Newsletter Archive

View a colour version of this newsletter with pictures here: www.kythera-family.net/download/NLApril2013.pdf Dear Friends of Kythera, "I found Vikki Vrettos Fraioli on Kythera-Family.net and emailed her regarding her Hle...

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...

Dear Friends of Kythera, one of the most avid contributors to Kythera-Family.net, Jim Gavrilles, had died in the United States at the age of 67. He made many acquaintances and friends in the Kytherian community and he he...

Dear Friends of Kythera, I received the sad news this week that a great Australian-Kytherian, Professor Manuel Aroney, has died in Sydney. As many of you already surely know, Manuel was not only a major force for the goo...

Dear Friends of Kythera, if you long for the round brown bread from Yianni's bakery in Karavas, miss the lapping of the water on the shores of any beach between Pelagia and Barbarossa's Lagoon, or wish you could spend yo...

Contents 1. Newsletter 2. James Fardoulys Exhibition 3. Great Walls of Kythera 4. KFN Site Statistics 5. Life on Kythera by Maria of Lourandianika 6. Recent Message Board entries 7. Collateral Damage of Wind-Turbines 8....

Dear Friends of Kythera, first of all I'd like to wish you all a wonderful 2010 - I hope it's started well and that you and your families are as optimistic as I am that the year will be full of opportunities. We didn't m...

Dear Friends of Kythera, my colleague George Poulos refers to it as "the Mega-Event". A Kytherian occasion which will again draw all of us who love our island together. The launch of the republished "Life in Australia",...

Dear Friends of Kythera, In the last newsletter I sent out a request for assistance in pin-pointing natural water-sources on the island. Anestis Diakopoulos and Manolis Baveas were quick to help and so far we have detail...

Dear Friends of Kythera, I'm in Piraeus now after a week on Kythera. When I arrived it was still chilly at night and few people braved the cool Mediterranean. By yesterday the nights were balmy and the seats outside the...

Dear Friends of Kythera, First of all, belated best wishes for the new year to all of you from a very cold Berlin (-17 a couple of nights ago). I spoke to my aunt Koula on Kythera in mid-December, before I left to celebr...

Thanks, Queensland Many thanks to those 500 who attended the Brisbane “Launch” of Kythera-Family.net. Your support means a lot to us. After the launch there was a surge of activity on the site with more than 200 new regi...

Flying over Kythera, Grand Meeting of Kytherians in Queensland. Dear Friends of Kythera, at the bottom of this mail you'll find your invitation to a huge Kytherian event in Queensland, Australia, on the 15th of April. So...

A Greek-American Discovers Roots in Australia Dear Friends of Kythera, Since we announced our "10,000 Entries" competition in August more than 500 entries have been submitted to the site which not only pushed the counter...

A Greek-American Discovers Roots in Australia Url to document: http://www.kythera-family.net/index.php?nav=6-21&cid=9&act=9&did=11823 Reprinted from the Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church Epistle, Nov. 2006 By Terry Ker...

10,000 pieces of the Kytherian Puzzle Dear Friends of Kythera, A few days ago the 10,000th entry was uploaded to Kythera-family.net. It was a source of great pride to all of us working on the site. Thanks to all those wh...

Back from the Roots Dear Friends of Kythera, we have a really special newsletter this month which includes moving articles by Crissouli and a new contributor: Wilma Allex from Austria, who spent a winter on Kythera in 20...

Off to Kythera My family and I have been on the island now for a week. My young boys are already dividing up the treasure they hope to find on our next trip to Paliopoly Beach, planning a climb up Paliocastro, where the...

Kythera, August 12th, Discover Your Roots 2006 Dear Friends of Kythera, yes, it's on again! On the 12th of August, members of the world-wide Kytherian community will be meeting on Kythera to participate in lectures, exch...

The Fruits of a Website Although we can tell how many people are visiting our website (36 000 in 2005), how many pages they are viewing (1.4 million since 2003) and which pages are most popular, it is hard to tell if the...