The Greeks in America 1528 – 1977 , compiled and edited by Heike Fenton & Melvin Hecker, published 1978 by Oceana Publications.  The 151 names mentioned in book are listed below . Available through used book stores and your local library's inter-library loan program.   TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHRONOLOGY                 Early Immigration, 1528-1821                 Scattered Immigration After the War of Independence, 1821-1890                 Period of Systematic Immigration, 1891-1921                 From Hellenism to Americanization, 1920s-1940s                 Era of Philh...

  The book “A History of the Greeks in the Americas 1453-1938” – a narrative history written by Paul Koken, Theodore N. Constant and Seraphim G. Canoutas between 1935-1938, published in 1995 by Proctor Publications, LLC, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.  Below you will find the Table of Contents along with a list of the 288 Greeks mentioned in the book . Table of Contents CHAPTER ONE:  DURING THE PERIOD OF DISCOVERY 1.        Greek Sailors in Columbus’ Time 2.        Greeks in the Exploration of Peru and Chili 3.        Other Greek Mainers in the Cost of Peru and Chili CHAPTER TWO:  JUAN DE FUCA 1.        Lok’s Original Note 2.        Hubert Howe Bancroft’s Version of Lok’s Story 3.        Bancroft’s Interpretation 4.        Bancroft’s Erroneous ...

DEMETRIOS IS NOW JIMMY  Problems and Pitfalls Translating Proper Names by Basil Zafiriou Published in The National Herald September 2, 2019 ------------------------------ 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.  ------------------------------ Demetrios Is Now Jimmy is the title of a book by Lazar Odzak that traces the experience of Greek immigrants in the Southern United States during the early 1900s. The desire to adapt to and be accepted by the dominant society led many of these early immigrants to Americanize their names. Hence the title of the book. At the time, it was common to change surnames as well as first names. That is now rare, but anglicizing first names is still the norm. The way this is done leads often to odd results. Consider the mutation of Demetrios to Jimmy. Jimmy is a diminutive form of James, which in...