KZBlog

An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan

Tag archive for ‘Genghizide’

  • Zheti Ata

    Another good post by a Peace Corps volunteer on Kazakh Family Trees. Summarizes a lot like how Kazakhs traditionally didn’t have surnames which means that most surnames are actually the name of an ancestor with the Russian ending for “son of” or “daughter of” tacked on. Also a really nice picture of what a Kazakh […]