Nisanyan Yeradlari Project is to document all the place names that have been used in the past within the border of the Republic of Turkey and neighboring countries. Do the automatic Translate to English function.  You can zoom in and click on the section of the map that pertains to your research.  A box will pop up that contains the place name changes.

  MyHeritage.com has a new database titled " Australia, South Australia, Royal Adelaide Hospital Admissions " that includes 55 people born in Greece.   This collection contains admission records to the Royal Adelaide Hospital in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, between the years 1902 and 1925. Records typically include the name of the individual, birth year and place, residence and admission date, marital status, and occupation. Some records include discharge dates, death dates, and the name of the ship by which the individual arrived in Adelaide. The Adelaide Hospital was established in 1841. Evolving from the Colonial Infirmary that existed since 1837 was in fact South Australia’s first hospital. In the first year, it operated from a tent and subsequently became a hut. The hospital was renamed the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1939. The records in this collection are © The Government of South Australia.

I recently attended a webinar, hosted by author Peter S. Giakoumis, regarding the Balkan Wars.  I decided to go back and review his book “The Forgotten Heroes of the Balkan Wars:  Greek-Americans and Philhellenes 1912-1913”, (available at most online bookstores).   This book contains hundreds of American newspaper articles about the Balkan Wars, published by big city and small-town newspapers.  I realized that many of these articles contained names and stories about Greek immigrants who were returning to Greece to fight in the war, and those men who returned to the U.S. after the war.    717 GREEK NAMES MENTIONED IN NEWSPAPER ARTICLES in “The Forgotten Heroes of the Balkan Wars” by Peter S. Giakoumis (Note:  Many of the names were misspelled in the articles.  I transcribed them as printed.) Abariotes, Stephen Aemodius, Vinnias Ageletos, Angel Agriostathi Agriostathis, John Agristathis, John Alekopoulos, Andrew Alex Alexanders, Nick Alexapul...

  THE SPONGE DIVERS OF KALYMNOS by Willard Manus, published in The Athenian, August 30, 1974 - pages 19-21 "The young girls of Kalymnos sang their song of farewell, the wives and mothers wept as the diving boats left the harbor in slow formation, flags flapping in the breeze, newly-painted gunwales gleaming in the hard-white Aegean sunlight. And the whole of the ancient harbor resounded with the peal of church bells, and with shouts and cries and sobs: ‘Goodbye… goodbye!’ ‘Kalo taxithi… good journey!’ ‘Farewell, children… farewell!’ It was six days after Easter. A dozen tiny boats were putting out to sea, bound for the sponge beds of Greece and North Africa. Each boat carried from eight to twenty men — the famed sphoungarades (sponge divers) of Kalymnos. They would stay away for seven long months, risking death or paralysis to tear sponges from the bottom of the sea. Kalymnians have dived for sponges for as long as man can remember, but today that tradition is for the first time i...

The book “Sweet Greeks – First Generation Immigrant Confectioners in the Heartland” by Ann Flesor Beck, published by University of Illinois Press in 2020. Below you will find the Description, Table of Contents and a list of the 457 names mentioned in the book. DESCRIPTION Gus Flesor came to the United States from Greece in 1901. His journey led him to Tuscola, Illinois, where he learned the confectioner's trade and opened a business that still stands on Main Street.  Sweet Greeks  sets the story of Gus Flesor's life as an immigrant in a small town within the larger history of Greek migration to the Midwest. Ann Flesor Beck's charming personal account recreates the atmosphere of her grandfather's candy kitchen with its odors of chocolate and popcorn and the comings-and-goings of family members. "The Store" represented success while anchoring the business district of Gus's chosen home. It also embodied the Midwest émigré experience of chain migration...