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Cemetery records in Greece are generally not a good source for genealogical research. The custom in Greece is to bury a person for only 3–5 years, after which the remains are exhumed and placed in an ossuary (osteofylakeion) in a building at the cemetery. In larger cities some families owned a family plot where the remains of all of the family members were placed and where there may be a gravestone with information about people buried there. | Cemetery records in Greece are generally not a good source for genealogical research. The custom in Greece is to bury a person for only 3–5 years, after which the remains are exhumed and placed in an ossuary (osteofylakeion) in a building at the cemetery. In larger cities some families owned a family plot where the remains of all of the family members were placed and where there may be a gravestone with information about people buried there. | ||
Substitute resources for cemetery records are: | |||
* Civil records of deaths are kept by the local Lixarcheion (civil registry) office. Their records begin in 1920. | |||
* Church records of deaths are kept in books maintained by the village priest. | |||
There are two major types of cemetery records in Greece: | There are two major types of cemetery records in Greece: | ||