Interesting new collection added to the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection at the University Library at California State University, Sacramento - Below is the email received from George I. Paganelis, Curator, Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection. ----- Dear Friends of the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection,   I am pleased to announce that the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection has acquired the papers of  Charles Maxton Schermerhorn . The American Charles Maxton Schermerhorn (1901-1985) attended Princeton Theological Seminary in the early 1920s and became a social worker during the 1930s. In 1946 the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) sent him to Greece, but he was shortly thereafter employed by the Near East Foundation in Thessaloniki and by UNICEF, where he was the only civilian (native Greek or foreigner) running humanitarian food distribution campaigns throughout 170 war-torn northern Greek towns and villages between 1946-1951 during and after the Greek...

  The Greek Business Guide and Directory of the Western States, 1925 features a story on a Greek immigrant family the ALEXANDER BROTHERS - read below. You can find a link to the digitized copy of the entire directory and indexed list of all people mentioned on the Hellenic Genealogy Geek Research Links website   "ALEXANDER BROTHERS are undoubtedly among the most enterprising and prosperous representatives of the agricultural industry of San Joaquin County [California].  On their vast farm every modern method is applied and progress and efficient system characterises the whole enterprise.  The story of their success is short. All three brothers graduated from the high school of their native country, and they left Greece in order to travel and widen their knowledge and experience.  After 2 years they landed in New York.  Since then they tried different trades in various towns of the U.S.  In 1916 they abandoned the barber trade, which they had carried on...

The book “The Greek Orthodox Church in America:  A Modern History” by Alexander Kitroeff, published in 2020 by Cornell University Press. Below you will find the Table of Contents along with a list of the 191 Greeks mentioned in the book . TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Chapter 1 – Greek Orthodoxy Arrives in America Chapter 2 – Americanization and the Immigrant Church in the 1920s Chapter 3 – Greek Orthodoxy versus Protestant Congregationalism Chapter 4 – The Greek Orthodox Church in between Greece and America Chapter 5 – Assimilation and Respectability in the 1950s Chapter 6 – The Challenges of the 1960s Chapter 7 – Greek Orthodoxy and the Ethnic Revival Chapter 8 – Church and Homeland Chapter 9 – Toward an American Greek Orthodoxy Chapter 10 – The Challenges for an American Greek Orthodoxy Chapter 11 – Church and Patriarchate and the Limits of Americanization Chapter 12 – Greek Orthodoxy in America Enters the Twenty-First Century   GREEK NAME...