Kottayam Palathinkal Family

An overview of

Kottayam Palathinkal family website

and

Publication of Palathinkal Kudumbacharithram

Palathinkal Kudumbacharithram

It was a long cherished dream of members of the Palathinkal family, that became a reality when our Palathinkal Kudumbacharithram (Palathinkal History) was released in our Annual General Meeting on 1st May 2009 by His Grace The Most Rev.Dr.Philipose Mar Chrysostom Marthoma Valya Metropolitan.

Background:

It was a challenging task to collect and consolidate the data to be published in the history. But, the support and co-operation from members of our Executive committee made it less difficult for us. We thank Almighty for guiding and helping us abundantly in our venture.

We were fortunate that we already had basic and background data in book form in “Kannuneerinte Kanikka”, the memorial publication in honour of the late Arackal Sri A.I. Ipe, published in the year 1952 . We have quoted liberally from this book and have based it as a major source of information. We remember with gratitude the services of Late Sri.Jacob Mohan Arackal, Late Sri.A.I.Abraham (Thampi) and Late Sri.P.K.Abraham (Avarachen) who collected and supplied additional data for making this edition possible. The rest of the information was received from members either directly or through the members of Executive and Editorial committees of the Palathinkal Kudumbayogam.

The absence of the 8^th generation members and the absence of majority of elders of the 9^th generation Palathinkals, who would have had a wealth of information to share with us, made our task highly challenging.

We have designed a unique identification number assigned to each individual of our family, branch and generation wise. The identification number helps us to identify our branch, generation level and also traces the roots to the first generation. This is explained later with examples.

We have tried our best to include bio-data and photographs of all individuals and families, including those of earlier generations. Unfortunately, many were not received in spite of our prolonged and continued follow up through representatives from their branches in Executive and Editorial committees. All the information, furnished by members so far, are now included. We are sorry that biodata appear lean and photographs are missing for a few members. Basic reason for this shortcoming is that the data are not available or not furnished to us.

What is consolidated here is history of our family. It is not a Palathinkal history alone but also a history of places and churches associated with Palathinkal family. It tells the world about the great contributions made by our family members in cultural, literary, social, religious and even political fields of our country.

We do hope that all members, male and female, will retain a copy of our History Book in their houses as a treasure for the benefit of next generation in understanding their lineage and roots. If this happens, we will be fully satisfied that our efforts have borne fruits. The website is launched for the present and future generations to identify their origin and family lineage.

Finally, let us place on record that this venture would not have been successful, but for the whole hearted support and contribution, both physical and monetary, from all the members of our Palathinkal family.

Website

Our website www.palathinkalktm.org was launched by Bishop Sam Mathew of Church of South India immediately after the release of Kudumbacharithram on 1st May 2009. Later it developed some problem in continuing in the same ID. Hence the website was given a new ID www.palathinkal.org and was working well till it was hacked recently. We lost all the photos and some of the material from the site. We found it difficult either to get it revived or to launch a new site economically. As a result, we decided to try and develop a new site ourselves. We now have the new website www.palathinkalfamily.com.

New website: www.palathinkalfamily.com

Kindly copy this ID and save it for opening the site as and when you need.

During the revision of the site with the new link, we tried to update articles, profile of members, genealogy and photos to the best extent possible, based on feed back we had received from members for the earlier requests made by us and also on the data we received from members for publication in our Palathinkal Varthapathrika. We are aware that it calls for a full scale update. After going through this new site, members are requested to come forward and inform webmaster on updates still needed in profile of members, addition in generations and members, etc. Please submit them by email to isaacpal47@gmail.com along with their member identification number. We shall try to update the data once in 6 months, if possible.

Thank you all. Go ahead visiting all the pages and sub pages. Your feedback will always be welcome.

------