FamilySearch.org has a new FREE database titled "California Cemetery Transcriptions 1850-1960" that includes 107 people born in Greece. The collection consists of cemetery transciptions, for the years 1850 to 1960 from the following counties: Amador Fresno Los Angeles Mariposa Merced Napa Riverside Sacramento San Joaquin San Mateo Santa Cruz Siskiyou Solano Stanislaus Sutter Tulare Yolo Yuba The following information can be found in these cemetery abstracts: Name of Cemetery Location (Town, County, State) Full name of deceased Date of Death Names of Parents, Husband or Wife Other Important Facts Place of Birth Date of Birth

FamilySearch.org has a new FREE database titled "California, Oakland, Alameda County, Newspaper Record Collection 1985-2011" that includes 130 people born in Greece.  (Note if you search for people born in Turkey there are also several "Greek" names) Description of this collection: The collection consists of a card file index created from local newspapers and includes obituaries, wedding announcements, anniversaries, and birth announcements. The obituaries are mixed with biographical news stories. Some obituaries are included from the Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register of persons who were natives of Oakland or the Bay Area and died in southern California. The card files for 1985-2002, 2003-2006 and 1986-2011 are located at the Oakland Family History Center. The following information may be found in these records: Name of deceased Birth date and place Death date and place Names of parents Name of spouse Names of children Name of cemetery...

FamilySearch.org  has a database named " California, Sacramento Cemetery Records - 1900-1959 " which includes 186 people born in Greece.  You will be able to view the original records online for  FREE .  These records have a wealth of information in them, in many cases much more than is described below. What is in This Collection? This collection contains cemetery records from various Sacramento, California cemeteries. The years covered include 1900 to 1959. The original records can be found at the Center for Sacramento History located in Sacramento, California. What Can These Records Tell Me? Cemetery records may contain: The name of the deceased The date of death The date of birth The names of parents or other relatives The cemetery name Name of clergy involved in burial Plot number The amount paid for the plot Some of these, like the one pictured above, has the obituary attached to the file.   ------------------...

FamilySearch.org  has a database named " California, County Birth and Death Records - 1800-1994 " which includes 2,290 people born in Greece.  There are also some Greek names in the records showing people born in Turkey. You will be able to view the original records online for FREE . Description Registers, records and certificates of county birth and death records acquired from county courthouses. This collection contains some delayed birth records, as well. Some city and towns records are also included. Records have not been acquired for Contra Costa, Imperial, Kern, Kings, Modoc, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Siskiyou, Solano, Tulare and Ventura counties. The name index for death records covers Stockton, Lodi and Manteca cities and San Benito and San Joaquin counties. ----------------------- Other postings you might be interested in: Greeks in the California Digital Newspaper Collection - FREE search Book - Greeks in San Francisco - includes 320 Greek names ...

FamilySearch.org  has a database named "California, Death Index, 1940-1997" which includes 6,861 people born in Greece. You will be able to view the Index entries online for  FREE .  This is an index and there are no original document images available. This index includes the following information.  As an example I have included the data for Christos N. Actipis. Name:  Christos . Actipis Event Type:  Death Event Date:  29 Oct 1962 Event Place:  Los Angeles, California, United States Birth Date:  23 Dec 1898 Birth Place:  Greece Gender:  Male Mother's Name:  Cardaris ----------------------- Other postings you might be interested in: Greeks in the California Digital Newspaper Collection - FREE search Book - Greeks in San Francisco - includes 320 Greek names & 225 photos Greek-American Communists and the San Francisco General Strike of 1934 The Legend of a Fiend:  John "Blackjack" Jerome and Violent St...

Published in the Orthdox Observer, September-October 2018 - page 25 St. George Greek Orthodox Church Bakersfield, California Founded:  1924 ----- Not all immigrants from Greece in the late 19th and early 20th centuries chose to settle in the major metropolitan areas of the East and Midwest.  A small number traveled to more remote areas; among these was the high desert region of California’s interior where Bakersfield (pop. about 380,000) is centrally located, 112 miles north of glamorous, star-studded L.A.   According to a parish history, the “pioneer” Greek Orthodox came to build the railroads – the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific – as did many Chinese and Irish men before them. Others soon established businesses that supported the railroads.  Still others engaged in farming (Bakersfield is at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, part of California’s Central Valley that produces nearly 13 percent of the country’s agricultural output...

BETWEEN SILENCE AND SOUND: THE FIRST GREEK ACTORS AND ACTRESSES OF HOLLYWOOD Part 1 By Steve Frangos Published in The National Herald, July 14, 2012 ------------------------------ 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.  ------------------------------ Greeks were an active part of the American film industry even before such an industry was established. Documents exist about the involvement of Greek immigrants in the Edison laboratories as well as purchasers of Thomas Edison's first line of kinetoscopes. Kinetoscopes and similar machines were the first viewing machines seen in nickelodeon parlors. As many among Greek-America's senior generation will recall, Greek immigrants were actively involved in the advent of local nickelodeons, which led to their purchasing vaudeville and moving picture theaters. That said, trying to authoritative...

THE CALIFORNIA DIGITAL NEWSPAPER COLLECTION - cdnc.ucr.edu "This site puts more than 8 million articles from California newspapers dating from 1846 to the present at your fingertips.  Place quotation marks around a name to search for it as an exact phrase. "Tip:  In addition to searching for your ancestors' names on collaborative "memory" or "digital archives" websites, try the places where they lived and other topics associated with their lives, such as schools, churches, military units, occupations, industries and ethnic groups." - Family Tree Magazine, December 2015, page 17. Note:  I did a search on the term Greek American and received results for 182 articles - a search using "Greek American" resulted in 62 articles. The results include announcements for organizations like the Greek American Republican Club in San Francisco from 1900; the Greek American Club to Promote Economy in Sacraments from 1916; the A.A.U. Wrestl...