AssociationAddresses is a service for selecting and downloading associations' addresses (only concerning registrations made on December 28, 1998, or later).
You can select information by the association's name or domicile, the date of the first registration or the date of the latest registration (the date should be December 28, 1998 or later); or by county, province, local register office, electoral district or Evangelical-Lutheran or Orthodox parish, or by postal code (or the name of post office) either by one selection term or by making your own term combination.
Name and domicile
The asterisk (*) is used as a wildcard. You can use it either in the beginning or the end of a name, or both.
You can replace one character with a question mark (?).
You can use a plus sign (+) as the AND operator between the words in a name. For example, *voimist*+*urhei*+*palloil* means that the words voimistelu, urheilu and palloilu must be contained in the name, although the words need not be in the exactly same order in the name. If you in addition want to find associations in Helsinki or Vantaa, write in the domicile field: Helsinki, Vantaa.
You can use a comma (,) between words as the OR operator, for example, *eläkeläi*,*seniori*. The search retrieves all those associations whose name contains either the word "eläkeläinen" or the word "seniori".
A hyphen is indexed only when there is a letter both immediately before and after it. EG. Sisä-Suomen -> sisä-suomen, but: etu- ja ympäristöjärjestö -> etu ja ympäristöjärjestö.
Punctuation, such as period and colon, should be replaced with a space.
If you write more than one word in the name search field without the plus sign (+), the program will only provide combinations in which the words are consecutive.
The results are shown in alphabetical order.
Date of first registration tells, when the association has been entered in the register. Date of latest registration tells, when the latest amendments have been registered (starting from December 28, 1998). Format of the date shown is day-month-year.
You can search for example
associations registered before a certain date (-1.1.1920)
associations registered after a certain date (31.3.2000-)
associations registered between certain dates (1.1.2000-10.2.2000)
associations having a certain domicile or postal code
When you search by province, local register office or electoral district you can also select several areas simultaneously from the list, if desired. A faulty selection can be cancelled by making a new selection, or all selections can be emptied by clicking "Cancel". If you search by a parish that covers only a part of a municipality (such as the Malmi Parish in Helsinki), the search result shows all those associations in the municipality in question that correspond to the other search criteria that you have selected. On the other hand, if the parish covers several municipalities, the search is conducted among all associations that have been registered in those municipalities. Lists of parishes can be accessed via the links above the fields.
Free text search searches all indexed text (name, domicile, post office), and also special characters (e.g. é, à).