Greece Research Tips and Strategies
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Greece Research Strategies[edit | edit source]
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- Dimotologion (Town Register): Lists of families in each village; information includes: family number, date of registration, name of individuals in family, their birth date and place, religion, citizenship, and other notations
- Oikogeneiaki Katastasis (Family Status): Similar to a Family Group Record, listing members of a family with birth dates and birth places
- Ektheseis (Reports): recordings by families. Sometimes they include four generations.
- Mitroon Arrenon (Male Registers): Records of births of males: name of male, father’s name, birth year, place of birth, notes
- Arheia Scholeiou (School Records): Names and ages of children; some give father’s names
- Electoral Registers, 1870s
- Vlachogiannis Collection: http://arxeiomnimon.gak.gr/browse/resource.html?tab=01&id=13808
- Collection of the Parliament: http://arxeiomnimon.gak.gr/browse/resource.html?tab=01&id=13721
- Ladas Collection:
- Diocese Church Records
- Local Church Records
- Apografai (Census) the ones conducted by the Greek government start from 1828, 1836-1845 yearly, then every 3 or 5 years, and finally every 10 years. There was one done retrospective for 1821. In previous years censuses in Greece were performed by other countries.
- Dowry Contracts (Symvolaiografika Arheia--Notarial Records)
- Wills (Symvolaiografika Arheia--Notarial Records)
- Land transfers (Symvolaiografika Arheia--Notarial Records)
- Stratiotika Arheia' (Military Archives): found in local Conscription Offices in capitals of districts