Comments on: Living in Kefalonia beach resorts http://www.cephalonia.org/living-in-kefalonia-beach-resorts/ Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:44:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jessie http://www.cephalonia.org/living-in-kefalonia-beach-resorts/comment-page-1/#comment-130 Jessie Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:27:12 +0000 http://www.cephalonia.org/living-in-kefalonia-beach-resorts/#comment-130 Being from the same region, only a little more to he North, I was too wondering where my blood line started. Quite recently a book published based on the notary archives of the island and of the ones kept by the village originally my predecessors came from, I found that the family name is in existence since 1000 years ago. Or there about. So, that rightly gives me the certainty that no foreign blood was brought into the family. I' m sure you can have a similar search for your family's name origin in the local archives of Kefallonia if it is so important to you to know your origin. You have to keep in mind that the Eptanisa had and still have very thorough archives, especially notary ones, of the past centuries and even more so for the times the Venetians were there. The French occupation lasted for a very short period so you can rule them out. So did the Italians, but is different with the British and the Venetians. One more thing that can be taken into account is, that social casts were segregated and seriously safeguarded against intermixing and when things like that did happened the guilty parts were the finger-pointed outcasts of the place. So if there was a scandal like that in the family most likely you would have been told. If you know the original village your folks were living you can trace the line back as far as their archives go. Since Corfu was the capital of the Eptanisa most archives that cover certain issues of the rest islands can be found here, but that need a lot of reading and checking. The first link is of bookstore that carries Kefallonian authors and essay writers who studied the historical books and it could be by sheer accident to get the information you look for. Being from the same region, only a little more to he North, I was too wondering where my blood line started.
Quite recently a book published based on the notary archives of the island and of the ones kept by the village originally my predecessors came from, I found that the family name is in existence since 1000 years ago. Or there about.
So, that rightly gives me the certainty that no foreign blood was brought into the family.
I' m sure you can have a similar search for your family's name origin in the local archives of Kefallonia if it is so important to you to know your origin.
You have to keep in mind that the Eptanisa had and still have very thorough archives, especially notary ones, of the past centuries and even more so for the times the Venetians were there.
The French occupation lasted for a very short period so you can rule them out. So did the Italians, but is different with the British and the Venetians.
One more thing that can be taken into account is, that social casts were segregated and seriously safeguarded against intermixing and when things like that did happened the guilty parts were the finger-pointed outcasts of the place. So if there was a scandal like that in the family most likely you would have been told.

If you know the original village your folks were living you can trace the line back as far as their archives go.

Since Corfu was the capital of the Eptanisa most archives that cover certain issues of the rest islands can be found here, but that need a lot of reading and checking. The first link is of bookstore that carries Kefallonian authors and essay writers who studied the historical books and it could be by sheer accident to get the information you look for.

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