It´s necessary in this case to visit your Library, you´ll get there your new card and PIN-code. Welcome to any of our Libraries. Take tour ID-card with you.
Documents older than 100 years are digitised by the National Archives of Finland.
For newer documents, you need to ask from the church registry from the right parish. The Geneological Society of Finland has tips on their website.
Have you tried sites like MyHeritage or Geni yet? Perhaps a relative has already started a research on your family.
Good luck and hope you find your relatives!
The best way would be to participate in a Finnish course or a Finnish Club. You could try to find out if there is such activity in your home region. Here is a list of Suomi-koulut, your can check if you find help there, https://suomikoulut.fi/mika-on-suomi-koulu/maailmalla-toimivat-suomi-ko…. You could also search for Finnish Courses online. Here is a collection of webmaterial for Finnish Studies, https://www.makupalat.fi/fi/k/all/hae?f%5B0%5D=field_asiasanat%3A66571&…;
Many libraries in Helsinki have digital or acoustic pianos which can be booked for practice. To see the listing, go to helmet.finna.fi, click Libraries, open the pull-down menu Search for a service, and enter Piano in the search box. Most of the pianos can be booked through varaamo.hel.fi. This search shows the available resources with pianos. To log in, you will need to create a Helsinki profile or use the Suomi.fi identification. Some services will require you to check in with the staff first, others do not. Please read the description of and instructions for the resource you are booking carefully.Your library card works in all the Helmet libraries in all four municipalities.
You can find information on the Rolf Nevanlinna prizes on the Internet. For example use Google (www.google.com) and search for "Rolf Nevanlinna prize" or "Rolf Nevanlinna palkinto". Both searches return many links to Internet sites that mention the prize. The web site for Fields medals and Rolf Nevanlinna Prize (http://elib.zib.de/IMU/medals/) tells the history of the Rolf Nevanlinna prize and gives information on the prize winners.
The best way to find out about Finnish name days is to buy yourself a calendar or an almanac that has a list of Finnish male and female names. The Finnish almanac has 361 Finnish female names and 354 Finnish male names; the Swedish almanac version has 263 female names and 264 male names. Most names the Finnish use can be found on the almanac, but some new ones cannot be found on almanacs, these names do not have an official name day at all. You will find calendars and almanacs e.g. in bookshops. If you want to learn more about Finnish names, you might take a look at http://www.eponym.org/hq.html There are many Finnish name links and also a pronunciation guide. A fairly good web page is also http://www.genealogia.fi/nimet/nimi36qs.htm…
Finnish companies can be searched in Blue Book company director: http://www.bluebook.helsinkimedia.fi/en/main.html > Select Security > Search > Free text search. Search terms: alarm devices; access control; burglar alarm devices.
A leading Finnish company in the field is Securitas Tekniikka Oy. Their home page on the net (http://www.securitas.fi ) is only in Finnish, but their record in Blue Book is also in English (http://www.bluebook.helsinkimedia.fi/en/tuotteet/haku/ostoop_security.h… ).
Internet address worth checking: http://autopedia.com/html/Alarm.html, title of the site: Alarms and Security Devices.
Google search engine (http://www.google.com ) gives relevant links with the above search terms, also terms like security…
You can find Joensuu schools and educational services through homepage of Joensuu city in internet: http://www.jns.fi/eng/index.html and there you see "services". There is information about The Center of Educational Services, If you press the arrow, you can have pages of different schools in Joensuu.
Other North Karelian towns and communes and there educational services you can find through "Province of Karelia: The homepages of the towns".
Different homepages of North Karelian companies you find through the same page: take "companies".
Other homepages of North Karelian companies you can find through the pages of Joensuu Science Park:
http://www2.carelian.fi/en/main.php .
The e-mail address of the office of employment services in Joensuu…
Finlands national anthem is called "Maamme", that is "Our Land" in English. The song is composed by Fredrik Pacius and the lyrics are written by J. L. Runeberg (originally a poem in the Swedish language; Finnish translation by Paavo Cajander). Nowadays everybody sings it in his/her mother tongue, but as 93 % of the Finns have Finnish as their mother tongue, the Finnish version is heard more often. Here are the Finnish words:
Oi maamme, Suomi, synnyinmaa,
soi sana kultainen!
Ei laaksoa, ei kukkulaa,
ei vettä rantaa rakkaampaa
kuin kotimaa tää pohjoinen,
maa kallis isien.
