in English
The Mission
of Kaltiainen Family
Society
Family
Kaltiainen has lived
since the 17th
century in Ilomantsi where the
domicile of the family
society is also based.
The mission of the
family association is to revive and maintain a sense of family
togetherness cherishing the family
tradition.
The history of the
Kaltiainen family
Until the early 1900s, every
Matti and Paavo has
been registered Ilomantsi church records.
Kivilahti village by
the lake
Koitere became the actual
family recidence in the
1700s. All members of the family originally come from the
house of Kaltiala in Suukylä, Kivilahti.
Family branched out in the 1860s, when Staffan moved to Riihivaara
and Johan stayed in
Suukylä. After the
change of houses between the two
brothers, 'Tahvolaiset'
(the descendants of Staffan)
and 'Jussilaiset'
(the descendants of Johan) were born .
Small
number of Kaltiainen family lives in
Kyyjärvi, which is a municipality
in Central Finland. They have
the family surname,
but the biological
connection to
the family in Ilomantsi
has yet to be found.
The
descendants of the
Ilomantsi family branch,
Toivo and Yrjö
Kaltiainen, as well as their sister Aune
Turunen became
interested in family
history in the 1950s when Toivo's
brother Emil gave
the old documents of
Suukylä to Toivo. The documents had been kept
safe since the early 1800s.
In the
beginning of the 1970s
Taisto Kaltiainen (the descendant of Staffan)
and Tauno Kaltiainen (the descendant of Johan)
visited relatives and
also made some phone
calls to find out if
there would be more
interest in the establishment of the
Family Society. Tauno and Taisto arranged
a family gathering
and the Kaltiainen Family
Society was established
in Lieksa on
5th
of July in 1975. Rules
of the society were established,
the chairman
and the members of the
Family Council
were elected.