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The department
FHW’s Genealogy and Oral History Department records family trees, testimonies and historical information and collects documents about the life and historical experiences of the refugees from Asia Minor, Black Sea, Thrace and Constantinople. It was founded in order to record, preserve and regenerate historical memories both about the homelands of the refugees and about the settlements, communities and the municipalities they created in Greece and abroad.

The activity of the Genealogy and Oral History Department is divided into three interlinked and inter-complementing programmes. The Genealogy Programme collects information about the history of the families and the communities of the refugees. The Testimonies Programme records in audio and audiovisual interviews the memories, emotions and life attitude of the refugees. Finally, the programme “My History” collects texts, testimonies, photographs, documents, ephemeral and general historical documents that the refugees themselves or their descendants, ether personally or through the unions and organizations of local administration, wish to offer to the common historical memory.

The material collected is open to research of experts and laymen alike. The exceptions are those cases that are covered by the law for the protection of sensitive personal data and those data that are requested by those who testified them to be kept confidential.  

Through the web site www.genealogies.gr, the Internet Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World (www.ehw.gr) and the productions of the Foundation of the Hellenic World and the collaborating organizations, the Genealogy Department returns the material and knowledge to anyone interested.

Through personal contacts, visits, events, special seminars and on line information, the Genealogy and Oral History Department informs about the methods, the techniques, good practices, objectives and the course of its programmes and creates groups of volunteers, who wish to contribute to the development of historical memory of their homelands and communities.
  COLLABORATION
> I want to receive the Genealogy Tree Card
> I want to work as a volunteer in the programme
> I want to provide material or a testimony
> I want to register to the NEWSLETTER so I can receive informative e-mails
DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
> Cultural and Genealogic Digital Collection of Central Macedonia
> Cultural and Genealogic Digital Collection of Attica
PRODUCTIONS
> Publications
> Documentaries

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