About the website
Yaghmai family are descendants of Yaghma Jandaghi (Mirza Rahim Abolhassan Yaghmai), a well-known Iranian poet in early 19th century.
The family name Yaghmai (Farsi: یغما یی /یغما یی ) is also spelled as Yaghmae, Yaghmaie, Yaghmaei and Yaghmaee. The difference in spelling mainly comes from the phonetics spelling of the alphabet of the foreign language that has been used at the time of translation. For consistency, in this website all family names are یspelled یas ی“Yaghmai”.
Originally, I wanted to show the families and their relationships with a tree shape chart, as it is expected from a family tree. Once I started working, I realized it is not possible to do so. The inter-related marriages and cross family ties created a complicated relationship between family members, to a point that one person can be related to another in several different ways. For example, two people can be second cousin from father side, first cousin from mother side and, on some occasions step siblings at the same time.
Through this website you will come across the suffix/prefix “Mirza”, especially up to the great grandchildren of Yaghma Jandaghi. The word “Mirza” means a
scholar and educated person. The word also is an abbreviation of "Amir-Zadeh" meaning the son of the king, commander, nobleman or a person with royal lineage. Most of Yaghma Jandaghi’s sons and grandson’s were scholars, and
among them were several poets, therefore they were referred to by the title “Mirza”.
Project duration:
The work on “yaghmatree” started on March 2019. The tree contains 3385 names as of Dec 2020. To ensure accuracy, every name and relationships has been cross checked with minimum two references. The references for the name
of our ancestors and their relations were published in books, while for the recent generations the information is collected through in-person or phone interviews.
“I consider this website a living document, my goal is to keep it up-to-date.”
Acknowledgement:
This project could not be completed without the effort of a group of people. I would like to express my special thanks and gratitude to my two beloved sisters: Firouzeh & Feryal who helped me immensely by contacting the relatives near and far collecting information.
Thank you to my dear nephew, Hooman for developing “yaghmatree.com” and working with me to make sure the website is what I envisioned to be. And many thanks to Darya, my grandniece, for helping me with data entry, when I was not able to do so.
My special thanks and gratitude to my dear husband Barzin, who helped me in every step of the way. Halfway through the project, he started calling me “Mirza Fariba”! Without his endless support I would not be able to be where I am today.
References:
1. Morteza Yaghmai, As Yaghma to Shakib, 1993.
2. Farroukhpa Yaghmai, Navadegan Yaghmayeh Jandaghi, Feb 2015.
3. Yaghmā'ī, Isma'īl Honar. Khāndān-e Yaghmā. Yaghmā, 18(12), pp. 659-664
4. Al-e Davood, Sayid Ali. Dāstānī Manzoom Az Montakhab-ol-Sādāt Jandaghi
5. Farhang e Farsi e Doktor Mohammad Moein,8th edition, 1992.
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirza
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-e_Davoud
Contact us
If you have any comments or information to share, email us at:
yaghmatree@gmail.com
About Fariba
Fariba Yaghmai is born and raised in Tehran. She holds an MBA and, a Bsc. in chemistry. Fariba moved to Pennsylvania, USA with her husband and two children in 1992. While raising her family, she worked as research chemist in Johnson & Johnson (pharmaceutical), Air products, and Arkema until 2013.
Fariba always believed learning about family history is important in understanding ourselves. “As a kid, hearing my mother and other women in the family calling one another ”dear cousin” was very normal. As I got older, I became more and
more curious to understand how they are related? And whether they are truly cousins or not.” Currently Fariba lives in southern California with her husband. “I hope this website helps in connecting our new generations to come.”