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Places

The geography the family record passes through. 78 places, sorted by reference count.

New York City

  • 1925 The Daily News of New York runs the headline 'HUNT MISSING BOYS' — 1,000 DeWitt Clinton High School students plus 'every policeman in the city' are deployed to locate the missing Jeannopoulos brothers from their home at 130 W 26th St. (The paper names them as 'John, 15, and his brother Peter' — 'Peter' almost certainly Takis/Panagiotis.)
  • 1931 Lazaros Jeannopoulos naturalized in New York City — Certificate #3421529 (the date referenced in his 1937 sworn affidavit; document image now on file). His [Petition for Citizenship](/family/documents/lazaros-petition-for-citizenship-1931/) was filed May 1930 and signed January 9, 1931. His minor children — including Constantine at 14 — became US citizens automatically. (An earlier draft of this record placed his naturalization at 1928; that date was incorrect.)
  • 1937 Lazaros Jeannopoulos files a sworn affidavit in NYC — less than two years before his death.
  • 1943 Peter Jeannopoulos born in New York City — Constantine and Sophie's first child.
  • 1947 Sophie Jeannopoulos naturalized in NYC — Certificate No. 6705767, issued in her married name.
  • 1960 Marie Jeannopoulos born in New York City, seventeen years after Peter — Constantine and Sophie's third child.

New York

  • 1924 Lazaros Jeannopoulos files his Declaration of Intention in New York — the first formal step of naturalization.
  • 1925 An opportunist sends Lazaros Jeannopoulos and Eftyhia a ransom note demanding payment for the boys' return — a piece of the runaway-year correspondence the family kept.
  • 1925 A 'Panagiotis Jeannopoulos' arrives in New York on the SS Byron — Takis Jeannopoulos returning from the runaway-to-Greece (Takis's birth name is Panagiotis Lazare).
  • 1925 The Greek Consulate of New York issues identification certificate No. 3640 to Takis Jeannopoulos and John Jeannopoulos in the wake of their forged-passport return, plus a separate family card.
  • 1927 Rhea Econom born in New York — the family's first US-born child.
  • 1933 Takis Jeannopoulos arrives in New York on the SS Bremen — manifested US settlement after the runaway-return.
  • 1938 Mary Jeannopoulos arrives in New York on the SS Normandie.
  • 1941 Constantine Jeannopoulos arrives in New York on the SS Excalibur from Lisbon. He takes up a post at Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital.
  • 1942 Sophie Jeannopoulos arrives in New York on the SS Serpa Pinto from Lisbon, last residence Évian-les-Bains. She rejoins Constantine.
  • 1942 Constantine Jeannopoulos is granted NY State medical license No. 041039.
  • 1951 Ines Jeannopoulos and her 18-month-old biological daughter Claudine Boyhan arrive in New York on the SS Constitution from Cannes — John Jeannopoulos's family completes the Tunisia-to-US crossing. The infant is manifested as 'Eftichia C. Jeannopoulos' — her Greek baptismal name; her everyday American name is Claudine. (An earlier draft of this record misattributed this voyage to Mya Durso, who joined the family separately by adoption.)
  • 1953 John Jeannopoulos born — Constantine and Sophie's second child, the future attorney.

Port of New York

  • 1924 Eftyhia Jeannopoulos, Takis Jeannopoulos, John Jeannopoulos, Mary Jeannopoulos, Constantine Jeannopoulos, and Achilles Jeannopoulos arrive in New York on the SS Themistocles. Eftyhia is recorded as 'Eftimia' on the inspection cards; John Lazare is card #18 under the Greek name 'Ioannis'. Constantine is 7; Achilles is 4.
  • 1946 Alina Jeannopoulos, born 1919 in Łuck (Volhynia, then Poland; now Lutsk, Ukraine), arrives in New York aboard the **USAT *George W. Goethals*** sailing from **Le Havre, France** — rejoining her husband Takis Jeannopoulos after years separated by WWII. The most plausible window for their marriage is Takis's University of Paris medical school period (1931-37). They had no children. Confirmed 2026-05-22 via Alex's Ancestry research.

