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    Hi, I am of Armenian descent. My Grandfather was Armenina, he married my grandma who was Irish. My birth mother gave me up for adoption when i was a baby. I am here because I have no Armenian "community" or identity. The people who raised me denied me any cultural identity. I have looked for my birth parents, but they don't want to be found.

    I guess it would be nice too if someone knew my birth family or had any ideas on how to find them.

    i worked in a Persian Restaurant with an Armenian husband and wife and saw their whole huge family and felt pangs of sorrow that i have been denied that.

    anyway, i am also here to learn more...

    thanks.

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    Originally posted by evelynangel View Post
    Hi, I am of Armenian descent. My Grandfather was Armenina, he married my grandma who was Irish. My birth mother gave me up for adoption when i was a baby. I am here because I have no Armenian "community" or identity. The people who raised me denied me any cultural identity. I have looked for my birth parents, but they don't want to be found.

    I guess it would be nice too if someone knew my birth family or had any ideas on how to find them.

    i worked in a Persian Restaurant with an Armenian husband and wife and saw their whole huge family and felt pangs of sorrow that i have been denied that.

    anyway, i am also here to learn more...

    thanks.
    Welcome Evelyn. Thank you for sharing your difficult situation. I hope we can help you to rediscover your cultural identity. Though we focus primarily on one event in our peoples profound history, we can perhaps recommend some useful reference material into Armenian history, church, culture, cuisine, etc. Seattle may include a small Armenian community.
    General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”

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    • #3
      Originally posted by evelynangel View Post
      Hi, I am of Armenian descent. My Grandfather was Armenina, he married my grandma who was Irish. My birth mother gave me up for adoption when i was a baby. I am here because I have no Armenian "community" or identity. The people who raised me denied me any cultural identity. I have looked for my birth parents, but they don't want to be found.

      I guess it would be nice too if someone knew my birth family or had any ideas on how to find them.

      i worked in a Persian Restaurant with an Armenian husband and wife and saw their whole huge family and felt pangs of sorrow that i have been denied that.

      anyway, i am also here to learn more...

      thanks.
      Welcome Evelyn,
      We take for grantred our families not realising how much people like yourself go through.Noone deserves that. And well,yes, as you have Armenian blood you are special to me. I will PM you and introduce you to our small but very nice community on YT. But please, post here as much as you can

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      • #4
        Thank you!

        thank you so very much Helen for the warm greetings!!! YES! be very grateful that you were raised within your culture!!! even though my heritage is mixed, my parents (mostly mother) told me I was only Irish until I was in my teens. then she eventually told me of the Armenian heritage and finally that my birth father was a Spanish citizen. but till this day she will only acknowledge the irish, like the rest is actually something to be ashamed of. i never even knew anything about Armenia till the first boy i ever kissed, who happened to be armenian (crazy huh?) told me about the genocide.

        i have children of my own now and watching them grow has made me realize in awe how much nature we are versus nurture. even the Armenian couple i worked with would tell me i was "so Armenian!" but sadly i have no idea what that means.

        so here i am, and i hope to learn, grow and meet people of what i am coming to understand as a very strong, beautiful and interesting culture!

        thank you again Helen!

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        • #5
          thank you so much Joseph! it is good to be here!!! I am hoping to learn LOTS! it is hard to not have a base of who you are.

          thank you for a site that is very well made and has lots of info!!!

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          • #6
            Evelyn, nice pic u have there...
            Please, check your "private messages" right hand side ...top...
            Oh, and just now they show a beautiful adv of Armenia by EuroNews...actually they have been showing the whole day two beautiful advs...

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            • #7
              Welcome aboard Evelyn! I would love to write down a very long and welcoming introduction here but I am unbelievably overloaded with schoolwork these days...Maybe the others will explain But I still wanted to give you a welcome, it is always wonderful when new people with so many interesting stories to tell and share come and be part of this forum..I suppose it is what makes us unique, being so different, yet being same in some ways at the same time So again, WELCOME friend! I truly look forward to hearing from you! )

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              • #8
                thank you! i am very glad to be here. you sound very busy! what are you in at school? college?

                thank again for the warm welcome!!! i aim to learn a lot here!!!

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by evelynangel View Post
                  thank you! i am very glad to be here. you sound very busy! what are you in at school? college?

                  thank again for the warm welcome!!! i aim to learn a lot here!!!
                  I'm seventeen and about to enter my last year at highschool...I want to apply to UK or US and the grades I will get at the end of the year will determine the kind of university that will accept me or make me an offer...! And the exams make up about 20% of my overall grades...So I will have to just sit down and study and study and study for the next few days... But after that I plan to take a few days off before beginning to work on my summer assignments etc. We have a very demanding school...I am a full time IB student, I don't know if you have heard of this program, but well, it eats up your entire spare time... But I still love it!

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