I would like to recommend this very helpful article, written by Lisa Louise Cooke, it includes step by step instructions on "How to Use Chronicling America To Find Your Ancestors' in Newspapers".   This is how I found the location of archives for the Chicago Daily News from 1907 (not digitized).  I can now schedule some time to go look for any articles on my great-uncle, Sam Best (Bebetsos), the wrestler. " Finding old newspapers from your ancestors’ hometown isn’t always easy. Here’s how to use Chronicling America to identify the newspapers that were in print at the time. Those issues may not be online, so Chronicling America also points you to copies of those newspapers at libraries and archives." " But only 1.5% of the 155,000 newspapers published over time in the U.S. newspapers have been digitized at Chronicling America. So you’ll want to look those ones up and locate them offsite. The good news is that there’s a lesser-known tool at Chronicl...

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...

Source:  GREEKS OF WASHINGTON, Spring 2017 The Greeks of Washington Museum recently learned that copies of the  WASHINGTON HELLENIC REVIEW , the Seattle Greek newspaper, published from 1924 to 1936 and housed in the Unites States Library of Congress has been digitized and will soon be available at  www.greeksinwashington.org .  This publication preceded the  AHEPA MENTOR  as the primary medium for news and communication in the Greek community in Seattle.   Original copies of the publication are also available in the Greeks in Washington Archive.

Published - 3 January 1921 Poughkeepsie Eagle-News Poughkeepsie, New York GREEK-AMERICAN SOCIETY ELECTS ----- George Antonakas Is Chosen President of Business Men's Club at Annual Dinner. The Greek-American Business Men's Association held their annual election of officers Sunday night, when the members of the association held a banquet at their club rooms in 12 Garden Street.  The supper was served by the entertainment committee of the club, and during the meal a string orchestra, composed of members of the society, furnished music, both Grecian and American in character. The result of the election was as follows:  President, George Antonakos; vice president, Steve Pappas; secretary and treasurer, Harry Diamond, board of trustees, Charles Lamaris, Frank Mastroco, Burtea Tompkins, Louis Wise, Thomas Whalen, and John Pappas and member of the advisory board, George V. L. Spratt.

This advertisement was run in  The Leavenworth Post Leavenworth, Kansas 10 October 1905 Up-to-Date Greek-American New  Shoe Shining Parlor The Best Shine in This City ----- All Shines 5 cents ----- For Ladies and Gents. ----- Call and see us ----- N. Kaplis & Karakostas Co. 302 Delaware St., Leavenworth, Ks.

Left:  Epi Stathopoulos.  Right:  The Stathopoulos Family in America.   THE STATHOPOULOS FAMILY: ARTISANS IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY GREEK AMERICA Published in The National Herald, February 14-20, 2015 Issue Authored by Steve Frangos, TNH Staff Writer ------------------------------ 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.  ------------------------------ One of the most enduring fallacies within Greek-American studies is that Hellenic sojourners never brought any traditional crafts to North America.  Nothing could be further from the documented truth.  As a case in point we need only look at two generations of the Stathopoulos family to see not only the presence of traditional Greek artisans in the United States but also how those unique skills and talents ultimately merged into an American legend....

BEGINNING OF WOMEN'S AND GIRL'S TRIPOLITAN CLUB Saloniki - Greek Press, August 1919 After many conferences and consultations, the Greek women and girls descended from Tripolitans have finally established a club which they have named, Philanthropic Society of Tripolitan Women and Girls. The main reason for the club was a letter sent from the priest of Metamorseos, Andrew Panagiotopoulos and Angeline Tsigos, which stated that there was imperative need for money to repair the church. The initiative for this action was furnished by the following women:  Helen Giannopoulos, Sophia Nicholopoulos, Marika Malliros, and Basiliki Bousios.  At the first meeting of June 27, quite a few women appeared, who, upon hearing the contents of the letter, donated the following sums: Helen S. Giannopoulos, $10; Marika H. Malliris, $10; Katina A. Deligiannis, $10; Marika I. Askounis, $10; Basiliki N. Marachos, $10; Marika I. Papanastasiou, $10; Sophia K. Nikolopoulos, $1...

GREEK-AMERICAN SPONGE FISHERMEN AID RED CROSS Tarpon Springs, Fla., Feb. 8 (1918) -  The Greek-American sponge fishermen here have made one of the most unique gifts that the American Red Cross has yet received.  Each fishing captain as his boat unloaded contributed a bunch of sponges to a lot being gathered for the Red Cross.  The sponges were sold for $808 at public auction on the sponge exchange here, the only public sponge market in the United States.  The money was sent to the Red Cross.

The Evening News  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 23 June 1922 NEW SODA FOUNTAIN AND CONFECTIONERY LOCATED IN MARKET SQUARE;   ORCHESTRA CONCERT AT OPENING SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING The "Sunset Confectionery," a new soda fountain and confectionery store, will open Saturday afternoon, June 24, at 1 o'clock, but will be open for inspection to the public this evening at 8 o'clock. An orchestra will furnish music, and souvenirs of small boxes of candy and a flower will be given to all visitors.  The store is located on the northeast corner of Market and Second streets. The building has been under a course of re-modeling for some time, and every modern convenience has been installed to insure satisfaction and comfort for the public.  In connection with the soda fountain and confectionery business, light lunches will be served at all times.  This new store will be the last word in the soda business and will be one of the city's most up-t...

