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.