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From: vjp2@dorsai.org (Vasos Panagiotopoulos +1-917-287-8087 Bioengineer-Financier Samani Marions Panyaught NYC-11357-3436-287-USA)
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	Larger cities have good records. Some records in smaller towns
were destroyed in wartime. In many cases you will find things like
"third child born in this village this year was" instead of precise
birthday. Military records are good (in many cases verbal descriptions
instead of photographs). Look also for oral history (in some cases
good up to a century back - Greeks placed value in passing on family
stories orally) and for letters with immigrants (a huge number of
Greeks, I think one out of five, had at least worked in the USA a
century ago - but you might not find them in ship logs because they
were often stowaways). However, as Greece has very mountainous and
largely unusable land, Greeks are not prone to keep good records, even
the dead are exumed and their remains kept in boxes in the church
rather than remain permanently in cemetaries.
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Vasos-Peter John Panagiotopoulos II, Columbia'81+, Bioengineer-Financier, NYC
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