Greece

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Getting started with Greece research

FamilySearch Wiki is a community website dedicated to helping people throughout the world learn how to find their ancestors. Through the Greece page you can learn how to find, use, and analyze Greek records of genealogical value. The content is variously targeted to beginners, intermediate, and expert researchers. Please visit the help page to learn more about using the site. The Greece Page is a work in progress, your contributions and feedback are essential!

Jurisdictions

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Research Tools

• HellenicGenealogyGeek.com - Greek genealogy resources:  Online databases, many links to assist in research, Greek surnames, Free antiquarian books on modern Greek history and much more
• Greek Genealogy Resource

• Greek Genealogy – Family HistoryThis site leads to a list of Counties (NAMOS) which the Family History Library has Microfilms for. Not all NAMOS have been filmed and all records are in Greek or Turkish.

Go to Microfilmed Records and click on Microfilms. It also refers to reference books available at the Library.

• Greek Genealogy Home Page

• Greece Mailing List
• (helpful tools and resources, gazetteers)
• (language dictionary, handwriting guide or tutorial, etc.)

Help Wanted

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Featured Content

When Greece became an independent state, communities began keeping registers of males (Mitroon Arrenon), which list all the males born in a particular community. They were kept for voting and military purposes. Male registers were created for all communities in Greece. As new areas became part of Greece, their communities also began keeping male registers. In some areas male registers were reconstructed from other records back to 1825.

Did you know?

• Most people leaving Greece in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries went to the United States, Egypt, Australia, South America, or South Africa. By 1910, an estimated one quarter to one fifth of the total labor force of Greece had left.

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