Documents

Jeannopoulos family group photo (undated)

An undated group photograph of the Jeannopoulos family. The exact composition — who is in the photo, when it was taken — is one…

Lazaros Jeannopoulos — AMA Deceased Physician Card

The American Medical Association's deceased-physician index card for Lazaros. The AMA maintained these cards as a professional…

Jeannopoulos family — Laissez-passer from Soma

Soma, Anatolia

A laissez-passer — the safe-conduct paper used when borders are unsettled and ordinary passports are not enough — issued to the…

Eftyhia Yannopoulou — refugee registration declaration (Soma + Pergamos property)

Greece (refugee registration committee)

A primary-source refugee registration form filed by Eftyhia Lazarou Yannopoulou — Eftyhia, wife of Lazaros — declaring…

Lazaros Jeannopoulos — handwritten curriculum vitae (education + medical training)

New York

Lazaros wrote his own CV in 1924, by hand, in Greek and English side-by-side, in multi-column table form, on a recycled…

Handwritten open letter to General Th. Pangalos, President of the Greek Government

New York or Greece

A three-page handwritten Greek document titled "Αντί Εισηγήσεως — Μία ανοικτή ευλόγηση προς τον Πρόεδρον της Ελληνικής…

Lazaros's published polemic — Η Εθνική Τραγωδία Θράκης και Μικράς Ασίας (Athens, 1915)

Athens, Greece

A 35-page Greek polemic written by Lazaros himself and printed in Athens in 1915 by the Blazoudakis Brothers press (Τύποις…

Ransom note (1920s) — extortion attempt during the runaway-to-Greece

Someone tried to extort the family during one of the worst weeks of their decade. While the brothers Takis and John Lazare were…

Lazaros family — Mytilene passport-control stamps (1923–1924)

Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece

The administrative trail of a refuge year. Greek passport-control endorsements covering the family's interval on Mytilene…

Université de Paris Faculté de Médecine — Lazaros's MD diploma duplicate authorization (1923)

Paris, France

One year after the catastrophe, Lazaros began the slow work of reconstructing his documentary self. The earliest replacement…

Lazaros's Soma Refugees Association ID booklet with photograph — Mytilene December 1923

Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece

The first preserved photograph of Lazaros

Handwritten letter from Soma (December 1923)

Soma

A handwritten letter dated December 26, 1923 with a Soma provenance — fifteen months after the family had fled. By the date on…

Greek family passport No. 2555 — Lazaros, Eftyhia, and all five children at Mytilene (December 29, 1923)

Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece

The single most consequential Greek-state document in the family archive — the Greek family passport No. 2555 of the Kingdom of…

Ecumenical Patriarchate testimonial for Lazaros — signed by Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Ephesus

Athens, Greece

Certificate No. 3445 issued by the Representation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in Greece (Αντιπροσωπεία…

Vryoula Refugees Association + Protosynkellos of Ephesus — declaration on Lazaros

Athens, Greece

The Greek-American refugee associations of 1924 published their own letterheads, kept their own protocol numbers, and operated…

Smyrna Metropolitanate (Locum Tenens, in exile) — testimonial to Lazaros

Athens, Greece

The See of Smyrna had been institutionally destroyed in the September 1922 catastrophe — its Metropolitan martyred by Turkish…

Lazaros Jeannopoulos — Declaration of Intention (Naturalization)

New York

Ten days off the SS Themistocles, Lazaros filed his Declaration of Intention — the sworn first step of US naturalization in the…

Hellenic Republic Ministry of Agriculture — Lazaros's refugee compensation declaration (Act No. 296, February 22, 1925)

Soma · Mytilene

The official Hellenic Republic Ministry of Agriculture / General Directorate of Exchange declaration form for Lazaros's…

ATLANTIS Greek-American newspaper — "The Double-Dealing of Venizelos in the Asia Minor Campaign"

New York City

A two-page newspaper clipping from ATLANTIS — the major Greek-American daily newspaper published in New York City from 1894 to…

Havana — US Reentry Certificate (October 1925)

Havana, Cuba

A US reentry certificate issued in Havana, Cuba in October 1925 — placing Lazaros (or possibly a family member acting on his…

Assessment Committee of Soma — Lazaros's lost-property itemization (Diocese of Ephesus)

Thessaloniki, Greece

Twelve months after Lazaros filed his refugee-compensation declaration in February 1925, the Greek state's Assessment Committee…

Daily News — 'HUNT MISSING BOYS' (DeWitt Clinton High School)

New York City

The smoking-gun newspaper article from the 1925 runaway story. On October 11, 1925, the New York Daily News reported:

