The MyHeritage website has added two new databases to its Greek collection, bringing the total to five. They can be found at this link.

The two newest additions are:

1856 Farmers’ Census – 99,800 records. “This collection contains census records of farmers from Greece in 1856. Records typically include the name of the individual, their year of birth, residence, and may include the name of the father.”

1901-1947 City Directories – 202,823 records. “This collection consists of city directories from Greece from the first half of the twentieth century. Records may contain the full name, residence, and occupation of the individual. Additionally, the year and name of the directory, and a comment may also be included. The individual’s residence normally contains the street name and number, the name of the town, and the prefecture. Information is given in Greek, and there is additionally a transliterated version of the information in Latin script.”

They are in addition to:

1856-1950 Electoral Rolls and Male Registers – 1,408,633 records. “This collection includes the election material of the Vlachogiannis Collection of the General State Archives of Greece. The collection consists of voter lists from 56 regions of Greece, and two male registers from another two regions. Most of the material covers the decades of 1860, 1870 and 1880, while the voter lists of Athens include records from the 1920s. The voter lists are sorted by province (επαρχία), municipality (δήμος) and town/village. Voter lists generally include: the voter’s given name and surname, father’s name, age and occupation.”

1835-1936 Sparta Marriages – 179,411 records. “This collection includes marriage records created by and kept at the Holy Metropolis of Monemvasia and Sparta from 1835 to 1935. As every marriage needed to be licensed and blessed by the area’s Metropolitan, the Metropolis kept systematic records of the marriages in its jurisdiction…both licenses and indexes.

1841-1932 Corfu Vital Records – 646,880 records. “This collection consists of birth, marriage, and death certificates from the entire island of Corfu, kept at the General State Archives of Corfu. As the vital records were created by the civil authorities, all of the island’s ethnic and religious groups are represented.”

The GreekAncestry.net website has a powerful new search engine, Zeus, which simplifies and enhances accurate search results. Try it here. The collections at Greek Ancestry continue to expand; descriptions are here.

Records at both MyHeritage and Greek Ancestry collections can be searched by name in either English and Greek.

My colleague, Gregory Kontos of Greek Ancestry, is the force behind these online collections at both Greek Ancestry and MyHeritage. His team is busy finding, digitizing and name-indexing records from all areas of Greece. People worldwide are now able to research their family history, beginning at home — a huge step forward for all with Hellenic roots!