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Latest Update: 10 December 2002  (with a correction on 23 Jan 2005) ..................................... WebSite Version

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- entry for ANTIPA, Adrian, 20 March 2002
- entry for CHACE, LouAnn, 20 March 2002
- entry for DELTA-BELLIK, Cecilia, 20 March 2002
- entry for LEIMONIS, Melissa, 20 March 2002
- entry for STORTON, Ana AGRIOSTATHES, 20 March 2002
- entry for BURTON, Karen, 20 March 2002
- entry from HEYSTEE, Veronica, 15 May 2002
- entry for NIMBRIOTIS, Xavier, 18 August 2002
- entry for PAPADOPOULOS, Graziella, 18 August 2002
- entry for BURNS, Lisa, 26 August 2002
- entry for GERONTAKOS, Marge, 13 November 2002
- entry for MOLNAR, Marcella DAMIGOS, 20 November 2002
- entry for ROBB, Karyn A., 21 November 2002
- entry for CLINTON, Hellen K., 25 November 2002
- entry for LAUNDREE, Scott, 7 December 2002
- entry for PATTERSON, George, 7 December 2002
- entry for POLISSON, Efi, 7 December 2002
- entry for PERDIKIS, Joyce, 10 December 2002


ANTIPA, Adrian
Toronto, Canada
eMail address: aantipa@certicom.com
Greek Orthodox)

I am looking for my family roots. My great grandfather was born at Kefalonia, village Dolinata (probably the current Dilinata), around 1880. His name is Antipa SPIRIDON (probably the family name is ANTIPAS, not ANTIPA). The only information I have is from an immigration document written in Romanian. He left Kefalonia and immigrated to Romania around 1900. My family is spread in France, Romania, Canada and USA, but I have no clue about my Greek relatives. I will appreciate any information regarding relatives having the same family name Antipa or Antipas and living at Kefalonia or other parts of Greece. My great grandfather was Greek Orthodox. In advance thank you.


BURNS, Lisa
Blue Springs, Missouri, USA
eMail address: ILuv2Worship@aol.com

I am looking for the PIPIKIOU family from Tifles, Greece. We are also told that they had connections at Tripoli. I am most interested in information regarding my grandfather, Stavros PIPIKIOU, born 15 August 1889 ? (This date is doubtful when compared to other records we do have). He was a painter and trained to paint beautiful murals. Stavros is believed to have traveled abroad for several years before immigrating to and entering the USA. He traveled with an uncle (we do not know the uncles name) to Africa, Egypt etc. We know he was in the USA before 1919, because he married a Sybil BASSETT, in the state of Missouri 12 November 1919. His name was changed in the USA to Steve K. CARSEL. He was married on 12 November 1919 in the state of Missouri, USA so he had to be here prior to that. To our knowledge he did not finish the naturalization process.

His brother, Dimitrios PIPIKIOU, immigrated to the USA on the ship "Pannonia" arriving 4 March 1914. His wife, Yiannoula, and their child, Georgia, immigrated on the ship "Megali Hellas", arriving America 20 January 1921. They listed their homeland in Greece to be Tripolis and their nearest relative in Greece to be Georgitsa PIPIKIOU at Tripoli. This information came from ship manifest information at Ellis Island, New York. I believe Dimitrios listed his occupation in upholstery in Greece. Upon gaining American citizenship, their names became Jim (James) PIPER and family. They lived in the Kansas City, Missouri area. I know this is rather sparse information so I don't expect any miracles. I just need to know if there are any websites that could help me unravel this mystery. I do not speak Greek, so I have a major roadblock with communicating with Greek websites. If you could point me in a direction I would be most appreciative. I can find no records in our Missouri census or genealogy databases, even though I know exactly what streets he lived on at certain times. The only other name from their homeland that we have is that of one of their parents, a Georgitsa PIPIKIOUS. We have heard that the Pipikiou family was somewhat wealthy, dealing in some type of furs and owning two homes. One of the homes was inland and another overlooked the sea. Both sons immigrated to the USA prior to 1920 because their parents wanted them to avoid a pending war. As you can tell, most of our facts are few and far between. We desperately wish to find any info pertaining to our heritage. Thank you for your help.


BURTON, Karen
eMail address: karen26@blueyonder.co.uk

I am trying to establish details of birth and family of one Plotino RHODAKANATI, who was born about 1850 and became an anarchist. He fled to Spain and then Mexico where he continued as an anarchist. He was also a Roman Catholic at one time. Any help would be appreciated. I do not know which region he came from.


