‼️ GREECE RESEARCH LINKS ..... important aids, start your search here
GENERAL ARCHIVES OF GREECE (GAK)
· “How to Navigate the GAK Digital Website”
· Rootstech 2022, "Online Greek Records at the General State Archives of Greece, My Heritage, and Greek Ancestry." by Gregory Kontos
. FamilySearch Greece Research Page
· FamilySearch Research Wiki, Greece Genealogy main page. There are MANY links from this main page. See “Record Types” on the right side. Scroll down to clickable “map” to access County pages. Research guidance links.
· FamilySearch Catalog. In place, enter, Greece, County, Town—then search. Or start at the Greece level, then click the blue “Places within Greece,” then “Places with County.” Most church and civil registration record collections are in the catalog at the town level. After clicking “church records” or “civil registration," click the title to the collection in blue. Scroll down to the film notes to see details. Under format look for a camera icon (click) for images you can access online.
· FamilySearch Images. Enter Greece, then “Search Image Groups.” Another way to explore online record images.
· FamilySearch Genealogies. A place to search submitted family trees.
HELLENIC GENEALOGY GEEK
· Hellenic Genealogy Geek Research Links
· Hellenic Genealogy Geek Blog
· Hellenic Genealogy Geek Facebook group
· Services: Free Greek genealogy Consultation, Document Translation, Professional Research
· Collections: Voter, Lists of Greece (1840’s-1930’s)/ City Directories (1901-1947)/ Male Registers of Greece (1817-1918)/ Military Lists/ Censuses (1828-1868)/ Farmer Census (1856)/ Parish Census (1856-1859)/ Parish Voter Lists (1912-1940)
· Facebook-Hellenic Genealogy Geek page
· Facebook-Hellenic Genealogy Resource page
· Facebook- Greek Ancestry and History
Greece, Electoral Rolls and Male Registers, 1856-1950
Greece, Corfu Vital Records, 1841-1932
Greece, Sparta Marriages, 1835-1935
· Rootech 2021, "Opa, It's All Greek to Me! Researching your Greek Ancestors" by Kathleen Kaldis. Also available on YouTube
Rootstech 2022, "Online Greek Records at the General State Archives of Greece, My Heritage, and Greek Ancestry." by Gregory Kontos
Rootstech 2022, "Online Greek Records at FamilySearch" by Carol Kostakos Petranek
Greek Ancestry YouTube Channel:
· GreekAncestry Education, Webinar #1, (April 24, 2020) by Gregory Kontos, “Voter’s Lists”
· GreekAncestry Education, Webinar #2, (May 2, 2020) by Gregory Kontos, “Male Registers”
· GreekAncestry Education, Webinar #3, (May 9, 2020) by Gregory Kontos, “Municipal Registers and Census records”
· GreekAncestry Education, Webinar #4, (May 15, 2020) by Gregory Kontos, “Asia Minor”
· GreekAncestry Education, Webinar #5, (Mar 23, 2020) by Gregory Kontos, “Civil and church records”
· GreekAncestry Education, Webinar #6, (May 30, 2020) by Gregory Kontos, “Notarial and school records”
· GreekAncestry Education, Webinar #7, (June 6, 2020) by Gregory Kontos, “A Case Study”
· GreekAncestry Education, (2020) by Carol Kostakos Petranek, “Using US records to find your ancestors’ surname and village, Part 1”
· GreekAncestry Education, (August 21, 2020) by Gregory Kontos, “Laconian Ancestry”
· GreekAncestry Education, (September 26, 2020) by Gregory Kontos, “My Big Fat Greek Ancestry Summer”
· GreekAncestry Education, (October 17, 2020) by Gregory Kontos, “Case Study Webinar #1, Asia Minor,”
· GreekAncestry Education, (October 24, 2020) by Gregory Kontos, “Case Study Webinar #2, “Jewish Communities in Greece”
· GreekAncestry Education, (October 31, 2020) by Gregory Kontos, “Case Study Webinar #3: Stories from Notarial Records”
· GreekAncestry Education, (Nov 7, 2020) by Gregory Kontos, “Case Study Webinar #4: Tracing the immigrant’s origin”
· GreekAncestry Education, (Dec 19, 2020) by Linda Carol Trotter, “Interview with Linda Carol Trotter, President of the Eftychia Project”
· GreekAncestry Education, (March 18, 2021) by Carol Kostakos, “Navigating the General State Archives of Greece (GSA/GAK) Website”
· GreekAncestry Education, 1st Int. GreekAncestry Conf., (Jan 30, 2021), by Sam Williams, “Why Orthodox Christians Should Do Their Genealogy”
· GreekAncestry Education, 1st Int. GreekAncestry Conf., (Jan 30, 2021) by Giannis Michalakakos, “Family Life, Customs and Economy”
· GreekAncestry Education, 1st Int. GreekAncestry Conf., (Jan 30, 2021) by Carol Kostakos Petranek & Georgia Keilman Stryker, “Records and Repositories in Greece”
· GreekAncestry Education, 1st Int. GreekAncestry Conf., (Jan29, 2021) Panel Discussion, “Reconstructing a Village Using Family Trees—You Can Do It, Too!”
