This site is dedicated to my late Mother, Cynthia Pamela (Xanthi Panayiota) Cresswell (nee Karasavas) who made the transition from one culture to another - when multiculturism was yet to be recognised. God Bless you Mum!

Welcome to the Castellorizian Genealogy Website. Within this site many family trees are displayed for persons associated with the Greek island of Castellorizo. The sharing of information on our heritage is a wonderful way to honour our ancestors who made great sacrifices to ensure that we have such a great lifestyle today.

This site has been constructed utilising information compiled and obtained over many years by both the Webmaster and other contributors. Much of the information has been obtained from newspaper, cemetery and official records which are often open for interpretation with resultant incorrect data being listed. Many family trees have also been submitted by other interested persons which is much appreciated and their efforts are always acknowledged as the "Source". Please do contact the webmaster if you would like your Cazzie family entered on this website. If you locate any errors or find omissions please do contact the webmaster at: ozgenealogy@hotmail.com

This site also includes many photographs of people, many Group Wedding photographs, Cemetery Headstones photographs and written articles relating to people of Castellorizian descent. Submissions of photographs and written articles are always welcomed.

Living Persons: Information relating to living persons is restricted unless you have a UserId and Password. This restriction ensures that the First Name, Dates and Locations for living persons (if known) is not displayed to Search Engines and to those persons who are not associated with Castellorizo. Please contact the webmaster to request a UserId and Password or click on "Register for a User Account" listed on the left panel to obtain full access to this website.

Background: This website came about as a result of my interest in Family History (Genealogy) that commenced from 1983. My mother was born in Castellorizo and I obtained information both from her and many of her cousins to compile details on what was known of our ancestry. I also obtained information from various Australian resources such as the State Library of WA, newspaper, cemetery, shipping and Registrar General's Department records. I also commenced to collect data on Castellorizians who came to Australia that were not related to my own family.

With the advent of the internet numerous additional resources became available for Family History research. I then placed my own family tree on a website in 2004. I was uncertain as to how to display those non related Cazzies who I had data on, so I did not place this collected information online.

In 2006 contact was made with Eva Michalopoulos (nee Koutsoukos) of Perth WA who suggested the information I had on the Koutsoukos family, together with her own research, should be placed online. This I did and I also placed online much of the non family research that I had accumulated over twenty four years. Over the next twelve months many other persons accessed the website and kindly offered their own research to be placed online. The Castellorizian content grew from over 3000 persons to nearly 7000 persons during this period. The site was starting to overwhelm my own family history content. Thanks go out to Eva and those wonderful people who shared their research with me and helped to initiate the expansion of the first website.

I was then contacted by Ms Evelyn Salvaris of Melbourne who offered information on her own family. She also suggested that the website should be a dedicated Castellorizian Genealogy Website. She further suggested that people would more readily support such a concept. I fully agreed with her observations and this was the catalyst to create such a website.

Webmaster and Site Management by Allan (Agapitos) Cresswell - October 1 2007

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