Sun kukoistukses kuorestaan
kerrankin puhkeaa;
viel lempemme saa nousemaan
sun toivos, riemus loistossaan,
ja kerran laulus, synnyinmaa,
korkeemman kaiun saa.
Originally…
You will find our bibliographic database directly at http://www.libplussa.fi/#en or through our home page (
http://www.lib.hel.fi/english/index.html ) by clicking "Books & other materials".
Start by choosing the city where you usually use public libraries. This will lead you to the "Basic search".
If you are looking for material about a certain topic, choose "Subject heading or class" and type your search word. Unfortunately the subject headings should be written in Finnish, because our bibliographic records are in Finnish. If you have any basic knowledge of Finnish (or a Finnish dictionary!) you can check the correct terms at http://vesa.lib.helsinki.fi/ . In the title search you can also use search words in English (use the…
There's a good starting point for your thesis on the site of the Ministry of Education:
http://www.minedu.fi/minedu/culture/library/public_libraries.html
There are also two shorter articles on the Internet that I believe you should check out. One is under the address http://www.uwasa.fi/~sukkula/juhlakirja/english.html
and written by Ilkka Mäkinen. The article
will provide you with a historical perspective. The other one is under
http://www.lib.hel.fi/julkaisut/media.html
and concerns the situation today.
There are also books on the subject, for instance:
Finnish public libraries in the 20th century. You can find more books on our database
http://www.helmet.fi/screens/opacmenu.html
Scottsdale public library has listed some books for 6th-graders: http://library.ci.scottsdale.az.us/kids/grade6.htm .
Some schools have made their own lists of recommended literature, for example http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/northbethesdams/lmp_reading.htm .
Some book pulblishers have also listed their suggestions: http://www.hedgehogbooks.com/cgi-local/cart/grade.cgi?grade=6 .
It’s not difficult to find more in the Internet using any search engine by using such search terms as ‘book lists’ and ‘6th grade’.
In Helsinki City Library librarians have listed book tips for each grade: http://www.lib.hel.fi/lastensivut/listat.htm#ya They are in Finnish, but there are some originally English books on the list for 5th and 6th grade pupils:…
There are two books that both have a recipe of blood dumplings, which are made of reindeer blood.
The books are Arctic à la carte and Tapio Sointu's Lapland à la carte.
You can ask for them at your nearest library.
You may have no more than 40 items on loan at the same time. Of these, 20 can be CD's, 5 video cassettes, 5 DVDs and 5 CD ROMs.
You can renew a loan 5 times(also via Internet) if the material has not been reserved by somebody else.
Perhaps you can find a suitable answer to this question in an article in About.com- portal, address . The Articles address is
In this Article (May 06, 2004) it is said that the most expensive piece of art ever, a painting by Picasso, namely "Boy with a Pipe", has been sold for a new record price, for $104 million at an auction at Sotheby's in New York. In this Article you will also find information about the circumnstances surrounding this painting.
There's a great deal of information about our log house industry to be found on the Internet, but unfortunately a shortage of books on the subject. Please try the following links:
Wood Focus Finland at
http://www.woodfocus.fi
Do try their free word search under "Links".
The Centre of Expertise for Wood Products at www.puusuomi.fi
There's a database for finding manufacturers on the finnish sites only.
The WoodFinland Programme at
http://www.puuoske.com
For statistics contact the Statistics Finland, the address on the Net is
http://tilastokeskus.fi/index_en.html
To trace someone in Finland try to find that person's address on the Population Register Centre's database. Browse their homepages on http://www.vaestorekisterikeskus.fi/vrk/home.nsf/pages/index_eng.
Our data protection legislation permits everyone to
to forbid the disclosure of his or her personal information by the population registration system for purposes such as direct advertising, so you might not find the information your want. The access to other public records is restricted also.
You may still find the portal for public sector services useful. Try the index on the upper right side of the page. The address is http://www.suomi.fi/english/
Have you already visited websites of Helsinki City Library (http://www.lib.hel.fi/?_lang_id=EN )? There is quite a lot of information on the subject of your inquiry.
Information about databases for customers' use you'll find here
http://www.lib.hel.fi/page.asp?_item_id=2289 .
The list of databases and book catalogues is on this site http://www.lib.hel.fi/page.asp?_item_id=2515 .
About computers and other equipment:
http://www.lib.hel.fi/page.asp?_item_id=2287 . Check especially the link "workstations".
About the library system used in Helsinki metropolitan area libraries:
http://toimintakertomus.lib.hel.fi/toimintakertomus2003/EN/page4464.htm…
