Krikor is entry #7, Elmas #8, Aram #9, Gorun #10 and Areka #11. This is the Port of Arrival Manifest from Ellis Island, April 15 1924. You can see on the Majestic's passenger list (above) that someone crossed out Turkish and wrote in Armenian. Also, this shows his ethnicity as Turkish, but should read Armenian. I don't know the reason for the discrepancies, but I'm looking into it.

This is the passenger record entry for Krikor from (it's free!) It shows an arrival date of April 15th, 1924, and lists Cherbourg as the departure port. So two brothers, my grandfather and his brother, married two sisters, my grandmother and her sister.)Įlmas' mother Miriam Galolyan was killed in Marash in 1922, a victim of the Armenian Genocide. (He was married to my grandmother's sister, my great aunt Margaret.

Every time my sister and cousin and I saw him he'd give us each a crisp new dollar bill-he always made sure his money was brand new. My Auntie Areka is in her late 90s and still going strong-kicking around in high heels, even! Uncle Aram died before I was born, but Uncle Gorun was around when I was a kid. My great grandfather Krikor Janigian, great grandmother Elmas Janigian née Galolyan, great uncle Aram, great uncle Gorun (sounds like 'Go-den'), and great aunt Areka (sounds like 'Ah-day-ka'). This is a crop of the Majestic's passenger list, showing: The Majestic's passenger list shows an arrival date of April 9th, 1924, and shows their departure port as Cherbourg, France. The book I referenced before, Memory Fragments from the Armenian Genocide, says that their port of departure was Marseilles, France, and that they arrived at Ellis Islandon April 16th, 1924. Please see my earlier post, explaining their long journey to the United States. My grandfather was the youngest in his family, and was born six months after the family arrived in the United States. Majestic, the ship that brought my maternal grandfather's parents & siblings to the United States. I was amazed at what I was able to find online, at least for my mother's side of the family. I started doing some genealogy/family history research a couple of years ago, mostly over the last two summers.

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