I take great pride and have a consuming interest in my partially Croatian roots. My grandmother, Anna Srsen was born and raised in Grude in the Dalmation region of Croatia. She was a kind, compassionate and deeply loving woman of peasant origin and strength. In the United States, she married Elias E. Morsut, ethnically a Furlan from northern Italy. Till their death in the 1950s and 1960s, they lived in the Bronx borough of New York City. They had eight children: Elias Jr., Angelo, Luke, Edward, Charles, Mark, Ann and Madeline. I am thew son of Elias Jr., and one of many grandchildren Ann and Elias had. And I would be be interested in communicating with anyone who has any knowledge of the Srsen family in Grude. Robert K. Morsut, 541 Willow Way, Lindenhurst, Illinois, USA. --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals.

Bob Morsut wrote: > > I take great pride and have a consuming interest in my partially Croatian roots. My grandmother, Anna Srsen was born and raised in Grude in the Dalmation region of Croatia. She was a kind, compassionate and deeply loving woman of peasant origin and strength. In the United States, she married Elias E. Morsut, ethnically a Furlan from northern Italy. Till their death in the 1950s and 1960s, they lived in the Bronx borough of New York City. They had eight children: Elias Jr., Angelo, Luke, Edward, Charles, Mark, Ann and Madeline. I am thew son of Elias Jr., and one of many grandchildren Ann and Elias had. And I would be be interested in communicating with anyone who has any knowledge of the Srsen family in Grude. > > Robert K. Morsut, 541 Willow Way, Lindenhurst, Illinois, USA. For over 450 years , Austria and Italy traded rule of parts the Dalmacija region of Croatia. When the Árpád dynasty (Hungarian) became extinct, the Croatians elected a Neapolitan (Napoli) prince Ladislas, king of Croatia (1409) and he sold Venice his rights to all of Dalmatia. By 1420 Venice controlled all of Dalmatia except Dubrovnik. The Republic of Venice ceased to exist in 1797. Gruda/Grudi is located 256 miles SSE of Zagreb in the Dubrovnik (Gruz) region of Dalmacija. The surname Srs^en is associated with Gruda. The first Srsen surname bearer goes back to the 15th century. Today, the Croatian telephone directory lists 170 surname Srs^en bearers under Dubrovnik and only 1 surname Srs^en under Gruda.