AITICI + RODIS

Why tragedy ? Because at the beginning people care about others and after years they really don't care or there is no more surviving people to care about the past. I noticed that every family has a person who knows the oral history of the family. When this person disappears, the whole oral history disappears. Young people generally don't care about these elders who tell old stories only good to got asleep. Why Greek ? Because in the past Braila, port on Danube, had a big Greek community. This was a result of being a free port. There were Greeks, Armenians and Jewish merchants there, but Greeks were the sailors. Braila was a Turkish RAYA until 1829, see here:  RAYA  - link ! After the treaty of Adrianopolis the navigation on Danube became free and the Turkish trading monopoly was abolished. As consequence, Braila port became a cosmopolitan city. I think this port has fallen after 1877 when Romania got Dobrudja and king Charles I asked Anghel Saligny tobuild the port ...

Hrisoula RODIS - Miss Greece 1931  - link ! CHRYSA name meaning  - link ! After the research done by Mr. CHALDEOS I put on our family tree the family of Hrisoula RODIS. She was the 3rd cousin of the AITICI (AJTIC, AJETIC) brothers known as STEFANESCU, born in Braila, having a Greek mother and a father half Croatian, half Szekely !!! The eldest brother is my mother's father, born 1895, general lieutenant Stere Antonis ('στερεός') AITICI Stefanescu, commander of 1/3 of the Romanian army, retired in 1951. Photo as major, about 1933 Other 3rd cousins were Nicholas, Mary, John, George, Michael, Virgil and Christian. Nicholas, born 1899, went to US, returned and died in a work accident: Mary, born 1902, was the prettiest from their family: On the photo is the dedication to her beloved brother, Stere, my maternal grandfather Mother Varvara tried to teach Mary Greek language but her brothers mocked her and she gave-up. John, born 1904 Geo...

Mr. Antonis CHALDEOS, young researcher, did a great research about my family living in AIGINA island. My ancestor Antonis RODIS was sailor and ship owner. His son Georgios, born 1842, married in 1868 in Braila, port on Danube, at that moment still under Ottoman rule. Georgios' wife, Theodora, was also Greek, born in Braila. According to their daughter's Varvara birth certificate, born 1872, mother of my mother's father, Georgios and Theodora were under Hellenic protection ! A great document for the researcher, Mr. Antonis CHALDEOS, was the electoral list from 1867, exactly 100 years before my birth year ! Mr. CHALDEOS identified all the RODIS heads of families and their occupations, as follows: Based on this elections list he did this report: Corroborating the data he built the family trees of the RODIS living in these 2 places from Aigina: In Aigina city and port the brothers of Antonis had descendants. Very interesting is the ...

From Konstantinos Koutsodontis: Dear Stelian, Research on the collections is complete and I am pleased to inform you that I have found many records for Rodis family members on Aigina. Among them, your distant ancestors: Georgios of Antonios born in 1842, his father Antonios who was born in 1816 and Konstantis (Konstantinos) b. 1766. These are the records found in each collection: 1836 Aigina Census Rodis Antonios, 20 yo, unmarried Rodis Georgios, 30 yo, no children Rodis Ioannis D., 30 yo, 2 sons & 1 daughter Rodis Konstantis, 70 yo, 1 son & 1 daughter Rodis Michail, 30yo, 3 daughters Rodis Spyros, 38 yo, 3 sons Rodis Yiannakis, 65 yo, 4 sons & 1 daughter 1835-1846 Birth records Georgios Rodis of Antonios, born on October 18 1842 (father's occupation: shipowner) 1830 Aigina Business directory Demetrios Kyriakos Rodis, owner of 1 lab, 1 house and 1 winery 1831 Aigina Business directory Spyros Rodis, owner of a winery Attached you will find t...

Georgios Rodis was born in Aigina town, Aigina island, Greece, October 18, 1842. Son of Antonios and grandson of Konstantis (Konstantinos) According to Georgios' birth record his father Antonios was a shipowner: Georgios married on October 18, 1868 in Braila (in Greek language Vraila) with Theodora. Interesting is that was exactly his 26 years anniversary ! They had 3 children, Petre, Varvara and Tanase: Varvara is my great grandmother, called Antoniu because in the 19th century the family name of the newborn was the given name of the father... Later, in her first son marriage record she is mentioned "born RODIS". Many years I was looking for the death certificate and other civil records of Gheorghe Antoniu, because we thought this was his name. It was the same reason described above, his father being Antonios. Georgios Rodis died in 1926: At the same address died Tanase: Varvara married in 1895 with Anton Aitici, railway ...