You can find very much information from the website of Finnish National Board of Education (Opetushalitus):
http://www.oph.fi/english/services/recognition
Information about qualification requirements in libraries you can find here, but unfortunately just in Finnish and Swedish:
http://www.minedu.fi/OPM/Kirjastot/kirjastoalan_koulutus/?lang=fi
Olemme tarkistaneet hakuteoksesta Kuvataiteilijat 1991 kaikki P-kirjaimella alkavat sukunimet: ei yhtään taiteilijaa, jonka ristimänimi olisi Armas. Sen sijaan R-kirjaimella alkavista löytyi yksi Armas: Kaarlo Armas Raunio, syntynyt 20.4.1911 Helsingissä. Hänellä on ollut näyttely USA:ssa vuonna 1972, paikkakunta Lakeover Bedford Hill. Tämä ehdotuksemme on tietenkin arvailua, mutta jos Raunio ei sovi kokonaisuuteen, niin kysykää uudelleen. - Possibly the artist you are searching is Armas Raunio, b. 20.4.1911 Helsinki.
Concerning your request about books about Finland, I here found you some books consisting, history, finnish society and architectual sights.
Finland : a cultural guide / Pirkko-Liisa Louhenjoki-Schulman, Kaius Hedenström [Kantele] : Aava Books, 2005 (Vammala : Vammalan kirjap.) ISBN 952-5490-00-9
Finland / Roger Connah/ London : Reaktion Books, 2005
ISBN 1-86189-250-0
Art in Finland from the Middle Ages to the present day / [Bengt von Bonsdorff .. et al.] ; [translation: Hildi Hawkins, Jüri Kokkonen [Helsinki] : Schildt, 2000
ISBN 951-50-1116-7
Towards a networked Finland : the Information Society Council's report to the Finnish government : february 2005 / [English translation by Hanna Liikala] [Helsinki] : The Prime Minister's Office,…
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.
There is no special library dedicated to Tove Jansson, but in Tampere You can study Tove Jansson's Moomin works in a special museum called The Tampere Art Museum - Moomin Valley. The Museum is situated in the Tampere main library and it has a collection of Tove Jansson drawings and miniature works. More info on page
http://www.tampere.fi/muumi/english/index.htm.
The Exhibition even has a small database (in finnish) of the contents of Moomin books.
The Finnish Institute for Children's Literature -
Documentation and Information Centre for Finnish Children's Literature collects the works of finnish children's authors and also the studies and reference works. This Institute is also here in Tampere (http://www.tampere.fi/kirjasto/sni/sneinfo.…
The book where you can find this poem is written by Valerie Stalder. Legends and folktales of Lappland. London/Oxford, Mowbrays, 1972 ISBN 0-264-64582-0
(6. What the months say to each other in Lappland, s. 29-32)
Hope this helps you. The tale about the months is written in many books in Sami language. The very first time it was published by J. K. Qvigstad in: Lappiske eventyr og sagn, 1929.
The parish records are the main information sources for genealogists in Finland. Our church legislation resticts however the free use of information concerning events from the 20th century, so
it can be difficult to find information about a person who was born so recently as your mother must have been.
You will probably anyway find something of interest on the HisKi- Church Records database on the Genealogical Society's webbsite, if your search concerns ancestors born more than a hundred years ago. The adress is http://www.genealogia.fi/index.php?lang=en
Please don't hesitate to turn to the Genealogical Society for help. You can also send a request to the Population Register Centre in Helsinki. Their adress is:
http://www.…
Searching the online catalogue of Tampere university and using the search words ‘Scandinavian party system’ gives you one result:
- Berglund, Sten: The Scandinavian party system(s): a comparative study, Lund:Studentlitteratur,1978
Seaching in internet you'll have more relevant search results by using search maschines for scientific information only like the Scirus (http://www.scirus.com/ ) or Google Scolar (http://scholar.google.com/) and using the search words ‘Scandianvian party system’ or 'Finnish party system’ etc.
One article dealing with the Finnish political system you’ll find at the address
http://www.soc.utu.fi/en/studying/programmes/TheFinnishPoliticalSystem…
There are even more results for this search. You can try it.
Helpful…
There is a presentation of the Finnish legal system on the www-site of the Ministry of Justice Finland http://www.om.fi/711.htm. After the ratification the law has to be published in the Statutes of Finland for to come in to force.
You can search and read the translations of the Statutes in the FINLEX database http://finlex.om.fi/ensaadkaan
The law in force is also found in Finnish and in Swedish in the publication Suomen Laki (The Laws of Finland) annually published by the the Finnish Federation of Layers.
