How many Armenians are there in the world? I have often heard or seen mentioned that there are 10 million Armenians worldwide. Recently, a few social media posts got me thinking about this figure and […]
The path to recreating the lost memories of our families and homeland is often winding and arduous. The many fragments rarely can be joined to form a coherent and comprehensive image of the lives once […]
Recently, I had the occasion of visiting with the family of Berge Panosyan. Berge was the driving force behind the digitization of the Hairenik newspapers until his untimely death last year. This visit was bittersweet […]
WATERTOWN, Mass.—While supply chain disruptions and the pandemic have led to some unpredictable delays, the renovation work is nearing completion in what will soon be the state-of-the-art Hairenik Media Center. In the next few weeks, […]
In May 2014, I was traveling from Van to Kars with my wife and a group of close friends. Not long after passing the northeast-most corner of Lake Van, I was looking up at the […]
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Archives located in Watertown, Massachusetts contain a trove of photographic treasures. The process of cataloging the thousands of images is an often time-consuming, yet fascinating, research process. Last month, while […]
Let us first understand that our enemies are smelling the blood of a very wounded Armenian nation. The once thriving Syrian Armenian community has been ravished by war. The significant Armenian community of Lebanon, once […]
For years, every time I was in the fourth floor conference room in the Hairenik building in Watertown, Massachusetts, I would stare at a huge map on the back wall. The 5’ x 8’ map […]
Y-DNA Testing The advent of commercially available DNA testing has opened up opportunities, previously unimagined, for Armenians to learn more about their family histories. Unfortunately, most people are drawn to DNA testing with the promise […]
Over the last two months, I have been holding weekly Zoom presentations devoted to different aspects of Armenian genealogy. These eight sessions are meant to be foundational tutorials for beginners to experienced genealogists. Traditionally, genealogy […]
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