Documentary Film – Život na jezeru (Life on the Lake)
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 Posted in Buško Blato, Films, Video Recordings | No Comments »A 30 minute documentary film about Buško Jezero, entitled Život na jezeru (Life on the Lake), aired this past Saturday on HRT1. The documentary talked about the history of the area and what life used to be like before the ...
Analysing the Manifests at Ellis Island
Saturday, March 21st, 2009 Posted in Arbanasi, Aržano, Buško Blato, Cikojević/Cikoja, Ellis Island, Kazaginac, Krušvar, Kupres, Kurtovina, Migrations, Sinj, Vinica, Zadar, Zemunik, Ćurković, Škojo | 3 Comments »The picture of Ellis Island you see before you was taken by me during a fall trip to New York in 2005. This image was quite possibly among the first images immigrants saw upon their arrival to America between the ...
The Ćurković Families of Bosnia-Hercegovina
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 Posted in Banja Luka, Bosansko Grahovo, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Bugojno, Buško Blato, Duvno, Glamoč, Jajce, Kakanj, Kupres, Kurtovina, Livno, Nuglašica, Sarajevo, Travnik, Vinica, Ćurković | No Comments »Back in November 2007 my official foray into the world of blogs began when I wrote my first ever post featuring a listing of places in Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina where Ćurković families could be found. My list was never meant ...
Holy Branches in the Family Tree?
Monday, March 24th, 2008 Posted in Books, Buško Blato, Catholic Church, Family History, Kurtovina, Livno, Ćurković | 1 Comment »Back in the summer of 2005, the Ćurković family and the entire village of Kurtovina celebrated as Drago Ćurković officially entered the priesthood, serving his first full mass at the local parish church in Rašeljke. The Ćurković family had never really ...
Buskoblato.org Back Online!
Saturday, February 9th, 2008 Posted in Buško Blato, Family Tree, Imotski, Surnames, Websites | No Comments »After three months on hiatus, I'm proud to announce that my other website project, buskoblato.org, is back online! Former users of the website will notice that the website has changed drastically (and hopefully for the better). Some will miss the old ...
Šilobadović’s Chronicles
Saturday, January 5th, 2008 Posted in Books, Buško Blato, Candian War, Duvno, Pave Šilobadović, Viennese War | 2 Comments »One of the more interesting books I have recently found online is a collection of works from 1888 entitled Jugoslavenska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, Knjiga XX (Yugoslavian Academy of Science and Arts, Volume 20). Personally, I found it somewhat strange ...
Christmas Feast Days
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 Posted in Buško Blato, Christmas, Feast Days, Traditions | 1 Comment »The two days immediately following Christmas are often special days among Croatians from the Buško Blato area. They are Stipendan (December 26th) and Ivendan (December 27th), imendani or feast days in honour of St. Stephen and St. John the Apostle. ...
Christmas in Buško Blato
Monday, December 24th, 2007 Posted in Buško Blato, Christmas, Traditions | 1 Comment »Christmas traditions among Croatians vary from village to village, region to region and are a testament to the diversity and cultural richness of the nation. Such is the case with Badnjak. Badnjak is the Croatian term for Christmas Eve. The ...
Behind the Name of Buško Blato
Saturday, December 15th, 2007 Posted in Buško Blato, Legends | No Comments »The story on how Buško Blato got it's name is an interesting one since it is often tied to the arrival of the Croats in present day Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina during the 7th century. According to the legend, Buško Blato was ...
Ćurkovići, Ćurkovići Everywhere
Sunday, November 4th, 2007 Posted in Arbanasi, Bitelić, Buško Blato, Duvno, Krušvar, Nuglašica, Perušić-Benkovački, Sinj, Ćurković | 2 Comments »It's amazing to see the number of Ćurković families today living in the diaspora, far away from the so-called "motherland". Countries such as Canada, the United States, Argentina, Chile, Germany, France, the UK and Japan are just a few of ...