A while ago I was given some information that a cousin from the Elia family had done one of those Genealogy DNA tests and had a hit. I was given the name and it was someone from the Rizk family.
With a Rizk match I was a little bit excited as the Khoury family was originally Rizk and I like to always increase the family and get to know more cousins.
Well I didn't really do a lot of digging as I didn't have much information so I let it go. But a couple of days ago a cousin asked if I had ever done a DNA test which got me thinking about it again. So went back to the original message I received and decided to start doing some internet searches using the email address I had. I got a couple of hits on Google giving me a location.
I was able to find a Facebook profile and found even though the person was living in Australia they are originally from the US and the name was spelt Rask not Rizk. I searched Ancestry.com and came up with some online family trees that showed the family was from Hadchit in North Lebanon. This to me is quite interesting as when I was in Lebanon in 2010 my uncle told me that we are also related to the Rizk family in the Bsharre are....Hadchit is not far from Bsharre.
Now where this gets interesting is that going back to the story of Boulos Rizk the founder of our village his family fled from Forzol after killing the local Governor. I was told the family came to the south but there is no reason why they couldn't have crossed the mountains to the Hadchit area.
I'm hoping this opens up to a new branch in the family and I get a reply to the email that I sent.
My family is from Hadchit. I have some family in Australia as well. To my knowledge we didn't have anyone in Furzol. Most of our close DNA matches are with the villages of Hasroun, Besharre, Blouza, Wadi Kannoubine, Aytoo, and very little in Toula.
ReplyDeleteRizk is a very large family name. Some are in laws of Malouf family, Ghassani Tribe. If you are looking for Furzol people, some in Minnesota and South or North Dakota. There are some in Lansing, MI that are related to the people in La Porte, Indiana.
Hi Wendy,
ReplyDeleteI spoke to a person here in Australia whose DNA test was the one I was writing about. Silly me didn't realise that it was a maternal line DNA test she had done so there was no connection to it but there would for my cousins who had sent me the result through their grandmother who was from the North of Lebanon.
Since the I have found out from a trip to Lebanon that we originate from Khabbab in the Houran district in Syria. From there we moved to Forzol before embarking on a trip to Derdghaya.
Thanks for the interest in the blog and take care
Souse