On Sunday, April 27, 2025, Director General of Syriac Culture and Arts, Kaldo Ramzi Oghanna, and Director of the Syriac Heritage and Museum, Bernard Yousif, welcomed a delegation from the American organization Family Search at the directorate’s headquarters in the Ankawa district. The delegation included Middle East Affairs Coordinator Rola Shallhoub, along with organization members Dr. Jonathan McCallum and Omar Qadri.
The two parties discussed a project to be carried out by the Syriac Heritage Museum, aimed at documenting, archiving, and digitizing the genealogies of the Syriac people to make them accessible to researchers.
It is worth noting that Family Search made its initial visit to the General Directorate of Syriac Culture and Arts in the Kurdistan Region in December of last year, followed by a second visit in February of this year, as part of its ongoing collaboration with the Directorate of Heritage and the Syriac Museum to preserve and digitize the genealogical records of the Syriac community.
