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/669.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Most likely they came straight from Croatia to America! Reason being is that beginning in the 1500s Croatia recognized the Austrian Monarchy as leaders of Croatia, later Croatia would be a Kingdom with in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This confuses many looking for their family history. Robert Jerin