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Genealogy information on the Adams and Pappas families

Adams family home recordings

These recordings were first recorded by Angie Adams in the early 40’s.

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Aunt Helen’s Graduation Picture

While going through some storage boxes I came across this picture. Continue reading

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Nick Pappageorge Business Card

The business card of Nick Pappageorge.

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John and Angie’s Wedding

John T. Adams and Angeline Pappas were married on June 1st, 1930.

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The Music of Drossopigi

For your listening pleasure I added a few music selections from Drossipigi, the village where John Adams was born. Continue reading

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John T. Adams Ellis Island Passenger Record and Wall of Honor

A copy of the Ellis Island passenger record and Wall of Honor certificate for John T. Adams.

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Steam Ship Europa

When John Adams was around 20 years old he decided that he was going to America to start a new life.
Somehow, I’m not sure of the details, he made his way to the port of Napoli (Naples), Italy and boarded this ship that brought him to the U.S.A.  Continue reading

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John T. Adams Ship Manifest

Copies of the Europa’s manifest showing John Adamou a.k.a. John Adams sailing from the port of Napoli Italy and arriving in the U..A. on Feb. 20, 1907.

 

 

 

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Photine Kalogiorgis Pappageorge (Ya Ya)

Photine Kalogiorgis, my Yia Yia, was also known as Francis.
Her husband was Nick Pappageorge
She was born in 1889 and died June 10, 1959.
She was twenty years old in 1909 when she came to the U.S.

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Clio’s Corner Article

The following was published in Clio’s Corner, a news letter written by Aristotle George Gazonas, John’s cousin.

John Adams could well be cited as the peripatetic businessman of Montgomery County, he’d been everywhere! But first he came to the United States after serving a youthful apprenticeship as a stone mason in Hellas. According to one shard of evidence John toiled on the structures of the 1st modern Olympiad of 1896 in Athens! Later he departed from Piraeus on the S. S. Geneva as a 15-year old and landed at New York City, Sept. 27, 1906 whence he immediately departed for Manchester, New Hampshire where there were many Kantsikiotoi from his Epirote village. Continue reading

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