransson born in Säkylä in 1745. Here are the baptism rec...

Actually now that I look at the list of maids/farmhands the second from the bottom is the woman he marries, Elin Henricsdotter 25 June 1757 who dies 26 May 1790 at the age of 32. So they met on the Ehla farm as workers.

Interesting -- the birth dates are listed in such perfect chronological order I thought it was a family grouping of some sort. Usually when I see the maids and farmhands the dates are all random. Yes, my great-great grandmother was on her own at age 11 when her mother died -- her father died a few y...

I had come across the record for Henric Jöranssen that you reference https://www.sukuhistoria.fi/sshy/sivut/jasenille/paikat.php?bid=27468&pnum=73 But I don't understand why the parents aren't listed with the children. They don't appear to belong to the family above them -- perhaps they were orphans...

I should have included this with the first one it's where he lived in Kirri Dragon

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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...