Iranian Genealogy

Iranian Genealogy has been fairly quiet for most of 2025 due to work on an exciting new project: the Iranian-American Surnames Project. After over a year of coordination and planning, the Project is now live! The Iranian-American Surnames Project is a collaboration between Iranian Genealogy, Dr. Fatemeh Akbari (sociolinguist, onomastician, and International Council of Onomastic…

Iranian Genealogy now has a Family-Specific Resources page! This new page contains all-too-rare, but increasingly common, online genealogy resources pertaining to specific families. These resources include family trees, family history websites, narratives, and published genealogies. The families are categorized alphabetically in the Persian and Latin alphabets. This section of the website will be uniquely helpful…

Iranian Genealogy has two exciting updates! (1) the Collections and Databases page has been reorganized and expanded; and (2) the General Resources page has been expanded. Read on for details! Collections and Databases Update The Collections and Databases page represents the bulk of Iranian Genealogy’s research resources. Recently, I have reorganized and significantly added to…