Greek Consulate General of New York — Certificate of Indigence and Identity for Lazaros

New York City

A bilingual Greek/English certificate on the official letterhead of the Consulate General of Greece, New York, dated October 23,…

NYC Greek Consulate ID Certificate (v2, family card)

New York City (Greek Consulate)

An identification certificate issued by the Greek Consulate of New York on October 23, 1925, for the family. Issued in the same…

Lazaros's published polemic — Η Κρυμμένη Αλήθεια (New York, 1926)

New York, USA

A full-length Greek-language book written by Lazaros himself and printed in New York in 1926 by American-Greek Publishing Co. at…

Lazaros Jeannopoulos — NYC City Directory (Summer 1926)

New York City

The Summer 1926 New York City Directory entry showing Lazaros's listed address and occupation — a snapshot of his US residence…

Lazaros Jeannopoulos — handwritten letter draft from New York

New York City

A handwritten Greek letter dated "Εν Νέα Υόρκη τη 23 Οκτωβρίου 1926" — "In New York, October 23, 1926" — signed with the…

Soma Refugees Association of Thessaloniki — thanks to Lazaros for NYC fundraising

Thessaloniki, Greece

Three years off the SS Themistocles, Lazaros was already the New York fundraising arm of his hometown's exiled refugee…

A.G. Sofianos to Lazaros — Eftyhia's compensation payout (first Sofianos letter)

Piraeus, Greece

The earliest Sofianos letter in the family archive — two pages of handwritten Greek, dated June 30, 1928, Piraeus, from a small…

A.G. Sofianos to Lazaros — Karamitrou compensation finances and family news

Piraeus, Greece

By September 1928 they were no longer "Dear Sir" to each other. The salutation on this two-page letter from Aristidou 17,…

Lazaros Jeannopoulos — Petition for Citizenship (1930-1931)

US District Court, Southern District of New York

The second formal stage of Lazaros's naturalization — the Petition for Citizenship, the document that follows the 1924…

Greek Archdiocese — response to Saint Constantine Bronx trustees on parish boundaries

Astoria, New York

The structural problem that produced the schism, written in the Archdiocese's own institutional language two and a half years…

Greek Archdiocese — Bronx parish merger attempt (January 1932)

Astoria, New York

The merger that would erupt eighteen months later. A Greek Archdiocese letter to the trustees of the Saint Constantine Bronx…

Greek Archdiocese — Bronx parish matter referred to Mixed Council

Astoria, New York

Greek Archdiocese letter, June 16, 1932, addressed to:

Greek Archdiocese — appointment of Father Michael Andreadis to Saints Constantine and Helen Bronx

Astoria, New York

Greek Archdiocese letter dated July 15, 1932, to the administrative council of the Greek Orthodox Church of Saints Constantine…

Aletheia newspaper — Volume I, Number 7 (September 15, 1932)

New York City

The front page of Η ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑ — ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΟΘΡΗΣΚΕΥΤΙΚΗ ΕΦΗΜΕΡΙΣ — "Aletheia — Social-Religious Newspaper" — Volume I, Number 7,…

Saints Constantine and Helen Bronx parish — General Assembly minutes (building acquisition)

Bronx, New York

The day the merger succeeded. Minutes of the General Assembly of the parish members on October 24, 1932 — the formal birth, on…

Greek Archdiocese — temporary priest after Father Andreadis's departure

Astoria, New York

One priest in, five months later out. A Greek Archdiocese letter dated December 29, 1932 to the administrative council of the…

Greek Archdiocese of N&S America — letter to "Saint Constantine" Bronx parish on press strategy

Astoria, New York

The Archdiocese caught running a press strategy. A letter from the Greek Archdiocese of North and South America, Incorporated,…

Father John Aslanides (Brockton, MA) — Aletheia subscription complaint

Brockton, Massachusetts

A subscriber complaint that turned into archival evidence. A handwritten Greek letter from Father John Aslanides (Archimandrite…

Criminal complaint — Archimandrite Christopher Kontogeorgos vs Archbishop Athenagoras Spyrou — Chicago Municipal Court (November 8, 1933)

Chicago, Illinois

Thirty-two years before he lifted the thousand-year excommunication between Rome and Constantinople — and seventeen years before…

"The Truth" Greek bi-weekly newspaper — clergy signatures page (NYC, December 1933)

New York City

A document that names the canonical clergy of New York. Page 2 of a multi-signatory church declaration on the letterhead of "The…

Aletheia Protocol — founding charter of the dissident Greek-American clerical faction (December 2, 1933)

New York City

The founding charter of the Aletheia dissident movement against Archbishop Athenagoras Spyrou's leadership of the Greek Orthodox…

