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Refugees from two worlds, on Alex's side of the family — kept as two records. Jeannopoulos got out of Anatolia in 1922 by way of Mytilene; Lebrun and Chassaing out of Port-au-Prince in the late 1960s. Karyn's Haitian side — Lefèvre and Osias — is not yet documented here. This is a working record: facts where documents support them, family memory where they don't, open questions marked on each person's page.
Jeannopoulos
Refugees from Anatolia in the 1922 catastrophe, by way of Smyrna and Mytilene, who rebuilt in New York.
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Lebrun
From Turgeau in Port-au-Prince to Jackson Heights, Queens — with a French and Belgian trail running back to Paris.
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The name itself carries a small story. Jeannopoulos is the Greek Ιωαννόπουλος — "son of John," the Greek Johnson — but spelled with the French Jean, a trace of the family's Paris medical schooling and the Francophone world of the Smyrna Greeks. How the name got its French spelling →
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Achilles Jeannopoulos — 1930 Census (Bronx, FamilySearch Summary)
Achilles Jeannopoulos — WWII Draft Registration (NYC, 1941)
ALETHEIA newspaper — Lazaros as Director, Saint George Philadelphia closure
Aletheia newspaper — Volume I, Number 7 (September 15, 1932)
Aletheia Protocol — founding charter of the dissident Greek-American clerical faction (December 2, 1933)