Greece Genealogical Records
Greece Birth & Baptism Records
An index to births registered during British control on the Ionian Islands (now part of Greece).
Greece Marriage & Divorce Records
An index to marriages registered during British control on the Ionian Islands (now part of Greece).
Greece Death & Burial Records
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An index to deaths registered during British control on the Ionian Islands (now part of Greece).
Newspapers Covering Greece
An index to over 2.1 million people mentioned in Associated Press stories, including name, subject, location, date and a reference to the article.
An index to around 500,000 Associated Press articles.
An index to and digital images of hundreds-of-thousands of world newspaper articles.
Greece Court & Legal Records
An index of close to 10,000 Jews named in State Department files. The records cover Palestine, Romania, and Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, Georgia, Yugoslavia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Turkey, Tripoli, Barca, Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria.
Greece Directories & Gazetteers
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Greece Cemeteries
Photographs and transcriptions of millions of gravestones from cemeteries around the world.
Greece Histories & Books
Over 7 million remembrances and historic details submitted by Ancestry members. Useful for local historians.
Over 60 million historic photographs and documents submitted to Ancestry. This rich collection contains many rare sources of interest to local historians and will be relevant to most genealogical research.
Greece Occupation & Business Records
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Pedigrees & Family Trees Covering Greece
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The lineages of Greek nobility, with biographical details and extracts from historic documents.
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The lineages of Byzantine Emperors and noble families, with biographical details and extracts from historic documents.
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Greece Royalty, Nobility & Heraldry Records
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The lineages of Greek nobility, with biographical details and extracts from historic documents.
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The lineages of rulers of Thessaloniki (now part of Greece), with biographical details and extracts from historic documents.
Greece Maps
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Historical Description
Greece is bounded on the East, with the Aegean Sea, the Hellespont, Propontis, and Thrace Bosphorus; on the West, with Italy, and the Adriatick Sea; on the North, with the Mountain Hamus; and on the South, the Ionian Sea.
The situation of this Countrey is in the Northern temperate Zone, under the five and six Climates.
Nature of the Greeks
The Greeks were once brave Men; sound Scholars; and addicted to the love of virtue, and civil behaviour; but now are they an unconstant People; destitute of learning, and the means to obtain it; uncivil; riotous; and so lazy, that for the most part they endeavour their profit no further than their Belly compells them. The Women for the most part are brown-complexioned; exceedingly well-favoured; and excessively amorous. Painting they use very much, to keep themselves in grace with their Husbands; for when they once grow wrinkled, they are put to all the drudgery of the House.
The more natural Commodities that this Countrey affords, and from hence are transported into other Countreys, are Wine, Oyl, Copper, Vitriol, some Gold and Silver, Velvets, Damasks, and Tarquess-Grograms.
The ordinary division of this Countrey is into Peloponesus, Acbaia, Epirus, Albania, Macedonia, and Thessalia, Migdonia, and Thracia.
As a result of the Balkan war in 1913, and the Great War, Greece obtained a considerable increase in territory, which now reaches as far as the Black Sea Coast, and covers an area of 65,000 square miles.
Imports from U.K. in 1920, £13,294,378, chiefly manufactured articles. Exports to United Kingdom £6,815,805 (oil, fruit, sponges, lead, zinc, &c.). Population 7,000,000; Athens, 167,479 ; Salonica, 174,000.
