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Greek Ancestry Summer Webinar #2: Prof Stasinos Stavrianeas

Greek Ancestry Summer Webinar #1: Prof Gonda van Steen

Prof Gonda van Steen prepared the following handout especially for Greek Ancestry’s followers! You may download it by clicking on the button below.

The Kasotakis Family: The history behind the name

By Giannis Michalakakos – Teacher of Family Studies, Msc Cultural Management In Greece, most of the surnames derive from nicknames, patronymics (paternal given names), occupations and places of origin. The surname “Kassotakis” is an example …

Tracing Freedom: 1821 – The Revolution of 1821 and its impact on your ancestors

By Giannis Michalakakos, MSc in Cultural Management In order to fully understand the impact of the 1821 Revolution on Greek families, we have to understand life before, during and after the Revolution. Most of the examples …

Distinctions of Geronthres, Lakonia

By Gregory Kontos, Historian & Founder of Greek Ancestry Introduction After the Greeks’ long and painful struggle for their national independence (1821-1829), they naturally held great expectations for Otto’s Regency Council. However, the Council of …

Introducing the Greek Genealogy Guide

Exciting news! The new Greek Genealogy Guide has been released! On the last day of the International Greek Ancestry Conference, Greek Ancestry intern, Alexandra Kiritsy, announced the release of the new online Greek Genealogy Guide, …

Are you ready for the International Greek Ancestry Conference?

The International Greek Ancestry Conference, held from January 29th through the 31st, will be a landmark event for our field of Greek family history and genealogy! 2020 has been a challenging year for us all. …

Greek Ancestry Education, Case Study Webinar #4 (Nov. 7th, 2020): Tracing the immigrant’s origin

Greek Ancestry Education, Case Study Webinar #3 (Oct. 31st, 2020): Stories from Notarial Records

Greek Ancestry Education, Case Study Webinar #2 (Oct. 24th, 2020): Jewish Communities of Greece

Greek Ancestry Education, Case Study Webinar #1 (Oct. 17th, 2020): Asia Minor

International Greek Ancestry Conference (Jan. 29-31, 2021)

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Thessaloniki – La Madre de Israel

By Alexandra Kiritsy & Gregory Kontos When Jewish colonists were brought to the newly founded city of Macedonia around 315 B.C., no one could have imagined that Thessaloniki’s history would be closely associated with Jewish …

“My Big Fat Greek Ancestry Summer” Webinar

Despite the pandemic, the past summer was very productive for Greek Ancestry: new collections, new research tools, new analyses and a brand new platform! We would like to share all our news with you this …

Statistics Meet Genealogy: Male Aging Patterns in Lakonia (1910s-1930s)

In June 2020, a special article presenting statistics on naming patterns in the prefecture of Chania, Crete, was published on Greek Ancestry. That analysis was based on our database of Male Register records of approximately …

“Laconian Ancestry” – Pallaconian Brotherhood of Melbourne and Victoria (8/21/2020)

Parish Voter Lists

By Gregory Kontos To dive into family history, you need to understand your sources. This has been quite often noted in Greek Ancestry articles and webinars, yet it has to be repeated until it becomes …

Reflections Of My Homeland: The diary of a man from Palaia Fokaia, Asia Minor

By Alexandra Kiritsy Geia sas, everyone! We are very excited to bring you another article about life in Greek villages around the turn of the century. This week’s piece takes us to Asia Minor, where …

Statistics Meet Genealogy: Naming Patterns in Chania, Crete (1850s-1910)

By Gregory Kontos Your grandfather was born in a village close to Chania, Crete in 1902. His name was Antonis, and you are wondering how common a name that was back then. His surname was …

Reflections Of My Homeland: An Account of Village Life in Geraki, Lakonia

Foreword by Alexandra Kiritsy I have always found imagining the world of my Greek yiayia, say, around the turn of the 20th century, to be a difficult task. Looking back at old black-and-white photographs of …

The great importance of “little” source citations

By Gregory Kontos A source citation is a little note of a relatively standard format which indicates where a piece of information was found: the archive, the collection, the folder, the subfolder. Such notes are …

Introducing “Yiayia & Me”

By Alexandra Kiritsy Geia sas and welcome, everyone! Thank you for checking out our first “Yiayia & Me” article! Read on to learn more about this new platform! What is the goal of Yiayia & …

Greek Ancestry Education, Webinar #7 (June 6th, 2020): A case study

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Greek Ancestry Education, Webinar #6 (May 30th, 2020): Notarial and school records

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Greek Ancestry Education, Webinar #5 (May 23rd, 2020): Civil and church records

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Greek Ancestry Education, Webinar #4 (May 16th, 2020): Asia Minor

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Greek Ancestry Education, Webinar #3 (May 9th, 2020): Municipal Registers and Census records

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Greek Ancestry Education, Webinar #2 (May 2nd, 2020): Male Registers

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Greek Ancestry Education, Webinar #1 (April 25th, 2020): Voter Lists

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Asia Minor Ancestry

After the great interest expressed in this during the first Greek genealogy webinar of April 25th, 2020, we decided to share this story and information. Some time ago, our team was at the General State …

Greek Ancestry Education, #2: Using US records to find your ancestors’ surname and village

In this video, Carol Kostakos Petranek, a pioneer of Greek genealogy, will teach you how to use US immigration, naturalization and alien registration records to find your Greek ancestors’ original surname and village of origin.

Greek Ancestry Education, #1: Two things you need to know before starting your research

This video discusses the two things you need to know when starting your research: the family’s original surname and the family’s exact place of origin.

Ten years Hellenic Genealogy Geek: An assessment of last ten-year developments

In a few days, on April 16th, Hellenic Genealogy Geek celebrates its anniversary. When it was created ten years ago, in 2010, no one would have imagined the developments that were to follow in the field of Greek genealogy.

Retrieving lost connections: from Greece to Romania

After 100 years a family is reunited, retrieving lost connections: from Greece to Romania

In the Enemy’s hands & Tracing Freedom: 1821

Like many of her compatriots, Aikaterini Kanelli of Geraki fell to the hands of the Turks when Ibrahim Pasha invaded the Peloponnese!

Tracing Freedom: 1821 – The longest-lived warrior of the Greek Revolution

Nikolaos Sistakis of Kakodiki, Chania, died in 1904 at the age of 108. He had fought in many of the great battles of the Greek War of Independence: in Missolonghi, in Samos, in Faliro, under Karaiskakis, Brouskos, Miaoulis and Sachtouris!