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The Gregory P. Alexander Family

Updated March 9, 2009

About Our Family Research


I am just starting to research our family history which starts in Armenia, Estonia, Sweden and Norway.

My father's name is Alexander Alexander. His father, Jacob (Hagop) Mgerdich changed the family name from Iskendarian when he came to America in the late 1890's. Adrienee Barbeau is one of our relatives.

My father's mother's family is shown as both Kapighian & Kapeghian from Philadelphia and later Fresno. One of our relatives is Johnny Kazian, (formerly Kazazian) a famous wing walker. We are also related to Katchadoor Kapheghian.

My mother's father, Gundemar Neggo, was born in Estonia and was a physician in Detroit, Michigan until 1935. Rein Neggo was a well known pastor in the Estoninan Church in Los Angeles. Gundemar's first wife, Helmi Reiman, was one of the first university educated female ethnologists in Estonia. Helmi's father, Villem Reiman, was an important figure in the Estonian Independence movement of the early 1900's. We have both Neggo and Reiman relatives in Australia.

My wife's family comes from Norway and Sweden. She is related to the Truman Eggleston family of South Dakota and the Bell family. The founder of Bell Helicopters is somewhere in her family tree.

We would be glad to hear from anyone that may be related.

Revised 2009 with current email address.

Also building the family tree on Ancestry.com. So there may be more data there. Thanks....

 
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