THE MINOS CENTURY CELEBRATION AND HISTORY OF CRETANS IN UTAH Authored by TNH Staff Published in The National Herald - June 2, 2018 (Note:  HGG has the permission of The National Herald to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.) ----- SALT LAKE CITY, UT – The Cretan community of Utah will host a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the formal establishment of their local Cretan organization, the Minos Century Celebration, June 1-3.  Minos Chairman Dr. Tony Gianoulis told The National Herald that “the Cretan community in Utah has a very large presence. Many Cretans came to Utah at the turn of the 20th century to work in the copper mines. As the years went by, more and more Cretans immigrated to Utah and established their families, homes, and businesses here. Today, we are one of the largest Cretan communities in the United States. Moreover, we are proud of the fact that Utah had the first organized Cretan club in all of the Uni...

FamilySearch.org has added a new FREE database titled " Utah, World War 1 Army Servicemen Record Abstracts, 1914-1918 " that includes 324 people recorded as being born in Greece, and 16 people born in Turkey (several with names that sound Greek). Description This collection contains World War I statement of service cards (service records abstracts) for Utah servicemen for the years 1917-1918. These records are from the United States Adjutant General's Office. Microfilm of the original records are held at the Utah State Archives in Salt Lake City, Utah. Type of Information Included Name Serial number Race Residence Where enlisted Organizations Engagements Wounds Over seas service Discharge date

FamilySearch.org has a new FREE database titled "Utah, World War I Service Questionnaires, 1914-1918" .  It includes 46 people born in GREECE. What is in This Collection? This collection consists of World War I service questionnaires and photographs completed by veterans or their families. The collection is Series 85298 from the Utah Division of Archives and Records Service. What Can These Records Tell Me? Name of Soldier Rank Name of first training camp Other organizations belonged to Time spent in each camp Discharge date Citations for bravery Overseas deployment date Overseas destination

Assumption of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church in Price, UT GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION CELEBRATES CENTENNIAL Published in The National Herald, August 27-28, 2016 Issue Authored by TNH Staff ------------------------------ We are excited to announce that  The National Herald  has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.  ------------------------------ ----------------------- PRICE, UT – The men arrived first, seeking work in Carbon County's coal mines. Their wives soon followed, setting up homes and traditions from the old country, spending time chatting in their native language with shopkeepers along Price's Main Street. Before long, kids were marching to after-school language and religion lessons in blue-and-white uniforms.  In the early 20th century, these transplants created a thriving Greek enclave in the center of the Beehive State. And the Assump...

GREEK IMMIGRANT WOMEN IN THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST By Helen Papanikolas Published in the Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, Year 1989 Pages 16-34 ----- "In the migration and settling of the West, women as well as men kept journals.  During their covered-wagon journies, while settling in wildernesses, ploughing the virgin earth, and raising families, they wrote, often poignantly, and enriched our knowledge of those epic days.  In the Greek immigrant past we have but one journal written by a Greek male sojourner in the first years of this century we have no journal by a Greek immigrant woman to tell us of her life far from urban sanctuaries, the Greek Towns of the East. "The reasons are twofold.  Greeks come from an ancient oral tradition.  In song and poetry, they told of their story, what little they knew of the ancients, of the days of Byzantium, and of their bondage, first under the Venetians, then under the Turks.  Secondly, few women in ...

Ancestry.com has a database online that is titled -  UTAH, MILITARY RECORDS, 1861-1970   which includes 410 people who listed Greece as their place of birth. Don't forget - most of you can access these records online at your local public library for FREE.  Read more on one of my previous posts " Something New To Try When Using Ancestry.com in the Library for FREE " RECORD DESCRIPTION FROM ANCESTRY.COM This database contains military records on Utah servicemen and women created or collected by various state government agencies. They include questionnaires, index cards, photographs, and newspaper clippings going back to the days of Utah’s territorial militia. World War I Service Questionnaires, 1914-1918 The Utah State Historical Society sent these questionnaires to Utah World War I veterans and their families shortly after the war in an attempt to compile a history of the war as it related to the state. The four-page questionnaires were filled out by the v...

UTAH, SALT LAKE COUNTY DEATH RECORDS, 1908-1949 - Link to FREE database and access to online records The Family Search database includes 855 people who are recorded with Greece as their place of birth. Record Description from Family Search: This project was indexed in partnership with the Utah Genealogical Association. The collection consists of an index and images for the years 1849 to 1949. Some records in this collection may be for deaths occurring before 1908 where the remains were re-interred between 1908 and 1949.   Records apparently include both Death Registers and Death Certificates. Death registers usually contain the following information: Full name and gender of deceased Death date and certificate number Age in years, months and days Place of death Race Marital status of deceased Occupation of deceased Birthplace of deceased Parents' names Death certificates usually contain the following information: Full name and gender of decea...

UTAH, DEATHS AND BURIALS, 1888-1946 - Link to FREE database The Family Search database includes 2,694 people who are recorded with GREECE as their place of birth. Record Description from Family Search: This index is an electronic index for the years 1888 to 1946. It is not necessarily intended to index any specific set of records. This index is not complete for any particular place or region. This collection may include information previously published in the International Genealogical Index or Vital Records Index collections.

Date of photograph - 1924 Description:  Mass burial services for some of the Greek immigrants killed during the Castle Gate Mine explosion in 1924.  Held in a hall at Castle Gate.  Father Sinyrnopoulos is at center left. Photo Number 21585 Publisher Utah State Historical Society Follow this link for further details and access to better quality photograph

Date of photograph - 23 December 1908 Description:  Image shows a group of people standing around a deceased person in an open casket at a Greek funeral. Photo Number Shipler #08851; Classified #28562 (Greek Orthodox Church p.3) Photographer Shipler Commercial Photographers; Shipler, Harry Publisher Utah State Historical Society; Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Follow this link for further details and access to better quality photograph