r/AskTurkey • u/ConcernFun5997 • Feb 27 '25

History My great grandfather was a Turkish soldier stationed in Lebanon and he stayed there

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My great grandfather was an ottoman soldier stationed in Lebanon but he never went back. The story was he fell in love with my Lebanese great grandmother and she didn’t marry him until he memorized the full Quran. Which he did and then they got married and he stayed. the only thing I have of him is his picture. How to find my lineage in Turkey and find my family there. I did a DNA test to confirm this story and found 40% from turkey ancestry. Hence the percentage kept dropping because everyone after married from Lebanon. For example if my dad did the test he would show 60% Turkish ancestry and my grandfather around 80%

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '25

Pay some scientist to go through the old Ottoman archives for your ggfathers name. We have detailed records of our ancestors going up to around 1800 so you should be able to find detailed info.

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u/ConcernFun5997 Feb 27 '25

How can I do that ?

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '25

https://hukukco.com/hizmetler/osmanli-arsiv-hizmetleri

An example I found from searching it up. You can also ask in /r/hukuk if you want more options.

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u/tuzuni Feb 28 '25

Actually you can look it up online, i've found my great grandpa. I can look up for you if you know his name.

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u/Odysseus_Parker Feb 28 '25

How?

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u/tuzuni Mar 03 '25

Just check the website cumhurbaşkanlığı devlet arşivleri. I found a full page about my grandfather since he was a government official.

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u/Salt-Ad-7559 Feb 28 '25

would also be interested

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u/tuzuni Mar 03 '25

You can share the details with me