ALETHEIA newspaper — Lazaros as Director, Saint George Philadelphia closure

New York City

By August 1935 the subtitle on the masthead has shifted. The newspaper is no longer Social-Religious; it is National-Religious —…

Metropolitan of Mytilene Iakovos — Constantine baptismal re-certification (Protocol 1575)

Mytilene, Greece

An ecclesiastical certificate of Constantine's birth and baptism, issued by Metropolitan Iakovos of Mytilene on August 24, 1937,…

Mytilene law-office letter — procurement of Constantine's Greek certificates

Mytilene, Greece

The administrative-paperwork backstory of Constantine's Rome years. A letter from the Mytilene law office of Kambas &…

Lazaros Jeannopoulos — Sworn Affidavit

New York City

Lazaros's sworn self-affidavit, filed in New York City on November 29, 1937 — nine years after his naturalization, less than two…

Lazaros Jeannopoulos — NYC Death Certificate No. 14380

Manhattan, New York

The official NYC Bureau of Vital Statistics death certificate, number 14380, recording Lazaros's death on June 28, 1939 in…

Lazaros Jeannopoulos — NYC Municipal Death Record

Manhattan, New York

The NYC municipal death-register entry recording Lazaros's death on June 28, 1939. Complements the NYC Bureau of Vital…

Constantine's US Certificate of Citizenship No. A-165551 (derivative via Lazaros, 1947)

New York, NY

The document that retroactively recognized a citizenship Constantine had held since age fifteen. US Certificate of Citizenship…

Constantine Jeannopoulos — Università di Perugia Foreigners' Enrollment Card

Perugia, Italy

The University of Perugia foreigners' enrollment card for Constantine — documenting his medical-school years in Italy. The card…

Constantine's Mytilene baptismal certificate — Parish of Άγιος Θεράπων refugee settlement (1923)

Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece

A baptism recorded seven years after the birth, in a refugee parish on an island, because the original parish that should have…

Greek family passport No. 2555 — Lazaros, Eftyhia, and all five children at Mytilene (December 29, 1923)

Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece

The single most consequential Greek-state document in the family archive — the Greek family passport No. 2555 of the Kingdom of…

Eftyhia's own-hand letter about her children — Παναγιώτης, Γιάννος, Κώστας, Αχιλλέας, Μαρία (undated, ~1924-1928)

Unknown (likely Mytilene or Athens)

Eftyhia almost never gets to speak for herself in this archive. The records that survive about her — passport entries, refugee…

Constantine's Perugia foreigners' enrollment card — nazionalità greco (Tessera Personale No. 749, 1937)

Perugia, Italy

The smallest document in Constantine's archive carrying the biggest weight for the Greek-citizenship case. Tessera Personale No.…

Metropolitan of Mytilene Iakovos — Constantine baptismal re-certification (Protocol 1575)

Mytilene, Greece

An ecclesiastical certificate of Constantine's birth and baptism, issued by Metropolitan Iakovos of Mytilene on August 24, 1937,…

Mytilene law-office letter — procurement of Constantine's Greek certificates

Mytilene, Greece

The administrative-paperwork backstory of Constantine's Rome years. A letter from the Mytilene law office of Kambas &…

Constantine's Università di Roma medical student ID — nato a Mitelyne, Grecia (May 5, 1938)

Rome, Italy

The 22-year-old face. Constantine's Tessera di Riconoscimento — recognition / identification card — from the Regia Università di…

Constantine's Università di Roma student ID — back side annual enrollment stamps (1937-1941)

Rome, Italy

The reverse side of Constantine's Università di Roma medical student ID card — Tessera di Riconoscimento, Matriculation No.…

Constantine's Università di Roma medical diploma — 110/110, July 9, 1941

Rome, Italy

Perfect score, fascist Rome, on the eve of the war. A page from Constantine's Università di Roma Medical Diploma certification…

Constantine's full Università di Roma medical transcript — 1937-1941, every course and exam grade (issued July 9, 1941)

Rome, Italy

Constantine's four-page official transcript from the Università degli Studi di Roma — Faculty of Medicine and Surgery — issued…

US Embassy Rome — Gilson G. Blake certification of Italian Foreign Ministry signature on Constantine's documents (July 18, 1941)

Rome, Italy

Five months before Pearl Harbor, the US Embassy in Rome was still doing routine diplomatic business — including this single-page…

Constantine Jeannopoulos — SS Excalibur Passenger Souvenir List

Mid-Atlantic, en route Lisbon → New York

The printed souvenir passenger list from the SS Excalibur's August 1941 transatlantic voyage — the kind of booklet shipping…

