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FAMILY: Are you aware that if we died tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of days. But the family we left behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into work than to our own family, an unwise investment indeed, don't you think? And some of us often treat strangers and coworkers better than members of our family. Do you know what the word FAMILY means?
FAMILY =
Father
And
Mother,
I
Love
You
Pass
this on to everyone that you care about. I just did... courtesy of Rouba
Khayrallah who got it from Zeina Khairallah
Summer 2007 project opportunity:
$1,000 - $2,000
Build Shweir Family & Church Records data base in Excel
Yes, we want to preserve our family history, genealogy and traditions
and reward one or more person(s) who is (are) serious to do great genealogy
work
we have sample of the searchable Excel data base that we can provide you
Also, we already have digital photos of 50-70% of church records.
Assignment 1: obtain digi photos of the rest of church records.
Convert to searchable Excel data base.
Assignment 2: Build family trees based on church records, interviews,
& other sources - photograph Shweir residents, especially the elderly.
For inquiries, or to submit your qualifications and/or a proposal, please write to (in code): anwar2 (at) shweir (dot) com
Salimie Mujais: Gradma; Antoine Salim: grandfather
Searching for relatives:
Salimie Mujais: Gradma; Antoine Salim Grandfather
From:
Gilda Nazario [mailto: gnazario at stumpwebsterlaw dot com ]
in code
Sent: Thursday, July 20,
2006 5:41 AM
Subject: Mujais & Salim
Family tree
Hello, My name is Gilda Sada Nazario. My parents were: Boulos Sada and Marie Louise Mujais Sada.
My mother's family was from Dhour Shweir, her maiden name was Mujais. My grandmother's name was Salimie Mujais and my grandfather was Antoine Salim, he was a Professor at the American University in Beirut in the 1940's. Both my parents and my grandparents are deceased and I am trying to see if we have any family over there in Dhour Shweir, and hopefully everyone is safe.
Thank you and I hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely,
Gilda Sada Nazario
Hello Gilda,
Thank you for
your inquiry.
I will post this info on the Family Tree web page of Shweir.com as well as
the Bulletin Board.
Just in case someone can shed some light about your family.
Also I will copy some knowledgeable Moujaes family members as well as my
cousin Riad who is the librarian at the AUB.
Best regards,
Anwar
From: graham.corban (at) actrix dot co dot nz
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 2:25 AM
Subject: Greetings from New Zealand
Hi Anwar
My name is Graham Corban and I live in Hamilton, New Zealand. Recently I visited Shweir (19th-24th June), trying to find information on my grandfather and great-grandparents. I met a lot of wonderful people, including Sandy, who is the secretary to the Major, Dr. Nabil Ghosen. They gave me your contact details and suggested I get in touch with you as you have the birth records for Shweir and Ain El Sendianeh.
I was wondering if you could find the birth records for my great-grandparents who were:
Gasson Yarid Corban, died 27th June 1935, aged 75 years (born 1860)
Saleemie Yarid Corban, died 25th March 1954, aged 80 years (born 1874) and my grandfather who was:
George Gasson Corban, died 1971 aged 64 years (born 1907) [these details may not be exactly correct but should be very close].
I would very much appreciate any help you could give me.
No doubt you are saddened and concerned as I am with the recent developments in Lebanon. It seems as if conflict is never far away. I hope the situation can be resolved although I must admit it doesn't look good at this stage.
Kind Regards
Graham Corban
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Dear Garaham,
Thank you for your kind email.
Yes, I am in the process of doing a data base for our ancestors and hopefully do family trees to help visualize the relationships. I have made digital copies of about 50-60% of the available data form the Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches.
My objective is to transform the data from digital images into a searchable database by first or last name, town etc in Excel format. I will enlist the help of bright students to help in completing the data from the rest of churches and then convert them to searchable data so I can better respond to your requested search.
In the mean time, I will post the info on our Family Tree Web page just in case any of our readers can better respond to your search. If all goes well, we should have the data complete within 6-12 months. Inshallah.
