| | The Return of Emigrants from America to Finland |
 | | Karvia and Parkano have been chosen as examples of Finnish rural communes, because their emigration pattern can be considered to represent Finland's emigration areas. |
 | | On the other hand it has been verified when making the emigrant lists that the number of emigrants leaving in one five year period is reflected, in spite of the developments beyond the ocean, in the number of emigrants returning in the next five year period. |
 | | In the Ikaalinen district to which Karvia and Parkano belong the clerks seem to have made the census lists from returned emigrants quite carefully, in any case more carefully than, for example, in the Ulvila district, where the lists were only kept regularly from 1910. |
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