Constantine's arrival on the SS Excalibur from Lisbon — Port of New York (August 25, 1941)

Port of New York

Constantine's last European crossing — and one of the last neutral-Europe-to-America emigrations before the war fully closed the…

Constantine's WWII draft registration card — Local Board No. 24, NYC, 11 days after SS Excalibur arrival (September 5, 1941)

New York, NY

Eleven days off the boat, he reported to his draft board. Constantine's Selective Service System (D.S.S.) Form 1 registration…

Constantine Jeannopoulos — NY State Medical License No. 041039

New York

Fifteen months from Lisbon-to-Manhattan to fully licensed New York physician. NY State medical license No. 041039, issued…

War Department envelope to Mrs. Sofia Jakowska Jeannopoulos at 490 E. 189th St., Bronx (1943)

Washington, DC → Bronx, NY

A single WAR DEPARTMENT official-business envelope, postmarked 1943, addressed in handwritten pen to:

Medical Field Service School Certificate — Carlisle Barracks, Twenty-Sixth Officers' Course (April 12 – May 20, 1943)

Carlisle Barracks, PA

Six weeks that turned a Manhattan orthopedist into a US Army officer. Constantine's Medical Field Service School completion…

Constantine Jeannopoulos — Army Medical Corps Acceptance Card (INS)

United States

The INS card recording Constantine's acceptance into the US Army Medical Corps, dated September 2, 1943. The acceptance came…

Constantine's US Army Signal Corps ID card — 1st Lt, Medical Corps (1943)

New York, NY

A photograph in uniform, three fingerprints, and a signature — the wallet ID that placed Constantine on a troopship one day…

304th Station Hospital Officers + Nurses Roster — Christmas 1943, United Kingdom

United Kingdom (304th Station Hospital base)

Christmas 1943, a Lancashire base camp, the first wartime Christmas the bulk of the US European deployment would spend in…

Army Certificate of Service — Honorable Discharge, Fort Dix NJ (March 20, 1946)

Fort Dix, NJ

The Army Certificate of Service — the ceremonial honorable-discharge certificate issued to Constantine at the Separation Center,…

Constantine's WWII Military Record and Report of Separation (Fort Dix, March 20, 1946)

Fort Dix, New Jersey

Three years in, two years and four months overseas, two campaign medals out. Constantine's WWII Military Record and Report of…

Constantine's US Certificate of Citizenship No. A-165551 (derivative via Lazaros, 1947)

New York, NY

The document that retroactively recognized a citizenship Constantine had held since age fifteen. US Certificate of Citizenship…

Constantine's Presidential Commission as Captain, Medical Corps — signed Truman administration (effective Dec 1 1943, issued June 28 1947)

Washington, DC

Four years after the promotion took effect, the President got around to printing the paperwork. Constantine's Presidential…

Jeannopoulos household — 1950 US Census (Bronx)

Bronx, New York

The 1950 US Census record showing the Jeannopoulos household in the Bronx: Constantine (then 33, surgeon), Sophie (28), and…

Constantine's Social Security card + business card — 44 West 77th Street UWS practice (c. 1949-50)

New York, NY

A single composite scan of two small documents Constantine kept together in his wallet: his Social Security card (issued at 2540…

New York State Registered Physician certificate — 20 East 74th Street, Upper East Side practice (1951-1952)

New York, NY

Constantine's New York State Registered Physician certificate for 1951-1952, recording the address of his Upper East Side…

American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery — Constantine's board certification (January 27, 1951)

New York, NY

The terminal credential of his orthopedic training. Constantine's specialty board certification from the American Board of…

Constantine returns to New York aboard SS Olympia from Havana (March 25, 1957)

Port of New York

A First-Class passenger list — Sheet No. 14 of the S.S. Olympia, Greek Line (Liberian registry), date of arrival inspection…

Mytilene Δημαρχείον — Μητρώο Αρρένων re-issuance

Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece

A formal re-issuance from the Mytilene Δημαρχείον (Municipal Hall) of Constantine's entry in the Μητρώο Αρρένων (Male Register)…

Constantine Jeannopoulos — Columbia Record (1969 listing)

New York

A cropped excerpt from the Columbia Record's 1969 listing mentioning Constantine — companion to the larger VA orthopedics…

Constantine Jeannopoulos — Columbia Record / VA Hospital Orthopedics

New York

The combined Columbia Record + Veterans Affairs hospital listing of April 24, 1969, recording Constantine's role in orthopedics…

Constantine's curriculum vitae — Cornell BA Phi Beta Kappa, Rome MD, NYU faculty, nine publications (c. 1970s)

