An editor for CNN Turk, who earlier published an exclusive record on Genocide survivors, has continued his searches to find the Zarmanyan family’s descendants after the news story appeared in the headlines of Tert.am.

Serdar Korucu, who conducts probes into Armenian archives to collect Armenian language telegrams, recently received an email from an Armenian family in Marseiile informing him of their connection to Archbishop Grigor Zarmanyan (the man mentioned in the records).

According to document bearing the Armenian Patriarchate’s stamp, Zarmanyan, who was the community’s religious leader at the time, died in the vicinities of Mosul, Iraq in 1916 after facing exile upon the Turkish authorities’ demand.

In a French language document reporting Zarmanyan’s death, the patriarch mentioned his wife and two daughters’ names, adding that all the three were still alive.

“To be frank, I don’t even know if there is any document the Turkish authorities can unconditionally adopt and not reject given that certain people in Europe are still able to find explanations denying the Holocaust committed at the heart of Europe just 25 years after the Armenian Genocide. The important thing for me, however, was to follow [assassinated Turkish-Armenian journalist] Hrant Dink’s principle saying that ‘every Armenian is a proof’. This particular family[’s story] stands as such an example. What happened to them, and where did they go after the Genocide, and how was their life arranged later? Now I am hopeful that by establishing connections with this family, I will be able to bring more details to light,” he said in comments to Tert.am.