"THE FIRST GREEK TO SETTLE IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA" published in The Greek Reporter on September 10, 2024, authored by Philip Chrysopoulos. Georgios (or George) Tramountanas is generally credited for being the first  Greek  to migrate to South Australia in 1842, according to the National Archives of Australia. Born in Athens in 1822, Tramountanas was from a family of shipbuilders and seamen who lived on  Lemnos island  and had connections to Thessaloniki. He arrived at Port Adelaide in 1842 with his brother Theodoros, who soon moved to Albany in Western Australia — and who was never to be heard from again...... Read the entire article at  https://greekreporter.com/2024/09/10/georgios-tramountanas-first-greek-south-australia/

  MyHeritage.com has a new database titled " Australia, South Australia, Royal Adelaide Hospital Admissions " that includes 55 people born in Greece.   This collection contains admission records to the Royal Adelaide Hospital in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, between the years 1902 and 1925. Records typically include the name of the individual, birth year and place, residence and admission date, marital status, and occupation. Some records include discharge dates, death dates, and the name of the ship by which the individual arrived in Adelaide. The Adelaide Hospital was established in 1841. Evolving from the Colonial Infirmary that existed since 1837 was in fact South Australia’s first hospital. In the first year, it operated from a tent and subsequently became a hut. The hospital was renamed the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1939. The records in this collection are © The Government of South Australia.

Ancestry.com has a new database titled "Australia, WWII Second Australian Imperial Forces and Citizen Military Forces Service, 1939 - 1974" that includes 39 people listed as being born in Greece. Source Information: Original data:  Second Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947. Series Number B883. National Archives of Australia, Canberra, Australia. Citizen Military Forces Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947.  Series Number B884. National Archives of Australia, Canberra, Australia. This collection contains service documents for individuals serving for the AIF (Second Australian Imperial Forces) or CMF (Citizen Military Forces) during WWII. From the Australian War Museum in London:  “As part of the British Empire, Australia was among the first nations to declare war on Nazi Germany and between 1939 and 1945 nearly one million Australian men and women served in what was going to be World War II. They fought in campaigns against the Axis powers across Europe, th...

THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF PANAYIOTIS AND GIANNIS SEITANIDIS by Stavros Stavridis published in The National Herald May 16, 2020 The National Herald has given HellenicGenealogyGeek.com permission to post articles that are of interest to our group. -------------------------------------------- An Australian Pontian friend of mine, Peter Seitanidis heard that I am a historian specializing in the history of Asia Minor covering the years 1919-23. He contacted me wanting to tell me the stories of his grandfather and great uncle. Peter stated that his elderly father recounted the family story of escape, survival, and deportation from Pontos. His ancestors were originally from the city of Kerasounta (Giresun) on the Black Sea coast. The family story passed down to Peter has gaps that can be filled from other sources. Finding specific information about Kerasounta hasn't been easy but I pieced it together from scattered information.  Before delving into Peter's account, I will provide...

GREEK IMMIGRANT CAFE OWNERS LEFT THEIR MARK IN AUSTRALIA by TNH Staff published in The National Herald April 25, 2020 The National Herald has given HellenicGenealogyGeek.com permission to post articles that are of interest to our group. -------------------------------------------- QUEENSLAND, Australia – The Greek immigrant experience is especially associated with restaurants and cafes around the world. Wherever Greeks went, their traditional values of philoxenia and philotimo went with them. This was also true for the Lathouras brothers who immigrated to Australia from Alatsata in Asia Minor in 1906, the State Library of Queensland noted on its website.  By 1923 Jannos (Jack) Lathouras and his brothers, Michael and Mark, had opened two cafes in the main street of Bundaberg, Bourbong Street. Bundaberg was a thriving provincial Queensland town during the 1920s.  Jack Lathouras worked in several locations, including Melbourne, Brisbane and Ingham before joining his cousins, John...

Ancestry.com has added a new database titled "Australia, WWI Service Records, 1914-1920" which includes 50 people stating they were born in Greece. Below are the names of those born in Greece along with a detailed description of the records.  With a subscription to Ancestry.com you can view the actual record, otherwise try contacting the National Archives of Australia. NAMES: Constantine Aroney Stavros Kakulis Roy Ralph Speridon Florin Spiros Athos Elias James Basel Zimbulis Peter Rados Arthur Halkas George Marinys Pandelis Cosopodiotis Emaniol Salikis John William Florence Sam Faftos Nicholas Paidas Thermistocles Copeleas George Cretan Theodore Dooris Constantine Malaxos Nicholas Rodakis Demitrius Likiardopalus Con Kailis Emanuel Fardouly Agapitos Michael George Pippinaris Harry Polites Sinto Frances Constantine Passaris Arthur Kyriako George Patrs Nicholas Magaulas Anastasi Rebea Harry Miner Peters Christoforos Paizes Charalampos Pa...

