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Christmas Season in Siatista
""Can you remember how many times you asked the question "how many days are there left until Christmas?"' wrote in 1930 a columnist in the Thessaloniki...
Statistics Meet Genealogy: Dying in Kontakeika, Samos (1855-1932)
When doing genealogy research, we always come across information that we do not know how to interpret, and new questions pop up in our heads. We find a birth...
Karytaina Ancestry: Interview with Mary LaViolette & Dena Palamedes
In the mountains of Arcadia, 54 km southwest of Tripoli, lies the picturesque village of Karytaina. An administrative and cultural center during the Ottoman...