Message from George Topalidis, Ph.D. Student - Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law, University of Florida, OGUS Project Coordinator Message dated December 20, 2018 Dear Friends of the OGUS Project,  I have some exciting news! Our webpage at the University of Florida's Samuel Proctor Oral History Program is officially online! It contains the following sections.  1. The Collections - 2D images, documents in Demotic Greek, English, Karamanlidika, Katharevousa, Rumca, Ottoman, and Turkish, 3D renditions of objects, and interviews with descendants of immigrants from the former Ottoman Empire to the US. (We are awaiting the connection with the University of Florida's Digital Collection.) 2. The Map - An interactive map tracing migration from the Ottoman Empire to the US between 1904-1924.  3. Researchers - Biographies of our research team.  Feel free to browse!  https://ogus.oral.history.ufl.edu/ Please like and share. Help us raise awareness ...

EARLY GREEK DANCERS MAKE A SPLASH IN NORTH AMERICA By Steve Frangos Published in The National Herald, August 5, 2006 ------------------------------ 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 have always been dancers. One of the most enduring stereotypic images of contemporary Greek Americans shows them dancing to their hearts’ content. If there is one thing that can be said indisputably about Greek public and private entertainment, it is this: Greeks really like to dance. Knowing this inherent love of dance it is extremely curious, then, why, with so many self-proclaimed experts on Modern Greek music in North America, has not one of them paid systematic attention to the actual dancers?  Oh, to be sure, there is always some obligatory mention about the complexities in Greek dance rhythms, ...

British PATHE - Historic Film Archive - Footage Library ----- 1923  Film clip title - Click on title below for link to video   "Out of the land of bondage". Poignant pictures that illustrate tragedy of Greek exodus from Turkish rule in Thrace.