Most Common Surnames in Greece
| Rank | Surname | Incidence | Frequency | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Papadopoulos | 59,044 | 1:188 | |
| 2 | Papadopoulou | 37,804 | 1:293 | |
| 3 | Papageorgiou | 23,713 | 1:467 | |
| 4 | Oikonomou | 21,370 | 1:518 | |
| 5 | Papadimitriou | 19,790 | 1:560 | |
| 6 | Georgiou | 18,072 | 1:613 | |
| 7 | Papaioannou | 17,943 | 1:617 | |
| 8 | Pappas | 17,038 | 1:650 | |
| 9 | Vasileiou | 16,793 | 1:660 | |
| 10 | Nikolaou | 16,675 | 1:664 | |
| 11 | Karagiannis | 15,282 | 1:725 | |
| 12 | Vlachos | 14,900 | 1:744 | |
| 13 | Antoniou | 14,828 | 1:747 | |
| 14 | Makris | 14,768 | 1:750 | |
| 15 | Papanikolaou | 14,651 | 1:756 | |
| 16 | Dimitriou | 14,303 | 1:775 | |
| 17 | Ioannidis | 14,117 | 1:785 | |
| 18 | Georgiadis | 13,812 | 1:802 | |
| 19 | Triantafyllou | 13,421 | 1:826 | |
| 20 | Papadakis | 13,206 | 1:839 | |
| 21 | Athanasiou | 13,100 | 1:846 | |
| 22 | Konstantinidis | 12,815 | 1:865 | |
| 23 | Ioannou | 12,492 | 1:887 | |
| 24 | Alexiou | 11,577 | 1:957 | |
| 25 | Christodoulou | 11,556 | 1:959 | |
| 26 | Theodorou | 11,202 | 1:989 | |
| 27 | Giannopoulos | 10,955 | 1:1,011 | |
| 28 | Nikolaidis | 10,189 | 1:1,087 | |
| 29 | Konstantinou | 10,077 | 1:1,100 | |
| 30 | Panagiotopoulos | 9,908 | 1:1,118 | |
| 31 | Michailidis | 9,905 | 1:1,119 | |
| 32 | Papakonstantinou | 9,882 | 1:1,121 | |
| 33 | Papathanasiou | 9,821 | 1:1,128 | |
| 34 | Antonopoulos | 9,766 | 1:1,135 | |
| 35 | Dimopoulos | 9,607 | 1:1,153 | |
| 36 | Karagianni | 9,529 | 1:1,163 | |
| 37 | Anastasiou | 9,510 | 1:1,165 | |
| 37 | Dimitriadis | 9,510 | 1:1,165 | |
| 39 | Pappa | 9,451 | 1:1,172 | |
| 40 | Vlachou | 9,330 | 1:1,188 | |
| 41 | Vasileiadis | 9,095 | 1:1,218 | |
| 42 | Giannakopoulos | 8,855 | 1:1,251 | |
| 43 | Angelopoulos | 8,792 | 1:1,260 | |
| 44 | Dimou | 8,727 | 1:1,270 | |
| 45 | Ioannidou | 8,644 | 1:1,282 | |
| 46 | Nikolopoulos | 8,641 | 1:1,282 | |
| 47 | Mylonas | 8,621 | 1:1,285 | |
| 48 | Stergiou | 8,489 | 1:1,305 | |
| 49 | Apostolou | 8,463 | 1:1,309 | |
| 50 | Petropoulos | 8,462 | 1:1,309 | |
| 51 | Lamprou | 8,405 | 1:1,318 | |
| 52 | Papadaki | 8,370 | 1:1,324 | |
| 53 | Christou | 8,357 | 1:1,326 | |
| 54 | Panagiotou | 8,274 | 1:1,339 | |
| 55 | Anagnostou | 8,207 | 1:1,350 | |
| 56 | Makri | 8,192 | 1:1,353 | |
| 57 | Konstantinidou | 8,101 | 1:1,368 | |
| 58 | Samaras | 8,094 | 1:1,369 | |
| 59 | Raptis | 8,088 | 1:1,370 | |
| 60 | Athanasopoulos | 8,042 | 1:1,378 | |
| 61 | Alexopoulos | 8,036 | 1:1,379 | |
| 62 | Christopoulos | 8,029 | 1:1,380 | |
| 63 | Stavropoulos | 8,018 | 1:1,382 | |
| 64 | Anagnostopoulos | 7,977 | 1:1,389 | |
| 65 | Markou | 7,824 | 1:1,416 | |
| 66 | Georgiadou | 7,772 | 1:1,426 | |
