Email received today (March 4, 2019) from Antonis H. Diamataris, Publisher / Editor, The National Herald. The Odyssey of the Greeks of America, the long and rough struggle for survival of hundreds of thousands of Greek immigrants and refugees and their incorporation into the mosaic of the peoples who make up the American Nation and also their solidarity with their motherland is one of their lesser known historical chapters of Hellenism. This is mainly due to the fact that there is no complete archive of the History of the Greek-American community available to the public and the researchers. The most important effort to record the history of the Greek-American Community was made by Professor Theodore Salutos (The Greeks in the United States), published in 1964, and a second, but less worthwhile effort, by Bambis Malafouris, who volume stops in 1948. (Our own Steve Frangos does great, original work in the history of the community, for this newspaper.) This histori...

Over the years I have had trouble documenting my maternal great-grandmother's maiden name.  I had tried to confirm it with my usual favorite source - The U.S. Social Security Application.  On this particular form the applicant must insert the maiden name of his or her mother.  I looked at the information my grandfather and his brother filled out. The application done by my grandfather, Frank Tsiones, states that his mother's name was Anna Manutes.  My mother did not think that sounded correct, but she was not sure what the name should be.  His brother, Christ Tsiones, wrote his mother's name as Athanasia  Maniatis (it is very hard to read). It is unclear what the maiden name was.   I then looked at the 1865 General Election lists from the village of Kapareli, searching for surnames that were similar to what I saw on the Social Security Applications. There were 7 men listed in the 1865 Election Lists with the name Maniatis.   No ...