Individual Details

In May 2009, I received a Mitroon Arrenon, Dimos Lakonias, from the General State Archives of Greece, Archives of Lakonia:
Aridas, Christos; Father - Mihail, born 1900 in Agios Ioannis; death recorded Nov. 9, 1992.

Note under Town Register that he lived in Russia.

Received from General State Archives of Greece, Archives of Lakonia, Laconia (Sparta Office) - May 2009. Town Register (Dimotologion Koinothtos)
Family Number 6:
Aridas Mihail M (father) Christos (mother) Gkolfo born: 1867, Agios Ioannis; death recorded March 24, 1959
“ Eleni F Dimitrios last name? born: 1866 Agios Ioannis; death recorded March 11, 1959
“ Christos M born 1900; lived in Russia; death recorded Sept 11 1955
“ Eleni F father: Vasileos Kortapoulos? born 1877 Agios Ioannis
“ Vasilios M born: 1905 Agios Ioannis; death recorded Sept 11 1955
“ Panagiotis? M born: 1910 Agios Ioannis
Mihalakakos Konstantinos M born: 1912 Agios Ioannis death December 12, 1968
Aridas Anastasia F born: 1918 Agios Ioannis married Dec 27 1959

From George N. Revelos, October 2009: as posted on website: http://karitsa.tribalpages.com (Family Trees of Southern Parnon:
"My grandfather Michael Aridas would not let his son Christo`s wife and children migrate to Greece because there was a fear that Russian communists were sending spies to infiltrate Greece. His son Christos was killed during the Russian Revolution. He was an officer in either the Red or White Army. He had gone to live with an uncle in Russia and according to his uncle (someone) reported him to the authorities, and they confiscated his possessions. The uncle and his family returned to Greece with nothing. I always thought that he was in the Red Army but my cousin Lester (Leftheris) Vlahos maintained he was in the White Army and was killed during the revolution in 1917. So it’s a case of who to believe."

In an email, October 5, 2009, to Carol Petranek, George also wrote: " Christos went to Russia to live with an uncle. He died during the Russian Revolution, either in the Red or White Army. He left a Russian wife and children. During the Greek Civil War after World War II she wrote my grandfather to come to Greece. Grandfather rejected her pleas because the Communists at that time vowed to send children to indoctrinate Greece to Communism."

Information from Mitroon Arrenon; received from General Archives of Greece, Dimos Lakonia,
Mitroon Arrenon
Eparhias Lakedaimonos; Nomos Lakonias, Village: Agios Ioannis
Copy in Greek Archive file
Year: 1900; Line 1: Aridas, Christos (father Mihail)
Born 1900 in Agios Ioannis; Death recorded November 9, 1992
death recorded; removed from record November 9, 1982


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Received from General Archives of Greece, Laconia (Sparta Office) - May 2009. Town Register (Dimotologion Koinothtos) Family Number 6: Town Register, Agios Ioannis, Sparta, Laconia, Greece
Family #6
Line 1: Aridas, Michail; father: Chirstos; mother: Gkolfo; born 1867 in Agios Ioannis; resides in Agios Ioannis; occupation: landowner; religion: Greek Orthodox; Greek citizenship by birth; resident of this village by birth; registered in the Mitroon Arrenon (Male Register) of Agios Ioannis, #89/2; removed from Dimotologion on December 27, 1959 because of death on March 24, 1959; this is entry #53 made in the year 1959.
Line 2: Aridas, Eleni; father: Dimitrios Leakakos; born: 1866 Agios Ioannis;resides in Agios Ioannis; occupation: housework; religion: Greek Orthodox; Greek citizenship by birth; resident of this village by birth; removed from record on November 9, 1955 due to death on March 11, 1959; this is entry #63 in the year 1955.
Line 3: Aridas, Christos, born 1900 in Agios Ioannis; resides in Russia; religion: Greek Orthodox; Greek citizenship by birth; resident of this village by birth; registered in the Mitroon Arrenon (Male Register) of Agios Ioannis #546/1; removed from record on November 9, 1955 due to death; is entry 63 in the year 1955.
Line 4: Aridas, Eleni; father: Vasileos Karteroulis, born 1877 Agios Ioannis; resides in Agios Ioannis; occupation: housework; religion: Greek Orthodox; Greek citizenship by birth; resident of this village by birth
Line 5: Aridas, Vasilios, born: 1905 Agios Ioannis; resides in Agios Ioannis; religion: Greek Orthodox; Greek citizenship by birth; resident of this village by birth; registered in the Mitroon Arrenon (Male Register) of Agios Ioannis 623/2; removed from record on November 9, 1955 due to death; is entry #63 in the year 1955.
Line 6: [Managakos? name unreadable on record - I had been told it was Panagiotis] born: 1910 Agios Ioannis; resides in Agios Ioannis; religion: Greek Orthodox; Greek citizenship by birth; resident of this village by birth; registered in the Mitroon Arrenon (Male Register) of Agios Ioannis 712/2; removed from record on November 9, 1955 due to death; is entry #63 in the year 1955.
Line 7: Michalakakos, * Konstantinos born: 1912 Agios Ioannis, lived in Athens; religion: Greek Orthodox; Greek citizenship by birth; resident of this village by birth; registered in the Mitroon Arrenon (Male Register) of Agios Ioannis 744/1; removed from record on September 28, 1958 due to death on December 12, 1958; is entry #52 in the year 1958
Line 8: Arida, Anastasia born: 1918 Agios Ioannis; resides in Agios Ioannis; religion: Greek Orthodox; Greek citizenship by birth; resident of this village by birth; registered in the Mitroon Arrenon (Male Register) of Agios Ioannis 712/2; removed from record on July 23, 1961 due to marriage on Dec 27 1959; moved into family #388; this is entry #34 in the year 1961
*Konstantinos Michalakakos -- 2 different theories as to why he has a different name: (1) George Revelos said his mother, Effrosyni Aridas, learned when she was in Greece in the 1950's that the original family name was Michalakakos, but an ancestor had long legs and he got the nickname "Arida" (long leg or big foot); (2) George Aridas said the original family name was Aridas, but Kostandinos was a minister in Athens and he didn't like the name Aridas so he took his father's name, Michail, and called himself Michalakakos

Birth	1900	Alaimbey, Agios Ioannis, Sparta, Lakonia, Greece
Male Register	1900	Agios Ioannis, Sparta, Lakonia, Greece
School	1907 - 1912	Agios Ioannis, Sparta, Lakonia, Greece
Death	1917	Russia
Town Register	1955	Agios Ioannis, Sparta, Lakonia, Greece
Alt name		Αριδάς
FamilySearch ID		L8WC-TY3

Father	Michail Christos Aridas Michalakakos (1867 - 1959)
Mother	Eleni Dimitriou Liakakos (1866 - 1959)
Sibling	Aikaterini Aridas Michalakakos (1897 - 1990)
Sibling	Gkolfo Aridas Michalakakos (1900 - )

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