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The Next Induction Ceremony has been moved forward. Master of ceremonies will be Alan Jones, prominent Sydney radio announcer. Note the date in your diary from now: Saturday, 12th February, 2005, at the Wentworth Hotel in Sydney. It will be a n...
James Prineas must have been reading my mind... his suggestion in the latest newsletter about arranging a 'discover your roots' holiday in Kythera in October 2005 fits in well with plans I was making anyway. I have been planning a trip to Europe nex...
Note that the next induction ceremony for the Greek Australian Sports Hall of Fame will be conducted ob the 5th November, 2004, at the Wentworth Hotel, Sydney. Inductees include: Spyridakos, Tony: Soccer Taliadoros, Kimon: Soccer Tohouroglou, K...
To commemorate this Greek National Day,please go to Culture,subsection songs and poems and read "To Parapono tis Ellados". It is written in Greek.
We are looking for any family from Kythera with connection to Nicholas P. Leftheris who died in 1964 in Masury, OH USA at age 72. His first wife, Stamatoula Psaros died from influenza after just a 2 years of marriage. She left behind her 1 1/2 yr. so...
Hi- I am trying to figure out the last name of one of my grandmother's cousins. The cousin was Foto (_____) Panaretos. Foto corresponded with my grandmother from St. Louis. Names in this Kytherian family included Mina, Nikola, Vasiliki, Basiliki, an...
Anyone ever heard of a Triarchis family in Kythera, Egypt, Smyrna? My e-mail is dktrearchis@comcast.net
An article by Tim Blair in the Bulletin (Dec 2003) confirms that "Karvan’s family emigrated to Australia from Greece". http://bulletin.ninemsn.com.au/bulletin/eddesk.nsf/All/D35986E38DAFDB5CCA256DEB007D1AD4!open According to the web-site at...
Hello everyone! I am a decendant of the Samios family. My Grandmother was Maria Samios, wife of Peter Samios. My mother is Georgia Samios Marudas. We currently reside in Baltimore Maryland, USA. We will be moving to Kythera to start our family. We ca...
Captain Frederick Rand was appointed the first caretaker of Kythera after Greece was liberated after World War II. A street in Hora was named in his honour. Does anyone know what happened to the street sign? For more information see section "History"...
Looking for anyone with either info on the Trifillis/Treefull families of Massachusetts and Maryland or on the Panaretos/Panaretou family of St. Louis. Trifillis family (alos spelled Treefull/ Treeful) from Trifilianika went to Fall River, MA; New...
In 1942, three Kytherians, Haralambos Coroneos ("'I Horyos"), Nicholas Souris ("Varvarkis"), and Yiannis Mavrogeorgios ("Fatseas"), decided that they would move a German unexploded bomb from the beach at Firi Ammos into the church at Ayia Pelagia, an...
I have been given permission by the family of Kevin Cork to post chapters from his unfinished Ph.D thesis onto the kythera-family web-site. [Internal search under "CORK" to find references.] This thesis underlines the extraordinary influence o...
I think it would be interesting if all the Kytherians who had families or relatives that had imigrated to Smyrna,and then consequently were dispersed due to the Turkish expulsion in 1922-23. would post a little of what they know and we could have a s...
As near as I can determine from all the records my Mother left with me, my Father emigrated to the USA in, I believe, 1910 or 1911. He was born in either 1887 or 1889 on Kythera and they were a family of Sponge divers from all the things Dad talked a...
I am searching for information on the Tatarakis family. My grandfather, Jacob Tatarakis, immigrated to the States from Syros in 1917. My family currently lives in Sacramento, Calif.
Ross Tzannes (Sydney, Australia) posted oral history of Michael Panaretos at kythera-family.net. He mentioned that "Maria Freeleagus (nee Panaretos) went to visit the old man and gained his confidence." Did she, or the passport office (Michael applie...
To all my Greek friends and relatives , I want to extend my feeling of pride of being Greek and to what the Greek people were able to accomplish in these Olympics. It went off without any of the predicted problems of terroristism or non-ability of th...
My grandmother Maria Calligeros came to USA on the early 1900's from Kythera with her brother Steve and sisters Froso. She left behind her oldest sister- Stamatoula her youngest sister Koola-and whom has 3 children- Monogli,Irene (who moved to Aus...
I am searching for anyone related to Lambros Andres Tsirigotis born 1894 in Greece, most likely Athens. He had a sister Elaine (American version of her name). In 1916 Lambros came to America aboard the USS Patris, arriving at Ellis Island. He sett...
