r/hayeren

My brother is an expert who can read the Ottoman archives, and he actually found 150 years old records that list some of our ancestors being listed as "Armenian People" in the official census. They were even using the same surname that our grandfather's mother uses to this day (Kalaycıoğlu).

They were also recorded to be living in the same house that the whole lineage of our Pontian Greek grandfather, whose maternal side was Armenian. Seems that it was a big house.

My DNA tests show that I am more Armenian than Pontian Greek, too. It shows that I am a mixture of a little bit Georgian, some Greek and majority Armenian, no Turkish blood.