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== Record Finder Table for Greece ==
The following Record Finder table assists researchers in determining record types that may list the information they are looking for.
=== Order of Records ===
The typically most reliable sources are listed at the top of the list. However, depending on the time period of the record and location, multiple records in the list may need to be searched to achieve the objective. Alternative records are listed as well in case traditional records do not provide the desired information.


== List of Topics ==
This table can help you decide which records to search using the following steps:
This Record Finder table links to the Greece topic Wiki pages, containing databases and other information about accessing the records.
===Vital Events ===
{| width="65%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="1"
|-
| style="align:left; width:25%;" | '''Searching for:'''
| style="align:left; width:35%;" | '''Best Records to Search:'''
| style="align:left; width:35%;" | '''Alternative Records:'''
|-
| align="left" | Birth date and place
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|
*[[Greece Civil Registration|Civil Registration]]<br>
:*Birth and Death Registers after 1925
:*Dimitologion (Family structure)<br>
:*Mitroon Arreron (Male registers)<br>
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|
*[[Greece Church Records|Church Records]]
*[[Greece Schools|School Records]]
|-
|-
| align="left" | Marriage place and date
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|
*[[Greece Church Records|Church Records]]
*[[Greece Civil Registration|Civil Registration]]
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|
*[[Greece Notarial Records|Notarial Records (Dowry Contracts)]]
|-
| align="left" | Death date, place, and burial
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|
*[[Greece Church Records|Church Records]]
*[[Greece Civil Registration|Civil Registration]]
 
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|
 
|-
|}


===Maiden Names and Family Members===
Step 1. '''In column 1''', find your goal.
{| width="65%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="1"
|-
| style="align:left; width:25%;" | '''Searching for:'''
| style="align:left; width:35%;" | '''Best Records to Search:'''
| style="align:left; width:35%;" | '''Alternative Records:'''
|-
| align="left" | Maiden name
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|
*[[Greece Church Records|Church Records]]
*[[Greece Civil Registration|Civil Registration]]
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|


|-
Step 2. '''In column 2''', find the types of records most likely to have the information you need.
| align="left" | Parents, children, spouses, and other family members
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|
*[[Greece Civil Registration|Civil Registration]]
**Dimitologion (Family structure)<br>
**Mitroon Arreron (Male registers)
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|
*[[Greece Probate Records|Probate]]
|-
| align="left" | Living relatives
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|
*[[Greece Compiled Genealogies|Genealogies]]
*[[Greece Directories|Directories]]
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|
|-
|}


=== Immigration and Country of Origin ===
Step 3. '''In column 3''', find additional records that may be useful.  
{| width="65%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="1"
|-
| style="align:left; width:25%;" | '''Searching for:'''
| style="align:left; width:35%;" | '''Best Records to Search:'''
| style="align:left; width:35%;" | '''Alternative Records:'''
|-
| align="left" | Immigration date
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|
*[[Greece Emigration and Immigration|Emigration and Immigration]]
*See the FamilySearch Wiki article for the country to which the ancestor immigrated.
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|


{| width="65%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="1" bgcolor="#F0F0F0"
|-
|-
| align="left" | Country and town of origin
| width="30%" bgcolor="#CFF3FF" align="left" | '''What you are looking for:'''
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|  
| width="35%" bgcolor="#CFF3FF" align="left" | '''Try these records first:'''
*[[Greece Emigration and Immigration|Emigration and Immigration]]
| width="35%" bgcolor="#CFF3FF" align="left" | '''Other useful records:'''
 
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|  
 
|}


=== Residences and Locations ===
{| width="65%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="1"
|-
|-
| style="align:left; width:25%;" | '''Searching for:'''
| align="left" | Birth date
| style="align:left; width:35%;" | '''Best Records to Search:'''
| align="left" | [[Greece Civil Registration- Vital Records|Civil Registration]]<br>
| style="align:left; width:35%;" | '''Alternative Records:'''
*Birth and Death Registers after 1925
*Dimitologion (Family structure)<br>
*Mitroon Arreron (Male registers)<br>
| align="left" | [[Greece Church Records|Church Records]], [[Greece Schools|School Records]]
|-
|-
| align="left" | Residence
| align="left" | Children
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|  
| align="left" |[[Greece Civil Registration- Vital Records|Civil Registration]]<br>
*[[Greece Church Records|Church Records]]
*Dimitologion (Family structure)<br>
*[[Greece Civil Registration|Civil Registration]]
| align="left" | [[Greece Church Records|Church Records]],  [[Greece Schools|School Records]], [[Greece Notarial Records|Notarial Records (Wills)]]
 