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

  • 1977 Sophie Jeannopoulos and Constantine Jeannopoulos retire together to Santo Domingo. (Earlier drafts had Sophie moving first; corrected May 2026 by their daughter Penny, who recorded that the move was joint.)
  • 1980 Constantine Jeannopoulos dies in Santo Domingo, age 64. Chronic renal failure / uremic cardiac insufficiency; certifying physician Dr. Vinicio Calventi, a Dominican surgeon (and a relative of Sophie's longtime scientific collaborator Idelisa Bonnelly de Calventi).
  • 2005 Sophie Jeannopoulos dies in a hospital in Santo Domingo, age 83, of an aneurism — the day after her grandson Alex's wedding in St. Martin. Until her final illness she had been living with her daughter Penny and son-in-law Juan Medina in the Zona Colonial.
  • 2001 Sophie Jeannopoulos, 79 and in chronic pain, publishes *Conflictos ambientales — luchas sin vencedores* in *Ciencia y Sociedad* 26(1): 103–106. Her last preserved publication — the **bioethics-of-environment voice** the Dominican government will commemorate six years later as *Precursora de la Bioética*.
  • 1979 Sophie Jeannopoulos publishes ***Amigos del Cocodrilo*** through the **Dirección Nacional de Parques** of the Dominican Republic — an official state-sponsored environmental publication, 140 pages, prologue by **Merilio G. Morell**, dedicated to *las niñas dominicanas de las comunidades fronterizas norteñas* in the UN's International Year of the Child. Two years after her late-1970s move to Santo Domingo, the Dominican conservation establishment was already issuing her under its own imprint. Twenty-eight years later the *Crocodylus acutus* of this book would be the species on her commemorative RD$15 stamp.
  • 1999 Sophie Jeannopoulos, age 77, writes by hand from her Arz. Meriño 154 apartment in Santo Domingo to **Dr. Dyrce Lacombe** at Fiocruz / Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro — asking Dyrce to host a young Dominican parks-architect colleague on a Brazilian environmental-science trip. The letter survives in Fiocruz's archives. Sophie was still actively bridging Dominican and Brazilian environmental networks six years before her death.
  • 2007 **Instituto Postal Dominicano** issues a five-stamp commemorative postal series in Sophie Jeannopoulos's name — *Precursora de la Bioética* — two years after her death. Four of the stamps depict Dominican wildlife species she championed (manatee, hawksbill sea turtle, Hispaniolan parrot, American crocodile); the fifth carries her photograph. Authorized by Decreto 333-06 of August 8, 2006.

New York, NY

Athens, Greece

  • 1915 Lazaros Jeannopoulos publishes **Η Εθνική Τραγωδία Θράκης και Μικράς Ασίας** in Athens — a 35-page polemic denouncing the Greek state's abandonment of the Anatolian Greeks. His title page signs him as *Ιατρός, Εξορίστου Μικρασιάτου* — 'Doctor, Exiled Asia-Minor-Greek.' By 1915, in print, he is already a refugee.

Astoria, New York

Bronx, New York

  • 1950 The 1950 US Census records Constantine Jeannopoulos, Sophie Jeannopoulos, and seven-year-old Peter Jeannopoulos as a household in the Bronx.

Rome, Italy

  • 1941 Constantine Jeannopoulos and Sophie Jeannopoulos marry in Rome, on the eve of his crossing. They met as students at the University of Rome.

Manhattan, New York

  • 1939 Lazaros Jeannopoulos dies in Manhattan, age 68.

Mytilene, Greece

Poland

  • 1878 Josef Jakowski born in Poland — Sophie's father, the Warsaw obstetrician.
  • 1890 Maria Jakowska born in Poland — Sophie's mother.
  • 1959 Maria Jakowska dies in Poland just before her planned emigration to America — the last close relative on Sophie's Polish side.

Northridge, California

Soma, Turkey

  • 1911 John Jeannopoulos born in Soma. (Eftyhia later falsified records to 1913 to keep him a younger age.)
  • 1911 Takis Jeannopoulos born in Soma.

Turkey

  • 1871 Lazaros Jeannopoulos born in Anatolia.

Bronx Zoo, New York

  • 1952 Eight-year-old Peter Jeannopoulos appears in a Bronx Zoo photograph that runs in regional dailies across the country (Richmond Times-Dispatch Apr 27, Des Moines Tribune May 1).

Haiti

Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece

United States

  • 1943 Constantine Jeannopoulos is accepted into the US Army Medical Corps — his wartime service track begins.

Havana, Cuba

  • 1925 Lazaros Jeannopoulos obtains a US reentry certificate in Havana, Cuba — the late-1925 leg of the year's complicated travel for the family.

Murray Hill, Manhattan, New York

  • 1968 Eftyhia Jeannopoulos dies in **Murray Hill, Manhattan**, at age 87 — outliving her husband Lazaros by twenty-nine years and seeing her grandchildren grow up. (An earlier draft of this record approximated her death at ~1950; the 1968 date surfaced via Ancestry on 2026-05-22.)

Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece

New York Aquarium

  • 1951 Sophie Jeannopoulos, with **R.F. Nigrelli** and **Myron Gordon** of the NY Aquarium, NY Zoological Society, and College of Mount Saint Vincent, publishes *The Invasion and Cell Replacement of One Pigmented Neoplastic Growth by a Second, and More Malignant Type in Experimental Fishes* in the **British Journal of Cancer**. One of her earliest preserved publications — bridging the 1947 plant-tumor PhD into fish-cancer cytology.
  • 1953 Sophie Jeannopoulos and Nigrelli publish *The pathology of myxosporidiosis in the electric eel, Electrophorus electricus*, describing **two new species** of *Henneguya* parasite (*H. visceralis* and *H. electrica spp. nov.*). Sophie and Nigrelli are now the type authors for two species in the formal zoological record.

New York City (Greek Consulate)

Perugia, Italy

Piraeus, Greece

Sicily, Italy

Smyrna

  • 1920 Achilles Jeannopoulos born in Smyrna.

