Posted on: Stearns County Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/Mn/Stearns/11413 Surname: Paasovaara, Mursu ------------------------- Mike -- Are you absolutely sure your the Paasovaara's went to Wakefield Township in Stearns County, Minnesota? Stearns County was a very uncommon destination for Finnish emmigrants... St. Louis County was very common, but not Stearns. I looked up the names you mentioned on the Finnish Institute of Migration website (see link below) and found the passport information for Aaro and the ship passenger information for both of them (see listings below). On the passenger lists, both indicate a destination of Wakefield, Michigan (which is a town in the UP --Upper Penninsula-- of Michigan, a common Finnish destination), not Wakefield, Minnesota (a township in Stearns County). I can search the 1910 and 1920 Census records of Wakefield Township in Stearns County for you if you are sure that the passenger records are incorrect. Let me know. -- Tom Oh dear, I did mix those abbreviations MN and MI, I never checked them from anywhere. Thank you, Tom! mika perala :)