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Effective family research requires some understanding of the society in which your ancestor lived. Research procedures and genealogical sources are different for each area and time period and are affected by local customs and traditions. Learning about everyday life, religious practices, customs, and traditions is particularly helpful if you choose to write a history of your family.
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==Online Sources==
*[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/browse?type=lcsubc&key=Greece Social life and customs in Greece - Online Books Page]
*[http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/seebohmhugh/structureGreektribal.pdf On the Structure of Greek Tribal Society - An Essay - By Hugh E. Seebohm 1895] [[Category:Greece]][[Category:Social Life and Customs]]
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The family has always played a crucial role in Greek society, extending beyond a married couple to extended relatives, and commanding a loyalty that overrode duty to other groups. Cultivation of land and running of businesses tended to be family enterprises. Daughters generally received dowries. A study of social life in the town of Vasilika, county of Voiotias, may give some background on rural life in Greece:
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* Friedl, Ernestine. ''Vasilika: A Village in Modern Greece''. New York, NY, USA: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962. (FHL book 949.51/V1 H6f)
*Effective family research requires some understanding of the society in which your ancestor lived. Research procedures and genealogical sources are different for each area and time period and are affected by local customs and traditions. Learning about everyday life, religious practices, customs, and traditions is particularly helpful if you choose to write a history of your family.
 
*The family has always played a crucial role in Greek society, extending beyond a married couple to '''extended relatives''', and commanding a loyalty that overrode duty to other groups.
You may also find several additional sources about Greek social life at a public or university library. A bibliography of several interesting publications on this subject is found in the following book:
*Cultivation of land and running of businesses tended to be '''family enterprises'''.  
 
*Daughters generally received '''dowries'''.
* Sanders, Irwin T. ''East European Peasantries: Social Relations: An Annotated Bibliography of Periodical Articles''. Volume 2. Boston, Massachusetts, USA: G.K. Hall, 1981 (55–62). (FHL book 940 H63s)
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*[http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/seebohmhugh/structureGreektribal.pdf On the Structure of Greek Tribal Society - An Essay - By Hugh E. Seebohm 1895]  
|Social life and customs||||Danforth, Loring M. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/4120055?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''The death rituals of rural Greece'']. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1982||Greece
 
