An unknown number of young Armenians survived the massacres of 1915 as adopted daughters and sons of Muslim families. Fewer others became wives and, in exceptional cases, husbands. While some of these survivors (particularly young men) re-united with their families or relatives in later years, or were taken into orphanages by missionaries and relief workers, many others lived the rest of their lives as “Muslims,” taking on Turkish, Kurdish, or Arabic names. In recent years, the stories of these survivors have become publicly visible through memoirs, novels, and historical works in Turkey. This new visibility has raised questions about the absence of this particular group of survivors in Armenian, Turkish, Kurdish, as well as international scholarly and popular histories of the Armenian genocide. Simply put, the stories of these survivors have been silenced by all historiographies. Based on an analysis of these works as well as interviews with 30 “grandchildren” who have Armenian grandparents, this paper analyzes the ways in which “familial” history told through the eyes of grandchildren is cracking a constitutive silence in Turkish and Armenian historiographies and is opening up a new path of reconciliation with a nationalized and militarized history.