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Guide to Fthiotida Province ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

'Most of your genealogical research for Fthiotis, Fthiotidos, will be in two main record types: civil registration (___________) and church records (_________''). This article will teach you methods for locating and searching these two record groups.'''

=Accessing the Records=

1. GRK (________)
The ______ Archives hold many private and public sources that are essential to the genealogical research and the history of some families and persons. The main sources are: Note:
 * The ______ Registry, together with the attached 1-year and 10-year origin indexes
 * Military service archives.
 * _____public archives.
 * Family and personal archives.
 * Nominal sources and sources for emigration.
 * Find Your Greek Ancestors Online Through __________ Tutorial. Class Handout
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2. Online Digital Records for Civil Registration
For some localities, digital copies of civil registration can be searched online:


 * 1866-1942 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; free, browsable images.
 * 1866-1943 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; free, browsable images.

"Nati" are births. "Matrimoni" and "allegati" are marriages.  "Morti" are deaths. "Indici decennali" is the 10-year index.

3. Microfilm or Digital Copies of Civil Registration Records in the FamilySearch Catalog

 * a. Click on this link to see a list of records for Italy, Bologna.
 * b. Click on "Places within Italy, Bologna" and a list of towns and cities will open.
 * c. Click on the town or city you wish to search.
 * d. Click on "Civil Registration" topic. Click on the blue links to specific record titles.
 * e. Choose the correct event and time period for your ancestor.
 * f. Some combination of these icons will appear at the far right of the microfilm listed for the record. FHL icons.png. The magnifying glass indicates that the microfilm is indexed. Clicking on the magnifying glass will take you to the index. Clicking on the camera will take you to an online digital copy of the microfilm.

4. Writing for Civil Registration Certificates
If the records are not online or microfilmed, civil registration records in Greece can be obtained by writing to the local civil registry. This is also necessary for more recent records. Recent records are covered by privacy laws, so they are not released for microfilm or online. But relatives are allowed request them for genealogy. Civil officials will generally answer correspondence in Greek or English. Your request may be forwarded if the records have been sent to the tribunale or the provincia.

Address list for municipalities of Fthiotidos Format for address for local office: use this address as a guide, replacing the information in parentheses:


 * Sindaco
 * Comune di (name of the locality)
 * (Street address, if known)
 * (postal code) (city) (Province abbreviation:BO)
 * Greece


 * Find the Greek postal code here.

Address for provincial office:
 * UFFICIO ANAGRAFE E STATO CIVILE
 * Vicolo Bolognetti 2
 * 40125 Bologna (BO)
 * Italy

After you have determined what office has jurisdiction over the records you need, write a brief request to the proper office. '''Write your request in Greek whenever possible. For writing your letter in Greek, use the translated questions and phrases in this Greek Letter Writing Guide. Send the following:'''


 * Cashier’s check or international money order (in local currency) for the search fee. See How To Send Return Postage and Money.
 * Full name and the sex of the person sought.
 * Names of the parents, if known.
 * Approximate date and place of the event.
 * Your relationship to the person.
 * Reason for the request (family history or medical).
 * Request for a complete extract of the record

1. Digital Online and Microfilm Church Records in the FamilySearch Catalog
There are some microfilmed records available. Currently, they are being digitized, and plans are to complete that project by 2020. Check back occasionally to see if your records have become available. In the meantime, some of them might be available at a FamilySearch Center near you. To find a microfilm:


 * a. Click on this link to see a list of records for Italy, Bologna".
 * b. Click on "Places within Italy, Bologna" and a list of towns and cities will open.
 * c. Click on the town or city you wish to search.
 * d. Click on "Church Records" topic. Click on the blue links to specific record titles.
 * e. Choose the correct event and time period for your ancestor. "Battesimi" are infant baptisms, which are used for birth information. "Matrimoni" are marriages.  "Morti" are deaths.


 * f. Some combination of these icons will appear at the far right of the microfilm listed for the record. FHL icons.png. Clicking on the magnifying glass will take you to the index. Clicking on the camera will take you to an online digital copy of the microfilm.

2. Writing to a ___________for Church Records
Baptism, marriage, and death records may be searched by contacting or visiting local parish or diocese archives in Italy. Italy has no single repository of church records. Write your request in Italian whenever possible. 'This method is not always reliable. Officials might or might not respond.'

Write a brief request in Italian to the proper church using this address as guide replacing the information in parentheses:


 * Reverendo Parroco
 * (Street address, if known: consult The Catholic Directory)
 * (Postal code) (City) (Province abbreviation:BO)
 * ITALY


 * Find the Italian postal code here.

