318,531
edits
m
no edit summary
No edit summary |
mNo edit summary |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{Greece-sidebar}}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. | {{Greece-sidebar}} | ||
{{breadcrumb | |||
| link1= [[Greece Genealogy]] | |||
| link2= | |||
| link3= | |||
| link4= | |||
| link5= {{PAGENAME}} | |||
}} | |||
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. | |||
There are two major types of cemetery records in Greece: | There are two major types of cemetery records in Greece: | ||