This is the second post of three in series called Changing Sugar Island: A Study of Twentieth-Century Finnish American Settlement. Look for the other two posts in the menu above. For the second of three blog posts about Finnish American migrants to Sugar Island, Michigan and their use of the land, I will focus on …
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Changing Sugar Island: A Study of Twentieth-Century Finnish American Settlement, Part 1
This is the first post of three in series called Changing Sugar Island: A Study of Twentieth-Century Finnish American Settlement. Look for the next two posts in the menu above. One of the goals of the HUMANA Project is to understand the social, economic, and political impact Finnish-born migrants had on Sugar Island, Michigan once …
Making Sense of Census Data
Writer: Saara Kekki Previously, Justin wrote about searching for archival records, and Olli wrote about the detective work involved in finding some of the Sugar Island Finns in Finland. In this post, I will talk about what comes next, how to structure, clean, and verify the data we found. The foundation of our data are …
The Various Chapters in the Lives of Sugar Island Finns
Writer: Olli Saukko In this post, I continue with evaluating the process of researching the background of Sugar Island Finns. As the first post presented the sources and challenges of this research, this post concentrates on some of the findings I made during the process. The peaceful, harmonious and united Finnish community? W hen …
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Where did the Sugar Island Finns come from?
Writer: Olli Saukko I worked as a project researcher in the HUMANA project on its first year, 2019. My main task, with which I spent most of my time within the project, was to examine the background of the Finnish people that lived on Sugar Island in Michigan in the time period of this research, …
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