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Purpose of Research Tips and Strategies Wiki Page
The Türkiye Research Tips and Strategies page consists of links to specific research strategies for Türkiye. It also contains general tips and other resources for finding your ancestors in this locality.

Türkiye Research Strategies[edit | edit source]

Below are links to different research strategy Wiki pages to help you locate your ancestors in Türkiye:

Türkiye Research Tips[edit | edit source]

Online Learning - video classes on research in Türkiye and the Middle East in general
Record Finder - gives suggestions for which kinds of records to search based on the information being sought
Beginning Your Middle East Family Tree - FamilySearch blog article
Advice for Those Who Want to Research Their Family Tree (Turkish) - article on helpful genealogical records in Türkiye
Until the end of World War I in 1918, Türkiye was a part of the Ottoman Empire, which recorded several censuses and population registers during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Access to these digitized records is available for free to all Turkish citizens. For more information, see Türkiye Civil Registration.
For more information on the Turkish diaspora, see Türkiye Emigration and Immigration.
See Türkiye Societies for organizations and communities focused on Turkish genealogy. Connecting with these groups can provide insight into research questions.

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-Although Turkey is a Muslim country, Islam ceased to be the official religion of Turkey in 1928 and Turkey is now a secular state. Freedom of religion is ensured in the constitution. The population of Turkey is now mostly Muslim Turks. The only significant minority are the Muslim Kurds who constitute about 17% of the total population. Two-thirds of the Muslims in Turkey belong to the Sunni branch of Islam. The other third are Shiites.
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+== Türkiye Research Strategies ==
+Below are links to different research strategy Wiki pages to help you locate your ancestors in [[Türkiye Genealogy|Türkiye]]:
+*[[Türkiye Getting Started|Getting Started]]
+*[[Türkiye Record Finder|Record Finder]]
+*[[Türkiye Finding Town of Origin]]
+*[[Türkiye Emigration and Immigration]]
-Historically Turkey had several significant minorities, particularly the Armenians, Greeks and Kurds. In the 1870s, the area of modern Turkey had about 800,000, or 7%, Christians (chiefly Armenians and Greeks). In the 1920s population exchanges with Greece and the expulsion and massacre of Armenians changed the composition of the population. There are almost no Greeks left in Turkey and Armenians are few.
+== Türkiye Research Tips ==
+*[[Türkiye Online Learning|Online Learning]] - video classes on research in Türkiye and the [[Asia and Middle East|Middle East]] in general
+*[[Türkiye Record Finder|Record Finder]] - gives suggestions for which kinds of records to search based on the information being sought
+*[https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/beginning-middle-east-family-tree/ Beginning Your Middle East Family Tree] - FamilySearch blog article
+*[https://www.secere.org/secerepc/soy_destek.htm Advice for Those Who Want to Research Their Family Tree] (Turkish) - article on helpful genealogical records in Türkiye
+*Until the end of World War I in 1918, Türkiye was a part of the [[Ottoman Empire Genealogy|Ottoman Empire]], which recorded several censuses and population registers during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Access to these digitized records is available for free to all Turkish citizens. For more information, see [[Türkiye Civil Registration]].
+* For more information on the Turkish diaspora, see [[Türkiye Emigration and Immigration]].
+* See [[Türkiye Societies]] for organizations and communities focused on Turkish genealogy. Connecting with these groups can provide insight into research questions.
-Turkish is a non-Semitic language unrelated to Arabic. Until 1928 it was written mostly in a modified Arabic alphabet. The Roman alphabet with several diacritic marks was introduced in 1928 and is now accepted as the official alphabet of the language. Records of the Ottoman Empire were generally written in Turkish in the old Arabic script. In older documents the sijâqat form of the script was used; it is extremely challenging to read. A few records are written in Arabic. There are almost no historical document written in Kurdish. The records of various Christian minorities are in Armenian, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, or Syriac, each with its own distinctive writing system.
-Naming customs in Turkey present a problem for family history research. Until the twentieth century, most Turks had no surnames. They followed the Islamic custom of using one name, given at birth, relying on a patronymic or a word indicating some special attribute for more precise identification. In most registers only given names and patronymic are given. In 1934, the new regime issued an edict requiring that all Turks take family names.
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