by grancestry | Mar 29, 2024 | Articles, Yiayia & Me
On a cold gray November morning, I crept into my parents’ warm bedroom to find the daily newspaper on the night stand. It was the Chicago Tribune with the 1948 presidential election results emblazoned on its front page. The headline all in caps read, “DEWEY...
by grancestry | Dec 22, 2023 | Articles, Yiayia & Me
Patras was one of the first cities to join the Revolution in 1821; however, it did not manage to get liberated until 1828. The Civil War of the revolutionaries (1823-1825) had interrupted the path to liberation, while Ibrahim Pasha, who arrived in 1825, had almost...
by grancestry | Dec 1, 2023 | Articles, Yiayia & Me
Genealogy and history are two interrelated fields. They both study and reflect on the past and they both rely on historical sources, such as census data, birth and death certificates, immigration records, and other archival records. Tracing one’s ancestry,...
by grancestry | Oct 6, 2023 | Articles, Yiayia & Me
In the realm of genealogy and historical research, there are few experiences more heartwarming and rewarding than when the past and present converge to illuminate the stories of our ancestors. In October 2022, we were fortunate enough to share an article that touched...
by grancestry | Jul 28, 2023 | Articles, Projects, Yiayia & Me
July 24th, 2023, marked the centennial of the Treaty of Lausanne. This article aims to shed light on the historical context of that Treaty by studying newly digitized records of Greek refugees from Asia Minor and Eastern Thrace. The findings of the statistical...
by grancestry | Jun 21, 2023 | Articles
In part one of “Milestones in Greek Electoral History” we talked about the most important electoral battles in 19th- and early 20th-century Greece. Leaving back the “long 19th century” and the outbreak of the First World War together with its consequences,...