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|Social life and customs||||Viscount Kirkwall. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/3740123 ''Four years in the Ionian Islands: Their political and social condition. With a history of the British protectorate'']. London, England : Chapman and Hall, 1864||Greece
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|Social life and customs||||Александьр фол. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/261170?availability=Family%20History%20Library Демографска исоциална структура на древнатраки]. София : Наука и изкуство, 1970||Greece
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|Social life and customs||||Sanders, Irwin T.; Whitaker, Roger; Bisselle, Walter C. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/19688?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''East European peasantries: social relations : an annotated bibliography of periodical articles, volume 2'']. Boston, Massachusetts : G.K. Hall, 1981||Greece
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|Social life and customs||||Leontis, Artemis. [https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=wGdFCQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=Greece+Social+life+and+customs&ots=BM5zwqJHdu&sig=Iv3BoBp7iBiPORsztDqxXDyUjaI#v=onepage&q=Greece%20Social%20life%20and%20customs&f=false ''Culture and Customs of Greece'']. Greenwood Press 2009||Greece
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|Social life and customs||||Hirschon, Renee. [https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=t8ZuhNqL01AC&oi=fnd&pg=PR8&dq=Greece+Social+life+and+customs&ots=RwMd3k5W0z&sig=BRkL9Ok8oF31SpppZEVM2IVJidk#v=onepage&q=Greece%20Social%20life%20and%20customs&f=false ''Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe: The Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees'']. Oxford Press, 1989||Greece
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|Social life and customs||||Mahaffy, John Pentland. [https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=YXc_AQAAIAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=Greece+Social+life+and+customs&ots=GGwuaBRqZU&sig=6KhP7ntkjYiQiSDNu1b5My3nW7E#v=onepage&q=Greece%20Social%20life%20and%20customs&f=false ''Social Life in Greece from Homer to Menander'']. Macmillen and Co., 1894||Greece
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|Customs and lore||||Rodd, Rennell. [https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=k-fYAAAAMAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=Greece+Social+life+and+customs&ots=2QOOQfVcne&sig=dC-_SHelhwsLAnIn6jS4vQPY2Ik#v=onepage&q=Greece%20Social%20life%20and%20customs&f=false ''The Customs and Lore of Modern Greece'']. David Scott, 1892 ||Greece
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|Customs and lore||||Hart, Laurie Kain. [https://scholarship.haverford.edu/anthropology_facpubs/24/ ''Time, Religion, and Social Experience in Rural Greece'']. Haverford College||Greece
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|Social life and customs||||Bryant, Joseph M. [https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=u9mIEkpXuuwC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=Greece+Social+life+and+customs&ots=K1dM43o6Dz&sig=HE1NjD_o9uqmlfoQMjXafe_DT5s#v=onepage&q=Greece%20Social%20life%20and%20customs&f=false ''Moral Codes and Social Structure in Ancient Greece: A Sociology of Greek'']. State University of New York, 1996||Greece
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|Social life and customs||||Wright, F. A. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/greek-social-life/oclc/623216&referer=brief_results ''Greek social life'']. [New York] [AMS Press], 1973||Greece
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|Life and art||||von Falke, Jacob. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/greece-and-rome-their-life-and-art/oclc/4018895&referer=brief_results ''Greece and Rome; their life and art'']. [New York] [AMS Press], 1886||Greece
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|Social life and customs||||Mahaffy, J. P. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/social-life-in-greece-from-homer-to-menander/oclc/473148551&referer=brief_results ''Social Life in Greece from Homer to Menander'']. London, 1890||Greece
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|Social life and customs||||Talbot, Thomas. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/greece-and-the-greeks-or-a-historic-sketch-of-attic-life-and-manners/oclc/1044087150&referer=brief_results ''Greece and the Greeks, or, A Historic sketch of Attic life and manners'']. London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1881||Greece
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|Manners and customs||||St. John, James Augustus. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/history-of-the-manners-and-customs-of-ancient-greece/oclc/1523085&referer=brief_results ''The history of the manners and customs of ancient Greece'']. London, R. Bentley, 1842||Greece
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|Food habits||||Sterling, Richard; Dacakis, Georgia; Reeves, Kate. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/greece/oclc/50674888&referer=brief_results ''Greece'']. Footscray, Vic.: Lonely Planet Publications, 2002||Greece
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|Everyday life||||Robinson, Cyril E. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/everyday-life-in-ancient-greece/oclc/477404644&referer=brief_results ''Everyday life in ancient Greece'']. LaVergne, TN? : [Hesperides Press], 2009||Greece
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|Social life and customs||||Van Hook, Larue. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/greek-life-and-thought-a-portrayal-of-greek-civilization/oclc/4949800&referer=brief_results Greek life and thought : a portrayal of Greek civilization'']. New York: Columbia University Press, 1930||Greece
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|Social life and customs||to 146 BC||Grant, Michael. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/social-history-of-greece-and-rome/oclc/26547899&referer=brief_results ''A social history of Greece and Rome'']. New York: Scribner: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992 ||Greece
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|Social life and customs||||Ferguson, John; Chisholm, Kitty. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/political-and-social-life-in-the-great-age-of-athens-a-source-book/oclc/6622069&referer=brief_results ''Political and social life in the great age of Athens: a source book'']. London: Ward Lock Educational in association with Open University Press, 1978||Greece
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|Social life and customs||||Ehrenberg, Victor. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/society-and-civilization-in-greece-and-rome/oclc/898916292&referer=brief_results ''Society and civilization in Greece and Rome'']. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1965||Greece
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|Social life and customs||||Vernant, Jean Pierre; Vidal-Naquet, Pierre. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/tragedy-and-myth-in-ancient-greece/oclc/7505782&referer=brief_results ''Tragedy and myth in ancient Greece'']. Sussex [England] : Harvester Press ; New Jersey : Humanities Press, 1981||Greece
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  • Effective family research requires some understanding of the society in which your ancestor lived. Research procedures and genealogical sources are different for each area and time period and are affected by local customs and traditions. Learning about everyday life, religious practices, customs, and traditions is particularly helpful if you choose to write a history of your family.
  • The family has always played a crucial role in Greek society, extending beyond a married couple to extended relatives, and commanding a loyalty that overrode duty to other groups.
  • Cultivation of land and running of businesses tended to be family enterprises.
  • Daughters generally received dowries.

