September 2012
You can view a full-colour PDF version of this newsletter at www.kythera-family.net/download/KFNseptember.pdf Dear Friends of Kythera, The summer has been hot this year. July was a scorcher and there were a few 40º days...
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Each month we send out a newsletter with articles and entries regarding Kythera. You can view our previous newsletters below.
You can view a full-colour PDF version of this newsletter at www.kythera-family.net/download/KFNseptember.pdf Dear Friends of Kythera, The summer has been hot this year. July was a scorcher and there were a few 40º days...
Open entryDear Friends of Kythera, I've just returned from a 5 day stay on Kythera. Although I've been in Greece in the winter before, I'm always surprised by the atmosphere of the island at this time of the year. The lush verdant...
Open entryDear Friends of Kythera, we've moved the site over to a faster server - the few hours the site was off-line last week was the price we paid for it. And the search system didn't work for an entire week. sorry if that caus...
Open entryDear Friends of Kythera, the European Summer is drawing closer and I hope many of you will be making plans to visit Our Favourite Greek Island. If Greece ever needed the support of its Diaspora population it is now, and...
Open entryDear Friends of Kythera, Anna is back! After her winter hibernation our star reporter Anna Cominos is back with the island news and views. We also have another poignant article from Maria of Lourandianika with her recoll...
Open entryKytherian Jigsaw By Vikki Vrettos Fraioli with Terry Chlentzos Keramaris As a young child, I remember my mother telling me stories of my yiayia and papou who had immigrated in the early 1900s from Kythera - via Alexandri...
Open entryJoin our Team! Dear Friends of Kythera, the Kythera-Family.net team needs more volunteer interviewers, collators and editors. Fascinating information about Kythera is still unwritten or undigitalised and there are dozens...
Open entryNewsletter Letter from Kythera Recent Entries Dear Friends of Kythera, we've had a solid response to our announcement in the last newsletter of our "Discover Your Roots Day" on Kythera in August. So far 35 enthusiastic D...
Open entryFrom the Message Board To give you some idea of the way Kythera-Family.net website can help young people keep in touch with their roots and indeed find distant relatives, here is a recent entry from the Message Board sec...
Open entrycontents of this month's newsletter: 1. Introduction 2. Letter from Kythera 3. Thanking our sponsors 4. Some site statistics 5. Email of the month 6. Entry of the month 7. Frequently asked questions Dear Friends of Kythe...
Open entryKytherian Trees I received an email in June from Telemachos Combis in Athens. It contained a computer file which is perhaps the most important single entry yet destined for the our website. Realising its complexity and p...
Open entryFull Steam Ahead At the time of writing we are quickly approaching the 2000th entry on the Kythera-Family.net website, an increase of more than 500 since last month. Family trees, modern landscapes, nicknames and general...
Open entryDear Friends of Kythera, our presentation evening on the 14th of January was a great gathering of Kytherians young and old, as well as a few “xeni” who were interested to see the most enthusiastic group of ex-islanders i...
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