Armenians in India website

[lizchater]

Dear all,

 

I am reluctantly closing my Armenians in India website and will therefore not be able to answer any further Armenian genealogical queries. This is forced because of the currently economic difficulties. It has always been run completely unfunded but this is no longer possible.

 

Best wishes

Liz Chater

 

[Yervant1]

A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY ON LIZ CHATER AN ARMENIAN FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCHER SPECIALIZING IN ARMENIANS IN INDIA

 

AZG Armenian Daily

06/02/2009

 

Diaspora

 

Liz Chater, who is based in the UK, has been researching the Armenians

in India for the last nine years. Her interest in the Armenians

came about because she knew very little about her father's family,

and so started looking into her family history. She soon discovered

that she had Armenian ancestry. At the time, there was very little

information available on the Armenians in India, and so as she

discovered information she shared it with others interested in the

India connection.

 

Four years ago, she decided to start an ambitious project to photograph

and transcribe all the Armenian graves in India and to make that

information freely available to other interested researchers. Following

many trips to India she was able to place approximately 3000 pictures

of the Armenian graves on her extremely popular website. However,

due to lack of funding she has had to close her website for the

foreseeable future, but is hopeful that a benefactor will be found

to help fund the website and her unique research so that she can once

again resume her research and complete the project. Liz's genealogical

database has over 5,500 Armenians who once lived, worked and died in

Asia and it is hoped that she will be able to get this information

published and into the wider arena for others to benefit from.

 

During her research Liz also took time to look into the life of a

distant ancestor of hers, Sir Catchick Paul Chater who was born in

Calcutta in 1846 and, by all accounts, lived a most remarkable and

successful life in the Far East. At the kind invitation of Bishop

Armash Nalbandian, of the primate of the Armenian Diocese in Damascus,

Liz will be visiting Damascus from the 1st February and during that

time she hopes to be able to meet as many of the community in Damascus

and talk about this most unique Armenian who lived in the 19th and

early 20th centuries in Hong Kong and share some of his life and

successes with you.