I've seen my great-great aunt's name, Mary (Belkovic) Bakic, written a couple of different ways in Croatian: Mara Maria AnnL7777@aol.com wrote: > I would like to request some help with understanding the pronunciation and > alternate spellings of Croatian names: > > The name is Asancaic (family originated in Perusic, Lika). > How would you pronounce this? Would it be something like: > AH-sahn-chaich with the ai sounding like "eye" in English? Or would the last > part (caic) be divided into two syllables? > > The parents of Stjepan Asancaic were Mile Asancaic and Mary Hecimovich (as > given by him for US Social Security application). > > Is Mile a form of Michael, or other name? > How is Mary written in Croatian? > > Hecimovich was given as Eckman on Stjepan death certificate, in USA, by his > youngest daughter who probably never knew her grandmother. Would Eckman be a > reasonable misinterpretation of the sound of Hecimovich? > > How would "Perusic" sound if written phonetically in English, with the stress? > > Also, does anyone have the URL for Croatia telephone directory? > > Thank you for the help. > > Ann Lamb > > Thank you for your help.

I'm also looking for Bakic family please keep in touch. Also Osiris Johnson is researching his Bakic family... his e-mail is sigh@hawaii.rr.com Check our my webpage www.home.earthlink.net/~dave9759 Dave M dave9759@earthlink.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Penny Peterson" <pennyp@thefabricator.com> To: <CROATIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 7:36 AM Subject: Re: [CROATIA-L] Names > I've seen my great-great aunt's name, Mary (Belkovic) Bakic, written a couple of > different ways in Croatian: > Mara > Maria > > > AnnL7777@aol.com wrote: > > > I would like to request some help with understanding the pronunciation and > > alternate spellings of Croatian names: > > > > The name is Asancaic (family originated in Perusic, Lika). > > How would you pronounce this? Would it be something like: > > AH-sahn-chaich with the ai sounding like "eye" in English? Or would the last > > part (caic) be divided into two syllables? > > > > The parents of Stjepan Asancaic were Mile Asancaic and Mary Hecimovich (as > > given by him for US Social Security application). > > > > Is Mile a form of Michael, or other name? > > How is Mary written in Croatian? > > > > Hecimovich was given as Eckman on Stjepan death certificate, in USA, by his > > youngest daughter who probably never knew her grandmother. Would Eckman be a > > reasonable misinterpretation of the sound of Hecimovich? > > > > How would "Perusic" sound if written phonetically in English, with the stress? > > > > Also, does anyone have the URL for Croatia telephone directory? > > > > Thank you for the help. > > > > Ann Lamb > > > > Thank you for your help. >