Sincerely,
Anwar
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Searching for Salami and Medawar Families
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From: Anwar2 at shweir.com]
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 6:54 PM
To: 'Marie-Joëlle Salami'
Subject: RE: Searching for Salami Family from Shweir or Ajaltoon
Hello Marie-Joelle,
Thanks for staying in touch and for the beautiful
pictures.
I will be happy to post the pictures on the "Family tree" web page soon and will
post something on the BB with a link to the pictures.
Hope you will get more responses.
Best regards,
Anwar
-----Original Message-----
From: Marie-Joëlle Salami mj_salami at hotmail .
com ]
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 2:22 AM
To: Anwar2 at shweir.com
Subject: RE: Searching for Salami Family from Shweir or Ajaltoon
Hello Anwar
Waleed Moujaes's wife has been very kind and introduced
me to one of her uncles who might help me in my research.
I've found the 2 photos joined herewith, but I don't know how to publish
them on your site : They were taken in 1936 in Dour el Shweir. The lady in the
middle was my mother in law, Aimée SALAMI. She was just married and was visiting
her husband's cousins the MEDAWAR or MADAWAR, who ran a hotel in Dour. Perhaps,
people seeing the photos on Shweir.com, might recognise somebody or remember
part of the story..... Many thanks for help
Marie-Joëlle SALAMI,
France
Hello MJ,
Sorry that you had difficulty reaching me at Shweir@shweir.com. We had to abandon that email address due to getting about 100-200 junk and spam emails a day. Yes, you were able to reach me on . (I had to abandon anwar at shweir.com for the same reason). I copied and pasted your Guestbook entry below for reference.
We hope with the church records info that we are working on and feedback from other people from Shweir.
One knowledgeable young person is Waleed Moujaes and he recently married a wonderful lady from the Salamy family in Los Angeles. Her brother is a Greek Orthodox priest. Perhaps they could help. By means of introduction, Here is a link to their wedding: http://www.shweir.com/waleedmichelle.htm
Waleed Moujaes email is waleed.moujaes at globeexpress dot com I will copy Waleed on this. Waleed and Michelle, can you help?
Best wishes,
Anwar
-----Original Message-----
From: Marie-Joëlle Salami
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 8:12 AM
Subject: Fw: Returned mail: see transcript for details
Hi !
What else can I do to reach you ?
MJ Salami
Your name: SALAMI Marie-Joëlle
Your message: We are a French couple, but my husband's grand-parents were Lebanese. They moved to Egypt by the end of the 19th century : Simon SALAMI was a hairdresser in PortSaid. He had at least a sister, Anne SALAMI and a brother, Nemet Allah SALAMI who was a maronite priest in Egypt. Their parents' name was Habile and Theresa SALAMI. We heard they were from Ajaltoune or from Shweir. We'd like so much to learn about the family but we don't know how to proceed to find information.
Date: 1 November 2005 - France
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Brazil - Shweir Families Reunite after 100+ years: Bou Zeid Family...
It
started by an email sent from Mr. Luiz Renato de Oliveira Chueire from Brazil
to George Matar Mr. Luiz was asking if someone could help him to find
relatives in Shweir because his grand-grand father
KHATTAR BOU-ZEID came to Brazil from
Shweir around 1880 and his family name was Bou-Zeid,
Mr. Luiz was asking G. Matar if “Bou-Zeid” family exists at Dhour and if someone could help him and he wanted information about how to get to shweir because he intended to visit Shweir on March 2005.
For me it was a pleasant surprise when G. Matar introduced him to me by email. I was glad to go on with this in order to find out if he is really a relative of my husband and after several researches and after asking the elder in Bou-Zeid family and several email with Luiz, I definitively and with proud introduce Mr. Luiz Renato de Oliveira Chueire as a relative and one of a huge Bou-Zeid family in Brazil
Luiz is a 45 years old, and he lives at the city of Curitiba, southern Brazil, a city with 2 million people. He is married and has 2 sons. The reason he was asking about relatives is that he was traveling with his wife to the Middle East and thought if they could pass by Lebanon to visit the land and the roots of his grand-grand father who came to Brazil from Shweir around 1880.
