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Greek citizenship

submitted by chrystine flavell on 14.01.2019


Hello, my daughter is waiting patiently (about 18 months now) for her Greek citizenship. Considering mine took 7 years and for my other daughter 3 years we are wondering if it is worth spending money on a Greek lawyer or is there nothing more that...

John Nicholas Feros

submitted by Helen Feros on 02.01.2019


Does anyone know how to apply for a birth certificate or find a copy for a person born in Kythera 1912.

Theodorus Zantos

submitted by Jessie Weatherley on 01.01.2019


Hi - I am looking for decendents for Theodorus Zantos. He was born 28.12.1900 in Potamos. He lived in Warwick in the early 1930s, and enlisted in the airforce in 1940 where he was a cook. His next of kin at time of enlisting was Miss Ellie Zanto - a...

im looking for some books published by the ''society of kytherean studies''.. (plz help!)

submitted by chris otis on 19.11.2018


hello, i am looking for some great books about the amazing writer lefkadios hearn, who wrote about the traditional stories+poems of japan in the late 19th-early 20th century, and those books were published by the ''society of kytherean studie...

Look for my greek relatives

submitted by Tracey May Horn on 14.11.2018


Hello , My mum's father was greek his surname was Pagonis. I have been told my relatives were from originally from Kythera. How do I go about finding out more? Tracey May Preston 

A soldier's grave, Karavas 1917

submitted by Wilma Rule on 06.11.2018


Can anyone please help me to trace the grave of a Scottish soldier who was buried by the villagers of Karavas in 1917.  He was 21 year old Sgt Thompson whose body was washed up on the beach of Aghios Nickolaos at some time after the ship he was...

Aghios Nickolaos Church and Cemetery

submitted by Wilma Rule on 17.06.2018


Can anyone please help me to trace the grave of a Scottish soldier who was buried in the cemetery of Aghios Nickolaos Church in 1917.  He was 21 year old Sgt Thompson and his body was washed up on the beach of Aghios Nickolaos at some time after...

amorgos

submitted by Eleni Skarlatos on 13.05.2018


Hi there I was wondering if anyone knows if Amorgos has a page like this one? thank you 

Two George Stratigos' in Kythera

submitted by Kevin Garvey on 12.02.2018


Please help me find the family connection between these two George Stratigos' from Kythera. My wife's ggrandfather is George SPYRIDON Stratigos, born in 1850, the son of Spyridon George and Kyriakoula in Milopotamis. The other Geor...

Denise Bernard ( Venardos )

submitted by George Bernard on 31.01.2018


Hi, Dieter and Cherile Wolf were very helpful when my husband and I travelled to Kythera 2014. Where Cherile was able to trace my husbands home and family connections.   There postal address is P.O. Box 23        ...

Migration from Crete?

submitted by Carol Kostakos Petranek on 19.01.2018


My ancestors are from villages around Sparta. One of my cousins told me that our Zarafonitis family left Crete at the start of the 1821 Revolution and went to the Peloponnese to find Kolokotronis and join the fight. I have heard that Kythera was almo...

Research on Australian Greeks who were registered as aliens from 1916

submitted by Caroline Dick on 01.12.2017


I am an academic and doing research on the Greek aliens in Australia from 1916. My grandfather was a registered alien and was married (in December 1920) to an Australian woman before the Nationality Act 1920 (Cth) came into force (1 January 1921...

Passenger Ship called Ficton (German Line)

submitted by Caroline Dick on 29.11.2017


My grandfather Panagiotis (Peter) Anastasios Aroney or Mostakas came to Australia on the ship Ficton in 1909. Did anyone else relative arrive on this ship during 1909?

November 2017 Seminar Series. A Month with the Gods

submitted by Kytherian Cultural Exchange on 31.10.2017


A Month with the Gods: A Journey into the Life-World of Hellenic Myth   Topics pertaining to Ancient Greek mythology are very trendy nowadays. There seems to be something in the myths of the ancient Hellenes that keeps on fascinating peopl...

Research on decorative tiles - a Sydney link through the Haniotis family

submitted by Megan Manwaring on 03.08.2017


Hello readers   I have come across the name Theodoros Haniotis on a tile-making patent lodged in Sydney in 1910.   The patent number and date where imprinted on the back of a tile that I was given from a recent excavation s...

for Peter & Therese GALANAKIS

submitted by kit withers on 27.04.2017


hi peter i am a cousin of your wife therese. I lost email contact with her in 2008. Could u please give her my current email kit.withers@gmail.com many thanks k...

Leontarakis and Koutsonikolis

submitted by Peggy Pound on 07.02.2017


Hi, I am researching my grandfather, Demetrious Janos Koutsonikolis family line.  He was born near Ano Kastania in 1897 and came to American around the turn of the century. his mother was Helene Leontarakis.  does any of this relate to your...

Seek more information of Andronicus and Stathis

submitted by June Stathis on 02.02.2017


Can anyone give me any more information about Elly Andronicus? Or John Stathis? In early 1850's onwards, because they had a son born in 1897.   Elly Andronicus had married to John Stathis.   They had a son named Nichola...

Paspalas Family

submitted by Elias Vlanton on 27.11.2016


My grandmother was Stamatina Paspalas from Logothetianika and I am connected to a small group of Paspalases in the United States. I know that some of the Paspalas clan moved to Australia, but I have no contact nor know anything about them....

Pagonis Con , son Anastasious, daughters Viola,Calliope, Diana,

submitted by John SMITH on 07.11.2016


Just searching for any information about my wifes great grandfather and his son and daughters, I believe another son was killed in the first world war, Con come to Australia in the twenties followed by his son Tom[ his aussie name]