'''Write your request in Italian whenever possible. For writing your letter in Greek, use the translated questions and phrases in this Greek Letter Writing Guide.''' When requesting information, send the following:

=History=
 * Cashier’s check or international money order (in local currency) for the search fee. See How To Send Return Postage and Money.
 * Full name and the sex of the person sought.
 * Names of the parents, if known.
 * Approximate date and place of the event.
 * Your relationship to the person.
 * Reason for the request (family history or medical).
 * Request for a complete extract of the record

Bologna Province (Wikipedia)

Municipalities in Fthiotis
Here are the modern municipalities within the province of Fthiotis:


 * 1) Lamia
 * 2) Makrakomi
 * 3) Stylida

Each municipality used to belong to the following jursidictions:

Locating Town of Origin in Italy
In order to research your family in Greece, it is essential that you have identified the place where they came from. You must know the village or municipality that they came from otherwise it will be difficult to identify the place of origin by going directly to Greek sources. Therefore, you will need to search in United States (or other country of arrival) sources first. See Italy Gathering Information to Locate Place of Origin to learn how to search for the Greek place of origin in United States records.

=Understanding the Records=

Civil Registration (_____________)

 * Civil registration records (_____________) are government records of births, marriages, and deaths.


 * Dates: In Domokos, registering births, marriages, and deaths began in ______. In Lokris, civil registration began in ______. In Fthiotis, it began in ________. After this date, virtually all individuals who lived in Greece were recorded.


 * Contents: For detailed descriptions of the information you might find in each record, see Information recorded in civil registers.


 * Language: The records were almost always kept in Greek, except for _______. In the ________ regions, many records are in ________ and _______. Don't worry; you will be able to search these foreign languages by learning just a few typical words such as those for mother, father, born, name, bride, groom, married, etc. More help with this is given later in this article.


 * Accessing the records: Civil registration records were and are kept at the __________ (________) in each town or city. A copy of each record is sent to the ________ (_________).


 * Determining the locality: You must determine the town where your ancestor lived before you can find the records. Your ancestor may have lived in a village that belonged to a nearby larger town. Large cities may have many civil registration districts. You may need to use maps, gazetteers, and other geographic references to identify the place where your ancestor lived and the civil registration office that served that place. See ____Maps and _____ Gazetteers for information on how to find civil registration offices.


 * State of the Family (Stato di famiglia): A civil record unique to Greece is....


 * To learn more about GreekCivil Registration, read '''Greek Civil ______.

Church Records (registri ecclesiastici)

 * Church records (registri ecclesiastici) are vital records kept by priests and are often called parish registers or church books. They include records of christenings (baptisms), marriages, and deaths (burials). In addition, church records may include confirmations, first communions, and church census records. The __________ is traditionally recognized as the state church because most Greeks are Greek Orthodox. Nearly every person who lived in Greece was recorded in a church record during the last 200 to 300 years.


 * Church records are crucial for research before the civil government started keeping vital records, which began about _____, and in some provinces, ____. After that, church records continued to be kept but often contain less information. It can be helpful to search both types of records, particularly if your ancestors' information seems to be missing from one or the other. Of course, in some cases you will find only church records online for a locality, which are therefore more accessible than writing for civil registration. However, they usually contain fewer details.


 * To learn more about church records, see Greece Church Records.

Reading the Records
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 * You do not have to be fluent in Greek to read your documents. Genealogical records usually contain a limited vocabulary. Use this Greece Genealogical Word List.


 * Online resources are available to help you learn to read these records:
 * Italian Script Tutorial
 * __________
 * __________
 * __________

Civil Registration Tips

 * In many areas during the earliest years of civil registration, records were indexed by the given names. Therefore, you must search every entry in the index to make sure you find every individual who had a certain surname.


 * Eventually, however, indexes were alphabetized by surname. Women are always found in the indexes under their maiden names.


 * Births were generally registered within a day or two of the child’s birth, usually by the father of the family or by the attending midwife. Corrections to a birth record may have been added as a marginal note. In later records, marginal notes' are frequently found, providing marriage and death information. (DELETE?)


 * Marriages were usually performed and recorded where the bride lived. (is this true for Greek records?)


 * Do not overlook the importance of death records. Death records are especially helpful because they may provide important information about a person’s birth, spouse, and parents. Civil death records often exist for individuals for whom there are no birth or marriage records.