Genealogical Researches Where 1915 American Wittnesses Lived ? >> Opportunities to...

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- Genealogical researches where 1915 American wittnesses or their families Lived ?

- >>> Opportunities to inform their Cities Officials : Mayors, City Councils, Librarians, Headmasters of high schools, Deans of Colleges or Universities, etc, etc...

- >>> a grassroot action of local information.

Exemple : Tucy Atkinson (Video of her diary read by her daughter) 11:30-12:18

http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=6575927557266281256&q=armenian+genocide+duration%3Along

>>> to inform the City Officials of the towns where Missionary Tucy Atkinson lived : in which town, etc...

The same with Alice Stone Blackwell, her descendents, any American Missionaries, etc, etc. :

http://denisdonikian.blog.lemonde.fr/denisdonikian/2005/04/15_la_prsence_d.html

There are historiographical researches to do in American genealogical forums on the web : their places of birth? of death ? of professional life ? etc, etc... Already such questions in genealogical forums are grassroot actions of information in these forums : word of mouth with motivated websurfers in genealogy.

Nil

http://www.crda-france.org/fr/6histoire/par_pays/america.htm

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For exemple there are plenty of names in articles of American newspapers :

http://www.armeniangenocide.com/showthread.php?t=2925

with such names (first, middle and last names), there are researches to do thanks to genealogical societies :

http://www.obitlinkspage.com/hs/

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Genealogy+Societies

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Genealogical+Societies&btnG=Search

etc, etc...

The American witnesses in the Ottoman Empire were :
- missionaries,
- consulates,
- journalists,
- businessmen,
- State Department employees dealing with official, confidential documents,
- travellers,
- etc, etc...

This is a (very) long term work to do : thanks to the past, there is an important investment in the future.

We try to do it the same for France with historical French testimonies on Armenians, Armenia and the Armenian Culture along the centuries :

http://www.crda-france.org/fr_9informationcitoyenne/em00_liste.htm

Best regards. Nil (Paris)

PS - Besides that the American Collective Memory can be more linked to the Armenian Cause, there are other consequences (not linked with Genocide recognation) :

- new bases for future twin cities or twin high school between the USA and Armenia

- a help for developping (non-Armenian) American Tourism to Armenia

- another (political) door to knowledge for the Americans to Armenian culture

Here is our analytical page for methods to create twin cities with Armenia :

http://www.crda-france.org/fr/4diaspora/1france/1f_jumelage.htm

Translations :

http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

http://www.systran.fr/

Precise translation word by word :

http://dictionnaire.tv5.org/dictionnaires.asp?Action=4&mot=&che=1

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For exemple, I have looked randomly in Joseph's precious list :

http://www.armeniangenocide.com/showthread.php?t=2925

and here is a link : http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive...CF&oref=slogin

At the bottom of the page, we can see : Alice Stone Blackwell, Dorchester MA.

So if we do Google

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Dorchester+massachusetts&aq=f&oq=

You can see that we can find lists of associations, mayors, schools, librarians, judges, representatives, churches, etc, etc... where to send targetted and personnalized e-mails.

There are also the mosques to inform that what happenned in 1915. It is important to recall that the Genocide was due at the basis
- not because of religious fanatism (which was yet instrumentalized as it has been everywhere during centuries)
- but because of ethnic cleansing with dishumanization consequences of turanist ideology.

http://www.armeniangenocide.com/showthread.php?t=2669

Take care. Nil (Paris)

http://www.crda-france.org/images_2/alichane_effets.jpg

http://www.crda-france.org/fr_9informationcitoyenne/000temoins_1communes.htm

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Is there a website about
- the American Colleges in the Ottoman Empire ?
- the American Colleges in Turkey nowadays ?
- and the old American Consulates in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey ?

In order to have informations (names, etc...before an deeper research in the records and archives) on the staff working in these colleges : in past or in present ? For exemple in France we have this website : http://www.lasalle-po.org/

This is specially important for the past : because all College employees did not testify on the massacres. There is a genealogical researches on :

- their life (where they lived, in which institution they worked afterwards, where they were buried, etc., etc...)