New York, NY

Constantine's personal curriculum vitae — two typed pages, prepared for academic and consultative use in the late 1960s or early…

US Embassy Athens — letter to Constantine in Santo Domingo regarding the 1955 Mitroon Arrenon deletion (1978)

Athens, Greece

The 1955 administrative event that made the Greek-citizenship case interesting. A letter from the US Embassy Athens — signed by…

Constantine Jeannopoulos — Acta de Defunción No. 31759

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic death certificate (acta de defunción) for Constantine, filed with the Junta Central Electoral as record…

Constantine's death certificate — Junta Central Electoral, Dominican Republic (November 8, 1980)

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic's official record of an Anatolian-Greek-born American surgeon's last day. Constantine's death certificate…

Jeannopoulos family group photo (undated)

An undated group photograph of the Jeannopoulos family. The exact composition — who is in the photo, when it was taken — is one…

Jeannopoulos family — Laissez-passer from Soma

Soma, Anatolia

A laissez-passer — the safe-conduct paper used when borders are unsettled and ordinary passports are not enough — issued to the…

Eftyhia Yannopoulou — refugee registration declaration (Soma + Pergamos property)

Greece (refugee registration committee)

A primary-source refugee registration form filed by Eftyhia Lazarou Yannopoulou — Eftyhia, wife of Lazaros — declaring…

Ransom note (1920s) — extortion attempt during the runaway-to-Greece

Someone tried to extort the family during one of the worst weeks of their decade. While the brothers Takis and John Lazare were…

Lazaros family — Mytilene passport-control stamps (1923–1924)

Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece

The administrative trail of a refuge year. Greek passport-control endorsements covering the family's interval on Mytilene…

Greek family passport No. 2555 — Lazaros, Eftyhia, and all five children at Mytilene (December 29, 1923)

Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece

The single most consequential Greek-state document in the family archive — the Greek family passport No. 2555 of the Kingdom of…

Jeannopoulos family — SS Themistocles Inspection Cards (Eftimia + Ioannis)

Port of New York

The moment of arrival — captured on two US Public Health Service inspection cards from the SS Themistocles, which docked at the…

Eftyhia's own-hand letter about her children — Παναγιώτης, Γιάννος, Κώστας, Αχιλλέας, Μαρία (undated, ~1924-1928)

Unknown (likely Mytilene or Athens)

Eftyhia almost never gets to speak for herself in this archive. The records that survive about her — passport entries, refugee…

NYC Greek Consulate ID Certificate (v2, family card)

New York City (Greek Consulate)

An identification certificate issued by the Greek Consulate of New York on October 23, 1925, for the family. Issued in the same…

Mytilene attorney Chondronikis — Pergamon Assessment Committee circular to "the Pergamenes in America"

Mytilene, Greece

A printed circular letter from the Mytilene law office of Γεώργιος Κ. Χονδρονίκης (Georgios K. Chondronikis), dated December 10,…

A.G. Sofianos to Lazaros — Eftyhia's compensation payout (first Sofianos letter)

Piraeus, Greece

The earliest Sofianos letter in the family archive — two pages of handwritten Greek, dated June 30, 1928, Piraeus, from a small…

A.G. Sofianos to Lazaros — Karamitrou compensation finances and family news

Piraeus, Greece

By September 1928 they were no longer "Dear Sir" to each other. The salutation on this two-page letter from Aristidou 17,…

Eftyhia Jeannopoulos — Declaration of Intention (NY naturalization filing)

Southern District of New York

A handwritten Declaration of Intention — the first formal step in the US naturalization process — filed by Eftyhia Jeannopoulos…

Metropolitan of Mytilene Iakovos — Constantine baptismal re-certification (Protocol 1575)

Mytilene, Greece

An ecclesiastical certificate of Constantine's birth and baptism, issued by Metropolitan Iakovos of Mytilene on August 24, 1937,…

Athens Association of Pergamenes "Attalos" — Monument of the Martyrs of Pergamon (Circular No. 2)

Athens, Greece

A printed circular mailed to a man in Santo Domingo by his maternal cousins in Athens. Circular Communication No. 2 from the…

Sophie Jeannopoulos — FBI FOIA File NY140-18428

United States

Nineteen pages on a Polish-refugee biologist that the FBI compiled in the early Cold War years. File NY140-18428, released under…

Sophie Jeannopoulos — SS Serpa Pinto Arrival Manifest

Port of New York

Sophie's own escape, ten months after her husband's. The arrival manifest from the SS Serpa Pinto, sailing Lisbon → New York,…

War Department envelope to Mrs. Sofia Jakowska Jeannopoulos at 490 E. 189th St., Bronx (1943)

