Resources for Lakonian Research

Agios Ioannis website and Facebook page. Join us to connect with others from our village.

Hellenic Genealogy Geek website has thousands of links to various categories of Greek genealogy research. Hellenic Genealogy Geek blog has articles.

Websites:

GreekAncestry.net. Search by name or village to look for records in Greece. The site is bi-lingual, and searches can be conducted in either English or Greek. The site also has a list of resources which can be found here.

MyHeritage Greek Records Collection: https://www.myheritage.com/research/catalog?s=210681471&q=greece Collections: Sparta Marriages 1835-1935; Election Registers 1856-1950; Farmers Census 1856; Corfu Vital Records 1841-1932; City Directories 1901-1947; Asia Minor Refugees 1914-1923.

FamilySearch Wiki, Greece:  https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Greece

FamilySearch Greece Community Page: https://community.familysearch.org/en/group/90-greece-genealogy-research

Cyndislist: http://www.cyndislist.com/greece

GenealogyLinks.net: http://www.genealogylinks.net/europe/greece/index.html

Beginning a Greek Genealogical Search in the US: http://www.helleniccomserve.com/genealbegingrk2.html#Check%20Orthodox%20Parish%20Records

Greek Obituaries:  http://greekobituary.com/

Family Tree Websites for Lakonian Families:

(note: TribalPages.com has many Greek family trees)

Family Trees of Southern Parnon (Lakonia/Peloponnese): http://karitsa.tribalpages.com

Spartan Roots: http://spartanroots.tribalpages.com and https://sites.rootsmagic.com/SpartanRoots/

Greeks in the Western United States http://histfam.familysearch.org/ ; also found on rootsweb and Ancestry.com; pictures are included on the site at Ancestry.com

Lakonian Genealogy: https://sites.google.com/site/jpeterchingos

Lykourgos Federation: http://pellana.com/wordpress/lykourgos

Barsiniko – Taygeti: http://www.jpic.net/mystra.htm

Lakonian Family Trees: http://eleni.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=eleni&view=9&ver=440

Facebook Pages:

Hellenic Genealogy Resources: http://www.facebook.com/groups/101120679980726/

Hellenic Genealogy Geek: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118224528189671

Agios Ioannis Sparta: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1062961957066883/

World Wide Laconian Communication Circle (WWLCC) http://www.facebook.com/groups/wwlcc/

Anavriti Lakonias http://www.facebook.com/groups/99924502254/

Georgitsion Syllogos of America – Ayios Georgios, Inc. http://www.facebook.com/groups/99924502254/

Greek Docs: http://www.facebook.com/groups/364109106935249/

Kremasti Lakonias: http://www.facebook.com/groups/159785517416726/

Laconians of Australia: http://www.facebook.com/groups/204810306243395/

Mistra (Mystra): http://www.facebook.com/groups/71967664808/

Lakonian Organizations and Newsletters

Pan-Laconian Society of South Australia “Leonidas” https://pallakonikodeltio.blogspot.com/.

Tzitzina Society: https://www.tsintzinasociety.com/

Laconian Society of Washington, D.C. https://www.laconiansocietyofwashingtondc.com/

Pan-Laconian Federation of United States and Canada https://www.panlaconianfederation.org/

The Sparta office of the General State Archives
The staff speaks English.
The email address is:  mail@gak.lak.sch.gr
The mailing address is:
Προϊσταμένη Γ.Α.Κ. – Αρχείων Ν. Λακωνίας
61 Gkortsologou
Sparta 23100
Τηλ. : 27310-22884
Telephone:  27310-22884

The General State Archives has some digitized records online at: http://arxeiomnimon.gak.gr/index. 

Articles & Books

Greek Genealogy Guidebook: https://greekancestry.net/guidebook/

Family History Research in Greece. Catsakis, Lica Hariclea. Salt Lake City, Utah: 2003. Download the free pdf file: https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Family_History_Research_in_Greece,_3rd_edition

Greek Immigrant Passengers 1885-1910, A Guide to and Index to Researching Early Greek Immigrants. Three Volumes. Voultsos, Mary. 1992: Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. (FHL Book 973 W2vm). First volume includes an indexed list of Greek passengers to New York 1885-1910, and to Boston 1900-1910 listed alphabetically. Second volume is arranged by date of arrival, and third volume is arranged by destination. This list is not complete as it refers only to certain vessels.

Greek Immigration to the United States. Fairchild, Henry Pratt. 1911: Yale University Press; 278 pages. Excellent book – free on Google books: http://bit.ly/2foHJtR

Bookstores

Adouloti Mani in Aeropoli (ΑΔΟΥΛΩΤΗ ΜΑΝΗ στην Αρεόπολη); telephone +30- 2733053670, e-mail: adoulotimanigr@gmail.com.
Specializing in Lakonian history, genealogy, geography. literature and archaeology of the southern Peloponnese including the Mani region and owned by book publisher Georgios Dimakogiannis.