It was a great surprise for Luiz to find relatives in Lebanon after one century of the emigration of Khattar Bou-Zeid, his grand grand father. Khattar, when arrived in Brazil, changed both first and last names: Instead of “Bou-Zeid” which was not a Portuguese name, he adopted the name “Moises Chueire”.
Khattar also came to Brazil with one brother, named EID. They were around 15 to 18 years old. In Barzil they married brazilian ladies, and formed big families. They were christians, and for any reason they have not kept the links with Lebanon.
Luiz was traveling to the Middle East and intended to visit Lebanon if he find relatives. One of his friends knew about Shweir Website and that’s how Luiz contacted G. Matar who introduced him to me.
So, before coming to Lebanon, Luiz traveled to a city in Brazil where one of khattar’s daughters (Luiz aunt) called Zaine, who is 95 years old, and get some information from her about his grand-grand father that she might have.
She had only one picture of her father, at the time he arrived in Brazil.(Please see the attached photo: PIC1.jpg). The man in the right side of the picture, who has the name "Moises" on top of his image, is her father (Khattar) and the grand-grand father of Luiz. The picture was shot in Sao Paulo, a few days after he arrived here, in 1891. He was around 18 years old at that time.
The other two gentlemen are two cousins, also from Lebanon, who came to Brazil with Khattar Moises.
They left Lebanon seeking for better opportunities, and they decided to go to America. They had little idea of South and North America, and Luiz aunt does not know if they knew they were coming to Brazil or if they decided their final destination during their trip.
Luiz aunt also said that one of Moises´s sisters went to Argentina at the same time, and maybe two others to the States.
Khattar father’s name was Abdalah, and his mother´s, Zaine.
After a few months in Brazil, Moises wrote to his family asking them to send his younger brother, Eid to join him in Brazil. He did that because Eid was a terrible young man, so in order to help his parents Moises brought his brother to live with him.
This is all Luiz get from his aunt, whose name is Zaine, for her grand mother.
Luiz came back also from his visit to his aunt with the below list with all the sons and daughters of Khattar Bou-Zeid:
Khattar married three times. His first wife was Maria de Oliveira, from a traditional family in south Brazil at that time. They married on June 20, 1896, and their children are:
- Latife, born April 7, 1898; she lived a long life, and had children;
- Zarife, born November 29, 1899; she died on November 11, 1903;
- Graciliano, born August 12, 1901; he lived a long life, and had children;
- Salim, the grand father of Luiz, born May 28, 1903; he died in February 1943; he married Aurelia Franco (who died in 1982; her father was from Lebanon, also; his name was Miled Zahur, and he came from Beirut). Their children are Paulo, born in 1928; Carlos (Luiz father), born in 1932; Zelia, born in 1938; and Maria José, born in 1942;
- Waldemor, born January 15, 1905; he died one year later;
- Amélia; born June 12, 1906; she lived a long life, and had children;
- Waldemor (the same name of his brother, who had died), born April 13, 1908; he married and had children;
- Zaine, born July 13, 1909; she is alive, and has a very good health; she has one son;
- Aristoteles, born August 8, 1911; he married and had children;
- Nair, born May 10, 1913; she lived a long life, and had children;
- Cesar, born November 10, 1914; he married and had children;
On February 20, 1916, Maria de Oliveira died, at the age 33. She and Khattar had 11 children, but two died when were young, so 9 grew up. Only one of them is still alive.
On July 10, 1917, Khattar married with Nhá. This is her nickname. She was a very simple and humble woman, and probably Khattar was looking for someone to help him with his 9 children, who were from 18 to 3 years old.
Their children are:
- Joao, born April 10, 1918. He is alive, and has three sons and two daughters;
- Lady, born May 20, 1919; she is alive, and has two sons;
- Anice, born January 23, 1921; she died young;
- Rubens, born July 1, 1922; he did not marry, and died some years ago;
On August 28, 1923, Nhá died. On June 28, 1924, Khattar married with Amazilia. Luiz had the chance to meet Mrs. Amazilia, but her health was not good, and he know little about her life with Khattar.
