{"id":612,"date":"2014-09-25T10:41:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T17:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=612"},"modified":"2014-09-25T10:43:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T17:43:57","slug":"a-story-without-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"A Story Without an End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/092514_1741_AStoryWitho1.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Every year for Christmas I write a bit about some ancestor I have studied over the year. Of course this year I will choose Finns because I have worked on that line this year, even traveling to Finland.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I have in mind to write biographical sketches of my four Finnish great-great grandparents, but I am facing a problem with this. I cannot complete their stories.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">As far as l know, these people, Antti Mattila, Elisabeth Myllynen, Matti Lampinen, and Anna Miettinen, remained in Finland throughout their lives. I must use the Finnish records to do the research on them.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For reasons unknown to me, the available online records end with the 1880&#8217;s. Only Anders Mattila had died by then, in 1882. The others passed away after that, but those records remain closed to me. I hate this loose end, but what can I do?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">No family records kept this information, and no one else&#8217;s online family tree provides a clue.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I do have one other less-than-ideal option. The LDS library does have rarely-used microfiche copies of the Finnish Communion books. These books listed Finnish families and tracked which confirmed Lutherans took communion over the course of several years. A death during the time period was so noted. I could look there.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The LDS digitization project has not gone this far, so I must look at the actual microfiche to see if I can find the information I need. To do this, I could either rent the fiche for viewing at my local Family History Library or travel to Salt Lake to view them there.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I cannot take a trip to Salt Lake this fall. For now, I will add this source to my white board list of records to search. I will have to do some additional research before I can identify just which parish microfiche to order.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Christmas is coming, and I would like to finish my stories.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year for Christmas I write a bit about some ancestor I have studied over the year. Of course this year I will choose Finns because I have worked on that line this year, even traveling to Finland. I have in mind to write biographical sketches of my four Finnish great-great grandparents, but I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finland","category-genealogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}