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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 her often tricks my mind into thinking that her world was...
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 internationally considered a primary standard in...
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 & Me? Greg and I have been investigating our personal family...
Greek Ancestry Education, Webinar #7 (June 6th, 2020): A case study
Greek Ancestry Education, Webinar #6 (May 30th, 2020): Notarial and school records
Greek Ancestry Education, Webinar #5 (May 23rd, 2020): Civil and church records
In our 5th Greek Ancestry webinar, we discussed Greek civil and church records!
Greek Ancestry Education, Webinar #4 (May 16th, 2020): Asia Minor
The topic of our 4th Greek Ancestry webinar was Asia Minor!
Greek Ancestry Education, Webinar #3 (May 9th, 2020): Municipal Registers and Census records
Our third Greek genealogy webinar, on May 9th, 2020, through Greek Ancestry’s Facebook page. Presenter: Gregory Kontos. In this webinar we discussed Greek municipal registers and census records!
Greek Ancestry Education, Webinar #2 (May 2nd, 2020): Male Registers
Our second Greek genealogy webinar, on May 2nd, 2020, through Greek Ancestry’s Facebook page. Presenter: Gregory Kontos. In this webinar we discussed Greek male registers!
Greek Ancestry Education, Case Study Webinar #4 (Nov. 7th, 2020): Tracing the immigrant’s origin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOJ3cdUoLPo
Greek Ancestry Education, Case Study Webinar #3 (Oct. 31st, 2020): Stories from Notarial Records
https://youtu.be/U8VyVBBqViQ
Greek Ancestry Education, Case Study Webinar #2 (Oct. 24th, 2020): Jewish Communities of Greece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzBrAz_aoKM
Greek Ancestry Education, Case Study Webinar #1 (Oct. 17th, 2020): Asia Minor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0sumW8rRYs
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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 history throughout the centuries. About...