· GreekAncestry Education, 1st Int. GreekAncestry Conf., (Jan 30, 2021) by Prof. Roderick Beaton, “The 1821 Revolution as Experienced by Your Ancestors”
· GreekAncestry Education, 1st Int. GreekAncestry Conf., (Jan 30, 2021), by Kitroeff, Steen, Kontos, panel, “Early Migration, Settlement in a New Land, Adoptions”
· GreekAncestry Education, 1st Int. GreekAncestry Conf., (Jan 31, 2021) by Sam Williams, “Applying DNA to Greek Genealogy”
· GreekAncestry Education, 1st Int. GreekAncestry Conf., (Jan 31, 2021) by Gregory Kontos, “Analyzing ‘Big Data’ in Greek Genealogy”
· GreekAncestry Education, 1st Int. GreekAncestry Conf., (Jan 31, 2021) by George Tapalidis, “The Ottoman Greeks of the United States Project (OGUS)”
· GreekAncestry Education, 1st Int. GreekAncestry Conf., (Jan 31, 2021) by Paul Pavlokos and panel, “The Future of Greek Genealogy”
· GreekAncestry Education, 1st Int. GreekAncestry Conf., (Jan 31, 2021) by Gregory Kontos, “Research on Greece’s Borderlands”
· GreekAncestry Education, 1st Int. GreekAncestry Conf., (Jan 31, 2021), by Ionnis Papachristou, “Insular Genealogy: The Marmara Islands Case”
· GreekAncestry Education, 1st Int. GreekAncestry Conf., (Jan 31, 2021), by Anastasia (Topsy) Douris, “Insights into Ikarian genealogy”
· GreekAncestry Education, 2nd Int. GreekAncestry Conf., (Jan 29, 2022) by Carol Kostakos Petranek, “Finding an ancestor’s original surname & village of origin”
· GreekAncestry Education,
· GreekAncestry Education, Summer Webinar #1, (June 5, 2021), by Prof. Gonda V. Steen, “Adopted from Greece in the 1950’s-a960’s”
· GreekAncestry Education, Summer Webinar #2, (June 12, 2021), by Prof. Stas. Stavrianeas, “Genealogy and Ancient Greek Philosophy”
· GreekAncestry Education Summer Webinar #3, (June 19, 2021), by Prof. Angelyn Balodimas, “Organizing a village history project”
· GreekAncestry Education, 2nd Int. GreekAncestry Conf., (Jan 29, 2022) Day 1
· GreekAncestry Education, 2nd Int. GreekAncestry Conf., (Jan 29, 2022) by Sofia Pitsineli, “Heroes Till the End: The Mast Moments of Greek Fighters”
· GreekAncestry Education, 2nd Int. GreekAncestry Conf., (Jan 29, 2022) by Nicholas Gage, “An Interview with Author Nicholas Gage”
· FamilySearch, (Sept 9, 2020) by Trisha Kougioulis, “Greek Research Discussion”
· Greek “My True Ancestry” Results, (Nov 6, 2020) by Vanessa Bland
· Web: Greece, Census Indexes, 1724-1879, Censuses are included from the regions of Mykonos, Hermoupolis (also known as Ermoupoli), and Cerigo (present day Kythira).