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a professional portrait of Ruth Hartunian-Alumbaugh's father, uncle, grandmother, and grandfather.

Lisa Natcharian's survivor descendant, her grandmother Elmas, who was taken in during the genocide by a Turkish family while waiting for her husband Onnik, a then-guerrilla fighter in the resistance army. She stands, having her portrait…

Sapphire and yellow gold engagement ring: Sara's grandmother Beatrice's from Barmakian Jewelers, a popular Armenian jeweler in business since 1900.

A solitaire diamond in a yellow gold setting. It's Sara Anderson's own engagement ring, which her grandmother Beatrice brought her husband to Barkamian to get in the early 2000's

An engagement ring which Sara's grandfather Sarkis gave to his wife Natalie in 1916 asking her to marry him. The ring is from an Armenian jeweler which Sara's great-uncle worked in for many years.

An aquamarine ring from Bamakian Jewelers which Sara's grandmother Beatrice (Natalie's daughter) passed down to her in the year 2000 when great-grandmother Natalie passed.

Sara and her twin sister Beth perched beside great grandmother Natalie, Armenian genocide survivor, shortly before she died in 2000.

Mari's grandmother who escaped Armenia with not only the ottoman gold coins sewn into her clothes, but also her life and the ability to have children to the point where Mari exists. Mari was raised by her grandmother.

An Ottoman gold coin, thought to be from the time Mari Firkatian's relatives were escaping Armenia. They were originally sewn into peoples' clothes (in case the family members became separated), and eventually was suspended on a gold chain which Mari…

A passport belonging to Diana Colpitts' grandfather, prominent intellectual Nazaret Dagavarian, which he carried throughout his travels as ambassador for Armenia in Turkish Parliament.