| 67 | Spanos | 7,657 | 1:1,447 | |
| 68 | Sidiropoulos | 7,626 | 1:1,453 | |
| 69 | Antoniadis | 7,575 | 1:1,463 | |
| 70 | Panagopoulos | 7,492 | 1:1,479 | |
| 71 | Efthymiou | 7,458 | 1:1,486 | |
| 72 | Spyropoulos | 7,441 | 1:1,489 | |
| 73 | Theodoropoulos | 7,353 | 1:1,507 | |
| 74 | Pavlidis | 7,331 | 1:1,511 | |
| 75 | Athanasiadis | 7,298 | 1:1,518 | |
| 76 | Apostolopoulos | 7,279 | 1:1,522 | |
| 77 | Petrou | 7,135 | 1:1,553 | |
| 78 | Michalopoulos | 7,097 | 1:1,561 | |
| 79 | Arvanitis | 7,055 | 1:1,570 | |
| 80 | Lazaridis | 7,015 | 1:1,579 | |
| 81 | Kontos | 6,993 | 1:1,584 | |
| 82 | Georgopoulos | 6,991 | 1:1,585 | |
| 83 | Panagiotidis | 6,964 | 1:1,591 | |
| 84 | Theodoridis | 6,962 | 1:1,591 | |
| 85 | Chatzis | 6,924 | 1:1,600 | |
| 86 | Anastasiadis | 6,767 | 1:1,637 | |
| 87 | Papavasileiou | 6,696 | 1:1,655 | |
| 88 | Papazoglou | 6,673 | 1:1,660 | |
| 89 | Vasilopoulos | 6,664 | 1:1,663 | |
| 90 | Iliopoulos | 6,646 | 1:1,667 | |
| 91 | Kostopoulos | 6,517 | 1:1,700 | |
| 92 | Politis | 6,483 | 1:1,709 | |
| 93 | Galanis | 6,473 | 1:1,712 | |
| 94 | Stavrou | 6,447 | 1:1,719 | |
| 95 | Apostolidis | 6,443 | 1:1,720 | |
| 96 | Paraskevopoulos | 6,442 | 1:1,720 | |
| 97 | Giannopoulou | 6,261 | 1:1,770 | |
| 98 | Diamantis | 6,168 | 1:1,796 | |
| 99 | Pantazis | 6,096 | 1:1,818 | |
| 100 | Andreou | 6,088 | 1:1,820 | |
| 101 | Petridis | 6,074 | 1:1,824 | |
| 102 | Stathopoulos | 6,062 | 1:1,828 | |
| 103 | Nikolaidou | 6,060 | 1:1,828 | |
| 104 | Michailidou | 6,042 | 1:1,834 | |
| 105 | Dimopoulou | 6,020 | 1:1,840 | |
| 106 | Mavridis | 5,968 | 1:1,857 | |
| 107 | Kyriakou | 5,923 | 1:1,871 | |
| 108 | Grigoriadis | 5,910 | 1:1,875 | |
| 109 | Efstathiou | 5,898 | 1:1,879 | |
| 110 | Sideris | 5,876 | 1:1,886 | |
| 111 | Kyriakidis | 5,850 | 1:1,894 | |
| 112 | Diamantopoulos | 5,796 | 1:1,912 | |
| 113 | Panagiotopoulou | 5,795 | 1:1,912 | |
| 114 | Anastasopoulos | 5,762 | 1:1,923 | |
| 115 | Savvidis | 5,754 | 1:1,926 | |
| 116 | Georgakopoulos | 5,752 | 1:1,926 | |
| 117 | Dimitropoulos | 5,746 | 1:1,928 | |
| 118 | Vasilakis | 5,714 | 1:1,939 | |
| 119 | Rizos | 5,682 | 1:1,950 | |
| 120 | Argyropoulos | 5,675 | 1:1,952 | |
| 121 | Moraitis | 5,651 | 1:1,961 | |
| 122 | Sotiropoulos | 5,643 | 1:1,963 | |
| 123 | Charalampidis | 5,617 | 1:1,973 | |
| 124 | Iliadis | 5,616 | 1:1,973 | |
| 125 | Antonopoulou | 5,597 | 1:1,980 | |
| 126 | Sotiriou | 5,585 | 1:1,984 | |
| 127 | Lampropoulos | 5,582 | 1:1,985 | |
| 128 | Chatzigeorgiou | 5,573 | 1:1,988 | |
| 129 | Angelis | 5,523 | 1:2,006 | |
| 130 | Nikolopoulou | 5,420 | 1:2,044 | |
| 131 | Giannakopoulou | 5,408 | 1:2,049 | |
| 132 | Kollias | 5,406 | 1:2,050 | |
| 133 | Margaritis | 5,383 | 1:2,058 | |
| 134 | Vasileiadou | 5,350 | 1:2,071 | |
