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Family Histories

Diaspora

Reclaiming Family: Searching for my Chehrerian cousins

June 29, 2023 Anoush Bargamian 5

Part 1 In a world that often seems disconnected, with family histories lost to time and distance, I embarked on a journey to rediscover my paternal grandmother Lucy Shererian Bargamian’s roots. As an Armenian-American growing […]

Memoir

The Armenian Genocide is alive today, but so am I

April 24, 2023 Biaini Sepoyan 1

My father told me that my great-grandfather Sipan Sepoyan was a clan leader in Western Armenia. My ancestors had a sense of national authority in the Armenian mountains. Unfortunately, we are currently like fish in […]

Research

Where are you from?

April 19, 2023 Raffi Tapanian 6

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 […]

History

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 3

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 […]

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