The account of ancestry of the generation of Rahkonen from Saarijärvi, Finland has been made by Raili Hytönen in 1992. Inspired by this there was held a committee meeting in the winter of 1994. This committee started to plan the founding of the society of Rahkonen. The constitutive meeting of the society of Rahkonen was held 22nd July in 1995 in hotel Menninkäinen in Saarijärvi. There were gathered about 200 members of Rahkonen. In Menninkäinen there was also selected a cabinet, in which there belongs representatives from different parts of the relation.
The Rahkonen Family Society publishes its own annual / bi-annual newspaper. You can browse back issues in Finnish in the archive.