MyHeritage.com added and index to the 1931 Canada Census in September 2023 which includes 4,474 people born in Greece.  Link to database   The 1931 Canada Census was conducted on June 1, 1931 and enumerated over 10.4 million individuals. Information recorded in the census includes: name, relationship to head of household, marital status, age at last birthday, birthplace, nationality, immigration year, naturalization year, and religion. The census images are from Library and Archives Canada. Forms were printed with both English and French column headings; answers were recorded in the locally-spoken language. Individuals were to be enumerated in their usual place of residence even though they may not have been at that residence on the night of the enumeration. The head of household was to be recorded first followed by the rest of the members of the household. The forms used for the territories was a simplified version of the regular schedule and enumerators assigned to th...

  The book “A History of the Greeks in the Americas 1453-1938” – a narrative history written by Paul Koken, Theodore N. Constant and Seraphim G. Canoutas between 1935-1938, published in 1995 by Proctor Publications, LLC, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.  Below you will find the Table of Contents along with a list of the 288 Greeks mentioned in the book . Table of Contents CHAPTER ONE:  DURING THE PERIOD OF DISCOVERY 1.        Greek Sailors in Columbus’ Time 2.        Greeks in the Exploration of Peru and Chili 3.        Other Greek Mainers in the Cost of Peru and Chili CHAPTER TWO:  JUAN DE FUCA 1.        Lok’s Original Note 2.        Hubert Howe Bancroft’s Version of Lok’s Story 3.        Bancroft’s Interpretation 4.        Bancroft’s Erroneous ...

DEMETRIOS IS NOW JIMMY  Problems and Pitfalls Translating Proper Names by Basil Zafiriou Published in The National Herald September 2, 2019 ------------------------------ I am excited that  The National Herald  has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.  ------------------------------ Demetrios Is Now Jimmy is the title of a book by Lazar Odzak that traces the experience of Greek immigrants in the Southern United States during the early 1900s. The desire to adapt to and be accepted by the dominant society led many of these early immigrants to Americanize their names. Hence the title of the book. At the time, it was common to change surnames as well as first names. That is now rare, but anglicizing first names is still the norm. The way this is done leads often to odd results. Consider the mutation of Demetrios to Jimmy. Jimmy is a diminutive form of James, which in...

SNF SUPPORTED VIRTUAL MUSEUM OF GREEK IMMIGRATION TO CANADA OPENS authored by TNH Staff Published in The National Herald, June 8, 2019 ------------------------------ I am excited that  The National Herald  has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.  ------------------------------ MONTREAL – The official unveiling of Immigrec, an impressive and cutting edge project documenting Greek immigration in Canada, took place on May 24. The project is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and its heart is the virtual museum of Greek immigration which sets a new standard for the study of Greek diaspora communities.  The Virtual Museum of Greek Immigration to Canada is the outcome of a 2-year research effort (2017-2018) conducted by Immigrec, an interdisciplinary educational consortium, comprising research teams from four universities in Canada (McGill, Simon Fraser and York...