Dave and anyone doing the Virovitica area, The BAKIC family I'm trying to trace is from 20 miles around Virovitica, or smack up on the Hungarian border and just a few miles from both Serbia and Bosnia. BAKIC is a name that shows up in the Rijeka area and in the Split and Dubrovnik areas of Croatia also. The two branches come together in my family when my uncle was working in Milwaukee and met this nice Croatian girl there, who ended up in northern Wisconsin with him, farming. As far as I know, the GRUBISIC family in the Rijeka area had no ties at all with the Virovitica area, despite a town there named Grubisno Polje. If anyone knows of that town or of Grubisic's in that area, please take the time to write. As far as I know, the BAKIC family of Virovitica did not know of the existence of Bakic's in the Rijeka area and descendants here in Wisconsin would be surprised to know other areas of Croatia had Bakic surnames. The BAKIC name I am researching is only that of the Virovitica area. The Rijeka Grubisic families, the town ones who claim not to be related to the country ones, are actually all probably related back around 1732 when the road to Zagreb opened up from the coast. The northern Grubisic family is probably related earlier than that to the Split and Dubrovnik Grubisic's, which seem to have been in that area from perhaps 1500. Gee golly, wouldn't it be nice to trace the whole bunch all the way back? In fact, I think I'm going to construct a worldwide GRUBISIC tree. If in fact, anyone reading this and laughing their heads off, does know anything at all about the family, here in the USA or in Canada, or Australia, or anyplace else, could you kindly cease the hysterics and write your cousin? We do have our own board now: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=admin.message&r=rw&p=surnames.grubisic&m=1 > Datum at a time, Ashley David Mothkovich wrote: > Ashley are your Bakic relatives from mrkoplj also? How did they meet the other > family members.. > Dave > > Ashley Tiwara wrote: > > > I set up a board for anyone who is researching the history of the > > Grubisic family or would like to exchange messages with others in the > > family. It's at Rootsweb, a free site administered by Ancestry.com. If > > you are used to using Rootsweb.com, our family board ought to be listed > > under 'surnames' and then as 'Grubisic'. If you'd like to read the > > first message posted to our board, I think you can click on the hot link > > below. If it doesn't work, paste the address into your browser window. > > > > Hoping to hear from you, > > cousin Ashley > > > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=admin.message&r=rw&p=surnames.grubisic&m=1 > > > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=admin.message&r=rw&p=surnames.grubisic&m=1 > > > > Search: Grubisic Board > > > > Boards > Surnames > Grubisic > > Grubisic > > > > Grubisic family in northern Croatia > > > > Author: Ashley Tiwara > > > > Date: 14 Oct 2001 1:54 AM GMT > > > > Surnames: GRUBISIC, PETROVIC, BLAZEVIC, TOMIC, KAUZLARIC, > > CERNICH, KRUZIC, KUCHAN, and about 70 more collateral lineages > > > > Classification: Query > > > > George GRUBISIC married Matilda PETROVIC in the town of > > Mrkopalj, near > > Riejeka, Croatia, back in 1906. They came to America separately, in > > 1907 > > and 1909. George had two brothers, Lawrence and Jack, and two > > sisters, > > Johanna and Angelina, in the midwest, but Matilda had only a cousin, > > > > Palona, in Illinois, of their large, extended families. Other family > > members > > emigrated to Canada, to Argentina, and to Australia, and maintained > > some > > contact with home. Would anyone reading this know of more relatives, > > > > perhaps in New Zealand, or in other parts of the world? Please post > > to the > > board if you are researching this family too, or suspect a > > relationship.