Educational Articles
Women in Greek Archives – Missing half us
Despite our best efforts, there is always a gap in our research: our female ancestors or half us!
Families of Kastoreio (Kastania), Mystras, Parori, Socha & Vassaras
New records for 5 Lakonian villages
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Crete’s earliest registration
Antonios Georgakakis was born in Kampos in 1817!
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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!
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