Digitised Service Records of the Deceased Finnish Soldiers

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Mangrove
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Digitised Service Records of the Deceased Finnish Soldiers

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Post by Mangrove » 08 Feb 2018, 19:23

Apparently the National Archives of Finland has started to digitise the service records (kantakortti) of Finnish soldiers who died or went missing during 1939-1945. Depending of the person, the records can contain detailed information about the circumstances the person was wounded/died/went missing, but also his earlier training and medical history.

Currently there are only records available for 88 persons, but it might be that in time all of the available records are digitised.

Digi.narc.fi - Kaatuneiden henkilöasiakirjat (kokoelma)

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Post by Teemu S » 09 Feb 2018, 00:14

Hello,

According to the National Archives' site, they indeed plan to digitise them all.
Käytännössä helmikuun alusta lähtien digitointiprojekti käsittelee ja digitoi ensin Kansallisarkistossa säilytettävän kantakorttikokoelmaan sisältyvän kaatuneiden kokoelman noin 30-35.000 kaatuneen sotilaan kantakortit Digitaaliarkistoon, ja jatkaa sitten muusta kantakorttiaineistoista poimittaviin kaatuneiden sotilaiden kantakortteihin (60-65.000 henkilöaktia). Käytännössä menehtyneiden tietokannassa olevat kaatuneiden kantakortit digitoidaan.
https://www.arkisto.fi/news/2092/61/Kut ... nkohtaista

-Teemu S.


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Post by Aleksander P » 22 Feb 2018, 02:54

Wonderful news! I hope they digitize all service records one day.

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Post by Teemu S » 17 Oct 2018, 19:12

Hello,

Is anyone else having problems with the service records archive? After the site loads, there's nothing there except for the sidebar.

-Teemu S.

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Post by Mangrove » 19 Oct 2018, 17:59

Teemu S wrote:
17 Oct 2018, 19:12
Is anyone else having problems with the service records archive? After the site loads, there's nothing there except for the sidebar.
The database is probably poorly designed as it can't handle an index containing tens of thousands of individual records. To be able to browse through records, the only other option is to use the search option to search as few as possible letters (e.g. "Pa").

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Post by Aleksander P » 19 Oct 2018, 21:21

Teemu S wrote:
17 Oct 2018, 19:12
Hello,

Is anyone else having problems with the service records archive? After the site loads, there's nothing there except for the sidebar.

-Teemu S.
I can't even get the site to load.

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