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|  
 
|}
 
=== Personal Details and Affiliations ===
{| width="65%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="1"
|-
|-
| style="align:left; width:25%;" | '''Searching for:'''
| align="left" | Death information
| style="align:left; width:35%;" | '''Best Records to Search:'''
| align="left" | [[Greece Civil Registration- Vital Records|Civil Registration]]
| style="align:left; width:35%;" | '''Alternative Records:'''
| align="left" | [[Greece Church Records|Church Records]]
|-
|-
| align="left" | Nobility
| align="left" | Emigration date
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|
| align="left" | [[Greece Emigration and Immigration|Emigration and Immigration]]
*Nobility
| align="left" |  
*Heraldry
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|  


|-
|-
| align="left" | Occupation
| align="left" | Maiden name
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|  
| align="left" | [[Greece Civil Registration- Vital Records|Civil Registration]]
*[[Greece Church Records|Church Records]]
| align="left" | [[Greece Church Records|Church Records]]
*[[Greece Civil Registration|Civil Registration]]
 
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|  
 
|-
|-
| align="left" | Religion
| align="left" | Marriage information
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|  
| align="left" | [[Greece Civil Registration- Vital Records|Civil Registration]]
*[[Greece Church Records|Church Records]]
| align="left" | [[Greece Church Records|Church Records]], [[Greece Notarial Records|Notarial Records (Dowry Contracts)]]
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|  
 
|-
|-
| align="left" | Social activities
| align="left" | Parents
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|  
| align="left" | [[Greece Civil Registration- Vital Records|Civil Registration]]
 
*Dimitologion (Family structure)<br>
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|  
*Mitroon Arreron (Male registers)<br>
 
| align="left" | [[Greece Church Records|Church Records]], [[Greece Probate Records|Probate]]
|-
|-
| align="left" | Physical description  
| align="left" | Physical description  
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|  
| align="left" | [[Greece Military Records|Military Records]]
*[[Greece Military Records|Military Records]]
| align="left" | [[Greece Biography|Biography]], [[Greece Compiled Genealogies|Genealogy]]
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|  
 
|-
|}
 
===Reading the Records===
{| width="65%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="1"
 
|-
|-
| align="left" |Vocabulary
| align="left" | Place-finding aids
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|  
| align="left" | [[Greece Gazetteers|Gazetteers]], [[Greece Maps|Maps]]
*[[Greek Genealogical Word List (modern Demotic)]]
| align="left" |
*[[Turkish Genealogical Word List]]
*[[Greece Languages]]
|-
|-
| align="left" |Handwriting
| align="left" | Previous research
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|  
| align="left" | [[Greece Compiled Genealogies|Genealogy]], [[Greece Periodicals|Periodicals]]
*[[Reading Greek Old Handwriting Made Easy|Reading Greek Old Handwriting Made Easy]]
| align="left" | [[Greece Biography|Biography]], [[Greece History|History]], [[Greece Archives and Libraries|Archives and Libraries]]
|-
 
| align="left" | Naming patterns
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|  
*Names, personal
|-
| align="left" |Online classes
| style="align:left; vertical-align:top;"|


|-
| align="left" |Writing for records
|
*[[Greece Research by Mail|Form Letters in Greek]]
|}
|}




[[Category:Greece Research Strategies]][[Category:Record Finder]]
[[Category:Greece Research Strategies]][[Category:Record Finder]]

Revision as of 12:13, 7 November 2017

Greece Wiki Topics
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Beginning Research
Record Types
Greece Background
Local Research Resources


This table can help you decide which records to search using the following steps:

Step 1. In column 1, find your goal.

Step 2. In column 2, find the types of records most likely to have the information you need.

Step 3. In column 3, find additional records that may be useful.

What you are looking for: Try these records first: Other useful records:
Birth date Civil Registration
  • Birth and Death Registers after 1925
  • Dimitologion (Family structure)
  • Mitroon Arreron (Male registers)
 Church Records, School Records
Children Civil Registration
  • Dimitologion (Family structure)
 Church Records, School Records, Notarial Records (Wills)
Death information Civil Registration Church Records
Emigration date Emigration and Immigration
Maiden name Civil Registration Church Records
Marriage information Civil Registration Church Records, Notarial Records (Dowry Contracts)
Parents Civil Registration
  • Dimitologion (Family structure)
  • Mitroon Arreron (Male registers)
 Church Records, Probate
Physical description Military Records Biography, Genealogy
Place-finding aids Gazetteers, Maps
Previous research Genealogy, Periodicals Biography, History, Archives and Libraries


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