Published June 6, 2025 | Version v1
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Finnish migration records 1800–1920 (automatically extracted from church books)

  • 1. ROR icon University of Helsinki
  • 2. TurkuNLP, University of Turku, Finalnd
  • 3. EDMO icon University of Turku, Department of Biology
  • 4. TurkuNLP, University of Turku, Finland

Description

A dataset of automatically extracted migration records from Finnish church books. The dataset contains a total of 6.2 million records from 2,781 books from 468 parishes.

We thank Finland’s Family History Association for providing the original digitized images. Part of the images are publicly available on their website, some are available only for their memebrs.

Publication under review.

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