FACEBOOK GROUP - Colectividad Helenica Santiago  https://www.facebook.com/colehelenicastgo/ Hellenic Collectivity of Santiago meeting place of Greeks, descendants and philohelenes of Chile.

The World.GreekReporter.com published the article AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE GREEKS OF CHILE on February 18, 2010, authored by our HellenicGenealogyGeek.com friend, Alexander Billinis. "I spent the summer of 1996 studying and working in Chile, as part of a law school exchange program. As always in my world travels, I sought out the Greek community. I had heard stories from my father about his own sailor father’s travels to Chile, where he described a strong Greek community in the 1930s, centered, as usual, around shipping and mercantile activities, with the largest communities in the capital, Santiago, and the nearby Pacific port of Valparaiso (Valley of Paradise). The tragic events of the past weekend have brought my thoughts back to Chile, and to its small Greek community. When compared to the Greek communities in North America, Australia, or parts of Europe, the Greek Chilean community is very small, and highly assimilated. This is a characteristic of Greek communities throu...

GREEK EMIGRATION TO LATIN AMERICA:  1900-1950 By Alexander Kitroeff Published in the Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, Vol 26/1 - Year 2000 ----- ALEXANDER KITROEFF teaches European History at Haverford College..  ----- From the article: There are currently about 50,000 Greeks living throughout Latin America, most of whom emigrated after the Second World War (Agapitidis, 1964; Katsomalos 1972). Earlier, emigration from Greece to Latin America, during the first half of the twentieth century, was so small it hardly seems worth the trouble examining. Only a few thousand people left Greece, or the Greekinhabited regions of the Ottoman empire, and settled in Latin America. By comparison, over the same period almost half a million Greeks emigrated to the United States. Between 1900 and 1945, even Canada witnessed the arrival of many more Greeks than any single Latin American country. Nonetheless, Greek emigration to Latin America, despite its small pro...

FamilySearch.org has a FREE database titled CHILE, MARRIAGES, 1579-1930 that has 18 entries for people born in Greece. Description of Records Index to selected Catholic Church marriage records from various localities in Chile. The year range in the collection title represents the years covered by the majority of the records; however, some records may be from earlier or later years. This collection does not include images of the original records.

Hellenic Headquarters in Santiago, Chile  (in Spanish and Greek) Hellenism in the Diaspora - Founded in Santiago, Chile 1918