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Finland-Swedes in Canada

Discovering Some Unknown Finnish Facts. Article published in Siirtolaisuus - Migration, 1/1997, by Mika Roinila.

Finnish Sailors and Soldiers in the American Civil War

Finns on the Titanic

Koiviston H

The Hamalainen's from Koivisto are an old mariner and peasant family. Their history can be traced for hundreds of years back to Karelia. The Hamalainen name has been found in documents, in Koivisto, as far back as the fifteen century.

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Mannerheim, Carl Gustaf Emil, 1867-1951

Biography of the Marshal of Finland, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. Included are pages on the history of Finland and Mannerheims impact on it, Mannerheims career, family, ancestry etc. and also a bibliography on Mannerheimiana containing over 350 referenced works.

The Knowles Collection

The Knowles Collection is group of records on the FamilySearch Community Trees Website. This database originally contained the records of a small section of the Jewish people of the British Isles. That set included less than 10,000 people. What was once a single database, has now grown to be six individual databases that now contain the genealogical records of almost 1.2 million Jewish people: The Jews of the British Isles; The Jews of North America; The Jews of Europe; The Jews of South America and the Caribbean; The Jews of Africa, The Orient and the Middle East; The Jews of the South Pacific. Read more about the collection here: FamilySearch Blog - Popular Online Jewish Genealogy Collection Surpasses One Million Entries

Tracing Scandinavian Latter-day Saints

For researching members of the LDS church from the Scandinavian Mission in the time period of 1852-1868.