good Morning Ian & garstonite (morning where I live!) Thank you to you both for all the help
Thank you again Ian for the look ups
... I spent a lot of time last night looking at the FFHS/Hiski and figured out that the parish of birth given in those trees at MyHeritage had to be wrong for Henrik Oskar or those trees at MyHeritage that I based my assumptions on were wrong! So I am very glad that the those family Trees appeared genuine. Although I am still struggling with how to look up/search on those two Finland websites as the 'surnames' moving backwards are really confusing and hard for me to keep track and then of course using google translate at every turn!.
And garstonite while I am still struggling with how the 'surnames' worked back in the 1800's in Finland are you saying that this particular family, because "Ragnhild" is part of one of their daughters names, that this family was related to the Viking Royalty way back when
You know one of their sons (Jenny Ragnhild's brother) and the one I am the most interested in his 'canadian' name was Allen but apparently he was born Ahto Alen RAGNAIL Pajunen. His birth was 1913 though so not a freebee at the Finnish Records. I thought RAGNAIL sounded Viking for sure when I first saw it.
Well, like you Garstonite I have NEVER, ever in my genealogical travels gotten back to anywhere even close to this if indeed this family is Norwegian, Viking... I just read the two links and will follow up more
Full disclosure though - they are not mine - but oh how I wish they were now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But this particular lineage line and tree is going to be a wedding gift. Canada was built on the backs of so many fascinating immigrant families and so every chance I get if I can give someone their history I do it! This particular young couple will be thrilled as so far they have Finnish(maybe Norwegian Viking
), Russian, Estonian, Czech Republic, German...and that is just on his side.
With my warmest Regards and huge thanks for the hands up here
