Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Basmajian Easter 1984

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Easter 1984 at Joann and Pete's. From left to right: Joann Kazarian Seeley, Auntie Vee Basmajian, Cindi Kazarian, Mark Bujulian, Aunt...

Mariam Keshishian and Her Four Generations

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This wonderful picture was taken on May 10th, 1920.  My grandmother, Dorothy Basmajian Paloutzian, is seated on the ground, third from the l...
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Thursday, May 5, 2022

Mirth at Los Gatos

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You just never know what you will find about your family when you start searching newspapers.  The social notices or "society pages...
Saturday, March 21, 2020

John H. Golden Stops Thieves

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A recent subscription to Newspapers.com has provided lots of entertainment as of late.  I will probably be posting lots of clipped articles...
Sunday, July 21, 2019

The Goldens in San Francisco, Part 2

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Uncle Con Murphy, Aunt Marg Murphy, my grandfather Bob Golden, my great-grandmother Anna Murphy Golden, Dan Murphy Last time we left...
Saturday, April 7, 2018

The Goldens in San Francisco

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I wanted to try and determine what originally brought the Goldens to San Francisco as it is quite important to our family history.  My gran...
Friday, March 17, 2017

My Irish Family in Early San Francisco

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This is my great-great-great grandmother, Ann McLaughlin Doherty (1835-1915), who lived at 35 Elsie St. We believe that is the location...
Thursday, October 9, 2014

Paloutzian photo update

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I have updated the information on the Paloutzian family photo taken at Peter Thompson's (Bedros Paloutzian) ranch in Selma, CA circa 19...
Friday, February 14, 2014

A 110-year-old Love Letter

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Happy Valentine's Day!  The photo above is of my great grandparents, Juvar and Tatevous Paloutzian, Juvar's sister Aghavni (Dovie)...
Thursday, September 1, 2011

Mary Basmajian's obituary translated from Armenian

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Mary (Mariam) Badigian Basmajian (1886-1957). Many thanks to Arevik of ArmenianAncestry.com who completed this translation.  The notes in br...
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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Zaillian Family Photos

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I wanted to share some photos I scanned on one of my visits with Gloria Perch Attoian almost a year ago.  This first picture we believe is S...
Monday, November 8, 2010

John Thomas Doherty

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I decided to spend the rainy Sunday doing some genealogy, so I went over to http://www.sfgenealogy.com/ to see what was new.  They are alwa...
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Monday, October 18, 2010

Paloutzians and Torigians

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I've been working on scrapbooking and identifying photos recently. This photo has writing on the back, in Armenian, and I requested a tr...
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Saturday, July 10, 2010

Manoug Paloutzian's Family - Photos From Cousin Bob

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I connected with Bob Paloutzian (Harold Robert, son of Oscar and May, grandson of Manoug and Mary) through his granddaughter Lindsey on F...
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Paul Keshishian gets married.

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Paul Keshishian was born 21 Dec 1880 in Diyarbekir , Turkey, and came to the United States sometime before 20 Jun 1900 when he and his sist...
Sunday, April 18, 2010

Well, at least he has a name now.

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I had posted a group of old photos of my Armenian relatives awhile back.  Well, I figured they were relatives, as the photos were unidentif...
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Sunday, April 11, 2010

Not everything in my mailbox is a bill!

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Look what I got in the mail: This is John Henry Golden's (1873-1949) death certificate from the county of Silver Bow in the state of Mo...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

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My great grandfather, John Henry Golden (1873-1949) and his siblings were born in Drumacoo, which is a landholding outside of Ballaghaderree...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Auntie Mary

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Auntie Mary was married to my grandpa Ed Paloutzian's brother, my Uncle Ernie. I didn't see them very frequently growing up, but ...
Thursday, February 11, 2010

Golden Family Pictures

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Cathie and Jay Sheldon shared some Golden family photos with me and I wanted you all to see them, too. Walter, Robert, Tom and Jack Gold...
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