Panagiotis is the deepest documented ancestor on the Jeannopoulos line — one name, no dates, no occupation, no town. He surfaces because his son Lazaros wrote his name on a 1928 New York City naturalization form. Mary Triantafilou is named beside him as Lazaros’s mother.
Everything else has to be inferred. The next generation is rooted in Soma, Asia Minor — a small town in the Manisa highlands about 80 km north of Smyrna — so Panagiotis most likely lived and died somewhere in that part of western Anatolia, in the second half of the nineteenth century. His given name passed forward to his eldest grandson Panagiotis Lazare Jeannopoulos — known in the family as Takis — under the Greek convention of naming a firstborn son after the paternal grandfather. Three generations after him, that same naming pattern would deliver Alex’s father’s first name: Peter.
