Forest Finn Connections

The Forest Finns are a very unique group of people who emigrated from Finland to Sweden in about 1600, and many of them emigrated from Sweden to the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century. People with ancestors in Värmland Province, Sweden, might be surprised to know that their ancestors could have been Finnish.
Virginia Mattson-Schultz writes about the history, culture, and language of the Forest Finns and gives advice on finding these Finnish Swedes, even to finding their ...