Armenian Genealogy Forum

Hello, Do you still search for a source ? You can search on the Camp Oddo registery. It was an armenian refugee camp (most important one) in Marseille where 5000 armenian refugees were settled in their arrival. I don't find other sources : https://webaram.com/biblio/identite/camp-oddo I don't find m...

Translation annotation at the back of a photography Hello, I don't read or speak Armenian and I've found a photography of christmas 1968 with a annotation in armenian. [url]https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q76LxiGG_3a7oJqq9UPJwxAUgueNE3uQ/view?usp=sharing[/url] Could somebody help me and translate i...

I've found the meaning of the surname Chahbazian or Shahbazian :
Of course the end of the name in "ian" means "son of" or "issue of"
It's then the son of Chahbaz or Shahbaz.
Shahbaz or Chahbaz is a persian first name. The signification of this first name is "Royal Falcon, Noble"

Do you have the name of CHAHBAZIAN (SHAHBAZIAN) or SARAFIAN in your genealogical tree ?
It's the name of my great-great father and great-great mother from Cesaria.

I'am researching the meaning off the name CHAHBAZIAN and SARAFIAN.

It's the names of my great-great-father and my great-great mother from Kayseri, Turkey. Someboby know a CHAHBAZIAN or SARAFIAN from Kayseri ?