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Social Life and Customs

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