Are Joppa and Jeppo Finland the same?

Question

According to the obituary on Find A Grave, my relative Emil Berg was born in Joppa, Finland; probably written by one of his children after his death.https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46599135/emil-berg

Question:  I'm making a guess that Joppa the English spelling Jeppo?   Or, if not, which town/city could it be? 

Answer 1

This might have been a town called Jepua (or Jeppo in Swedish), based on this birth record. https://hiski.genealogia.fi/hiski?en+t2217799

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeppo_(village)

Comments

thank you, Kalle.

Answer 2

Google maps finds 3 Japa Finland locations and 1 Jeppo currently, so I would guess you can't make a conclusion without further info.

You have his parents names from the FG, those would be a start to narrow down the location.

I don't have a subscription to Ancestry, but found this naturalization record:

Name	Emil Slanger[Emil Berg]
Naturalization Age	23
Record Type	Naturalization
Birth Date	7 Apr 1895
Birth Place	Finland
Naturalization Date	1 Aug 1918
Court District	Minnesota

Comments

thank you, Rick.

Do you still have the source, with a link, for that naturalization record?

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see https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939N-NR67-B?i=887&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AXKPM-DQ6

Answer 3

On his WWI draft registration, it is transcribed as Fappo, but its probably Jeppo:

"United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K877-NJG : 30 December 2021), Emil Berg, 1917-1918.

Name	Emil Berg
Sex	Male
Citizenship Place	Finland
Birth Date	7 Apr 1895
Birthplace	Fappo, Finland, Finland
Race	Caucasian
Event Type	Draft Registration
Event Date	from 1917 to 1918
Event Place	Beltrami, Minnesota, United States
Event Place (Original)	United States, Minnesota, Beltrami County
Affiliate Publication Number	M1509
Affiliate Publication Title	World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards

Answer 4

Emil's obituary on Find-a-Grave says he had a brother in Washington State.  Hugo Leander Berg lived with his sister Hannah Erickson in Everett for a while.  There he was naturalized.  He died in Tacoma in 1970  and is buried in Mountain View Memorial Park.