[downloaded from Eastmans Online Genealogy Newsletter, The Daily Online Genealogy Newsletter, Dick Eastman, author, dated July 29, 2015] Gulbenkian Grant Helps Update the “Armenian Jerusalem” Project I was in the Armenian Quarter of Old Jerusalem a couple of weeks ago so this new article caught my eye today. The Gulbenkian Foundation, one of the world’s leading philanthropic organizations, has provided the “Armenian Jerusalem” heritage preservation website project with a new grant, enabling organizers to carry out necessary hardware upgrades and software updates. One of its primary objectives was the creation of an all-in-one family tree that highlights the inter-relationship and inter-connectivity of the “kaghakatsi” residents of the Armenian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The “kaghakatsi” are a unique genealogical entity: every member of the sprawling clan is related either closely or distantly, to another. As distinguished from the “vanketsi” survivors of the Armenian genocide who found refuge in the Patriarchate’s convent of St James, the “kaghakatsi” are natives who first settled in Jerusalem about 2,000 years ago, their ancestors arriving in the region in the wake of the conquering armies of emperor Tigranes II, “arkayitz arka,” (king of kings). You can read more in an article by Arthur Hagopian in the HETQ.AM web site at: http://goo.gl/cAx7Os. The new “Armenian Jerusalem” Project web site may be found a:t http://Armenian-Jerusalem.org.