Their children are:
- Alceu, born September 9, 1925; he is alive, and has children;
- Washington, born November 15, 1926; he died, and had children;
- Dalva, born February 9, 1931; she is alive, and has one son and one daughter.
A Huge family. We knew all these dates because Luiz aunt, Zaine, has a hand written paper with these notes, which were dictated by her father, Khattar, before he died.
Eid, the brother of Khattar also formed a big family. One of his grandsons, Afranio Chueire, is a very good friend of Luiz. And may be in the future he will prepare a list with this branch of the Eid Chueire (Bou-Zeid) Family Tree.
And at the end, the trip of Luiz to the Middle East was confirmed. He and his wife Marise were at Shweir in March 17, 2005. Unfortunately they only had one day to spend with Bou-Zeid family at shweir- Lebanon. They took a taxi from Beirut and arrived at the”Seha” in Dhour around 9:00 AM, I was waiting for them. It was really an amazing day!
See also attached photos of Luiz and his wife from their visit to their family at Shweir.
Silva Awad
Bou-Zeid
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Silva, what a great story. That makes all the effort behind Shweir.com worthwhile.
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We hope to hear a similar Happy gathering and story of the Francis Family... as in the post below.
Dib Franciss from Brazil searching for Shweir relatives
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Dear Anwar,
I don't remember when I read on the BB that someone from Brazil, his family name
was Francis, is asking about his family in Shweir, where you couldn't give him
an answer. I will give you this information may be it could help.
Francis family were in Shweir and they had a house in the town. In Mar Butrus
Church you can see the name of Salim Na3oum Francis who donated in 1963 to the
church, for the name of his grand father the priest Yousef Sawaya 1889 and his
father the priest Youhana Sawaya 1863, (the part where the priest stands during
the mass, I don't know what to call it), as you can see in the pic.
Like the Yafeth's and others who left Shweir, Francis's have nobody in town any
more by this name, but they have relatives with the Sawaya's, Abdil Ahad,
Khnieser etc. If you remember where Nasir Casino was, this place was for Salim
before he sold to Mattar.
The last Francis was Salim Na3oum Haykal Francis. His brother was Nasib who left
to the USA long time ago but came back to Shweir, for a short period, after his
brother's death.
This is all what I could get until now, I hope you could send this info to the
young Shweiry in Brazil.
Riad
-----Original Message-----
From: Riad Khunieser [mailto:rk26@aub.edu.lb]
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 10:14 PM
Subject: Fw: Francis Family
Dear Anwar,
I sent you this email one week ago and got no reply, may you be you haven't received it.
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From: "Riad Khunieser"
To: "Anwar2" <at shweir dot com>
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 11:07 AM
Subject: Francis Family
Dear Anwar,
I am sure your visit to Shweir this year was fruitful in every way, but to me it was more than that. Your work with the churches record is an excellent job done even it isn't finished yet. While I was looking at the records in the laptop which you left, and which I am keeping at home, I found so many good information about many persons we were trying to find any info. about. To make it short; I am sending you what I found about the Francis family in the Catholic Book. Please if you find it worth sending to our young man in Brazil, do it. If you do, please tell him that we are still looking for the old files and what we have got till now goes to this period of time (1856).
Michael Haykal Francis (Ibn Farah) born:23 Feb.1856 baptized: 18 Feb. 1857 in Mar Boutros Church in Shweir; Married to Nour Al 3ayn Abdallah Abd Al-Ahad Feb. 3 1886; died; 1908
Najibi Michael... born; Nov. 13,1891; baptized Dec. 1 1891 Mar Boutros
Adel Michael ... born; Dec 7, 1892; baptized Jan 3, 1893
Naim Michael ... born May 2, 1897; baptized June 29, 1897
Malbina Michael ... born Jan. 13, 1901; baptized Feb.2, 1909
Naom Haykal Francis (Abou Farah) born Aug.
