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Each month we send out a newsletter with articles and entries regarding Kythera. You can view our previous newsletters below.

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October 2005

A Tragic Letter from 1936 From: Athena (Tzortzo)Poulos To: Olympia Tzortzopoulos. Goulburn, 27th March, 1936 Dearest Mother, greetings, I kiss you for Panayiotis and the children, and I hope my letter finds you all in go...

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September 2005

Dear Friends of Kythera, the programmers of the Kythera-Family.net website have just sent me a statistic which I previously never thought to ask for. It seems that, since the launching of the site a little over 2 years a...

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July/August 2005

Dear Friends of Kythera, have you taken a close look at your parents' or grandparents' photo album recently? Can you name almost everyone in each of the photos in the album? Do you think your children will be able to as...

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June 2005

Two Years of Kythera-Family.net! As the site enters it’s third year online it’s success is self-evident: 6400 entries to date submitted by more than 500 members of the world-wide Kytherian community. About 1000 pages are...

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May 2005

Newsletter 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...

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April 2005

1. Newsletter 2. Karavitiko Competition 3. Wonderful Recent Entries Dear Friends of Kythera, I'm pleased to announce that the first official Kythera-Family.net "Discover your Roots" day is to be held on Saturday the 13th...

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March 2005

Dear Friends of Kythera, after a long winter hibernation the sounds of birds have returned and I in-turn have found time to send out our newsletter for the first time since November. Our planned "Discover your Kytherian...

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January February 2005

From 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...

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December 2004

Kythera-Family.net Newsletter December 2004 1. Newsletter Introduction 2. Letter from Kythera by Robin Tzannes 3. Kythera Cultural Tour Holiday 4. Pick of the site 5. Interview with a Champion 6. Kytherian Survey Results...

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November 2004

Natural and Cultural Kytherian History We are proud to have two Kytherian institutions represented on our site: the Kythera Cultural Association (KCA) and The Kythera Museum of Natural History (KMNH). Both are headed by...

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October 2004

Migration Conference on Kythera The administration team of Kythera-Family.net was invited to give a lecture at the International Conference on Kytherian Migration, which was held in Hora in mid-September. I was given the...

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September 2004

Canada Ahoy “The Globe” is a leading national newspaper in Canada, and in August an article appeared in it called “Ancient modern Greece” by Chris Koentges from Calgary, whose maternal grandfather just happened to be a “...

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August 2004

contents 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...

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July 2004

Kytherian 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...

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June 2004

International Recognition There has been only one song on the lips of Kythera-Family.net’s own George “Webmaster” Poulos this month: “New York New York”. Strangely enough it all began in Vienna. At the beginning of May t...

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May 2004

Full 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...

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April 2004

The Kytherian Family Tree The most ambitious and technically difficult part of the website is at last online: the family tree section. Up until the middle of the last century, Kytherians predominantly married Kytherians,...

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March 2004

Dear Friends of Kythera, since our presentation in January the website team has had to catch up with our “real jobs” and have been pleased to see that the website is capable of expanding without assistance. In fact, ther...

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January/February 2004

Dear 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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December 2003

Dear Friends of Kythera, In January in Sydney we'll be making our first live presentation of the www.kythera-family.net, with Kytherian music, drinks, mezethes and an in-depth lecture about the site, its humble origins a...

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