Greece Research Tips and Strategies

Top Records

 * Dimotologion (Town Register): Lists of families in each village; information includes: family number, date of registration, name of individuals in family, their birth date and place, religion, citizenship, and other notations
 * Oikogeneiaki Katastasis (Family Status): Similar to a Family Group Record, listing members of a family with birth dates and birth places
 * Mitroon Arrenon (Male Registers): Records of births of males:  name of male, father’s name, birth year, place of birth, notes
 * Arheia Scholeiou (School Records): Names and ages of children; some give father’s names
 * Electoral Registers, 1870s
 * Election Collection John Vlachogianni (1864-1925)
 * Archive Hellenic Parliament (1844-1893, 1915)
 * Ladas Collection Election Collection George Lada (1843-1873)
 * Diocese Church Records
 * Local Church Records
 * Apografai (Census) the ones conducted by the Greek government start from 1828, 1836-1845 yearly, then every 3 or 5 years, and finally every 10 years. There was one done retrospective for 1821. In previous years censuses in Greece were performed by other countries.
 * Dowry Contracts (Symvolaiografika Arheia--Notarial Records)
 * Wills (Symvolaiografika Arheia--Notarial Records)
 * Land transfers (Symvolaiografika Arheia--Notarial Records)
 * Stratiotika Arheia (Military Archives): found in local Conscription Offices in capitals of districts