The earliest surviving traces
The register records members of the family in Chios. This is where the dated evidence begins.
FAMILY HISTORY · CARDASSILARIS FAMILY
Our family.
Across generations.
Meet the people, the house in Kampos and the orchards behind our family story. From mastic and citrus to trade, explore the surviving traces of each generation.
18252026
From the earliest dated record to today.
Discover what you will find in the archive01 / THE TRACES OF OUR STORY
The traces remain.
The story unfolds.
The archive begins with what has survived, together with each record’s date and source.
An estate in Kampos
The purchase of an estate from the Paspati brothers is recorded in the research by Michalis Varlas.
People and their work
Orchards, workshops, companies and trading routes, through the evidence from each period.
Our family archive
What we have found and what we remember, gathered for the next generations.
From generation to generation · keep scrolling
02 / THE PASPATI ESTATE · 1860
From the Paspati family
to ours.
The research by Michalis Varlas records the purchase of an estate belonging to the brothers Alexandros and Pavlos Paspati, in Seriotissa, Kampos, by Dimitrios Iakovou Cardassilaris in 1860, for 70,000 grosia.
The property included a house, an orchard, fields and water installations. In the archive, you will discover this story through the surviving documents and photographs.
The connection between this deed and the building in the photographs has not yet been confirmed. Sources: Michalis Varlas, Family Report ¶122–123 · GAK Chios, ABE 0971, no. 724 · photograph: Aplotaria.
03 / PEOPLE IN AN OLD PORCH
A moment
that survived.
People can be seen in the porch in the old photograph. We do not know their names or when it was taken. We keep the moment as it reached us, together with its provenance.
In the family archive, you will also see the authentic photographs behind these illustrations. The details we know remain distinct from what we are still trying to discover.
Old photograph: archive of the Pelinnaio Centre for Chian Studies, via Aplotaria. Its identification with the estate in the research has not been confirmed.
04 / SIX CHAPTERS · ONE STORY
The stories.
And their evidence.
A first look at what you will find in the family archive. Every photograph, story and finding retains its own provenance.
Our roots
Chios, Chora, Kampos and Neochori. The earliest dated traces from 1825 and the story of our name.
Read the full chapterOur people
Names, lives and ties connecting the generations. The people behind the documents and the family tree linking them.
Read the full chapterOur home
Authentic views of the house, its arches, staircase and the estates. What we know from photographs and what the deeds document.
Read the full chapterWork & trade
Workshops, companies, ports and international routes. The family's work through the findings from each period.
Read the full chapterLand & harvest
Almond trees, mastic, citrus and orchards. Crops and products as recorded in the surviving evidence.
Read the full chapterThe next chapter
Photographs, documents and personal memories. Constantinos’s personal note and what he wants to leave to the next generations.
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05 / THE PERSONAL NOTE
For what we want
to preserve.
I made this archive to understand my family’s journey better and to leave it to my children.
Constantinos Cardassilaris
THE NEXT PAGE OF OUR STORY
Discover what survived.
And what we keep finding.
People, places and evidence from our family archive. Read at your own pace, from the beginning or from the chapter that interests you.
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