by grancestry | Aug 2, 2024 | Articles
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 record and automatically ask ourselves “how many children were born in this village in that year?”...
by grancestry | Jun 4, 2024 | Articles, Projects, Yiayia & Me
In the mountains of Arcadia, 54 km southwest of Tripoli, lies the picturesque village of Karytaina. An administrative and cultural center during the Ottoman period boasting over 3,000 inhabitants, it became the principal village in Gortynia in modern times. The famed...
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,...