It has been a while since you posted so I hope you are still there....
I am helping someone currently whose ancestor is recorded as Emil Paananen who would have been born about 1891 in Finland. He settled in Ohio.
I found an Emil living in Houghton, Mi in 1910 recorded as a student. I wonder if they are the same person.
I have no expertise with Finnish records, I deal mostly with Norway and the US. Where does the name Paananen come from? It looks like they use patrynomics.
Stephanie