Helmi Wirtanen Pierson
My mother, Helmi Wirtanen Pierson, could not tell a lie; she was the most honest person we have ever known.
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Edward and Eriika (Karasti) Posio
The second of nine children, Edward immigrated from Posio, Kuusamo parish, at the southern edge of Lapland (now Sampi) in 1906, establishing himself near Chatham,
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Frank and Fanni (Salomaki) Ranta
Immigrants from Finland, Frank Ranta (Fransi Rantala) and Fanni Salomaki, married in Michigan in 1910. Family lore suggests that Frank,
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Jack and Ida Hakkila
The road from their homeland of Finland to Canterbury, Connecticut, was a long, circuitous one for my father, Jack Hakkila, and my mother, Ida Lillquist.
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Jarl Lindfors
I write this in memory of my father, Jarl Lindfors, who was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1887. Because of dire economic conditions in his family,
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Ellen Huusko Lahti
“Tässä ole synnyinmaa, mutta Suomi oli kotimaa,” said 99-year-old Ellen Lahti of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. “This is my land of birth,
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Ruth Viola Hyry
My mother, Ruth Viola Hyry, was born on December 13, 1909 in Champion, Michigan and I, David, one of her two sons,
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August Halme
August Halme (birth name lkonen) and his wife Aina Maria (nee Puranen) first came to America in 1902 to preach the word of God to the immigrants.
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