Kirjasampo-service has made a list of historical novels for youngsters in 2017, which concentrates on books about Finnish history and only has titles published after 2000. It has some titles from authors like Maijaliisa Dieckmann and Leena Laulajainen, who have written several books on different periods of history even before that date.
Espoo city library librarians Hakala and Valtonen have made the included pdf-list of books about history this spring.
Hope she finds interesting reads from these!
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&….
Statistics Finland compiles the official statistics concerning whole Finland.
Their main page: http://www.tilastokeskus.fi/index_en.html
Income and Consumption (includes household expenditures): http://www.tilastokeskus.fi/tk/tp/tasku/taskue_tulot.html
Housing (includes average rents of rented dwellings): http://www.tilastokeskus.fi/tk/tp/tasku/taskue_asuminen.html
Prices and costs (includes selected food prices):
http://www.tilastokeskus.fi/tk/tp/tasku/taskue_hinnat.html
Finland in figures, all kinds of statistics about everyday life in Finland: http://www.tilastokeskus.fi/tk/tp/tasku/suomilukuina_en.html
The pages above give information on the whole Finland. Statistics concerning Helsinki are compiled by Tietokeskus (http://www.hel.…
There are some Danish courses in English in the public libraries:
Jones, W. Glyn : Colloquial Danish--a complete language course. 1998 Danish phrase book / compiled by Lexus Ltd with Gert Ronberg. 1998
Garde, Anna: Danish dictionary--English-Danish--Danish-English. 1995 |
Scandinavian phrase book & dictionary. 1995
Elsworth, Bente: Danish--a complete course for beginners . 1994
The availability of these courses you can check in this Internet adress: http://www.libplussa.fi/#en
The band Trouble Bound Cospel http://www.lpg.fi/badvugum/ was in Bad Vugum, it is an Internet store for records. Bad Vugum B O X 3 6 2, 9 0 1 0 1 O U L U, F I N L A N D phone / fax: + 358-(0)8-274 910 e-mail: badvugum@sgic.fi Outside Europe the Postage and packaging is -250g USD 4 and -500g USD6.http://www.lpg.fi/badvugum/prices.html#WORLD
There's a lot of information about the Alexander Palace on internet, try for example these addresses: http://www.alexanderpalace.org/ or even better you can go straight to http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/mainpage.html. http://eng.tzar.ru/alexander includes also floorplans of the palace.
http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/designs/intro.html could also interest you.
You can search items in Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen city libraries' common bibliographics database Plussa http://www.libplussa.fi/#en Select the search type for subject heading and type aids. Also select display material in english.
Here are some examples Duesberg, Peter: AIDS--the good news is HIV doesn't cause it. Rimer, Robert A.: HIV+--working the system. Johnson, Earvin: What you can do to avoid AIDS.
I didn't quite understand the question but if you are interested in books that tell about virtual libraries and their development in general you might want to check books conserning library science (called "kirjastotiede" in finnish). For example these books tell about the subject:
- Borgman, Christine L.: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure. 2000.
- Laverna M. Saunders (ed.): The Evolving Virtual Library. 1999.
- William Y. Arms: Digital Libraries. 2000.
Virtuaalikirjasto, finnish virtual library, can be found in the Internet http://www.jyu.fi/library/virtuaalikirjasto/engvirli.htm . There is also some general information about virtual libraries (see "Help" and "General instructions"). Other virtual libraries can be…
There are several services that offer penpals in Finland. You could try for instance http://www.penpals.com/
http://www.euro26.org/
http://www.iys.fi/ind2.htm
You can find more useful links by Google http://www.google.com/ by entering search term "penpals".
If you want to reach specially people who are interested in Finnish genealogy you could try the mailing lists of the Genealogical Society of Finland http://www.genealogia.fi/postlist/indexe.htm
You can find Fazer Liqueur Fills and other Fazer candies in Fazer Web Store https://webshop.cloettafazer.fi/fazu/base.cfm?kieli=eng where you can also order the products. The service is available also in English. The products can also be ordered abroad, the pagage will then come in priority mail.
This site has excellent information on hell bank notes in general:
http://www.luckymojo.com/hellmoney.html : “The word Hell was introduced to China … by Christian missionaries who claimed that non-converted Chinese folks were all "going to Hell" when they died -- and the Chinese, thinking "Hell" was the proper English term for the afterlife, adopted the word. Thus, Hell Bank Notes are simply Afterlife Monetary Offerings or Spirit Money. …when people die, their spirits or ghosts go to an afterlife where they continue to live on, doing the same sort of things why did while alive, eating, drinking, wearing clothes, playing with their children, and so forth. In order to ensure that they have lots of good things in the afterlife, their…
Helinä is a popular variation of Helena. It has the same origin as English Helen = Greek Helene, feminine of Helenos "the bright one, shining one".
Finnish writer Santeri Ivalo used Helinä in his historical novel "Juho Vesainen" 1894.
Helinä also means tinkle.
Helsinki City Library is going to organize an international seminar on topic
"Small is beautiful – networking makes us stronger". The seminar will be held in Helsinki. You may get more information during September. The contact person is Kristina Virtanen.
Kristina.Virtanen@hel.fi.
Since 1995 there has been an artotheque in connection with Rikhardinkatu Library in Helsinki. The works of art are lent out on a monthly fee basis. The works can also be bought. The price varies according to the work.
The collection can be looked at on http://www.helsingintaiteilija.net (Taidelainaamo, Nettigalleria)
http://www.taidelainaamo.fi/tl/gallery/
It has been quite hard to define what kind of material You actually need. Reading research is a vast area and the links provided here may or may not be useful.
First, the links to the Internet where You should have a free access from any Internet account:
"The finnish success in PISA and some reasons behind it
PISA 2000"
Authors and Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä
http://www.jyu.fi/ktl/pisa/publication1.pdf
"Literacy Skills for the World of Tomorrow: Further Results from PISA 2000 - Publications 2000"
http://www.pisa.oecd.org/document/21/0,2340,en_32252351_32236159_336886…
"Summary of “Finland Reads” studies from 1989, 1995, and 2003"
Drafted by Yrjö Repo from the reports of Taloustutkimus Oy
http://www.skyry.…