Washington, DC → Bronx, NY

A single WAR DEPARTMENT official-business envelope, postmarked 1943, addressed in handwritten pen to:

Jeannopoulos household — 1950 US Census (Bronx)

Bronx, New York

The 1950 US Census record showing the Jeannopoulos household in the Bronx: Constantine (then 33, surgeon), Sophie (28), and…

Sophie Jeannopoulos — 1950 Census (FamilySearch Summary)

Bronx, New York

The FamilySearch index summary view of Sophie's 1950 US Census record, indexed alongside Constantine and Peter in the Bronx…

Sophie Jeannopoulos — Biographical Data (Joint Medical Authority, 1960)

New York

Eleven hand-written pages in Sophie's own English, from 1960. The single most evocative document in the family record — and the…

Sophie Jakowska — authored books (1970–1986)

Santo Domingo · San José · New York

Sophie wrote at least four books, spanning sixteen years and two languages. The trajectory tracks her own geography: an…

Sophie's 1999 letter to Dyrce Lacombe at Fiocruz — Brazilian environmental connection

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

A handwritten letter from Sophie at her Santo Domingo apartment to Dr. Dyrce Lacombe — a Brazilian zoologist at the Casa de…

Sophie Jeannopoulos — Obituary (tothewomen.org, 2005)

The published 2005 obituary that got the birth date wrong by three weeks. Posted on tothewomen.org, the Society for Invertebrate…

Instituto Postal Dominicano — Sophie Jakowska commemorative stamp issue (December 7, 2007)

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Two years after Sophie's death, the Dominican Republic government issued a five-stamp commemorative postal series in her name.…

Greek family passport No. 2555 — Lazaros, Eftyhia, and all five children at Mytilene (December 29, 1923)

Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece

The single most consequential Greek-state document in the family archive — the Greek family passport No. 2555 of the Kingdom of…

Jeannopoulos family — SS Themistocles Inspection Cards (Eftimia + Ioannis)

Port of New York

The moment of arrival — captured on two US Public Health Service inspection cards from the SS Themistocles, which docked at the…

Eftyhia's own-hand letter about her children — Παναγιώτης, Γιάννος, Κώστας, Αχιλλέας, Μαρία (undated, ~1924-1928)

Unknown (likely Mytilene or Athens)

Eftyhia almost never gets to speak for herself in this archive. The records that survive about her — passport entries, refugee…

Daily News — 'HUNT MISSING BOYS' (DeWitt Clinton High School)

New York City

The smoking-gun newspaper article from the 1925 runaway story. On October 11, 1925, the New York Daily News reported:

NYC Greek Consulate ID Certificate No. 3640

New York City (Greek Consulate)

The Greek Consulate of NY identification certificate No. 3640, issued October 23, 1925 — the same week Takis returned to New…

Archimandrite Kontogeorgos — John Lazare birth certificate (Soma 1911, certified NYC 1931)

New York City

A nine-year-old administrative absence becomes a primary-source birth record. Twenty years after John Lazare was born in Soma —…

John Lazare Jeannopoulos — WWII Draft Registration (Minnesota, 1940)

Minnesota

The 1940 WWII draft registration places John Lazare in Minnesota, consistent with the family note that he was with the Civilian…

John Lazare Jeannopoulos — Obituary

The end of a life that ran from Soma to Manhattan via Strasbourg, Tunis, Harlem Hospital, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and the US…

Jeannopoulos household — 1950 US Census (Bronx)

Bronx, New York

The 1950 US Census record showing the Jeannopoulos household in the Bronx: Constantine (then 33, surgeon), Sophie (28), and…

Peter Jeannopoulos at the Bronx Children's Zoo — syndicated Wide World Photos newspaper feature (1952)

Bronx, NY

A syndicated Wide World Photos feature about the Bronx Park Children's Zoo, opened for its twelfth season in spring 1952. The…

Peter Jeannopoulos at the Bronx Zoo (Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 1952)

Bronx Zoo, New York

The Richmond Times-Dispatch print of the same Bronx Zoo photograph, dated April 27, 1952 — four days earlier than the Des Moines…

Peter Jeannopoulos at the Bronx Zoo (Des Moines Tribune, May 1952)

Bronx Zoo, New York

Eight-year-old Peter Jeannopoulos appears in the Des Moines Tribune on May 1, 1952 with a Bronx Zoo photograph syndicated…

Peter Jeannopoulos & Mireille Lebrun — NYC Marriage Record

Manhattan, New York

The FamilySearch summary view of the New York City marriage index entry for Peter Jeannopoulos and Mireille Lebrun, 1968 in…

