Digiarkiston keskustelufoorumi

Thank you.
That does all make sense, and in the US he is called Gustaf Adolph Koskela so that also tracks.
So now I will look to see when they actually left and when John actually returned to Finland.

Tim

This page https://www.sukuhistoria.fi/sshy/sivut_eng/jasenille/paikat.php?bid=1777&pnum=512 This page has very small print for the Pietila Koskela family and would like a better hi resolution copy of just that page. My Great Grandfather is Adolf born 6 Nov 1869. I think this says that he left in 189...

I had not considered the patronym when looking at the family. I do see that someone has posted on Geni https://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000016678034278 that Johan Johansson Murto Pesonen's father is Johan Tobiasson Murdo-Pesonen, and mother is Walborg Josephsdr Härmä. I sent an email to Sh...

Who is: pig[a] Bretha, obiit pig[a] Maria ???öm, obiit 1753 in Jan. I can find no Maria in the HisKi death records for 1753 in Tervolan. And these don’t seem to match anyone in Johan’s family. Johan Pesonen (born 1697) was married 3 times per HisKi, 1) Margaret Heinrichdaughter Pyttynen Married 02 A...

I was able to trace the family back. I was able to follow that line back to Johan Murto-Pesoinen born in 1697. Difficulties are now that there are no dates for these early communion records. I can find this family in 1742, but not before as the hand writing has changed which I am working on. http://...

Thank you for your help. I have used HisKi, but need to spend more time with it to trace them back further. I will spend more time with the books and search HisKi to continue my search.

Thank you again.

Kemi Parish. Anders Johansson Pijppo was born on 19 Feb 1803. He is shown in the communion records http://www.sukuhistoria.fi/sshy/sivut_eng/jasenille/paikat.php?bid=1374&pnum=16. He is shown as married with one daughter Anna Maria. He was married on the 28 Mar 1826 http://www.sukuhistoria.fi/sshy/s...