If you are interested in the legislative work of the Finnish Parliament you will find some information on the www-site http://www.eduskunta.fi/efakta/index01.htm Besides the printed volumes the parliament documents are published in the…
The nearest public library is Helsinki city library and the Töölö branch library, at Topeliuksenkatu 6, 00250 Helsinki.
Check our website at
http://www.lib.hel.fi/en-GB/toolo/yhteystiedot/
for contact information and public transport.
You will also find opening hours there.
In principal the answer is ’yes’. According to the new Language Act that came into force on 1 January 2004 state authorities and municipal authorities are obliged by law always to serve in both Finnish and Swedish.
In the following some extracts from description of the law by the Ministry of Justice, Finland:
“Everyone shall have the right to use Finnish or Swedish at their own option in their contacts with authorities. … This, however, does not mean that all employees must master both languages. In practice the authorities can act in the way they consider most appropriate with regard to their own duties. If, for instance, there are several service points, different service points can provide service in different languages. Another…
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…
There are a large number of books that play with the short mysteries genre sometimes called mini-mysteries, where the reader is asked to solve a mystery. Consequently, without any more detailed information about the specific book you are looking for it is fairly difficult to offer an exact answer. Here are a few possible candidates: "Two-minute Mysteries" by Donald Sobal; "You're the Detective!: Twenty-Four Solve-Them-Yourself Picture Mysteries" by Lawrence Treat; "You Be The Jury" by Marvin Miller; "Almost Perfect Crimes: Mini-Mysteries For You To Solve" by Hy Conrad.
One possible option would be to try online retail book sellers (Amazon.com or Barnes&Noble.com for example) and search for the availablity of the above titles. These…
Taivalkoski in the north-east of Finland is a small community with only some 6000 inhabitants.
Many of the names in Taivalkoski are of Lappish origin. For instance Jurmu, the name of your ancestor, is a Lappish word for a deep basin in a river.
For finding out about your ancestors please contact the Genealogical Society of Finland at http://www.genealogia.fi/indexe.htm
Professor Jouko Vahtola at the University of Oulu has written about the history of Pudasjärvi, Taivalkoski and Jokijärvi. His e-mail address is jouko.vahtola@oulu.fi
Parts of Kalle Päätalo's autobiographical novel series about Iijoki and Koillismaa are probably translated and they might be possible for you to get a hold on. You can contact the library of Taivalkoski…
Heikki Klemetti, a finnish composer, was born in Kuortane February 14th 1876. His father was Herman Klemetti and mother Eva Lovisa Vettberg. He married Armi Hämäläinen (born April 12th 1885) in 1908, she was a daughter of Lauri Hämäläinen and Emma Fredrika Kekoni. Heikki Klemetti died in Helsinki August 26th 1953.
More information about Heikki Klemetti can be found on the following web-site of Finnish Music Information Centre
http://www.fimic.fi/contemporary/composers/klemetti+heikki
There are articles about Klemetti in finnish, I didn't find any in english.
You can find information about Finnish Family History Research on http://members.aol.com/DSSaari/
Language Café in Entresse Library (Espoon keskus) is held every every Tuesday 5.30 pm. Last meeting on 30.5. The number of participants is not Limited, so there is always place for You. Participation is free of charge.
In the link below You find more information about the Language Cafes in Helmet-library.
Welcome to practise Your Finnish!
http://www.helmet.fi/download/noname/%7B3C32D483-CDD1-4C72-9EB1-2B98880…
http://www.helmet.fi/download/noname/%7B5C5AB153-3FB8-4921-8724-4D096C5…
http://www.helmet.fi/fi-FI/Kirjastot_ja_palvelut/Entressen_kirjasto/Tap…
Espoo city library gives information in adress http://www.espoo.fi/kirjasto/ . You can choose English language and You'll find links "Using our service", "Libraries" etc.
Your question is quite difficult 'cause there are a lot of barbeque sauce creators in Minnesota.
One of the most famous is John Michaels who was the National Beef Cook-Off winner in the year 1988.
I found some full-text articles of son preference in the EBSCO article database. I'll email them to you each separately. In the union catalog of the Finnish university libraries LINDA there were following references:
Thomson, Elizabeth: Gender and the value of children. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988
Stattin, Håkan: The short- and the long-term implications for parent-child relations of parents' prenatal preferences for their... Stockholm : University of Stockholm, 1989
Stattin, Håkan: Delinquency as related to parents' preferences for their child's gender : a research. Stockholm : University of Stockholm, 1989
And some article references from the medical database Medscape:
Marleau JD, Berthiaume M, Saucier JF,…
