On June 28 & 29, 1999, we spent two days at the Keweenaw & Houghton, Michigan, County Courthouses & Copper Country Archives at Michigan Tech searching for Juntunen naturalization records. Fortunately, we were able to get copies made of 82 pages of naturalization papers. The Juntunen immigrants we found had arrived in Canadian, Boston, & New York ports. Twenty-five of these Juntunens are already linked with high probability to Juntunens in the St.Albans ship arrival data listed on this Website.

Many of these Juntunen's ''Declaration of Intent'' papers filed in Houghton County or Keweenaw County, Michigan list name of their ship, date of arrival & port, mode of travel to Michigan, & place & date they crossed into the US. The earliest records from the 1870-80's contain the least amount of information. After 1900, the naturalization records contain increasing amounts of family data. Some have an attached photo of the immigrant.

We are currently creating spreadsheets for the upcoming Juntunen publication that link all Juntunen naturalization records we have found to their probable (or possible) ship arrival record from the various ports. If you recognize your ancestor in any of the published data, you can request a copy from us of the papers we have in copy form. Alternatively, you could write to the governmental record sources that will be included in our publication.

If you have any naturalization papers for your Juntunen ancestors in any place in North America, we would greatly appreciate your sending copies to us to aid in this data project. Please send us copies of documents (not originals) or any Juntunen naturalization information that you might know about from family records or even from oral tradition. Thanks very much for your help as we work toward our publication goal. Our mailing address is: John and Ruth Stierna, 2600 Wiley Terrace, Haymarket, VA. 20169

The LDS Church has Family History centers in many areas of the United States. If you are interested in researching on your own you can look at the following link for the nearest Family History Center LDS Family History Centers.

At the Family History Center the LDS Church has a disk or microfiche catolog of items which you can obtain for a nominal loan fee to compile your Juntunen Research. Instructions for using this catolog are available on line at http://www.familysearch.org/sg/FSFHLC.html.

We would appreciate any assistance in reaching our publication goal . Here is a listing of the type of information commonly contained in passenger arrival records. The full range of information is often useful in exploring family roots and making connections on factual data. This can serve as a guide on the kind of information to record, if possible, as passenger arrival records are found.

Passenger Lists Common Data Fields
Data fields	Col Heading	Example	Description
Archieves series	Film series		Microfilm series identifier
Reel or role	Reel		National Archieves reel number
Name	Name	Adam Juntunen
First name	First Name	Adam
Last name	Last Name	Juntunen
Ship	Ship Name	S.S.Saxonia
Sailed from	Sailed fr	Liverpool	Departure port for named person
Date of departure	Date dep	28-Feb-05
Arrived	Arrived	Boston	Arrival port for ship
Date of arrival	Date arr	10-Mar-05
Place of birth	Place	Suomussalmi, Finland
Age of named person	Age	28	Years of age. Months seldom used
Sex	Sex	M	Gender
M or S (Marital Status)	M or S	Single	Self statement of marital status
Occupation	Occup	Laborer	Self statement
Read	Read	Yes	Yes or no response. Any language
Write	Write
Race	Race	Caucasian
Nationality	Nationality	Finland
Language	Language	Finnish
Last [permanent] residence	Last Residence	Oulu	Self statement
Name and Address of nearest relative	Near relative
Ever in U.S.?	Ever in U.S.?	No
Destination and name of relative or friend	Going to	Houghton Co., MI
Name of person	Name	Brother, Eli Juntunen	Person going to at destination
Address/Location of person	Location	Painesdale, MI	Address or location for person at dest
Ticket to final destination	Ticket to	Yes	Self statement
Passage paid by	Paid by	Mother	Self statement
Money shown	Money	$5	Self statement
Ever in prison or supported by charity?	Prison/charity	No	Self statement yes or no
Ever a polygamist?	Polygamist	No	Self statement yes or no
Under contract,express/implied,to labor in US?	Labor contract	No	Self statement yes or no
Condition of Health	Health	Good	Self statement, e.g. good, fair, or poor
Deformed or crippled, nature or cause?	Handicapped	No	Self statement yes or no
Ever arrested, deported, or excluded		No
Purpose in coming	Purpose	Permanent	Self statement
Head tax status	Head tax	Pd.	Paid or perhaps #
Height	Height	5 ft. 11 in.
Complexion	Complexion
Hair	Hair	Brown	Hair color
Eyes	Eyes	Blue	Eye color
Distinguishing marks	Marks	None
Medical certificate	Medical	Good	Usually medical condition
Seaport	Seaport	Halifax, Nova Scotia	May be different than entry to U.S.
Date of landing	Date of Landing	October 4,1909
Name of ship	Steamship		Steamship name
Accompanied by	Accompanied		Children, spouse, or friend
Other remarks	Remarks

Last Updated on 8/4/99
By Margaret Ann Smith

Announcing The North American Juntunen Journal

Our new publication name will be The North American Juntunen Journal. Each edition will be numbered & dated starting with Number 1 & date published. The journal will become the communication vehicle to report on the continuing Juntunen research in North America. The first edition will be published in the Fall of 1999. Following editions could then be, hopefully, bi-annual, containing more Juntunen articles, data summaries, genealogy submissions, photo submissions, & stories, etc.

We believe that a journal format would give us flexibility to include various types and stages of research. It could continue as an evolving process as N.A.Juntunens get to know each other better.

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