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Where are you from?
Five years ago, while I was minoring in Armenian Studies at UCLA, one of my Armenian professors asked one of the simplest questions: “Where are you from?”
Most everybody, as I initially did, would answer by saying they are either Hayastantsi, Beirutsi, Halebtsi, etc. My answer at the time was, “I am half Hayastantsi and half Baghdadtsi,” since I was born in the United States, my father was born in Armenia and my mother’s parents were born in Iraq. My professor, dissatisfied with eve
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This is an amazing piece put together by my son Raffi which stirs up so much emotions in me and makes me such a proud mom to see how proud he is of his being as an Armenian and has so much desire to dig beneath deep grounds to find out about his ancestors and where he really comes from.
Never forget, location (due to Genocidal displacement) is very different from ancestry! I hope you’ll test if you haven’t.
I am half Armenian and half Mexican. Ny paternal granparents were from the province of Kharpert, they arrive in Mexico on oct 9th 1924. In Mexico about 350 Arenians arrive around de 1920’s
Such an amazing work🙌🙌Bravo🌸
Bravo Raffi Tapanian for this extensive and articulate research of your family history.
Well done Raffi. I am in the process of writing my memoirs and like your ancestry, mine is equally complicated as a result of the genocide on my maternal side and from losing our home in Jerusalem in 1948 despite the family having been there for over 600 years. Best wishes. Ara Krikorian