Publications

Topic Time period Resource Locations Covered
Social life and customs Danforth, Loring M. The death rituals of rural Greece. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1982 Greece
Social life and customs Viscount Kirkwall. Four years in the Ionian Islands: Their political and social condition. With a history of the British protectorate. London, England : Chapman and Hall, 1864 Greece
Social life and customs Александьр фол. Демографска исоциална структура на древнатраки. София : Наука и изкуство, 1970 Greece
Social life and customs Sanders, Irwin T.; Whitaker, Roger; Bisselle, Walter C. East European peasantries: social relations : an annotated bibliography of periodical articles, volume 2. Boston, Massachusetts : G.K. Hall, 1981 Greece
Social life and customs Leontis, Artemis. Culture and Customs of Greece. Greenwood Press 2009 Greece
Social life and customs Hirschon, Renee. Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe: The Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees. Oxford Press, 1989 Greece
Social life and customs Mahaffy, John Pentland. Social Life in Greece from Homer to Menander. Macmillen and Co., 1894 Greece
Customs and lore Rodd, Rennell. The Customs and Lore of Modern Greece. David Scott, 1892 Greece
Customs and lore Hart, Laurie Kain. Time, Religion, and Social Experience in Rural Greece. Haverford College Greece
Social life and customs Bryant, Joseph M. Moral Codes and Social Structure in Ancient Greece: A Sociology of Greek. State University of New York, 1996 Greece
Social life and customs Wright, F. A. Greek social life. [New York] [AMS Press], 1973 Greece
Life and art von Falke, Jacob. Greece and Rome; their life and art. [New York] [AMS Press], 1886 Greece
Social life and customs Mahaffy, J. P. Social Life in Greece from Homer to Menander. London, 1890 Greece
Social life and customs Talbot, Thomas. Greece and the Greeks, or, A Historic sketch of Attic life and manners. London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1881 Greece
Manners and customs St. John, James Augustus. The history of the manners and customs of ancient Greece. London, R. Bentley, 1842 Greece
Food habits Sterling, Richard; Dacakis, Georgia; Reeves, Kate. Greece. Footscray, Vic.: Lonely Planet Publications, 2002 Greece
Everyday life Robinson, Cyril E. Everyday life in ancient Greece. LaVergne, TN? : [Hesperides Press], 2009 Greece
Social life and customs Van Hook, Larue. Greek life and thought : a portrayal of Greek civilization. New York: Columbia University Press, 1930 Greece
Social life and customs to 146 BC Grant, Michael. A social history of Greece and Rome. New York: Scribner: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992 Greece
Social life and customs Ferguson, John; Chisholm, Kitty. Political and social life in the great age of Athens: a source book. London: Ward Lock Educational in association with Open University Press, 1978 Greece
Social life and customs Ehrenberg, Victor. Society and civilization in Greece and Rome. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1965 Greece
Social life and customs Vernant, Jean Pierre; Vidal-Naquet, Pierre. Tragedy and myth in ancient Greece. Sussex [England] : Harvester Press ; New Jersey : Humanities Press, 1981 Greece
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