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- Tue Jun 15, 2010 11:18 pm
- Forum: Find your Hyerenagits
- Topic: Findicak
- Replies: 6
- Views: 18220
Re: Findicak
Hi, I don't have any direct link to Fundijak, but some relatives by marriage and friends of the family do. Many Fundijaktsi heroically resisted during the Genocide. Here is a little write up put together this past spring. I hope it gives you some clues. Ellen M. Blakely, head of the Marash Girls’ ...
- Mon Jun 14, 2010 8:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Do you know this song? Gomats kaleh Aghavni goshig, go shee
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12484
Re: Do you know this song? Gomats kaleh Aghavni goshig, go shee
I thought of this song the other day when the news came out that a 5500 year old shoe was found in a cave in Armenia. Ah hah, I thought, THAT'S what happened to poor Agnes' shoe! 

- Mon Jun 14, 2010 8:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Do you know this song? Gomats kaleh Aghavni goshig, go shee
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12484
Do you know this song? Gomats kaleh Aghavni goshig, go shee
Hi All, My dad's cousins used to sing this a song that started: Gomats kaleh Aghavni goshig, go sheeget chela Walk slowly, Agnes, so your shoe doesn't fall off No one in my family is left who remembers the whole song. I would appreciate hearing from anyone who knows the words or anything about this ...
- Mon Jun 14, 2010 8:48 pm
- Forum: Find your Hyerenagits
- Topic: Dikranagerdtsi Dialect
- Replies: 3
- Views: 15309
Dikranagerdtsi Dialect
Hi All, My family came from Dikranagerd and I know from stories that they were Dikranagerdtis speakers. But they probably also spoke "standard" Western Armenian. I don't really speak Armenian so am asking help in identifying a few odd words and phrases: that I remember hearing ... are they...
- Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:13 pm
- Forum: Translation Request
- Topic: Ottoman turkish script
- Replies: 9
- Views: 26190
Re: Ottoman turkish script
I will be glad to help you. please post the letters so we can take a look. Hi John, I have two documents that look a lot like the ones you translated and posted here. I did a little online research and my docs *look* like they might have been tapus; "deeds." (I don't know how to make plur...
- Wed Dec 02, 2009 9:32 pm
- Forum: Find your Hyerenagits
- Topic: Dikranagerd.Tigranocerta.Amida.Diyarbekir
- Replies: 35
- Views: 102749
Re: Dikranagerd.Tigranocerta.Amida.Diyarbekir
mpaloutz wrote:My grandmother's family was from Diyarbekir/Dikranagerd, the Basmajian and Keshishian families. They came to the U.S. in 1899.
Hi, are you still out there? I just ran into some Basmajians in my research.
- Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:58 am
- Forum: Find your Hyerenagits
- Topic: Dikranagerd.Tigranocerta.Amida.Diyarbekir
- Replies: 35
- Views: 102749
- Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:08 pm
- Forum: I'm Looking for...
- Topic: Boyajian, Solakian, Chelengarian, Kazanjian, Aslanian...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 27540
Re: yogurt man
107! Wow! Madzoon really does work!boyajianL.A. wrote:My great grandfather was setrak boyajian a.k.a. the yogurt man. born in 1884 came to u.s. from hajen turkey in 1906 to chicago il, Passed away in 1992 in Hollywood L.A. ca at 107 years old.
btw, Jack, thanks for bringing me back
- Sun Apr 30, 2006 7:34 pm
- Forum: Find your Hyerenagits
- Topic: Dikranagerd.Tigranocerta.Amida.Diyarbekir
- Replies: 35
- Views: 102749
- Tue Aug 16, 2005 10:48 am
- Forum: Family Name Origin
- Topic: the BOYAJIAN name
- Replies: 16
- Views: 54199
Correction:
I just checked out www.turkishdictionary.net. Here's what I found:
Boya means paint, dye, color, and make-up
boyac?, badanac? and ressam mean painter
There's more. But the site uses abbreviations for which I didn't see explanations, so it's a bit confusing in places.
I just checked out www.turkishdictionary.net. Here's what I found:
Boya means paint, dye, color, and make-up
boyac?, badanac? and ressam mean painter
There's more. But the site uses abbreviations for which I didn't see explanations, so it's a bit confusing in places.
- Tue Aug 16, 2005 10:25 am
- Forum: Family Name Origin
- Topic: Armenian name for John
- Replies: 8
- Views: 21354
- Tue Aug 16, 2005 10:19 am
- Forum: Family Name Origin
- Topic: the BOYAJIAN name
- Replies: 16
- Views: 54199