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Signatures of Pasma family members in late 19th century.
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Pasma family originates from Kolari in Finnish Tornio river valley. Today Kolari is a rural municipality with some 3,800 inhabitants. Members of this large northern family live on both sides of the Tornio river and in different parts of Finland and Sweden. In addition, due to migration that started in the nineteenth century the family has spread to northern Norway, United States and Canada.
Pasma family began in a small farm established on the shores of lake Pasmajärvi in the 1750s. Olli Heikki's son Pasmajärvi and Brita Lauri's daughter Moona raised a family of five and also Brita's children from the former marriage. Olli came from Pello village south of Pasmajärvi which had been the fishing lake of the Pello farmers for centuries.
During the late 18th century the first house was followed by other farms which later emerged as the Pasmajärvi village. Nowadays the village is inhabited by some 200 people. During the eighteenth and nineteenth century the members of the family moved to nearby lake area to inhabit new villages. Thus the Pasma family tree consists of not only the big Pasma branch, but also of the Kuru, Ruokojärvi-Ruokovaara, Juustovaara and Järvirova branches that lived in the southern lake villages of the Kolari communality.Pasma Family Society was founded in 1987 at the first family gathering in Pasmajärvi. The family society organises gatherigns in every three or four years and publishes genealogical research as well as family history books. Its purpose is also to act as a connecting force between family members.
© Pasman Sukuseura r.y., Kolari 2003
Updated on July 6, 2007 seija.jalagin (at) oulu.fi