Armenian Family names

[Jen]

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Nice to meet u! you are my overseas cousin!

There you go...now we can visit each other and have a place to stay for free!!! j/k

But seriously, we could be related...maybe way back at the Genocide time, our family split up...some fled to South America and some to Australia...who knows? It could be possible...

[Jen]

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there was a nancy kasabian in the manson family....

creepy no?

I had never heard of the Manson family until now...I just read some about them and it's more than creepy...

http://crime.about.com/od/murder/p/kasabian.htm

[ARK]

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There you go...now we can visit each other and have a place to stay for free!!! j/k

But seriously, we could be related...maybe way back at the Genocide time, our family split up...some fled to South America and some to Australia...who knows? It could be possible...

Actually my ancestors left western Armenia 400 years ago for Iran and then some of them left Iran for the states and other countries and some stayed.
But since my mom is putting up every Minassian u r surely welcome!

[ARK]

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Yes.

Thanks Tom!

[ARK]

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it sure still is turkish but whith an armenian touch to it...

thank u dani!

[Jen]

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Actually my ancestors left western Armenia 400 years ago for Iran and then some of them left Iran for the states and other countries and some stayed.
But since my mom is putting up every Minassian u r surely welcome!

Silly me...for some reason I thought you were Australian...I recently started working on my Family Tree but haven't gone as far as 400 years yet, and don't think I will... I have no info on my grandfather's ancestor so I'm pretty much stuck...all I know is that he fled Armenia in 1916 and came to Brazil and that's it...so I don't really think we are related...

[ARK]

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Silly me...for some reason I thought you were Australian...I recently started working on my Family Tree but haven't gone as far as 400 years yet, and don't think I will... I have no info on my grandfather's ancestor so I'm pretty much stuck...all I know is that he fled Armenia in 1916 and came to Brazil and that's it...so I don't really think we are related...

we don't seem to be related but we still might be, who knowes! anyway all armenians are related to each other in a way.
Unfortunately we are spread all over the word, recentely i heard even in Ethiopia there are some armenians!

[semi]

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Guys, back to the topic. Why few armenian family names don't end with ian ?

[Crissy]

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I guess some Armenian names were shortened at some time or another depending on where they lived, reasons would vary.

Like I said before, my last name was Pour-Hartun or Harutun not sure when my grandfather lived in Iran and that was changed so he couldn't get captured as he was a Fidayeen.
thats the short of it anyway.

[Էլիա]

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Interesting explanation! Does anyone know what Bilemjian (Պիլեմճեան) means or represents?