- their descendents found by genealogical researches. Here is a genealogical website in English : http://en.geneawiki.com/index.php/Main_Page (*) Then it is important to contact the descendents, to have their testimonies so that it can be published in their local or State press.

For exemple in France, we have already begun doing such researches :

http://www.crda-france.org/fr_9informationcitoyenne/000temoins/1communes01.htm

http://www.crda-france.org/fr_9informationcitoyenne/000temoins/1communes34.htm

http://www.crda-france.org/fr_9informationcitoyenne/000temoins/1communes67.htm

http://www.crda-france.org/fr_9informationcitoyenne/em04questiondorient.htm

http://www.crda-france.org/fr_9informationcitoyenne/em05wwi.htm

Best regards to all from Paris. Nil

http://www.crda-france.org/index.htm

(*) In France we have some genealogical websites and forums :

http://www.geneawiki.com/index.php/Accueil

http://www.francegenweb.org/

http://www.francegenweb.org/liens.php

http://www.cartes-postales.com/

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[Pedro Xaramillo]

Thanks for the info and all the links.

Its good to have you back bro, where have you been, I've been missing your posts

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Here are the pages I have done for French Armenophiles thanks to genealogical researches for France :

- Graves in Paris Cemeteries : http://www.globalarmenianheritage-ad...sparisiens.htm

- Cities, towns, villages of France where they were born, where they lived and died : http://www.globalarmenianheritage-ad...menophiles.htm

- Political Institutions : http://www.globalarmenianheritage-ad...tutions/00.htm

- Academies & Universities : http://www.globalarmenianheritage-ad...ersites/00.htm

- Artistic Institutions : http://www.globalarmenianheritage-ad...a02arts/00.htm

- Cultural Associations : http://www.globalarmenianheritage-ad..._presse/00.htm

- Highschools having their names : http://www.globalarmenianheritage-ad...srecherche.htm

>>> These datas are keys to open doors, opportunities to contact and inform City Councils, Highschool, local radios and press, etc., etc.

>>> You can do the same for the USA. For exemple here is a page on Americans during the Genocide related with France :

http://www.globalarmenianheritage-adic.fr/fr/6histoire/par_pays/america04france.htm

Edward C. Little, representative of Kansas, made an important speech in the House in 1918. Where was he born ? what has he done ? where is his grave ? Is there a highschool with his name ? etc, etc...

It is also possible to do for Italy where the Armenophile Movement was important and also there were consuls who stated testimonies because Italy was neutral in 1915 : http://www.globalarmenianheritage-ad...italie1915.htm

Մմիացած Հայերը, մենք միասին, պիտի յաջողինք ! Take care. Nil
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Re: Genealogical Researches Where 1915 American Wittnesses Lived ? >> Opportunities t

Here is an important and interesting book : Armenian massacres and Turkish Tyranny, 1896

http://www.armenews.com/article.php3?id_article=43532

- Authors :
. Frederick Davis Greene
. Henry Davenport Northtrop

- Introduction : Josiah Strong

http://www.armenews.com/IMG/Parite_1_Armenian_massacres_and_Turkish_Tyranny_1896.pdf

2 pictures of two ladies : Clara Barton & Frances E. Willard

There is a list of names of Americans who witnessed the massacres on web pages 25-26-27-28-29.

Who are they ? where did they live ? Maybe there are streets or places with their names in some Amercan towns ? Maybe there are even schools with their names ? etc., etc. Nowadays, it is important to make people living in their town know their testimonies.

With internet, it is possible to do targetted and personnalized e-mails :
- to local radio stations,
- to local press editors,
- to high school deans,
- to librarians,
- to City councils,
- etc, etc.

You can begin to draw a map of the USA in this HyeClub Forum with the towns or villages where these Amercan missionaries lived as I did for France :

http://www.globalarmenianheritage-adic.fr/fr_9informationcitoyenne/000temoins/4armenophiles.htm

Time has come for each of us to work on basic local historical information. Smaller the town is, the more important the cultural and political impact is.

Please don't wait for reaching high levels in big cities : http://www.globalarmenianheritage-ad...lissements.htm Time will arrive at the right moment.

Nil (Paris)
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