Van Dijck posits that we cherish our mediated memories as a formative part of our autobiographical and cultural identities and that the accumulated items typically reflect the shaping of an individual in a historical time frame. I examine the relationship of the post-memoir, a memoir based mainly on the stories of older relatives, to that of other autobiographic genres through the examination of 20th and 21st century Armenian post-memoirs and life writings. I am concerned with the texts and their contexts. The post-memoirs that I examine reflect trauma upon the discovery of false or incomplete identities and a questioning of historical truth which is in conflict with personal narratives. Transmitted over three generations these texts also capture the process whereby a public secret is buried under layers of new information, misinformation and simply new social circumstances but still remains alive in the personal realm and reemerges to interrogate the official narrative. When why and how these texts were made public are central questions that I pose. My first question is who is narrating these texts. The vast majority that I have examined are narrated by granddaughters and were revealed by grandmothers which obliges me to ask why this is the case. Therefore I examine the texts from a gendered perspective to reveal any differences and similarities between the works of male and female narrators but also simply to see what roles men and women played in their communities and in the nation that allowed more women to narrate their stories. In both the production of the text, its dissemination and its contents I will argue gender plays a central role.