Maud Wedin is chairman of FINNSAM, and she says that there is a great demand for information about forest pimples:
- There are very many descendants of forest Finns, and more and more people want to search for their roots.
400-year-old forest Finnish tradition in Sweden
Today, about 1.7 million Swedes are descended from forest Finns, that is, from the swede farmers who migrated mainly from Savolax in present-day Finland, to Scandinavia during the late 16th century and early 17th century.
Maud Wedin says that there are forest Finnish areas in Scandinavia from Tiveden in the south up to the southern Lapland in the north.
- The forest Finns constitute an important part of the national minority, the Swedish Finns.
It is very important that we bring their culture and history to life, she continues.
Information films about, for example, Dalarna and Gävleborg counties are already ready, and it's Jämtland, Västerbotten, Värmland and Västernorrland's turn.
The film about Västernorrland will be shot this summer.