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submitted by Kalie Zervos on 18.01.2019

I notice quite a few people posting messages on how go about locating ancestors from Kythera.  Well there is no need to go all the way to Kythera to search for your family history, The Kytherian Genealogy Club has more Kytherian records...

submitted by chrystine flavell on 14.01.2019

Hello, my daughter is waiting patiently (about 18 months now) for her Greek citizenship. Considering mine took 7 years and for my other daughter 3 years we are wondering if it is worth spending money on a Greek lawyer or is there nothing more that...

submitted by Helen Feros on 02.01.2019

Does anyone know how to apply for a birth certificate or find a copy for a person born in Kythera 1912.

submitted by Jessie Weatherley on 01.01.2019

Hi - I am looking for decendents for Theodorus Zantos. He was born 28.12.1900 in Potamos. He lived in Warwick in the early 1930s, and enlisted in the airforce in 1940 where he was a cook. His next of kin at time of enlisting was Miss Ellie Zanto - a...

submitted by chris otis on 19.11.2018

hello, i am looking for some great books about the amazing writer lefkadios hearn, who wrote about the traditional stories+poems of japan in the late 19th-early 20th century, and those books were published by the ''society of kytherean studie...

submitted by Tracey May Horn on 14.11.2018

Hello , My mum's father was greek his surname was Pagonis. I have been told my relatives were from originally from Kythera. How do I go about finding out more? Tracey May Preston 

submitted by Wilma Rule on 06.11.2018

Can anyone please help me to trace the grave of a Scottish soldier who was buried by the villagers of Karavas in 1917.  He was 21 year old Sgt Thompson whose body was washed up on the beach of Aghios Nickolaos at some time after the ship he was...

submitted by Wilma Rule on 17.06.2018

Can anyone please help me to trace the grave of a Scottish soldier who was buried in the cemetery of Aghios Nickolaos Church in 1917.  He was 21 year old Sgt Thompson and his body was washed up on the beach of Aghios Nickolaos at some time after...

submitted by Eleni Skarlatos on 13.05.2018

Hi there I was wondering if anyone knows if Amorgos has a page like this one? thank you 

submitted by Kevin Garvey on 12.02.2018

Please help me find the family connection between these two George Stratigos' from Kythera. My wife's ggrandfather is George SPYRIDON Stratigos, born in 1850, the son of Spyridon George and Kyriakoula in Milopotamis. The other Geor...

submitted by George Bernard on 31.01.2018

Hi, Dieter and Cherile Wolf were very helpful when my husband and I travelled to Kythera 2014. Where Cherile was able to trace my husbands home and family connections.   There postal address is P.O. Box 23        ...

submitted by Carol Kostakos Petranek on 19.01.2018

My ancestors are from villages around Sparta. One of my cousins told me that our Zarafonitis family left Crete at the start of the 1821 Revolution and went to the Peloponnese to find Kolokotronis and join the fight. I have heard that Kythera was almo...

submitted by Caroline Dick on 01.12.2017

I am an academic and doing research on the Greek aliens in Australia from 1916. My grandfather was a registered alien and was married (in December 1920) to an Australian woman before the Nationality Act 1920 (Cth) came into force (1 January 1921...

submitted by Caroline Dick on 29.11.2017

My grandfather Panagiotis (Peter) Anastasios Aroney or Mostakas came to Australia on the ship Ficton in 1909. Did anyone else relative arrive on this ship during 1909?

submitted by Kytherian Cultural Exchange on 31.10.2017

A Month with the Gods: A Journey into the Life-World of Hellenic Myth   Topics pertaining to Ancient Greek mythology are very trendy nowadays. There seems to be something in the myths of the ancient Hellenes that keeps on fascinating peopl...

submitted by Megan Manwaring on 03.08.2017

Hello readers   I have come across the name Theodoros Haniotis on a tile-making patent lodged in Sydney in 1910.   The patent number and date where imprinted on the back of a tile that I was given from a recent excavation s...

submitted by kit withers on 27.04.2017

hi peter i am a cousin of your wife therese. I lost email contact with her in 2008. Could u please give her my current email kit.withers@gmail.com many thanks kit wither...

submitted by Peggy Pound on 07.02.2017

Hi, I am researching my grandfather, Demetrious Janos Koutsonikolis family line.  He was born near Ano Kastania in 1897 and came to American around the turn of the century. his mother was Helene Leontarakis.  does any of this relate to your...

submitted by June Stathis on 02.02.2017

Can anyone give me any more information about Elly Andronicus? Or John Stathis? In early 1850's onwards, because they had a son born in 1897.   Elly Andronicus had married to John Stathis.   They had a son named Nichola...

submitted by Elias Vlanton on 27.11.2016

My grandmother was Stamatina Paspalas from Logothetianika and I am connected to a small group of Paspalases in the United States. I know that some of the Paspalas clan moved to Australia, but I have no contact nor know anything about them....