Peter G. Jeannopoulos — Master's thesis on the Anatolian Greeks and Smyrna (Hunter College CUNY, 1972)

New York, NY

Peter wrote his master's thesis about his own family — without naming it that. A 1974 bibliographic listing in the Greek…

Takis Jeannopoulos — refugee-year school notebook (Mytilene 1922-1923)

Mytilene, Greece

The earliest preserved family handwriting in this archive. Four pages from a school exercise notebook in Greek cursive, signed…

Panagiotis Jeannopoulos — SS Byron Arrival 1925 (FamilySearch Summary)

Port of New York

A 1925 SS Byron arrival in New York carrying a passenger named Panagiotis Jeannopoulos. Because Takis's full birth name was…

Daily News — 'HUNT MISSING BOYS' (DeWitt Clinton High School)

New York City

The smoking-gun newspaper article from the 1925 runaway story. On October 11, 1925, the New York Daily News reported:

NYC Greek Consulate ID Certificate No. 3640

New York City (Greek Consulate)

The Greek Consulate of NY identification certificate No. 3640, issued October 23, 1925 — the same week Takis returned to New…

Takis Jeannopoulos — SS Bremen Third-Class Arrival Manifest

Port of New York

The third-class arrival manifest from the SS Bremen, docking in New York on July 26, 1933, with Takis listed as a passenger. The…

Takis Jeannopoulos — WWII Draft Registration (NYC, 1940)

New York City

The FamilySearch index summary of Takis's 1940 WWII draft registration in New York City — confirming he was US-resident in NYC…

Greek family passport No. 2555 — Lazaros, Eftyhia, and all five children at Mytilene (December 29, 1923)

Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece

The single most consequential Greek-state document in the family archive — the Greek family passport No. 2555 of the Kingdom of…

Eftyhia's own-hand letter about her children — Παναγιώτης, Γιάννος, Κώστας, Αχιλλέας, Μαρία (undated, ~1924-1928)

Unknown (likely Mytilene or Athens)

Eftyhia almost never gets to speak for herself in this archive. The records that survive about her — passport entries, refugee…

Achilles Jeannopoulos — 1930 Census (Bronx, FamilySearch Summary)

Bronx, New York

The 1930 US Census indexed Achilles in the Bronx, New York at age ten — confirming the family was settled in NYC by 1930, two…

Achilles Jeannopoulos — WWII Draft Registration (NYC, 1941)

New York City

Achilles's 1941 WWII draft registration in New York City, placing him in NYC at 21. The draft cards typically recorded employer,…

Ines and infant Claudine — SS Constitution arrival from Cannes to New York (November 30, 1951)

Port of New York

The Manifest of In-Bound Passengers (Aliens) for the SS Constitution, Class TOURIST, sailing from Cannes on November 21, 1951…

Ines Valda & Eftichia Jeannopoulos — SS Constitution Arrival Manifest

Port of New York

The SS Constitution arrival manifest from November 30, 1951 listing Ines Valda and her infant daughter Eftichia — Takis's…

Ines Valda Jeannopoulos — Obituary

Ten weeks after she lost John Lazare, the same paper carried Ines. Newspaper obituary published April 7, 2004, recording Ines…

Ines Valda Jeannopoulos — Obituary (full newspaper page)

The full newspaper-page version of Ines Valda's April 7, 2004 obituary — companion to the cropped version, with more of the…

Greek family passport No. 2555 — Lazaros, Eftyhia, and all five children at Mytilene (December 29, 1923)

Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece

The single most consequential Greek-state document in the family archive — the Greek family passport No. 2555 of the Kingdom of…

Eftyhia's own-hand letter about her children — Παναγιώτης, Γιάννος, Κώστας, Αχιλλέας, Μαρία (undated, ~1924-1928)

Unknown (likely Mytilene or Athens)

Eftyhia almost never gets to speak for herself in this archive. The records that survive about her — passport entries, refugee…

Mary Jeannopoulos — SS Normandie Arrival Manifest

Port of New York

The SS Normandie arrival manifest from 1938 listing Mary Jeannopoulos. The manifest places Mary in the US in the late 1930s —…

Claire Gaetjens Lebrun (photograph)

A photograph of Claire Gaetjens Lebrun — Serge Lebrun's mother, of Léogâne, Haiti (Haitian mother, German father). She is the…

Georges and Claire Lebrun (photograph)

A photograph of Georges Marcel Lebrun and Claire Gaetjens, Mireille's parents-in-law... wait — Mireille's paternal grandparents,…

Rhea Econom — published obituary

Northridge, California

The last of Lazaros and Eftyhia's children. Rhea Econom's published obituary opens with a clean factual frame and closes with a…

