100 years of Finnish independence today 6 Dec 2017 challenge

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Let's work on getting some prominent Finns listed on wikitree to celebrate our independence.

I was thinking something like presidents, military, war heroes, athletes, architects, composers, authors or whoever you think is worthy. The goal is of course to link them to the tree. My contribution is Anders Keksi, a poet from Ylitornio where I was born. I will do some more work on his bio later.

Haastan Suomalaiset tuomaan wikitree:n profiileja tunnetuista suomalaisista Suomi 100 vuotta hengessä.

WikiTree profile: Anders Keksi
in Genealogy Help by Juha Soini G2G6 Pilot (118k points)
Dear Juha,

   Congratulations on your independence anniversary.  Do you have a national celebration, as we do in the USA on July 4th?  I would like to learn about it.  -NGP

We don't have nation wide fireworks, and generally Finns are more laid back when it comes to celebration. :)

That said Dec 6 is a national holiday with many private and official parties. It's an official flag day and most Finns burn blue and white candles.

Wikihow gives you a short version, and if you would like to read about it in depth, I recommend wikipedia, finland.fi, finland.fi/centennial and a three year old newscast with videos.

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I will do some work on Georg Magnus Sprengtporten
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sprengtporten-1
- who has a profile in WikiTree that was imported in 2013 and not touched since.
by Eva Ekeblad G2G6 Pilot (566k points)
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I can add 'adding prominent Finns' to my list of projects to work on when I'm burnt out on my own research.  Linking them to the larger tree may be a challenge I'm not up to, given I'm having enough difficulty researching my own family once it hits Finland (great-grandparents and great-great grandparents) since my Finnish is limited to about three words and I know even less Swedish (lovely the records can be in either language....)   Excellent challenge idea, however!

 

M
by Muirae Kenney G2G5 (5.5k points)

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