Hi Debbi,
I think this infatuation with Genealogy and searches is a western phenomena. The answers unfortunately are back east. I am trying to put pieces together too. I find it very frustrating. The problems we face are many. Armenians did not always have family names. Even within the same family, last names could have changed. Armenians usually used first names with referance to the father and normally a town or village. Armenian letters and sounds are not easily translated. Names are often translated, mispelled, or outright changed at immigration. I heard the story of one family called Hatsakordzian, the immigration judge at Ellis Island couldn't say the name and triumphantly proclaimed they would henceforth be known as Baker when told the meaning of the name. He wouldn't let them in otherwise!
Armenian families have been scattered around the globe and family ties severed. The only way to piece the puzzle is to see if the same names come up from the same roots and villages. Again, I doubt too many from the Medditeranean would be looking at this. Mainly North America. Also I find Armenians are quite shy about such matters.
All this to say you have quite a task and I aplaud you. By the way, I notice that you listed Kechichian as a family branch? Your spelling was slightly different. Did you know that the first Archbishop to Canada His Holiness Vasken I was a Kechichian? He was also related from my mother's side.
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