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Family Histories

Research

Stateless People, Passports and the ARF Archives

November 9, 2022 George Aghjayan 5

Krikor (George) Nahabedian was born in the village of Parchanj (Kharpert region) around 1884. He married Khachkatoun Garabedian, and soon thereafter, a son Boghos was born. Krikor arrived in the US in 1912 on the […]

Culture

Uncovering an Untold Story: The Fresno Saroyans

August 31, 2022 Jane Partizpanyan 4

August 31 marks the 114th birth anniversary of Armenian American writer William Saroyan—the son of Bitlis’ Armenak and Takoohi and a first-generation Fresno Saroyan. But the story of the Fresno Saroyans did not start or […]

History

The Heart that Rests in the Highlands

May 18, 2022 Jane Partizpanyan 3

In 1982, a year after William Saroyan’s death on May 18, a Moscow airport was filled with solemn chaos as members of the Writers Union of Armenia prepared to receive the precious ashes of the […]

Research

The Armenian Families of Havav

May 11, 2022 George Aghjayan 2

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 […]

Family Histories

In memory of Megerditch Mouradikian

April 24, 2022 Guest Contributor 0

By Lisa M. Megerditch Mouradikian, my great-great-grandfather, the only son of his parents, was born late in the 19th century in Kharpert, a region known as the cradle of the Armenian nation. Kharpert was located […]

Family Histories

Aghabab the Great

April 24, 2022 Anastasia Konoian 1

Mesrob Pasha (as he was affectionately known to his family and friends, Aghabab to his grandchildren) wasn’t a man of many words, but he loved his country and his countrymen. He was born during a […]

Family Histories

Brothers from Bitlis: How the bond of genocide made William Saroyan part of my family

April 20, 2022 Jane Partizpanyan 3

There once were two little refugee boys living displaced on two different continents. They grew to be tall, lively men from Bitlis, a now occupied former Armenian city. They also became famous writers and ultimately […]

History

Armenian Memory Project

February 9, 2022 Lillian Avedian 1

In the spring of 1915, Nigoghos Mazadoorian and his father Garabed came across an early ripening mulberry tree while walking through their orchards in Ichmeh, a village in the Ottoman Armenian province Kharpert. As per […]

Research

Armenian Immigration to North America through the 1930s: A Compilation of Primary Sources

November 5, 2021 Mark Arslan 7

Abstract Researching Armenian genealogy presents unique challenges, in large part due to the scarcity of records in the Armenian homeland and the scattering of families who survived the Armenian Genocide. Many Armenians immigrated to North […]

Literary Corner

“Verabrogh” (Survivor)

July 14, 2021 Haig Shishmanian 2

The stories herein are all based on the real-life account of the late Nerses Manougian (1912-1974). On a dark night some years after 1923, young Nerses Manougian, an orphaned survivor of the Armenian Genocide, cycled […]

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