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Joeanne Jourieh
I am in search of my ancestors My Maternal Great Great Grandmother, Mariam, was the sister of Sahak II Khabayan (born Gabriel). Mariam married from Rasheen, North Lebanon from the ABBOUD family. I am looking in to her family tree – finding out her parents names and any other siblings that were in the family.…
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Vahé Achikian
This Protestant Armenian seminary (not seminar) of Marash was erected on “It Tepe” heights over Marash in 1879 by American missionaries. It was still standing up until the Kemalist war against the French legionnaires in 1920-1921, but is converted to a state hospital in modern Marash.
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Vahé Achikian
The carpenters are members of the Tcholaqian family of Yuqari Mahalle ( Verin Tagh) of Zeytoun. The one in the middle is the elder brother of Aram Bey Tcholaqian, the hero Mesrop Agha Tcholaqian of the 1895 Grand Uprising of Zeytun who also participated in the March-April 1915 resistance battle of Sourp Astvadzadzin Monastery in…
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Haroot Matosian
shad lav badger mn e apsos anoonner chgan hamabadaskhan ashagerdneroor yev hayr soorpin
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Harry Der Margosian
Does anyone know the name of this Family ?
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Sona K
Hello, my big mamik (mother of my grandma) used to work here as team manager of oil section .. her name was Azniv (from Van) !
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Arsen Mashoian
My grandparents were from Van’s Alur village grandmother used to dress similar to the ladies in the photo, but i don’t have any idea what happened to them between 1915-1924. Sona K My grandma from mother side was from Van.. the same outfit! Sibel Balkan my great grandmother was from Erzincan she was a child…
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Vahé Achikian
This historic panoramic photo of Zeytoun was taken by an Armenian photographer from Aintep, named Kéghouni, c. 1909. Indeed it has been published in many Armenian-authored historical books about Zeytoun, such as “Zeytouni Batmakirque”, 1960, published by the Compatriotic Union of Zeytoun in Buénos Aires, Argentina.
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CSW
She was also a fedayee, who was shot and jailed by the Turks, and later escaped. She emigrated to Whitinsville, Massachusetts and married someone by the name of Ampagoomian.
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Harvey Wilson
This looks like the homes of the “5 Brothers”, the silk and fabric merchants. The area is still called the 5 brothers, even though these houses are gone. I believe they took the name Fabrikian.