A 1930 arrival in New York on the SS Saturnia by a passenger recorded as John Jeannopoulos, age 31, with FamilySearch’s index field “Birth Year (Estimated): 1899” computed by subtracting the recorded age from the voyage year.
Working resolution: likely John Lazare himself, with a falsified age
The 1899 estimate is not a primary-source birth-year statement — it is a back-computation from the manifest’s age field. Given the Jeannopoulos family’s well-documented age-manipulation pattern (Eftyhia altering John Lazare’s birth year by two years on US records to prevent military conscription; John and Takis forging passports for the 1924-25 runaway to Greece), the most parsimonious reading is that this 1930 entry is John Lazare himself returning to the US with a falsified age, not a separate older brother of Constantine’s generation.
Supporting points:
- The “31 / 1899” is back-computed; no independent 1899 statement appears on the manifest.
- Peter’s 2026 written enumeration of Lazaros + Eftyhia’s children listed only four brothers — Takis, John, Achilles, Kostas — leaving no slot for an “older 1899 John.”
- John Lazare’s whereabouts between the 1924-25 runaway return and his 1931 University of Paris enrollment are undocumented; a 1930 inbound SS Saturnia voyage fits the gap.
- No other documentary trace — census, naturalization, marriage, military, death — has surfaced for a separate 1899-born John Jeannopoulos.
The full analysis is on John Lazare’s page. The standalone John (b. 1899) page is retained as a placeholder so this document does not become orphaned, but the interpretation has been revised from “possible older brother” to “likely document-issue / John Lazare with a falsified age.”
What would change the resolution
A primary-source birth record for a separate Jeannopoulos man born 1899 — Soma δημοτολόγιο, Ottoman birth register, or a US census or naturalization record tying that birth year to a continuous American life — would revive the “separate person” reading. Until then, the two Johns in the family record are most plausibly one John with two different ages on two different documents.