CHACE, LouAnn
Arnold Industries,
eMail address: lchace@arnold-ind.com

I am looking for information on my grandmother and grandfather from Chios, Greece. Katherine (Catherine or Caterina) VLATTAS XENAKIS was born 12 March 1913 and died 4 June 2000. Her mother was Angelika ALEMIS and her father was Emanuel VLATTAS. They immigrated to America in 1931. She had a wealthy family in Greece and left when the Turks were taking over Chios, so I am told. Dimitrios (James) Xenakis was born 14 September 1900 (unofficial) from Chios and died 1982 in the USA. His mother was Kalliope MENTONIS and his father was John XENAKIS. He immigrated to the U.S.A. 1924 ? He worked aboard the ship "Edison", bringing immigrants back & forth to the USA from Greece. They had 2 sons: John Xeankis (my father) and Stanley Xenakis (my uncle).


CLINTON, Hellen K.
eMail address: hellclinton@hotmail.com

I am trying to trace the whereabouts of my father and his family. His name is Peter Koufakis and he was born 2 March 1947 at Efpalion Doridos or Nafpaktos, Greece. I know he remarried a woman by the name of Mario and had 2 more children.


DELTA-BELLIK, Cecilia
eMail address: cecidelta@yahoo.es or cd33324@aol.com

I am trying to locate any information about the COTOMATIS family and Bellaki now spelled BELLIOT. Both were related to each other possibly cousins. I only know specifics on Antonios Sarantos Cotomatis. He was born on 20 January 28 1886. His mother was born at Hydra, Greece so I assume that was also his birth place. Then I found him in the World War I civilian draft records registered at Penellas, Florida. I also have letters he wrote when he lived at Tarpon, Florida dated in 1908-1911. The Belliki family eventually traveled to South America and settled there. It was told that the Belliki name was not the original name of the family. It might have been Bellaki.1


GERONTAKOS, Marge
eMail address: Marge589@aol.com

I am looking for any information regarding Theodore GERONTAKOS, of the Greek Orthodox religion, from Sparta, Greece. He immigrated to the U.S.A. around 1911. He lived in Massachusetts and then New York, and died in 1948.


HEYSTEE, Veronica
eMail address: heystee1@juno.com
(Greek Orthodox)

I am searching for my father whose name is George Chidrigas. I do not have the original Greek spelling. I know that he was born 12 March 1931 and he was born in Greece. I do not know when he immigrated to America, but I do know that he lived in Los Angeles, California. He was a restaurant owner there. He was a Greek Orthodox. I believe he has one brother and one sister. If anyone has any information that might be helpful, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.

LAUNDREE, Scott M.
eMail address" lands@cybrzn.com or wendel20@hotmail.com

I am looking for any information on my Greek grandfather. His given name was Georgious Constantine KRENERITES, but he changed his name to George KRENOS (we don't know when this occurred.) He was born 23 April 1892 (or 1893) at either Halcules or Chalkis Evas, Greece. He immigrated from the port of Piraeus, Greece (the SS is unknown) and arrived at Ellis Island on 30 July 1909 at the age of 26. In 1980 my father wrote the U. S. Dept. of Naturalization and Immigration requesting a copy of the ship manifest hoping that perhaps his parents names may be on it, but they confirmed a ship from Piraeus arrived on that day but they were unable to locate the manifest. He had an uncle that lived in Pennsylvania that was his sponsor. He had a brother named Angelo and two sisters born after he left the old country. They were Maria (Mary) and Ellen. Sometimes my grandma (now deceased) used the name Angelia in place of Ellen, so we are not sure of the correct name. He signed for his Petition for Naturalization on 5 October 1940 and received his Naturalization papers (#4893432) on 20 January 1941 and on that day became a U.S. citizen. Could you possibly help me or steer me in the right direction? Thanks so much for your time.


LEIMONIS, Melissa
eMail address: mellovesryan@hotmail.com

I was born at Toronto, Ontario, Canada. My dad was born in Greece. On August 18, 1988, he past away in Greece. My family told me he got into a motorcycle accident with another woman. My mom doesn't talk to his side of the family. They all blamed her for his death. I went for a visit to see them not to long ago. (I was born 29 October 1983 - when he died I was 4 and that was the last year I seen them) so it was a really big surprise. My uncle was there, he told me that sooner or later I'll find out the truth about my father. I'm 18 years old, I've got an older brother who is 21 (same father) I think that we are old enough to know what really happened, because if I wait for them I'll be 50. If you have any hints or ideas as to how I can go about finding the truth it would really help. e.g. registries, or web sites containing this information, or anything that you may think that might help. My dad's name is Petros Leimonis, or he goes by the name Peter Leimonis. Thank you for your time.


