Children not listed on communion records
I've been tracing one of my man family lines in Finland using the Finnish Communion Records. In all but the last couple I have, they list the whole family, including children, and give their information.
According to data I found on the Hiski site My 5th great-grandparents, Jacob Salmonson Hjrikoski and Lisa Jeremiasdr. had six children. I have a copy of the christening record of my 4th great-grandfather, Isak Jacobson, saved to my computer as well. I have a couple of communion records showing Jacob and Lisa living on the Hjrikoski farm during the years that they should have had small children, but the children aren't listed. There are other people listed with them. It appears it may be Lisa's parents and a couple of other people whose relationships I am not sure of.
I am just wondering why the children are not listed as they are with other family groups I researched. Was there a time when they did not bother listing the children? Were the children not able to stay with them for some reason? If you all have any ideas or suggestions, I sure would appreciate it. I will attach records below so you can look at them.
On this last one, my 4th great-grandfather Isak is shown toward the bottom. It appears he is living with a group of migrant workers, I believe? I do not read Finnish so I have been relying heavily on translation websites.
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Some parishes in Finland kept "Lastenkirjat = children's books" which kept track of the children who have not taken their first communion. In those parishes, the "Rippikirjat = communion books" only list those who are old enough to have received communion (around 14 years of age). Jalasjävi is one of those parishes.
The children in Hirikoski (spelled Hiricoski here), Jalasjärvi parish, from 1774-1797 can be found here: https://digihakemisto.net/item/1273428384/5872698787/15. 1789-1808 is here: https://digihakemisto.net/item/1273432815/5870873390/23.
As far as the language of the records, they are exclusively written in Swedish until about 1870 when most of the parishes changed to Finnish. At this time, even peoples' names were changed to the Finnish version of the name, so that can create some problems finding people in the records. Some Swedish speaking parishes, however, kept the records in Swedish even after that time.
Your "migrant workers" translation is correct. The Swedish is "Flyttande Tjenstefolk = moving working folk (people)".
As a side note, there are several websites that have the Finnish parish records: Digihakemisto, SSHY/FFHA, and the Catalog in Family Search. You will sometimes have parish records on one site that the other sites don't have so it is best to use all the sites. HISKI (your first image) has some of the records indexed (but not all), and it is useful (sometimes) for locating people.
My links above are from Digihakemisto. This link is the page in Digihakemisto of your first image and is much nicer to try to read: https://digihakemisto.net/item/1273291055/5870865462/27. Sometimes the images in Digihakemisto are better, and sometimes SSHY/FFHA (or Family Search Catalog) has better images. It is good to check all of them.
Digihakemisto home page is here: https://en.digihakemisto.net/. You can "left-click" and select "translate to English" to get the rest of the page to be in English. Click on the "Congregations ('Seurakunnat' in Finnish)" tab near the top left to access the page listing the parishes. Keep "left-clicking>Translate to English" to get a Google-translate version of the page. Be careful, though, because Google-translate can give odd results sometimes.
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Thank you so much for the help! I was concerned that there was something terribly wrong with the family and they couldn't keep their kids. lol
I have been getting my images from sukuhistoria.fi and trying to lighten the ones that were coming out dark. I will check the other website you suggested to view better versions of it. Thank you. Yes, Hiski has helped me this afternoon in locating one of the my ancestors in a different parish from what I have been researching. 😊
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@Norm Baker and @Virginia Boone Thank you for your post Virginia and Thank you Norm Baker for the information you provided that can be helpful to many who cruise the exchange of information found in community.
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