We’re EXCITED  to announce the NEW Bite-Sized Greek Genealogy Booklet .  This is a FREE downloadable 50 page PDF that is a companion to the Bite-Sized Greek Genealogy video series.  It is an expanded version of the handouts created for each video and contains additional references and many website links. Visit the HellenicGenealogyGeek.com website where you will find the link to the booklet and the video series. We hope this will be a helpful resource and companion to the videos. Wishing you success in your Greek Genealogy research!

  FamilySearch.org has a database titled "INTERNATIONAL GENEALOGICAL INDEX (IGI)".  The Community Contributed IGI includes records submitted for 63,853 people born in Greece.  There are an additional 118,394 for people born in Turkey.   https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/igi Community Contributed IGI (approximately 430 million names) represents a set of records submitted to the LDS church for which no historical record collection source is known. Some of these records came directly from original sources. .... The majority of the records may contain data from multiple sources. To do an exhaustive search for your ancestor you should choose to search the Community Contributed IGI from the IGI collection details page and then follow the process outlined on the Family Search Wiki IGI page to determine if the record you find was part of an indexed collection.  For further information on this collection  https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Intern...

  Recently I have been reviewing the Greek Government Gazettes that Carol Kostakos Petranek covered in her Spartan Roots blog “ Φ.Ε.Κ. The Official Newspaper of the Government of Greece” -  https://spartanroots.wordpress.com/2018/11/03/%cf%86-%ce%b5-%ce%ba/ I am browsing through each issue looking for lists of names that might include one of my ancestors. It is a very tedious job.   I realized it might be useful to post and translate names from these lists for YOU. If you find your ancestor’s name and need help translating the associated text, feel free to post on the Hellenic Genealogy Geek Facebook group and ask for help from our wonderful members. ----- 14 September1833 - Government Gazette - A29 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nstYGpEIkVC5hi4aijUfmvudeDqXZXSt/view?usp=sharing NOTE:  Names are listed in the same order that they are presented on the page ----- Page 10 Α. Μοναρχιδης – A . Monarchidis Α . Ζαιμης – A. Zaimis Ν. Θεοχαρης – N. Theocharis ...

Recently I have been reviewing the Greek Government Gazettes that Carol Kostakos Petranek covered in her Spartan Roots blog “ Φ.Ε.Κ. The Official Newspaper of the Government of Greece” - https://spartanroots.wordpress.com/2018/11/03/%cf%86-%ce%b5-%ce%ba/ I am browsing through each issue looking for lists of names that might include one of my ancestors. It is a very tedious job.   I realized it might be useful to post and translate names from these lists for YOU. If you find your ancestor’s name and need help translating the associated text, feel free to post on the Hellenic Genealogy Geek Facebook group and ask for help from our wonderful members. ----- 1 August 1833 - Government Gazette - A23 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OEBLzgFgU9TcuTw_YqHTEYwxYg7vw8tT/view?usp=sharing NOTE:  Names are listed in the same order that they are presented on the page ----- Page 11 Ν. Σιλιβεργος – N. Silivergos Μ. Αργυροπουλος – M. Argyropoulos Π. Κανταυρος – P. Kantavros Κ. Ν. Λεβιδης – ...

Recently I have been reviewing the Greek Government Gazettes that Carol Kostakos Petranek covered in her Spartan Roots blog “ Φ.Ε.Κ. The Official Newspaper of the Government of Greece” - https://spartanroots.wordpress.com/2018/11/03/%cf%86-%ce%b5-%ce%ba/ I am browsing through each issue looking for lists of names that might include one of my ancestors. It is a very tedious job.   I realized it might be useful to post and translate names from these lists for YOU. If you find your ancestor’s name and need help translating the associated text, feel free to post on the Hellenic Genealogy Geek Facebook group and ask for help from our wonderful members. ----- 29 May 1833 - Government Gazette - A20   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J90rNPotLXO0QXQjZzKmWKEdsjiATXnU/view?usp=sharing NOTE:  Names are listed in the same order that they are presented on the page ----- Page 14 Αναστασιον Μαυρομιχαλην – Anastasios Mavromichalis Σταμον Σεραφειμ – Stamos Serfeim Ιωαννην Γουστη...

Recently I have been reviewing the Greek Government Gazettes that Carol Kostakos Petranek covered in her  Spartan Roots blog “ Φ.Ε.Κ. The Official Newspaper of the Government of Greece” - https://spartanroots.wordpress.com/2018/11/03/%cf%86-%ce%b5-%ce%ba/ I am browsing through each issue looking for lists of names that might include one of my ancestors. It is a very tedious job.    I realized it might be useful to post and translate names from these lists for YOU. If you find your ancestor’s name and need help translating the associated text , feel free to post on the Hellenic Genealogy Geek Facebook group and ask for help from our wonderful members. ----- 4 May 1833 - Government Gazette - A17 - Page 16  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YY-Im8vVMXnIFf0TIjPMmMVk9qUWXUzo/view?usp=sharing NOTE:  Names are listed in the same order that they are presented on the page ----- Σωτηριος Βαλτινος – Sotirios Valtinos Νικολαος Τζιντζος – Nikolaos Tzintzos Χριστοδ...

