Emigrant register
The Migration Institute of Finland assists genealogists by keeping the Emigrant register, which includes data on hundreds of thousands of emigrant Finns. The main databases of the register can be accessed on our website.
Finna
Selections of material (such as letters and photographs) from the institute’s Migration Collections are available through the shared Finna search service of Finnish archives, libraries and museums. (NOTE! While the amount of archival material in Finna is still small, it is being added regularly.)
Doria
The Doria Publication Archive provides open access to all the works in the Migration Institute of Finland’s publication series’, articles and presentations by the staff, as well as exhibitions produced by the Institute. These can be browsed and searched by subject, author or year. Also freely available are hundreds of historical publications by expatriate Finns and dozens of articles from Finnish newspapers from the 1800s and 1900s.
Journal.fi
The institute publishes the Siirtolaisuus-Migration quarterly, which is available open access on the Journal.fi platform.
Please send all requests and inquiries regarding the digital materials to the following addresses:
- Archivist: jarno.heinila@migrationinstitute.fi
- Office: info@siirtolaisuusinstituutti.fi
Materials
The Migration Institute of Finland holds diverse materials related to migration flows, a significant portion of which concern Finns living abroad. Some of the materials are available in a…
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Archives
The archives of the Migration Institute
of Finland consist of the Migration Collections and the institute’s own
official archives. The Migration Collections mostly include cultural heritage
and…
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Genealogy / Emigrant Register
The collections of the Migration
Institute of Finland include much individual-level information that can help in
tracking family members who have moved abroad and in finding information…
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Library
The library of the Migration Institute of Finland holds over 10,000 listed publications regarding migration flows and ethnicity. Besides books, the collections include newspapers, periodicals…
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