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The passport list database is based on the passport lists of county governments and city registries from the late 19th century to 1920. This is an incomplete, continuing project. At this writing, there were more than 100,000 records still unsaved. | The passport list database is based on the passport lists of county governments and city registries from the late 19th century to 1920. This is an incomplete, continuing project. At this writing, there were more than 100,000 records still unsaved. | ||
==Moving Records (''Muuttaneet/Muuttokirjat; Flyttningslängder/Flyttningsbetyg'')== | |||
Moving records can help you trace a family as they moved around Finland. You can find moving records in several sources. | |||
===Communion Books=== | |||
*'''1670-1917:''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61627/ Finland, Communion Books, 1670-1917] at Ancestry ($), index and images | |||
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Ministers used the communion books to note individuals and families who moved into or out of the parish. | |||
===Moving Certificates=== | |||
By the late 1700s some parishes began to issue moving certificates [muuttokirjat/flyttningsbetyg] to persons leaving the parish. These certificates identified the persons to their new minister and were chronologically archived in the new parish. | |||
The certificates usually included the following information about a person: | |||
*Name | |||
*Birth date and birthplace | |||
*Occupation | |||
*Marital status | |||
*Reading ability | |||
*Knowledge of religion | |||
*Worthiness to partake of the communion | |||
*Character reference | |||
*Vaccination information | |||
*Place where the person was registered for taxation | |||
If a whole family moved, the certificate generally contained at least the name of each family member. | |||
===Arrival and Removal Records=== | |||
In the 1800s parishes began using special [[Scandinavia Moving In and Moving Out|arrival and removal records]] (sisään- ja ulosmuuttaneet; seurakuntaan ja seurakunnasta muuttaneet/in- och utflyttningslängder). These records, which are frequently essential to family history research, chronologically list the people who moved into or out of the parish. | |||
The records give the following information about a person: | |||
*Name | |||
*Occupation | |||
*Parish moved to or from | |||
*Previous or subsequent residence in the parish. In more recent records, the residence is indicated by the page number in the communion book. | |||
*The records sometimes list: | |||
*Age or date of birth | |||
*Religious knowledge | |||
*Character reference | |||
*Gender | |||
Wives and children may not be mentioned by name, only as numbers in a separate column. | |||
==For Further Reading== | ==For Further Reading== | ||
Many additional sources are listed in the FamilySearch catalog: | Many additional sources are listed in the FamilySearch catalog: | ||