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    1. [GE-NORDIC] Re: heausaza
    2. Jyri Kankila
    3. "Heausaza" is probably a misinterpretation of handwriting. It doesn't look nor sound like any Finnish or Swedish surname. Hensola looks a bit more like a Finnish surname. Could it be Hentola? This surname and village name occurs at least in the parishes of Antrea and Jääski (both ceded to Russia in 1944), as you can find out by searching the (incomplete!) Finnish church records at http://www.genealogia.fi/historia/indexe.htm. His first name seems to have been Matti (in the Finnish church records possibly the Swedish version "Matts"), and the middle name is a patronym indicating that his father had the same first name. Wahala (modern spelling most often Vahala) is a rather common Finnish surname, but it could also have been spelled with umlauts - Wähälä / Vähälä - which is a name of its own, and a common one too. My guess is that "Ryshia Finland" just refers to "Russia, Finland", as Finland was a part of the Russian empire at that time. Hoping this helps, Jyri Kankila

    02/06/2001 12:18:19