The menu at The Greek THE ATHENS HOTEL OF OLD NEW YORK by Steve Frangos published in The National Herald April 4, 2020 The National Herald has given HellenicGenealogyGeek.com permission to post articles that are of interest to our group. -------------------------------------------- In Old New York, everyone who was anyone simply said they were going to 'The Greek'. Various reasons prompted visiting The Greek: an elegant leisurely breakfast, lunch, or dinner; just to meet some friends in the lounge over cigars and brandy; a safe clean place to stay while visiting New York City. In the evening it might be some elaborate social event. The sign out front, on 30 East Forty-second street, said 'Hotel Athens'. The hotel also had frontages on 42nd and 41st streets, 123 feet east of Madison Avenue (New York Tribune March 21, 1909). To be more exact “the hotel is T shaped, fronting 31.6 feet on Forty-second street and extends 200 feet through the b...

FamilySearch.org has added a database titled "California, Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at San Francisco from Insular Possessions, 1907-1911" which includes 7 people born in Greece. The following information may be found in these records: Name Age Sex Nationality Race Time entering insular possessions and where Final destination

FamilySearch.org has a FREE database titled ARIZONA, NOGALES, INDEX AND MANIFESTS OF ALIEN ARRIVALS, 1905-1952 .  There are 632 people in these records that show Greece as their place of birth .  There are an additional 206 showing Turkey as their place of birth, some with Greek sounding names. DESCRIPTION This collection contains over 455,000 manifests and related index cards of permanent and temporary alien arrivals at Nogales, Arizona, 1905-1952. The cards are arranged alphabetically by surname and include such information as name, age, gender, marital status, occupation, citizenship, race, last permanent residence, birthplace, etc. The original records were filmed by the INS in August-October 1956 and then destroyed. The microfilms were later transferred to the National Archives under NARA publication M1769.

AncestralFindings.com published a blog posting on THE ORIGIN AND MEANING OF YOUR GREEK SURNAME.   Excerpt from article: ".... each historical period in Greece had its own method of surname creation, assuming it was a time period when surnames were even being used. As an example, ancient Greeks did not have official surnames like we do today. However, they did use patronymics to identify each other from their friends and neighbors who may have the same given name as them. Each man or woman would be given a patronymic meaning “son of” or “daughter of,” along with their father’s given name. When a woman married, her patronymic would change to “wife of,” with her husband’s given name. An example is Hericles Pileidis, meaning “Hericles, son of Pileas.” The use of surnames in Greece as we use them today did not start until about the end of the 1400’s A.D. Until that time, Greeks usually simply had a first (aka given) name, usually with a patronymic added on to it. Someti...

Below is the link to the updated list of  2,321 RESOURCES FOR  HELLENIC GENEALOGY RESEARCH    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ay18G4Tzv8FZGFOdBIRBaGJEWFX5gCVTqniSpa7u8sE/edit?usp=sharing

RESOURCES FOR HELLENIC GENEALOGY RESEARCH  By Georgia Stryker Keilman  HellenicGenealogyGeek.com           Note:  This is my first attempt at putting together a resource list of links to use when researching your Greek family history.  I will be working on putting together a more expansive list, but thought I would try to provide this preliminary list for your use.  CLICK HERE TO VIEW OR DOWNLOAD DOCUMENT TABLE OF CONTENTS  Adoption/Orphans  Asia Minor / Pontos / Anatolia / Ottoman Empire / Turkey  Cemetery/Funerals/Obituaries  Culture  Diaspora (-  General, Africa, Albania, Argentina, Asia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Caribbean,  Chile, Columbia, Cyprus, Egypt, England plus Ireland Scotland, Wales, France, Germany, Hungary,  India, Iran, Italy, Jordan, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Russia/USSR, Serbia, Switzerland, Syria,  Thailand, Ukraine, Yugos...

The digital collections of the Greek State Archives offer a wealth of information to those of us interested in Greek genealogy.  As part of their online collection is the "Election Material From the Collection of Vlachoyiannis" .  This includes "General Election Lists" for each Municipality; recorded by community (city, village, settlement, etc.). You can view a scanned copy of each list, printed in the Greek language.  This is a GREAT resource, but very difficult to navigate for those who do not read Greek.  Each row includes:  Line # -  Given Name, Surname - Father's Name -  Age - Occupation. I have translated these pages and made them available in both Greek and English, doing my best to transcribe the information accurately.  I would always recommend viewing the original scanned copies (link below).    - To the best of my knowledge, these lists include all Males who were eligible to vote in t...