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The Making of ‘Feast of Ashes: The Life and Art of David Ohannessian’

August 21, 2019 Sato Moughalian 13

My first memories of my maternal grandfather—the renowned Kütahya ceramicist David Ohannessian, who founded the art of Jerusalem Armenian ceramics in 1919—were tied to the few pieces of brilliantly glazed pottery that occupied an honored […]

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A Snapshot from the Past: A Lost Photograph of Soghomon Telirian

February 28, 2019 Weekly Editorial Board 7

The following is an email we received last September, containing a lovely story of a very special photograph. The email came from a longtime reader of the paper, Violet Dagdigian of Westford, Mass. and was […]

Family Histories

So Where In Armenia Was Your Family From?

January 29, 2019 Mark Arslan 18

When someone asks you this rather straightforward question, many of us can come up with a place name based on our family’s oral traditions – Keghi, Evereg, Kharpert, Dikranagerd, Aleppo, Bardizag, Bitlis, Kars, whatever. But […]

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Research Your Armenian Roots—What You Need to Know (Part VII)

September 12, 2018 George Aghjayan 3

This article is part of a continuing series documenting the available records for research into one’s Armenian family roots. Part I in the series supplied a historical background on the Armenian genealogy movement as well […]

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Research Your Armenian Roots—What You Need to Know (Part VI)

August 28, 2018 George Aghjayan 2

This article is part of a continuing series documenting the available records for research into one’s Armenian family roots. Part I in the series supplied a historical background on the Armenian genealogy movement as well […]

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Research Your Armenian Roots—What You Need to Know (Part V)

August 22, 2018 George Aghjayan 3

This article is part of a continuing series documenting the available records for research into one’s Armenian family roots. Part I in the series supplied a historical background on the Armenian genealogy movement as well […]

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Research Your Armenian Roots—What You Need to Know (Part IV)

August 14, 2018 George Aghjayan 11

This article is part of a continuing series documenting the available records for research into one’s Armenian family roots. Part I in the series supplied a historical background on the Armenian genealogy movement as well […]

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Research Your Armenian Roots—What You Need to Know (Part III)

August 5, 2018 George Aghjayan 0

This article is part of a continuing series documenting the available records for research into one’s Armenian family roots. Part I in the series supplied a historical background on the Armenian genealogy movement as well […]

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Research Your Armenian Roots—What You Need to Know (Part II)

July 30, 2018 George Aghjayan 5

This article is part of a continuing series documenting the available records for research into one’s Armenian family roots. Part I in the series supplied a historical background on the Armenian genealogy movement as well […]

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Research Your Armenian Roots—What You Need to Know (Part I)

July 24, 2018 George Aghjayan 52

Conferences on Armenian genealogy have been held annually for the last three years (in Watertown, Mass. in 2016; in Detroit, Mich. in 2017; and in Mahwah, N.J. earlier this year). These conferences have been the culmination of almost 40 […]

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