6, 1858 baptized Sept. 14 1858 in Mar Boutros
Married
to Youlyafi Al-Khoury Yousif Sawaya (this is what I could read), Jan. 4, 1888;
died 1922
Salim Naom ... born; July 5 1889 baptized Sept. 2 1889; died Feb. 8, 1963
Salimi Naom ... born Jan. 12, 1896 baptized Feb. 6, 1896
Nasib Naom ... born Mar. 2, 1898 baptized Apr. 16, 1898
Tenuous Daher Francis (Abi Farah); married to Mariam Michael Francis Feb. 18, 1900
Toufic Tenuous ... born May 27, 1903; baptized June 29, 1903
Michael Tenuous ... born Nov. 12, 1910; baptized Dec. 11, 1910
Simian Tenuous ... born May 6, 1907 baptized June 23 1907 died Dec. 5, 1912
Riad
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To read the Tribute of Mama Rose on the Shweir Bulletin Board, Click Here
----- Original Message -----From: Hilda M Kachmar ( hkachmar (at) comcast.net )Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 4:13 PMSubject: Picture of 1922 Shweir group photoDear Mr. Matar:
In looking carefully at the well preserved picture, I think that the young man on the right ( with fez) of the top row may be my father. I know he must have attended Shweir High School because he was from the town of Btegrine and he told me it was too small. He told me that his uncle was one of the school teachers. My father's name was Assad Sawaya Sawaya and he emigrated to the Americas in 1928-1930, when he was about 18-20 years old. He settled in Havana, Cuba where he married my mother, Hilda, in 1948. I know we have a lot of family in Lebanon, but will not be able to travel to find out more information. My father has or had a cousin named Rachid who became a businessman in Venezuela. He had two sons whom I met years ago, Bahyet and Mounir, and a daughter whom I also met. It's been a long time since my father died and we have lost touch with most of the family. I have cousins who travel between the US and Lebanon and their last name is Harik.
Is there anyway someone can corroborate that the man in the picture is my father, Assad Sawaya Sawaya, from Btegrine.
Thank you for your help.
Hilda (Sawaya) Kachmar
Searching for origin and meaning of Khnaisser family... By Paul Knieser
----- Original Message -----From: pjxk2 @ aol.com (email on left has two spaces before and after the @ to avoid spammers harvesting emails for privacy and to minimize junk mail.Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 2:35 PMSubject: re: Khnaisser family tree on linehi-- You have a wonderful web site. In the above family tree, I was just curious if you or anyone I might contact could tell me the origins or meaning of the family name Khnaisser. I would appreciate any information.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Paul Knieser
Olean, NY
USA
----- Original Message -----From: pjxk2 @ aol.comSent: Friday, November 21, 2003 7:54 PMSubject: Re: Khnaisser family tree on line
Hi again--Thank you for such a speedy reply to my first email.My name is Paul Knieser and I am half Lebanese from my father's side of the family. My grandfather came from Salima in 1895. He is of the Beshelany family. He died in 1922 when my father was only six years old. Although there were ten children in their family none of the had much knowledge of the family background. I have two aunts still suriving today, one of them is 90, and neither of them knew their grandparents names.For many years, I have had a copy of Fr. Stephen Beshelany's book on the History of B'shele and Salima with all of the wonderful generology and historical information. Unfortunately it was in Arabic and no one in my family was ever able to read it. Having had the book vor over 30 years I finally decided it was time to unravel the mystery and I hired translators to help me get the book into English. It has taken a fair amount of money and an even greater amount of time to accomplish the task. Half of the book is ready for the printers and I expect to have the final half ready within a couple of months. It has been a project that has taken years but makes for wonderful reading and research. There must be at least a hundred thousand people alive today whose ancestors are discussed or mentioned in the book. . It allows us to trace many, many families back historically for 400 years naming every major male ancestor along the way.The meaning of Knieser that you related is the same story that I have always heard but I keep checking because I can't seem to make sense out of that in my own mind. So many Lebanese names are from the trade or business of the people, or tied to geographic regions, that I can't understand how some one could come up with a name of "Little Finger"...strange. I wasn't aware of the many different spellings of the name.I was surprised at your story of the three brothers of European origin and would love to hear anymore details of the rumor or tales. One of my aunt's who died as a child in the 1918 influenza epidemic reportedly had blond hair and blue eyes...not exactly traditional Lebanese characteristics.In my mind I have been trying to think of ways for people to share information, photographs, etc., that they have and what I was picturing is what seems to have been accomplished with shweir.com. I conceive of a similar site devoted to the families in the book but as of the moment I lack the computer skills and the time to accomplish it.Thank you, so much, for the information that you shared. I anxiously look forward to any further information that you or your contacts may be able to provide.If I can provide you with any other information, please, don't hesitate to ask.Sincerely,Paul
Searching for Hanna/Yousef/Joseph Abdel Ahad
angelic ahad, Member # 162 posted 01-23-2003 06:59
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Last name(Ahad),(abdel ahad) (Abed El Ahad),
First name- Hanna, yousef, Joseph, (Nagla???)
