A MESSAGE FROM THE NATIONAL HELLENIC MUSEUM The National Hellenic Museum's first digital exhibition is now online!  Snapshots of a Life: The George Phillos Photograph Collection  places select photographs from The George Phillos Photograph Collection alongside other  photographs and objects from the National Hellenic Museum's collection. This means the exhibition draws entirely upon objects held in the National Hellenic Museum collection.   The Phillos photographs, largely taken between 1910-1930, provide a unique, candid record of life as experienced by a Greek American immigrant in the early twentieth century. This period was important in American history--and, consequently, in the Greek American story.   We look forward to welcoming you to this new NHM exhibition, right from the comfort of your own home. Click here to view the Digital Exhibition!

WHERE 'THE WEST' BEGINS: FT. WORTH HELLENES by Steve Frangos published in The National Herald January 11, 2020 The National Herald has given HellenicGenealogyGeek.com permission to post articles that are of interest to our group. -------------------------------------------- For well over a century the Greeks of Fort Worth Texas have not only lived but markedly changed the community they now call home. A convergence of unexpectedly dissimilar historical events gradually led to the establishment of this now vibrant Greek-American colony. In 1890, Demetrios Anagnostakis, a native of Crete, was the first Greek to settle in Ft. Worth. As community memories attest Anagnostakis was so influenced by his reading of Zane Grey novels that he came West to be a cowboy. Rather than a life on the trail driving the long horns to the rail heads Anagnostakis first worked for the “Fort Worth Trading Company as a yard man in the cattle pens. By 1904, Anagnostakis was ...