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Stefanos
Posted Monday, August 9, 2004 - Post #7655
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I have to admit that I really envy those of you who live in places where records have been kept for centuries regarding births etc. As an amateur genealogist in Cyprus, I face two serious problems:

(1) Such registers are very recent, recent enough to be no more useful than word of mouth among relatives is.
(2) The adoption of family surnames is also very recent in Cyprus. Until 2-3 generations ago individuals were known as "<first name"> of <father's first name>". In many cases this was the case for up to the generation right before mine, the father's first name taking the place of the individual's surname.

The combination of the above two is quasi-lethal. I have no idea how my father (whose work constitutes the core of my tree) collected data going up to 6-7 generations back (maximum). It may sound poor depth of time for many, but I still find it a miracle.

What helps in Cyprus is information from (close or distant) relatives, who are quite easy to locate because of the traditional family links and the occasional crowded extended-family gatherings (particularly in weddings - our big Greek fat weddings). The only problem is that in this way the family tree tends to get very long horizontally (very, very long!) but not impressively long vertically. An additional help is a connection to historical figures, for whom historians sometimes provide genealogical data.

I would be interested to hear from any of you with regard to practising genealogy research in your country/region, problems and particularities, as well interesting experiences you had.

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The first thing I would do is to contact... By rdn ( Thursday, August 18, 2005 )



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