War Victims of Finland 1914–1922 ( ) is a
database
In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and a ...
that contains the names and information of more than 35,000
Finnish war dead between 1914 and 1922. The database was opened in 2002 and it is published by the
National Archives of Finland
The National Archives of Finland (; ) is a Finnish government agency under the Ministry of Education and Culture (Finland), Ministry of Education and Culture. It is responsible for archiving official documents of the Finnish state and municipaliti ...
.
The registry contains victims of
World War I
World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...
(1914–1918), the
Finnish Civil War
The Finnish Civil War was a civil war in Finland in 1918 fought for the leadership and control of the country between Whites (Finland), White Finland and the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic (Red Finland) during the country's transition fr ...
(1918) and the so-called
Kinship Wars (1918–1922). About 97 per cent of the names are casualties of the civil war or its aftermath. Persons in the registry can be searched by surname, first name, date of birth, occupation, place of census registration, place of residence, place of death, and by the cause of death. The research version of the database has more information than the simplified internet version.
External links
War Victims of Finland 1914–1922 Internet Database (Finnish, Swedish, English)
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Online person databases
Finnish Civil War