(some of the information may not be accurate...all from memory)
My father came to the United states in the late 1960's. My birth certificate
shows his name as Joseph Ahad. My older brother (John) shows Abed El as a middle
name and Ahad as the last. we were told that the men our family reversed fist
and middle names through each generation...John(hanna) Joseph....Joseph
John(hanna). We are not sure the correct transilation of joseph in arabic. My
father arrived in the united states through New York. He married a armenian
woman named Helen(my brothers mother).
We’re not sure the circimstances of our fathers resons for leaving lebanon. He
never discussed his family. It seemed to be a depressing topic for him. I belive
our grandmothers name could be Nagla, Nalia, Nashrella(not sure). I recently
discoverd through a friend located in beirut....that they are still living. We
have been on so many sites and directiorys searching but havent came up with any
good leads.
My father begain living in the San Jose bay area of california in the 70's. he
was divorced from Helen. In the 1990's Married a woman from Belize named
Ottila(a very sweet woman). And was eventually divorced again. He seemed to
dissapear round 1998. He is still living as the s.s office will not provide any
more info on him. He is old and due to an accident in the 70's may not have a
good memory of much of his life.
Me and my brother are searching for any information on any family living in
lebanon.....as well as any info on my fathers whereabouts here in the united
states.
He has blue/green eyes, speaks english, arabic, french, chrisitan.
Thank you and god bless
angelic ahad
lilyrain@sbcglobal.net
Searching for relatives of the Zeidan Rahbany Family
From: Nabeel Michael Barakat (Saed)
Email: barakanm@lahc.edu
Location: Los Angeles , California
Hi to all. I am so happy to have found this site. I've been trying to find and
learn about my parents family and home land for a very long time.
Originally my father is from beit Saed from Rashia Al Wadi, and my mother is
from Dhour Shweir (Rahbani, Zeidan) My uncle is Fuad Zeidan, Abo Iskander,
worked with the Middle East Air lines. I have relatives in Betighreen ... .
Anyone that reads this message and can help me connect I would be very thankful.
Searching for Abicair, Moujaes &
Sawaya
Abicair (Abi Kheir) Family Tree, Ayoub Moujaes Family (1888) & Boutros
Abraham Sawaya (1889)
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I am the daughter of Naim
Abicair (Bou Kheir) and Najla Marida and niece of Aziz Bou Kheir. My dad &
mother migrated to Australia in the 1950's separately and met and married in
Australia. They had 8 children. I have visited Lebanon a number of times,
most recently in 1999 with my husband and two daughters.We have since added
a son to the family. We stayed with my Auntie Rita in Shweir and my husband,
Ross(Australian) and children really enjoyed their stay. I have visited most of my relatives in Shweir on my visits and I am interested in putting together our family tree. Has anyone started this as a project in Shweir relating to my family? I would be happy to hear from anyone that can help me. Hi to all my cousins.
