Finding Family

When Pete and Pota were first married in 1914, they lived above the candy shop on H Street, and the two of them worked together making candy...

Pota Haralampakos Greek women were a rare commodity in Washington in the early 1900s. An overwhelming number of Greek men came here solo, o...

Alec and Pete in front of the store at 1203 H St NE By 1910, four enterprising Cokinos brothers were listed in the street directory. Panos, ...

On July 5, 1909 a large crew of our family arrived on the Laura . The ship’s manifest listed Dionisios Koutsandreas, Dionisios Kokinos, Ange...

Inspection, Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C . Washington D.C, 1917 L. O. C. Pete and his cousin James arrived the same year the Marine barr...

Adam Cokinos My father always told me that Pete’s older brother Adam came first after opening a candy store on the corner of Ninth and K Str...

  Researching the Greek side of the family had always daunted me.  Thanks to my father George, our family is rich in oral, though sometimes,...