Report on family relationships for estate inventory
A report on family relationships is most commonly needed for estate inventories in order to determine the heirs of the deceased. You can order a report on family relationships, for example, if you are the person drawing up the estate inventory deed, a stakeholder of the estate, a beneficiary in the will or some other person who needs the report for an accepted purpose.
You will need a report on the family relationships of the deceased person from the age of 15 until the date of death, for example, for an estate inventory. In some cases, to be able to determine the heirs, you may also need a report on the family relationships of spouses, previously deceased heirs and persons who have given up their right to the inheritance.
In addition to personal data, the report on family relationships will include transfers between parishes and the population register, moving abroad and back to Finland, and details of spouses and children. In some cases, the parents’ details are also recorded in the report on family relationships.
On whom can the Digital and Population Data Services Agency provide a report on family relationships?
You can order a report on the family relationships from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of a person for the time period the person has been recorded in the population register or has been a member of a registered religious community (other than the Evangelical Lutheran Church or Orthodox Church).
Report on family relationships from a parish
If the person was a member of an Evangelical Lutheran or Orthodox parish throughout their life, order a report on family relationships from the parish in question. In that case, it is not necessary to order a report on family relationships separately from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency.
Contact information: https://tilaavirkatodistus.fi/ and ort.fi/keskusrekisteri
You may need reports on family relationships from both parishes and the Digital and Population Data Services Agency. This may be the case, for example, if a person has been a member of a parish for only part of their life.
Reports on the family relationships of persons who lived in the ceded territories
Reports on family relationships from the archives of the ceded territories can be ordered from the National Archives of Finland.
Reports on family relationships from abroad
You may need a document from abroad that corresponds to an official extract from the population register, for example for an estate inventory in Finland. As a rule, you can handle the matter directly with the local authority in the country in question. Check country-specific information in the Finland abroad service.
Do the following
Fill in and send the form in the electronic service. Sending the electronic form requires strong identification.
You can also order a report on family relationships by phone or email.
Checklist before using the service
Be prepared to provide the following information when you order the report:
- the name and personal identity code/date of birth of the person for whom you order the report
- the date of death (if the person is deceased)
- the purpose of the report (for example, for an estate inventory)
- if the purpose is an estate inventory, whose estate is it?
- your contact details
- invoicing details
Price
From 1st January 2022:
The report on family relationships from the electronic Population Information System 30 €/document
The report on family relationships from digitized population registers 60 €/document
Frequently asked questions
No, you don’t, if the information that you are alive is visible in the report on family relationships.
You can also use the report on family relationships in other situations related to managing the estate’s matters.
Previously obtained reports on family relationships can be used in other estate inventories later. The information on the deceased person in the report on family relationships does not become outdated.
However, you need to obtain life certificates for the stakeholders of the estate for the estate inventory.
When the Population Information System was established at the beginning of the 1970’s, the following restrictions applied when family details were recorded in the register:
- children who were minors on 1 October 1973 were recorded in their parent’s details
- parents of children who were minors were recorded in the children’s details
The parent/children relationships may therefore be missing for individuals who were born before 1954. In older population register material, the children have not always been entered in the parent’s details if the child has been a member of a parish together with one of the parents. Because the report on family relationships is drawn up from the age of 15, the missing children will be found in the report issued by the parish.
If the person has been a member of the Evangelical Lutheran or Orthodox church all their life, there is no need to order a separate report on family relationships from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency. The report on family relationships needs to cover the time period between the age of 15 and the person’s death.
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