ARMENIAN DISCUSSIONS

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Sally Lazarian

Hello. I’m looking to locate the small village where my grandmother was born. I was told she was from Veri Vank (Upper Monastery), near the mountain Surpasan Vank. Is there such a place? Thank you.
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S Guroklyan

Guroghlyan Gevorg Markari (cur Gevorg) Please write everything you know about this person. According to a family legend, he is a participant in the Sardarapat battle and was rewarded for courage and after the battle got his nickname Cur Gevorg
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Mrs Audrey Allfree

Hello I am looking for the Kizirian family who lived in Beirut in 1972. In particular I would like to get in touch with Valerie Kizirian. This particular family moved to Chichester, UK. Nina Airapetova I know Kirazian from Beirut moved to France but not Kizirians
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Melanie Kojoyian

Avedis Demirjian was my great uncle. His is the brother of my Grandmother Miriam Demirjian Kojoyian. He was tortured and murdered by Turks in front of my Grandmother and my Great Grandmother. He was a hero.
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Edward Yazijian

My great grandfather, Mgrdich Sarian, a respected intellectual, was the headmaster of the Nersesian School in Moush. He was arrested for sedition by the Ottoman government in 1884 and forced to leave his job. I know that he died and was buried in Smyrna (Izmir) in 1901, but know little else ...
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Sylva Keshishian

I wonder if the little boy wearing the hat is my paternal grandfather Harutyun (Artin) Keshishian (perhaps known at the time as Ke?i?o?lu)? He was born near the turn of 1900 and died in the UK in 1974 after fleeing the genocide. Can anyone help me? I wonder if anyone can help me – is the little ...
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Hilda

Do you have any pictures of Hripsime Balian from Smyrna. She was a young woman with an infant son named Hagop Balian born in Smyrna in 1921?
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