This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TS.2ADE/669.1 Message Board Post: FRANELICH is a very good Americanization of this... Croatian surname! The Croatian sp is FRANELIC, which sounds like frrahnalich. The root is the male given name Frane (frrahnay, which means Frank) the IC ending is typical of many Croatian surnames and means son of. Many Croatians from the Dalmatian region are known to have immigrated to the Gulf area, Mobile, New Orleans beginning in the 1840-1850s. Robert Jerin Croatian Heritage Museum Cleveland Ohio