| 135 | Katsaros | 5,335 | 1:2,077 | |
| 136 | Chatzi | 5,301 | 1:2,090 | |
| 137 | Sarris | 5,298 | 1:2,091 | |
| 138 | Roussos | 5,256 | 1:2,108 | |
| 139 | Evangelou | 5,233 | 1:2,117 | |
| 140 | Fotiadis | 5,222 | 1:2,122 | |
| 141 | Stefanidis | 5,179 | 1:2,139 | |
| 142 | Mylona | 5,170 | 1:2,143 | |
| 143 | Gkikas | 5,136 | 1:2,157 | |
| 144 | Angelopoulou | 5,134 | 1:2,158 | |
| 145 | Eleftheriadis | 5,029 | 1:2,203 | |
| 146 | Kontogiannis | 5,017 | 1:2,208 | |
| 147 | Dimitriadou | 5,004 | 1:2,214 | |
| 148 | Samara | 4,996 | 1:2,218 | |
| 149 | Spyrou | 4,966 | 1:2,231 | |
| 150 | Stavropoulou | 4,914 | 1:2,255 | |
| 151 | Petropoulou | 4,893 | 1:2,264 | |
| 152 | Symeonidis | 4,892 | 1:2,265 | |
| 153 | Konstantopoulos | 4,882 | 1:2,270 | |
| 154 | Kalogeropoulos | 4,881 | 1:2,270 | |
| 155 | Kyriakopoulos | 4,863 | 1:2,278 | |
| 156 | Filippou | 4,862 | 1:2,279 | |
| 157 | Vogiatzis | 4,855 | 1:2,282 | |
| 158 | Athanasopoulou | 4,850 | 1:2,284 | |
| 159 | Eleftheriou | 4,832 | 1:2,293 | |
| 160 | Fotopoulos | 4,812 | 1:2,303 | |
| 161 | Voulgaris | 4,805 | 1:2,306 | |
| 162 | Christopoulou | 4,800 | 1:2,308 | |
| 163 | Chatzopoulos | 4,789 | 1:2,314 | |
| 164 | Spyropoulou | 4,770 | 1:2,323 | |
| 165 | Argyriou | 4,756 | 1:2,330 | |
| 166 | Georgopoulou | 4,725 | 1:2,345 | |
| 167 | Triantafyllidis | 4,721 | 1:2,347 | |
| 168 | Sakellariou | 4,700 | 1:2,357 | |
| 169 | Kanellopoulos | 4,693 | 1:2,361 | |
| 170 | Avramidis | 4,686 | 1:2,364 | |
| 171 | Athanasiadou | 4,685 | 1:2,365 | |
| 171 | Spanou | 4,685 | 1:2,365 | |
| 173 | Sidiropoulou | 4,681 | 1:2,367 | |
| 174 | Kyriazis | 4,676 | 1:2,370 | |
| 175 | Papachristou | 4,659 | 1:2,378 | |
| 176 | Petrakis | 4,650 | 1:2,383 | |
| 177 | Daskalakis | 4,617 | 1:2,400 | |
| 178 | Stefanou | 4,607 | 1:2,405 | |
| 179 | Anagnostopoulou | 4,590 | 1:2,414 | |
| 180 | Kritikos | 4,525 | 1:2,449 | |
| 181 | Kechagias | 4,518 | 1:2,452 | |
| 182 | Pavlou | 4,517 | 1:2,453 | |
| 183 | Rigas | 4,514 | 1:2,455 | |
| 184 | Arampatzis | 4,502 | 1:2,461 | |
| 185 | Kostopoulou | 4,470 | 1:2,479 | |
| 186 | Lazaridou | 4,461 | 1:2,484 | |
| 187 | Zervas | 4,460 | 1:2,484 | |
| 188 | Alexopoulou | 4,436 | 1:2,498 | |
| 188 | Theodoridou | 4,436 | 1:2,498 | |
| 190 | Stamatiou | 4,432 | 1:2,500 | |
| 191 | Asimakopoulos | 4,381 | 1:2,529 | |
| 192 | Tsakiris | 4,372 | 1:2,534 | |
| 193 | Apostolopoulou | 4,348 | 1:2,548 | |
| 194 | Theodosiou | 4,329 | 1:2,559 | |
| 195 | Mitropoulos | 4,320 | 1:2,565 | |
| 196 | Paraskevopoulou | 4,308 | 1:2,572 | |
| 197 | Panagopoulou | 4,307 | 1:2,573 | |
| 198 | Panou | 4,282 | 1:2,588 | |
| 199 | Karalis | 4,277 | 1:2,591 | |
| 200 | Karras | 4,267 | 1:2,597 | |
| 200 | Pavlidou | 4,267 | 1:2,597 | |