MOLNAR, Marcella DAMIGOS
eMail address: our2sons@attbi.com
(Greek Orthodox)

I would love to obtain any information on the ancestors and relatives of John Nick DAMIGOS. My father was born 12 May, 1905 on the island of Psara, Greece, near Chios. My father was Greek Orthodox. My father immigrated to the US around 1931 in search of his brother, Tony DAMIGOS. Any information would be greatly appreciated and I would be happy to share any information that I now have.

NIMBRIOTIS, Xavier
eMail address: nimbriotis@hotmail.com
(Greek Orthodox)

This is the History about my family in Greece and my great-grandfather, Konstantinos NIMBRIOTIS / IMBRIOTIS. He was born at Volos around 1876, was (Greek) Orthodox, and his father was Panagiotis Imbriotis or Nimbriotis. His mother was Urania BROUSGIANNI / MpROUSGIANNI, and this mother had a brother who was the Priest (BROUSGIANNIS) at Volos. My great-grandfather had a brother and sister. He grew up with them (mother and priest) because the father (Panagiotis) died when they were children. He emigrated from Greece between 1910-1912 to South America. The sister of him traveled to Panama and married in this country. She had 2 children, one of them, Alexandra, married a Greek man in Panama. My great-grandfather then went to Ecuador. He knew my great-grandmother Sofia, married her and had eight children: Urania, Olga Aglaia, Elena, Olga Maria, Artemis Kaliopi, Georgios Konstantinos, Androniki and Epaminondas Nimbriotis. He died 17 April 1936 at Guayaquil, Ecuador. I am searching for information on any of my great grandfather's family. Any help would be appreciated


PAPADOPOULOS, Graziella
eMail addresses: Gpapadopoulos@abouadal.com or gromela@yahoo.com

I am seeking to re-obtain for my family our Greek citizenship and urgently need any information about my grandfather, Constantine Y. PAPADOPOULOS, who was born in 1870 at Hermopolis in Syros (a little island facing Athens and known for her loukoumi). He left his hometown and worked in ships. He met my grandmother AFIFEDIRANI from Lebanon during the World War I and they got married. He has a brother Yanni, whose sons and daughter has the Hellenic nationality, but the authorities don't believe us and they don't recognize all the papers and documents that we've been able to relocate (all that we had was burned down in the Lebanese civil war and we can't get any else) so please if anyone has any information e-mail me. Its very urgent - the Greek embassy in Lebanon doesn't want to help us even if the family PAPADOPOULOS cant exist and has no other trace than in Greece. Thank you in advance.


PATTERSON, George
eMail address: GeorgePatterson218@msn.com

This really is a "Needle-in-a-haystack" request. Nevertheless someone out there might just have an answer. I seek information on Greek born ARISTITIS RINAKACIS. (Note: The spelling of the surname could be RINACACIS, RINACAKIS or RINAKAKIS.) He is believed to have been born in Greece (Place of birth not known) between 1932 and 1937 and to have spent some time in Germany (the Nuremberg area) late 1960's / early 1970's. Any information would be much appreciated.. Mbr<

PERDIKIS, Joyce
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
eMail address: perdikis@qwest.net

I am trying to locate a town in Greece by the name of Contevionica. I am researching my late husband's family name, PERDIKIS. What I know is his father came to the USA on the ship "Argentina", which left from the Port Patras, Akhaia, Peloponnessos, Greece and arrived at port of New York on 10 April 1914. His information is as follows: Panagiotis PERDIKIS, age 17, male, single, laborer, reads and writes, nationality and race is Greek, resided in CONTEVIONICA, Greece. His father's name was Efstratious PERDIKIS. His fellow passengers were cousins, Michael LIRIOTAKIS age 28, Anastassios LIRIOTAKIS age 32 and Panagiotes KYRIACAKIS age 28. Any information as to where this town is located or on any of these people would be greatly appreciated. I thank you in advance.