3 January 2003 - Melbourne, Australia
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your site has helped put me in
touch with family of my great grandfather ayoub moujaes who came to
australia in 1888 with his son nayef. response from waleed and mounir
moujaes has helped answer many questions which have been asked by family for
many years as nayef passed away in 1936. my hearty good wishes to all
relatives from the moujaes family wherever they are and may this be a happy
and prosperous new year. alex ayoub
24 December 2002 - sans souci, sydney.australia.
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hello everyone and merry
christmas. I was wondering if anyone ever heard of a Batrous Abraham Sawaya
who was born in Shweir in 1889. That was my great grandfather. He came over
to America sometime between 1900 and 1905 I think. He had a niece Saleemie
or Salima Sawaya that lived in Harahan, not too far from where I live. Any
info would help. I'm trying to help my grandma figure out our family tree.
22 December 2002 - new orleans louisiana
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Shweir.com Note to Shirley, Alex & Nick: - Welcome to your hometown website. Thank you for taking the time to post on Shweir.com Guest Book and share Family Tree info with us. To expand exposure, I will copy your message and add it to the Family Tree web page.
First Published Family Tree to post on Shweir.com
| Cousin Anwar, -I know you like to work with the family tree of Shweirieh. Attached are four images of an article I was reading yesterday in the journal (Kab - Elias, Bekaa, Nov.-Dec. 2002) |
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Thank you Riad, this is Great information with reference about many families, some goes back up to 400 years, including Merhej, Sawaya, Shweiry, and Moujaes families. I did not have a chance to read all of it yet, but I wanted to post it ASAP, before I call it a night.
If anyone wish to translate for the benefit of our cousins who do not read Arabic, I will be happy to post it.
Thank you Riad for the wealth of information that you continue to find.
Searching for descendants of
Faris Simeon Moujaes
(1877-1953)
----- Original Message -----From: alan ellisTo: "A. G. Kenicer" in code <anwar2 at shweir dot com>Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 7:08 AMSubject: helloI have just found this site and registered.What a godsend!I thought the search for family history would be long and hard,but in this world of gadgets,gizmos and geegaws,Dhour Choueir was just a few k/strokes away with it's own site.Except for the phonetic translation of arabic!!! How many ways is there of spelling dhour choueir,dhour el-chweir,ect,ect,as well as mujaas,majais,moujaes,ad infinitum.I hope that I can contact someone,as I have quite a bit of interesting things that belonged to my greatuncle,Faris Simeon Moujaes(have I finally got his name right?)born circa 1877,died 1953.Lebanese people that I asked,have always told me that shweir is a beautifull place.Maybe oneday,the grandson of a shweirian emigrant should go and have a look. regards, alan
----- Original Message -----From: Alan EllisTo: "A. G. Kenicer" in code <anwar2 at shweir dot com>Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 3:35 PMSubject: pronunciation
Thanks for your welcome to shweir.com. Your newest member has a question.In Australia,my g/father used the name Charles Louis Simon even though he was a Sayegh.I asked my mum this morning,if she could remember his real name.She remembers as a child that arabic speakers called him (sounds like) el-yes.Could this be Elias. Mum is 90 y.o. and never spoke arabic,being born here of Lebanese parents,who being in business,anglisised their name and only spoke to the children in english.The parents did speak to each other in arabic if needed,which is why mum could only understand some words,but not speak them.Thats assimilation.Hope you can help with g/father pron. regards, alan.
Yes, Allan, we have Sayegh family too in Shweir... and Yes, el-yes is nick name for Elias... so, based on what you wrote, your grandad original name wad Elias Sayegh. Hope with our readers, they can put more pieces to the puzzle.
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From: Matar, George [mailto:gematar@sbec.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 11:15 AM
To: 'Shweir Web'; alan ellis
Cc: Nabil Matar; Matar, George; Alfred Moujaes; Habib Moujaes; Waleed
Moujaes
Subject: RE: hello
Again hello Allan,
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