Katherine, My great-grandparents were Chors. They came from Bribir Premora (Premora means by the water) I grew up in Anaconda, Montana. I am just on my way out of town and won't be back home until Monday night. Next week, I will gather my notes and genealogy sheets and let you know what I have. This is great and I am excited. Where do you live? Sharon wren@mstar2.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Frank Kurchina <frankur@worldnet.att.net> To: <CROATIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 6:51 PM Subject: Re: [CROATIA-L] Re: Grandfather from Bribir > > > Katherine Douglass wrote: > > > > My father was born in Bribir - (not sure which one) Ivan Cor, son of Mirko > > Cor and Dragutina Pozarich. Is anyone researching these names? The Cor > > name was changed here in the US to Chor. I know of a huge Chor Croatian > > population in Montana and believe that there are cousins there. But I think > > I may have to work a little harder to connect. If anyone has any info would > > love to hear from you. > > Katherine. > > Don't know your surnames. > > The Croatian telephone directory lists under Rijeka's county : > > 87 surname C^or including 14 surnames listed under Bribir. > > 15 surname Poz^aric' including 3 surnames listed under Bribir. > > Two Croatian characters (letters) " c " employ diacritic-accent > marks (i.e. caret, caron, hac^ek, or strés^ica) > Croatia formalized their alphabet about 1850 with the introduction > of a diacritical system. > Just two of its diacritical letters are described below. > v > c pronounced as " ch " in English word ch-urch. > > c' pronounced as " ch " in English word ch-eap. > > The angular c' is used when c is the last letter in a Croatian surname. > > > ---------- > > >From: Frank Kurchina <frankur@att.net> > > >To: CROATIA-L@rootsweb.com > > >Subject: [CROATIA-L] Re: Grandfather from Bribir > > >Date: Tue, Aug 14, 2001, 12:32 AM > > > > > > > > There are two Bribir located in Croatia. > > > > > > Bribir located 74 miles SW of Zagreb in the Rijeka region. > > > > > > Bribir located 130 miles south of Zagreb in the S^ibenik region. > > > > > > The Croatian telephone directory lists 14 surnames Strizic' under Bribir > > > and Rijeka. > > > > >