Fenni: The Finns Among Us - Hardcover

Here is a book which will appeal to anyone with Finnish ancestry. If you have long wondered about how to start searching for your Finnish roots or are interested in some of the early history of the Finnish people, you will find this a fascinating book to read. Art Jura is a third-generation Finnish-American with an excellent command of the language, reading and writing it fluently. Thus, he makes the perfect author for this book covering the history of the Finns who settled in New England and elsewhere. This books covers a wide range of topics with one whole section of the book devoted to how and why the Finns left their homeland and where they settled. Other topics consist of the early history of the Finns while under both Russian and Swedish rule. There are chapters on the Maine Finns, churches, organizations, publications and that all important sauna. There is even a chapter devoted to the vital records of the Finnish church in South Thomaston, Maine. Since these records were all wr