Julia ”Jully” Ramsay ( Ekström; 1865—1919) was a

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historian and

genealogist Genealogy () is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kins ...

Career

Ramsay is notable not only as the first woman genealogist in Finland, but also as a pioneer of Finnish genealogy in general. She is best remembered for her monumental four-part work, ''Frälsesläkter i Finland intill stora ofreden'' ( 'Noble families in Finland before the Great Wrath'), published 1909—1916, and based on her extensive archive research over many years. She also published a personal history collection''Skuggor vid vägen'' ( 'Shadows by the roadside') (1917) about 16th and 17th century events and people of Finland. Ramsay was the first woman to be bestowed an honorary membership of the

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, more than half a century before the next woman was granted the same honour. She was also active in many other areas of society, including education and a deaf charity.

Personal life

Julia Maria Ekström was born to an upper middle class family; her parents were the military engineering officer Carl August Ekström and Alexandrine Hackman, of the

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industrial family. She married, at age 18, the mathematician and finance executive, later Minister of Finance, August Ramsay, of the noble Ramsay family; the couple had five children, including the economist and politician

Henrik Ramsay Carl Henrik Wolter Ramsay (31 March 1886 in Helsinki – 25 July 1951 in Visby) was a Finnish politician and an economist from the Swedish People's Party. Ramsay is mostly remembered for the fact that he was sentenced in the war-responsibility tri ...

. She died at the relatively young age of 53, following a long illness.

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External links

Obituary
in ''Suomen Nainen'' (12 April 1919, issue 14, p. 220; in Finnish) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ramsay, Jully Finnish genealogists 19th-century Finnish historians Finnish women historians People from Leppävirta 1865 births 1919 deaths 19th-century Finnish women writers