Published in NEOS KOSMOS - 30 November 2018 - authored by Theodora Maios This article was sent to me by JoAnn Pavlostathis ----- Young but courageous, helpless but determined to succeed, the first Greek migrants who arrived in Australia in the early 1900s, seeking a better future for themselves and their families, are without a doubt the real heroes of the diaspora. While most Greek migration to Australia is associated with the period immediately following World War II, in the early 1900s chain-migration patterns began resulting in large numbers of arrivals, mainly from the islands of Kythera, Ithaca and Kastellorizo. Predominantly male, the Greeks arrived in Australia and worked hard in fruit farms, factories and mines in order to make a better life for themselves. According to testimonies, upon arrival in the land of opportunity, the young adventurers were greeted with suspicion and fear by the residents of a country that was already trying to overcome its own anti-mi...

GREEK BORN ADOPTEES Facebook Group:  Greek Born Adoptees Description: We would Like anyone Who was adopted or Born In Greece then Came to Australia,Or Any Overseas Country to please contact Our Advocate for Australia Theodora Sullivan.She will be The New Advocate For Greek Born Adoptees From Greece here In AUSTRALIA We have Mothers searching for there children after news of Blackmarket doctors being caught in Athens For Illegal Adoption 3 years ago.They were selling and stealing new Born Infants and Selling them to Adoptive Parents and claiming them as there own. Please spread the word. The Doctors later would Announce the baby Dead Just after Birth. The mothers Never recieved Death certificates. ... Mothers are finding out all over Greece there children did not die and are now in Search for there children. We have Siblings looking for one Another. We Have Admins that can talk too you and also get your details. Thankyou.

HELLENIC MUSEUM, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia -  https://www.hellenic.org.au/ ---------- Contact Information: Location:  Former Royal Mint Building, 280 William Street, Melbourne (opposite Flagstaff station) Hours:  Open Seven Days a Week - Monday to Sunday 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Museum Admission Fees Apply ---------- Australia's Hellenic Museum was inaugurated in April 2007. ​ Occupying one of the country's landmark buildings, the Museum has taken on an identity of its own in the former Royal Mint building. Since its inception, the Hellenic Museum has continued to build and maintain its collections. Today, hundreds of objects spanning over 8,000 years of Hellenic history are on view at any given time in the Museum's galleries. ​ In 2013, the Hellenic Museum entered into a landmark 10-year agreement with the Benaki Museum, Athens. In 2014, the Hellenic Museum opened the exhibition ' Gods, Myths and Mortals ', a snapshot of Hellenic-civ...

HELLENIC ORGANIZATIONS Name of Organization :   Pansamian Brotherhood of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Telephone: link to list of committee members and their telephone numbers -  http://www.pansamianvic.com/contact/ Email - http://samiotesmelbourne@gmail.com/ Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/Pan-Samians-of-Melbourne-182675005120537/ Website :  http://www.pansamianvic.com/ Description The Pansamian Brotherhood had its beginnings on the 18th of November 1934 when a group of Samians, who had been getting together regularly since 1929 decided to make it official by putting a name to their group. They formed a committee and the first President was Andreas Nikolaidis who at the time was also the Greek Envoy to Melbourne.   Meetings were held at what was in those days a “Kafenio (café) called Orpheas” located in the Greek Community building in Bourke Street Melbourne.  Over the years with the influx of migrants from Samos the new arrivals were abl...

HELLENIC ORGANIZATIONS Name of Organization :   Pan-Rhodian Benevolent Society of NSW "Colossus" LTD. Location:  New South Wales, Australia Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/Pan-Rhodian-Benevolent-Society-of-NSW-Colossus-LTD-230968463641360/ Website :    ? The Pan-Rhodian Benevolent society of NSW is a non profit organization formed in 1958 by a group of Greek migrants whose origins were from the Greek Island of R hodes in the Eastern Aegean sea. The society’s mission was to provide a platform where migrants from their community could come together in this new country and celebrate their “greekness”, memories of their heritage and to provide charitable assistance. Today more than 54 years latter, the second and third generation of the families of those first men and women who formed the society continue to uphold the valu es and mission of the society. It’s year long list of social activities act as a means of bringing Australian Greeks toge...