Soma, Anatolia

  • 1922 Lazaros Jeannopoulos and family are issued laissez-passer No. 5412 from Soma — the document that gets them out of Anatolia three weeks after the Smyrna fire.

Staten Island, New York

  • 2002 Mya Durso dies on Staten Island, age 51, of breast cancer — the adopted eldest of John Lazare and Ines Valda's three daughters, predeceasing both parents by two years.

Thessaloniki, Greece

Warsaw, Poland

  • 1922 Sophie Jeannopoulos born in Warsaw.

Boulogne, France

Brockton, Massachusetts

Bronx, NY

Carlisle Barracks, PA

Chicago, Illinois

Colorado

Columbia, South Carolina (appointment) / New York (residence)

  • 1969 **The Columbia Record** and **The State** (Columbia, SC) announce Constantine Jeannopoulos's appointment as Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at the VA Hospital in Columbia, South Carolina. He appears to have declined the move — neither his son Peter (an adult in 1969) nor his daughter Penny (then a child in the household) recall any move south, and his documented later address remained 27 West 96th Street, Manhattan. The 1969 press confirms his orthopedic sub-specialty even as the appointment itself never seems to have taken effect.

Dominican Republic

  • 1988 Sophie Jeannopoulos publishes *The Emerging Conservation Mystique in the Dominican Republic* as a chapter in *New Ideas in Environmental Education* (Briceño & Pitt, eds., Routledge). The piece frames the IUCN-inspired Dominican LAURELES conservation clubs, Church-linked Dominican environmentalism, and **Haitian desertification as the cautionary border tale** — the academic articulation of the 1979 *Amigos del Cocodrilo* dedication to Dominican girls of the northern border communities.

Fordham University, New York

  • 1947 Sophie Jeannopoulos earns her PhD from Fordham University with the dissertation *A Study of Abnormal Growth Responses in Allium Cepa* under faculty advisor **Dr. E.R. Witkus** — a plant-tumor study using *Agrobacterium tumefaciens*-infected onions, bridging into the fish-cancer work she would do at the NY Aquarium three years later. Five years off the boat from Lisbon.

Fort Dix, New Jersey

Fort Dix, NJ

Gainesville, Florida

  • 1931 Takis Jeannopoulos graduates from the **University of Florida at Gainesville** — the only Jeannopoulos sibling whose undergraduate years took him to the American South. He leaves immediately afterward for medical school at the University of Paris (Lazaros's 1937 affidavit records the departure).

Greece

Greece (refugee registration committee)

Haiti → New York

  • 1968 Serge Lebrun emigrates to the United States from Haiti, eventually working at Mellon Bank in Manhattan until retirement.

Jackson Heights, Queens

  • 1971 Serge Lebrun and Marie Therese Chassaing buy a house at 34-38 92nd Street, Jackson Heights, jointly with Mireille Jeannopoulos and Peter Jeannopoulos — the multigenerational Lebrun-Jeannopoulos household.

Jackson Heights, Queens, New York

Léogâne, Haiti

Luck (Łuck), Poland — now Lutsk, Ukraine

Majdanek concentration camp, Lublin, Poland

Majdanek, Poland

  • 1943 Josef Jakowski is killed at the Majdanek concentration camp for trying to help Jewish people during the German occupation of Poland. (Year approximate within the WWII window.)

Manhattan (Upper East Side, ZIP 10021)

Manhattan, New York City

  • 1943 Mary Jeannopoulos marries **Dr. Spyridon H. Kritzalis** in **Manhattan** — the eldest sister of the Soma-born Jeannopoulos children weds a Greek-American physician five years after her own 1938 arrival in New York. Marriage record from the NYC marriage index, surfaced 2026-05-22 via Ancestry.

Mid-Atlantic, en route Lisbon → New York

Minnesota

Mytilene / Smyrna

  • 1916 Constantine Jeannopoulos born in Mytilene / Smyrna.

New York or Greece

Paris, France

Pergamos (Bergama), Asia Minor

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Prince's Bay, Staten Island, NY

Queens, New York

  • 1968 Peter Jeannopoulos and Mireille Jeannopoulos marry in Queens — the Jeannopoulos and Lebrun lines join.

Santo Domingo · San José · New York

Soma

Soma · Mytilene

Soma → Mytilene

  • 1923 A handwritten letter is sent from Soma to the family on their refuge year in Mytilene — one of the few surviving Anatolian-era pieces of correspondence.

Sousse, Tunisia

  • 1948 John Jeannopoulos and Ines Jeannopoulos run a regional field hospital together in Sousse, Tunisia — North Africa, 1948–1951. Their daughter Mya (baptized Eftichia) is born in Tunis around 1949–50.

Southern District of New York

St Albans La Roche, France

Tunis, Tunisia

United Kingdom (304th Station Hospital base)

Unknown

Unknown (likely Mytilene or Athens)

US District Court, Southern District of New York

Washington, DC

Washington, DC → Bronx, NY