Article from Roads and Kingdoms - Final Edition IN ISTANBUL, A ONCE-MIGHTY NEWSPAPER THAT SERVES THE COUNTRY'S DWINDLING GREEK COMMUNITY IS IN DANGER OF COLLAPSE by Nick Ashdown Published by Slate.com on October 17, 2014 ISTANBUL—In the grotty basement offices of a small publishing house in central Istanbul, five shaggy men stack and fold a four-page daily newspaper while a sixth man, wearing an undershirt and shorts, runs a small noisy printing press. The men, all Turkish, cannot read a word of the paper because it’s in Greek. Soon they will hand-deliver all 600 copies of Apoyevmatini (which translates to “afternoon”), almost one for every remaining Greek family in Turkey. Three of the men have been delivering the paper for 30, 50, and 60 years, respectively. Sebahattin Esen, 56 and unshaven with a warm smile, says he feels like he’s a part of the Greek community. “I regularly come inside, have a coffee with them and chat,” he says. At this time of year m...

LOVE LEVELS CHURCH BARRIER ----- Turkish Girl Elopes with Christian Greek and Mohammedans Are Horrified ----- SALONIKI, Aug. 19 - There has been a romantic sequel to the political murder in Constantinople of Zeki Bey, editor of an opposition paper. The day after her father's assassination Zeki Bey's daughter eloped with a Greek who was a neighbor of the family.  The closed secrecy was necessary, as the idea of a union between a Mohammedan girl and a Christian rouses the Turks to frenzy and would probably be punished with death. From Constantinople the pair went by steamer to Pireaus, the port of Athens. Here the Turkish consul boarded the steamer to arrest the girl.  The Greek harbor officials questioned his authority and the lovers hastened ashore to a hotel, where a policeman was detailed to guard them from further molestation. Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, August 20, 1911

Published in Greek Star - April 15, 1904 - "The Strike in Chicago Ended, the Greek Strike-Breakers Ousted.  Union President Sympathetic" (Editorial) The two-month strike at the Diesel shops ended to-day, and the Greeks who took the jobs of the union men were ousted.  The president of the union paid us a visit at our offices and discussed the action of the Greek workers who created an unpleasant situation because of their ignorance, stupidity, and lack of organization.  His argument revealed the extent of his reasonableness, his knowledge, his lerance, and his sympathy for the ousted Greek strike-breakers. The gentlemen recognized and admitted the fact that the newly-arrived Greek immigrants, who took the jobs of the strikers, did not know what it was all about.  Jobs, a chance to make a living, were offered to them by their exploiting leaders, who were the tools of the factory-owners, and the ignorant immigrants accepted.  Very naturally the poor Greek...

Published in ekathimerini.com March 17, 2014 From the Battle of Navarino to Cavafy, rare manuscripts go under the hammer "A previously unpublished manuscript describing the landmark Battle of Navarino during the Greek War of Independence is going under the hammer in Athens.  The battle, which took place on October 20, 1827, off the southwestern coast of the Peloponnese, pitted the Ottoman armada against the allied forces of Britain, France and Russia.  Penned by a French navy officer, the manuscript is unsigned yet contains vivid details of the naval battle."  Read the entire article and learn about this and other items of major historical importance being offered in the upcoming auction.

The following article appeared in ekathimerini.com on October 1, 2013 "Human rights court orders Turkey to pay 5 mln euros to Greek siblings" The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ruled that the Turkish government must pay damages worth 5 million euros to two Greek brothers, Yiannis and Vangelis Fokas, who had been prohibited by Turkish authorities from claiming ownership of a property in the neighboring country that they had inherited from their sister. Turkish authorities had prohibited the Katerini, northern Greece-born siblings from claiming the title to the property on account of their nationality and of the principle of reciprocity between Greece and Turkey. Read the entire article .... ekathimerini.com

" 60 YEARS OF RUNNING WATER " by Peter Stevenson Published in the Cyprus Mail - August 25, 2013 Seventy-two year old Yiannakis Fiouris vividly remembers the time before his home had running water and his family, like everyone else's, had to collect their water daily from public taps and fountains. He recalls the long queues that would form every morning in each neighbourhood in Nicosia outside the concrete block encased taps installed by the British. "It was a nightmare, every morning 20 to 30 people would all be queued up outside these taps trying to fill up their buckets," he said.   Sometimes scuffles would break out as people tried to cut in line. "Back then people were illiterate and so cutting in would happen on a regular basis, but that didn't mean others didn't object and you would often see people shoving and pushing." he added. Fiouris said that every neighbourhood either had a large concrete tap, a well with a bucket ...

Published in The Day Book (Chicago, Illinois) on June 8, 1914 TERRIFIC WAR ON FLORIDA MAN FLEETS SAIL OUT TO LOOT AND BURN AND KILL Key West, Fla., June 8 - High sea piracy just off the peaceful coast of Key West! Buccaneering!  The type that loots and robs and burns and kills! A bloody naval warfare has sprung up between Greeks and Americans.  An American naval vessel is hastening here to quell it, and meanwhile, international complications are feared! It is the war of the spongers. Only a few years ago the sponge-gathering industry in this region was profitable for the brawny "conch," who plied his trade leisurely by going out on the gulf a mile or so with his rowboat, his water glass and a rake.  There he scooped up sponges by the boatload. Some ten years ago Greek spongers began to pour into Florida.  They chose Tarpon Springs as their headquarters, because Tarpon Springs is adjacent to the greatest sponge beds of the countr...