From Jack Lakkis to Salim Soukieh (9 Apr 2017):
I will start from my mother's grandfather Ibrahim Sakr who came to the North of Lebanon with his two brothers from the Bekaa i think.
He settled in Bterram el koura, one of his brothers settled in Tripoli and the third settled in Hamat in Batroun.
Ibrahim was a successful businessman who worked in the silk industry and established a silk production factory (it is still present but in bad condition where i will take a picture of what is remaining from that heritage and leave it for the archives).
During that period, the silk industry was flourishing and Lebanon used to export silk to all over the world. Ibrahim used to nurture the worm that used to make silk and in the factory they used to take the silk and treat it to become ready to be launched into the market. During that time, machine was not available as our days, so they needed human power.
According to my knowledge, girls and women from all the surrounding villages used to form the human power. People were poor and peasants and illiteracy used to be overwhelming.
Ibrahim had four sons who were Khalil (the eldest), Michel and Salameh my grandfather. ...
From Jack Lakkis to Salim Soukieh (after the above):
The family in Lebanon have established a union trying to make a family tree.
Based on the information i obtained, ibrahim sakr my mom's grandfather who lived in Bterram settled first in a near village called Afzdik before he married a lady from Malik family, a relative to Charled Malik. Before he came to koura, he was in Batroun with his brothers before they separated. That's why you see sakrs in Batroun. Before he and his brothers came to Batroun, they were in Byblos with their brothers where we have sakrs in byblos who came from the mountains i think Akoura or somewhere up their. Before they settled in the mountains, they came from Turbol between Zgharta and Ehden. That's what the family knows till now.
From Jack Lakkis via Salim Soukieh (24 May 2017) in Salim's words:
Basically Suad’s grandfather Ibrahim Sakr and two brothers (whose names Jack could not supply) migrated from Baalbeck to the Koura and became involved in the silk farming industry. The reasons why they left are lost in the mists of time as is knowledge of exactly which town they came from. At the moment there are three Facebook groups for Sakr family members who are trying to piece together the family tree.