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Local Armenians Explore Family Histories, Learn About Genealogy
WATERTOWN, Mass.—With handwritten family trees and precious mementos in hand, dozens of local Armenians eagerly gathered in Watertown after Sunday service, prepared to learn how to trace their family history and roots.
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Thanks for this interesting information.
Could you please ask Mr. George Aghjayan to contact me as we both are trying to reconstruct the genetic legacy of Armenians – a geographically dispersed people who abandoned most of his home country.
I am leading the Ethnogenomics Lab at the Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. Since 2015 we have embarked on the mission to draw a genetic atlas of historical Armenia to reproduce the rich spatial mosaic of the Armenian gene pool. As a whole, it will serve as a scientifically documented evidence of Armenians’ presence throughout the Armenian Highland for several millennia.
To draw this atlas we need to collect 10 DNA samples from donors representing each of the 20-25 different regions of historical Armenia. The main criterion for the selection of donors for this project is the compulsory origin of all their ancestors, i.e. both via paternal and maternal lines, from the same region of historical Armenia. It is clear that with each subsequent generation the number of Armenians that meet this requirement significantly reduces. Therefore, the collection of this material should be carried out as soon as possible.
If your all ancestors originate from the same area of historical Western Armenia, we kindly ask you, while traveling to Armenia, to provide your DNA sample.
For more details please contact us at the address below:
Levon Yepiskoposyan, DSc, Prof.
Head, Laboratory of Ethnogenomics
Institute of Molecular Biology
National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Armenia
7 Hasratyan Street, 0014, Yerevan, Armenia
e-mail: lepiskop@gmail.com