You'll find the finnisch alphabet for english speakers at the Wikipedia site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_alphabet .
Online introductions to Finnish language are given for example in the following addresses:
http://donnerwetter.kielikeskus.helsinki.fi/FinnishForForeigners/
http://venla.org/
Free language software downloads are found in the address http://www.byki.com/fls/FLS.html
English to Finnish/Finnish to English online dictionaries are available in the following addresses:
http://www.freedict.com/onldict/fin.html
http://www3.fincd.com/
Mauno Niskanen lives in Jyväskylä and visits Lappland and is interested about Lappish items. This book is not translated into English, it's only in Finnish.
Niskanen writes in this novel book that Oravainen real mother was a Sami woman from Suikki family in Pakasaivo, Muonio.
You can read about him in Swedish here:
Några konungens fogdar under 1500-talet / Nordlander, Johan.
Norrländska samlingar ; Häftet 12 (III:2).Julkaisutiedot: Stockholm : C .E. Fritzes, 1933
There is also the family book about Oravainen family-tree:
Lapinvouti Niilo Oravaisen jälkeläiset : sukututkimus / Leinonen, Margit. - Kemi : M. Leinonen, 2013. - 505, 324 s.
Only in Finnish.
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Current instructions for self-service printing in Helsinki City Library:
The PaperCut self-service printing is available for your own device and the library computers. Both allow you to print 5 pages in 3 months free-of-charge - subsequent printouts cost €0.40 each. You can load credit to your card for the additional printouts at the customer service point.
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Whenever you move into new premises, you have to inform the magistrate and the house managing agency that you have moved in. Both the magistrate and the house managing agency will monitor the registration. More information about Finnish permits and accommodation can be found from the following web-address: http://www.infopankki.fi/en-GB/home/
Kittilä is a minor place, it very likely that there are no historians who are specialized in Kittilä history. Since you gave information about your family, i guess you are interested in your family history. I would recommend you to contact the Kittila parish for more information. A helpful source of information to a genealogist in Finland is Sukututkimusseura (The Genealogical Society of Finland) and their database Hiski:
http://www.genealogia.fi/index.php?lang=en
http://www.genealogia.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1…
It is also worth looking of the parish register of Kittilä:
http://www.sukuhistoria.fi/sshy/kirjat/Kirkonkirjat/kittila/kittila.htm
email address to Kittilä parish is kittila.seurakunta@evl.fi...
You can get a library card if you have an address in Finland. Without Finnish personal identity number your card is valid for twelve months at a time.
To receive your card take a valid photo ID with you when you visit a library. Libraries in Helmet-area accept the following ID cards:
I.D. cards from EU countries
passports
Finnish driving licences
Finnish SII cards with photos, for those under 18 years also without photos
resident cards issued by any reception centre in Finland
residence permit card issued by the Finnish Immigration Service.
I found an Internet site, that contains some knowledge about the history of the Enonvesi-region and it's villages, http://www.enonkylat.fi/historiikki/. As far as I understand, part of the area has belonged to the cultural region of Häme from early on, the fiscal authorities and the nearest church have been in Häme. That could probably be the explanation to the fact that thist part, called Paadenmaa, still belongs to Päijät-Häme and not to South-Savonia.
There is a contactform on the pages of Enonkylät ry, they could possibly give you more accurate information, http://www.enonkylat.fi/?f=1.
Family name Liimakka is an unusual name in Finland. According to the name service (Nimipalvelu) of The Digital and Population Data Services Agency service there is or has been only 79 people named Liimakka in Finland:
https://verkkopalvelu.vrk.fi/nimipalvelu/default.asp?L=3
Unfortunately we didn't find the origin of the name.
The best collection in Finland is The Slavonic Library/The National Library of Finland. About its services
http://www.nationallibrary.fi/services/kokoelmat/slaavilainenkirjasto.h…
Your question is very wide ...
Here are a few links to make the subject narrower:
Google has scholar search:
https://scholar.google.fi/scholar?as_ylo=2018&q=festival+tourism+in+Europe&hl=fi&as_sdt=0,5&as_vis=1
https://scholar.google.fi/scholar?hl=fi&as_sdt=0,5&as_ylo=2018&as_vis=1&q=festivals+in+european+countries
https://scholar.google.fi/scholar?hl=fi&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo=2018&as_vis=1&q=geography+of+festival+tourism+in+Europe+&btnG=
and some statistics:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/306095/highest-grossing-festivals-worldwide/
http://uis.unesco.org/sites/default/files/documents/festival-statistics-key-concepts-and-current-practices-handbook-3-2015-en.pdf
Worldcat is an...
The following website and the related articles contain some information about the thermal properties of palm oil.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/43829/ABSTRACT?CRET…
I found in Wikipedia that Alice in Wonderland has been translated in Russian in the year 1923. I'm sorry but I couldn't find any earlier translation. In Vaasa city library we have got only the book that has been published in the year 2007.
There are in Helsinki Central Library Oodi three rooms with console games and one game room with gaming computers. In these rooms there are 14 gaming computers. More information here:
https://www.helmet.fi/en-US/Libraries_and_services/Helsinki_Central_Library_Oodi/Services
Obviously it is the only library with 10+ gaming PCs.
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You can contact Statistics Finland and The National Archives of Finland to find more about your uncle's death and ask if they can find his death certificate. Vaasa's church registry office can also help you. I'll leave contact information to all of these here. The links should lead you to English versions of the sites but if they don't you can change the language from the top of the pages.
Statistics Finland
http://tilastokeskus.fi/org/yhteystiedot/index_en.html
The National Archives of Finland
http://www.arkisto.fi/en/info-4/info-5
Vaasa church registry office email: vaasan.kirkkoherranvirasto@evl.fi
Stara and Skidi are both children's mobile libraries in Helsinki, so there is no difference between them in content. The names, Stara and Skidi, are Helsinki slang. Stara means an old person in Helsinki slang (Stara was formerly known as a mobile library mostly for adults.) Skidi is a slang word for a child (formely Skidi was for children). In Finland, mobile libraries usually have names, they are not considered just as vehicles :)
In the website 'Finnish Public Libraries Statistics' a loan amount for the mobile library means the amount of loans that people have borrowed. https://tilastot.kirjastot.fi/?lang=en
One mobile library can carry approximately 3500 books (it depends on how full mobile libraries...