Leonidas P. Econom — death notice

Northridge, California

A brief death notice records Leonidas P. Econom's passing:

Peter Jeannopoulos & Mireille Lebrun — NYC Marriage Record

Manhattan, New York

The FamilySearch summary view of the New York City marriage index entry for Peter Jeannopoulos and Mireille Lebrun, 1968 in…

Lebrun Family Infographic

A research-synthesis infographic compiled in May 2026 summarising what's known so far about the Lebrun line — Serge and Toye…

Ines Valda & Eftichia Jeannopoulos — SS Constitution Arrival Manifest

Port of New York

The SS Constitution arrival manifest from November 30, 1951 listing Ines Valda and her infant daughter Eftichia — Takis's…

Mya (Eftichia) Durso — Obituary

Staten Island, New York

The first death notice this family received from the next generation. Newspaper obituary for Mya Durso (née Jeannopoulos) —…

Greek family passport No. 2555 — Lazaros, Eftyhia, and all five children at Mytilene (December 29, 1923)

Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece

The single most consequential Greek-state document in the family archive — the Greek family passport No. 2555 of the Kingdom of…

Eftyhia's own-hand letter about her children — Παναγιώτης, Γιάννος, Κώστας, Αχιλλέας, Μαρία (undated, ~1924-1928)

Unknown (likely Mytilene or Athens)

Eftyhia almost never gets to speak for herself in this archive. The records that survive about her — passport entries, refugee…

Rhea Jeannopoulos — 1930 Census (Bronx, FamilySearch Summary)

Bronx, New York

The 1930 census indexes Rhea — the youngest of the siblings, the only one born in the US — in the Bronx at about age three. This…

Rhea Econom — published obituary

Northridge, California

The last of Lazaros and Eftyhia's children. Rhea Econom's published obituary opens with a clean factual frame and closes with a…

Lebrun Family Infographic

A research-synthesis infographic compiled in May 2026 summarising what's known so far about the Lebrun line — Serge and Toye…

Ines and infant Claudine — SS Constitution arrival from Cannes to New York (November 30, 1951)

Port of New York

The Manifest of In-Bound Passengers (Aliens) for the SS Constitution, Class TOURIST, sailing from Cannes on November 21, 1951…

Lebrun Family Infographic

A research-synthesis infographic compiled in May 2026 summarising what's known so far about the Lebrun line — Serge and Toye…

Georges and Claire Lebrun (photograph)

A photograph of Georges Marcel Lebrun and Claire Gaetjens, Mireille's parents-in-law... wait — Mireille's paternal grandparents,…

Lebrun Family Infographic

A research-synthesis infographic compiled in May 2026 summarising what's known so far about the Lebrun line — Serge and Toye…

Rhea Econom — published obituary

Northridge, California

The last of Lazaros and Eftyhia's children. Rhea Econom's published obituary opens with a clean factual frame and closes with a…

John Jeannopoulos (b. 1899) — SS Saturnia Arrival 1930

Port of New York

A 1930 arrival in New York on the SS Saturnia by a passenger recorded as John Jeannopoulos, age 31, with FamilySearch's index…

Penny Jeannopoulos — Jackson Heights Residence Records (1999)

Jackson Heights, Queens, New York

A 1999 residence-index record placing Penny in Jackson Heights, Queens. Not public — Penny is a living relative; this record…

Lebrun Family Infographic

A research-synthesis infographic compiled in May 2026 summarising what's known so far about the Lebrun line — Serge and Toye…

Rhea Econom — published obituary

Northridge, California

The last of Lazaros and Eftyhia's children. Rhea Econom's published obituary opens with a clean factual frame and closes with a…

Lebrun Family Infographic

A research-synthesis infographic compiled in May 2026 summarising what's known so far about the Lebrun line — Serge and Toye…

Lebrun Family Infographic

A research-synthesis infographic compiled in May 2026 summarising what's known so far about the Lebrun line — Serge and Toye…

Lebrun Family Infographic

A research-synthesis infographic compiled in May 2026 summarising what's known so far about the Lebrun line — Serge and Toye…

Lebrun Family Infographic

A research-synthesis infographic compiled in May 2026 summarising what's known so far about the Lebrun line — Serge and Toye…

Research clue — 1936 NY arrival, friend "J. Jeannopoulos" of 24 rue Tournefort, Paris

Port of New York

A research clue, not yet linked to a specific person. A 1936 New York arrival manifest lists, as a US contact / friend in Paris,…

Research clue — Peter G. Jeannopoulos, MA thesis at EKKE (1974)

Greece

A Greek-language bibliography of master's and doctoral dissertations on Greece, compiled for the Modern Language Association,…