Parish in Vinica to Celebrate 125th Anniversary with New Book
Sunday, April 25th, 2010 Posted in Books, News, Vinica | No Comments »Bordering Croatia, in the western-most reaches of Tomislavgrad in Bosnia-Hercegovina, lies a community named Vinica. The Roman Catholic parish in the community was founded in the year 1885 to help serve the spiritual needs of the surrounding area. The year ...
Family History Research Made Easier Through Google Books
Sunday, February 14th, 2010 Posted in Books, Family History, Research Tips, Websites | No Comments »Researching and gathering material to document your Croatian family history can be a difficult task. For those who live outside of Croatia's borders, this is especially true. Let's face it, for many of us in North America the cost of ...
Fit for a Falcon: Croatian Poetry at It’s Best
Friday, January 8th, 2010 Posted in Andrija Kačić-Miošić, Books, Livno, Sinj, Songs, Ćurković | No Comments »I recently found an interesting poem on YouTube. It is of interest to me since it bears my surname. The poem, of course, has been known to me for years and is simply entitled Marko Ćurković. The poem was ...
Croatian Surname Directory Now Available Online for Free!
Friday, July 17th, 2009 Posted in Books, Places, Research Tips, Surnames, Websites | 5 Comments »I have already written a few posts regarding the three volume Hrvatski Prezimenik (Croatian Surname Directory) put together by Dr. Petar Šimunović and Franjo Maletić. It features all the surnames recorded in Croatia during the 2001 census, including where in ...
Ćurkovići in the 2001 Census
Sunday, May 10th, 2009 Posted in Books, Statistics, Ćurković | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_104" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Hrvatski Prezimenik"][/caption]Back in August 2008, I wrote about the new a three volume book set (2099 pages) release entitled Hrvatski prezimenik (Croatian Surname Directory) by Petar Šimunović. The first two volumes brings forth, in alphabetical order, ...
Ćurkovići in the 1948 Census
Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in Books, Statistics, Ćurković | No Comments »Following the heals of my last post, here is a 1948 census listing the total number of families and family members carrying the Ćurković surname in Croatia as found in the book Leksika prezimena SR Hrvatske (Lexical Surnames of the ...
And the Most Common Surname in Croatia Today is…
Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in Books, Statistics, Surnames | 3 Comments »Many of you researching your Croatian genealogy may be interested to learn that there is a new resource to help you locate the exact origin of your ancestors in Croatia. The Zagreb-based publisher, Golden Marketing, has recently released a collaborative effort ...
Whatever Happened to Jure?
Saturday, May 17th, 2008 Posted in Books, Bosiljevo | No Comments »Researching your family history is always an exciting task, but it is probably always more exciting when you find new references pertaining to members of your family in those areas you quite never expected to find them in! Such was ...
Book Review: From Distant Villages
Saturday, May 10th, 2008 Posted in Books, Websites | No Comments »The following was brought to my attention by someone who posted a link on the Croatian Genealogical Yahoo Group regarding a new book about Croatian immigrants in New Zealand. Read on...
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 ...