Armenian Genealogy Forum

This sounds like Moses Jenanyan who arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, aboard the ship Lord Gough, on May 22, 1893. He is my second cousin twice removed. Born in Marash, Turkey, in 1866, he died in Visalia, California, in 1937. He had many brothers and sisters; his father Stephen is one of the m...

Go to http://radio-gayane.com/ and click on the iTunes symbol at the far right and you can subscribe to radio-gayane. They play Armenian music around the clock. I gather they are located in or near Paris, France. I find it soothing to listen to the music of our ancestors. [/url]

The Lycos "who where" search site comes up with 29 hits on the last name Yeghiazarian and 7 hits on Hamamdjian. You can check this yourself at http://www.whowhere.com/. Of course, there's no way of knowing if any listed people are relatives but it might give you a starting point to contact...

My grandparents, along with my infant mother and several older siblings and my grandfather's three brothers with their families, left Marash in south central Turkey in 1912. One brother fell in love with a French girl during a layover in Marseilles and he stayed in France. The others all came direct...

Up against the Sierra foothills, east of Fresno, a small town of Yettem (which I am told means either paradise or Garden of Eden in Armenian) was established around 1900 by Moses and Haratune Jenanyan along with Krikor Aslanian. These two Jenanyans were my paternal grandfather Hatcher Jenanyan's sec...

My grandmother was Victoria Boyajian and I would also be interested in which book you are looking at.

My grandmother, who maiden name was Boyajian and was from Marash (famous for its ice cream), used to tell me that it meant son of a painter. But she didn't know the background. Thanx for sharing that.