POLISSON, Efi
eMail address: EFIPE@aol.com

I am looking for information on my family. My great grandfather was Angelis POULOPOULOS and my great grandmother was Angeliki STAVROPOULOS. They were both from Karytena, Arcadia, Greece. My papouli immigrated to America in 1901, he went to Lowell, Massachusetts to work in the mills. In 1904 he went to Haverhill, Massachusetts to meet other family members. In 1906 he went to Gloucester, Massachusetts, which is where my family still lives today. The name Poulopoulos was changed to POLISSON. Papouli went back to Greece in 1906 to get my yia-yia and their son Peter to bring them to Gloucester. Along with Peter they had the following children: Spiros (Paul), Helene, Catherine, Harriette, and my grandfather George. I know that both my Papouli and Yia-Yia had brothers and sisters, so far this is all I have: George POULOPOULOS stayed in Greece, had at least two children who came to Gloucester, James POULOPOULOS and Dimitra POULOPOULOS. Yia-Yia had a brother, Charles STAVROPOULOS, who settled at West Roxbury Massachuesetts and had a donut business. He married a Panoria KARABELAS. Also their was a sister, Kalliope STAVROPOULOS, who married an Antonio NICKAS in Gloucester, she died in 1918 from the flu. There may have been a brother, John STAVROPOULOS. Any information would be greatly appreciated.


ROBB, Karyn A.
Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP; Alberta, Canada
Fax: (403) 263-9193
eMail address: karyn.robb@gowlings.com
Website: www.gowlings.com

I am searching for information about Maria MOROS, my dead aunt, who lived at Athens, Greece. She had a magazine and a TV show down there, and she taught photography. I found out that she died last December (2001) from MS. I would very much like to find out information on her life and death. I am hoping you can help. Please contact me if you can be of any help with any bit of information you may have on public record for her. Thank you so much.


STORTON, Ana AGRIOSTATHES
Palm Desert, California, USA
eMail DesertCityLoans@aol.com
(Greek Orthodox)

I am researching my Greek roots. My parents are deceased so I don't have anyone to ask for further information. Recently, I have found my grandfather listed on the Ellis Island Website. His name was listed as Panayotis AGRIOSTATHIS. I have never found anything before, because the spelling is slightly different (is) instead of (es). He emigrated in 1907 from Kandilla, Greece in the Peloponnese (near Tripoli in an area known as the Arcadia) to America. He was 18 years old. He lived at Chicago. He was married approximately 6-8 times and had many children, including my father whose name was Demetrios Agriostathes. I have also found my grandfather's brothers, Georges, Chalambras, and Demetrios Agriostathis listed, on other ships to America and later dates. Additionally, there is a listing for a Jean Agriostathis. Perhaps a brother or a cousin? I know I had an uncle Harry, who moved back to Greece while I was a child. He should still have descendants there. I am interested in any information about the village of Kandila, anyone from there, or who also had relatives from there, please contact me.


PAPADOPOULOS, Graziella
eMail address: GPapadopoulos@abouadal.com or gromela@yahoo.com

I am seeking to re-obtain for my family our Greek citizenship and urgently need any information about my grandfather, Constantine Y. PAPADOPOULOS, who was born in 1870 at Herrmapolis in Syros (a little island facing Athens and known for her loukoumi). He left his hometown and worked on ships. He met my grandmother, Afife DIRANI, from Lebanon during the World War I and they got married. He has a brother Yanni whose sons and daughter has the Hellenic (Greek) nationality but the authorities don't believe us and they don't recognize all the papers and documents that we've been able to relocate (all that we had was burned down in the Lebanese civil war and we can't get any else). So please if anyone has any information e-mail me. It is very urgent. The Greek embassy in Lebanon doesn't want to help us even if the family PAPADOPOULOS cant exist and has no other trace than in Greece. Thank you in advance. P.S. THE DEAD LINE to apply for the Greek Citizenship EXPIRES IN 1 MAY 2002, according to the Greek Embassy in Lebanon. So please hurry. God bless.


PERDIKIS, Joyce
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
eMail address: perdikis@qwest.net

I am trying to locate a town in Greece by the name of Contevionica. I am researching my late husband's family name PERDIKIS. What I know is his father immigrated to the USA on the ship "Argentina", which left from the Port Patras, Akhaia, Peloponnessos, Greece and arrived at port of New York on 10 April 1914. His information is as follows: Panagiotis PERDIKIS, age 17, male, single, laborer, reads and writes, nationality and race is Greek, resided in CONTEVIONICA, Greece. His father's name was Efstratious Perdikis. His fellow passengers were cousins, Michael LIRIOTAKIS, age 28, Anastassios LIRIOTAKIS, age 32, and Panagiotes KYRIACAKIS, age 28. Any information as to where this town is located or on any of these people would be greatly appreciated. I thank you in advance.


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