Educational Articles
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, Webinar #1 (April 25th, 2020): Voter Lists
The first ever Greek genealogy webinar, on April 25th, 2020, through Greek Ancestry’s Facebook page. Presenter: Gregory Kontos. In this webinar we discussed Greek voter lists!
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 Archives (GAK) of Athens searching through the "Archive of the...
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, Case Study Webinar #1 (Oct. 17th, 2020): Asia Minor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0sumW8rRYs
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 history throughout the centuries. About...
“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 Saturday, Sept. 26th, at 3pm ET (2pm CT, 1pm MT, noon PT)! Join...
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 56,500 individuals born in the area of...
“Laconian Ancestry” – Pallaconian Brotherhood of Melbourne and Victoria (8/21/2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hnDJE_9g6Q
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