Armenian Genealogy Forum

ı cannot see imageshack pictures due to some error (also deleted local copy)
pls send one page to (containing seal) to
etem dot tezcan at gmail dot com

also posted to files & dowloads section, however thought this place is more suitable from the book The women of Turkey and their folk-lore, part 7 http://www.archive.org/details/womentur ... 00garngoog a silver plate is put onto head of bride and a big red silk piece put on top of it. this silk ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9w3ZKADQck lyrics Yerp pats yeğan karnan gananç tirneri (When the spring opened its green doors) Knar tarnan ağpürneri Bingöli (Bingol's springs looked like lyre(Knar)) Şarveşaran antsan zukvadz uğderi (Camel caravans followed each other) Yars el kinats yaylaneri Bing...

Ilda Simonian is an Armenian mezzo-soprano from İstanbul is living in Netherland.
She made a music album from Turkish producer Kalan music.
Name of album is Izler-Hedker-Traces.
A taste of the album is in the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMnoOlJi5_M

http://www.ellisisland.org/search/passSearch.asp?

use your family name, I hope sth will come out

scan and post them to
http://www.freeimagehosting.biz/
and post their links here.
they maybe turkish with arabic letters, will check.

Some more progress Name: Sofia Father Name: Lazari Mother Name: Despina Birth place: Dersaadet (İstanbul) Registry Place(place where you registered): Dersaadet Religion: Christian in Turkey, when a woman marries, her registry place is transferred to her husband's place. Since Sofia's both places sam...

from the book The women of Turkey and their folk-lore, part 7 http://www.archive.org/details/womenturkeyandt00garngoog a silver plate is put onto head of bride and a big red silk piece put on top of it. this silk piece flows down to feet ribbons is used to tie silver plate and red silk. a pair of ca...

found some history grad student. although she cannot decipher everything, she said following name sofia (not sure) birthplace (derseadet, istanbul) religion: christian (traditional sect of armenian, Apostolic, this excludes catholic or protestants, ) will visit her teacher afterwards for more reading

pls send scanned docs to
etem.tezcan@gmail.com

New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 at ancestry.com
has one Ohannes Somarian.
U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 has some Samoorian's
(very similar spelling, names like Melkon and Sultan, sounding Armenian)
I cannot see details, have no membership, you may check it, has trial
Hope it helps

Last year a group of Armenians and their Turkish friends made a "Armenian Reminiscences" oriented trip to Van, Mush and Harpout. One of them, namely Mehmet Bildirici documented journey and put it internet. I believe the document may be significant for some members of this forum so I transl...

Unfortunately I cannot read the hand written script very well. the sixth row from up (excluding short rows) (the one below the unpopulated row on left side) gives the previous owner. in all these documents compare this row with corresponding row in other documents. If they all look same, then seller...

Found someone to translate :) In those years all land belonged to Sultan however usage rights belong to people thus it is effectively a deed. Transfer of usage rights are done at Defter-i Hakani (Registry of Sultan) with a document called Sened-i Hakani (Document of Sultan) Your document is a Sened-...

Ä°stanos has been renamed as Zir It is a valley approx 6 kms west of ankara, due to landslide , ppl abondened Zir and settled nearby. This place is called Yenikent. A few years ago, there were excavations in Zir made by police to uncover weapons and bombs hid by ultra nationalist gang (Ergenekon). A...