Vicky, My Croatian grandmother Kate Ilic was from Gospic, Lika, Croatia. Her mother was a Butkovic, and I assume from Gospic also. Maybe we're cousins? Where is Mrkopalj? Is is in Lika? Edith "Edie" Sando ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vicky Malin" <vsmalin@msn.com> To: <croatia@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 9:50 AM Subject: Re: [CROATIA] about those eggs > We will dye the eggs this evening also. They will be served with green > onions on Easter Sunday as grandma always said that "If you eat green > onions > on Easter Sunday morning, you won't see a snake all year!" I'm not sure > it > really works that way, but we've always done it and it gets a laugh! > My grandfather, Butkovich was from Mrkopalj and Grandma was a Padovic from > Sunger. I'm always looking for "cousins" to connect. > Vicky Malin > > >>From: "John Stefanac" <jmstefanac@hotmail.com> >>Reply-To: croatia@rootsweb.com >>To: <croatia@rootsweb.com> >>Subject: Re: [CROATIA] about those eggs >>Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 20:33:35 +0800 >> >>Just came back from painting the Easter Eggs. Like Ashley, I grew up >>painting the eggs on Saturday evening. Here in Singapore it is Saturday >>evening now so we keep that tradition alive in our family. >> >>And Ashley, try as we might, we still haven't been able to find a >>connection >>between my mother also from Mrkopalj and your family. >> >>Sretan Uskrs >> >>John >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Ashley Tiwara" <grubisicx@sbcglobal.net> >>To: <CROATIA-L@rootsweb.com> >>Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 9:06 AM >>Subject: [CROATIA] about those eggs >> >> >> > Somehow, Grandma and I always ended up dying the Uskers eggs on >> > Saturday, probably about the same time the zeludac was boiling. She's >> > much on my mind tonight as I bought the zeludac ingredients this >> > afternoon and then got home too tired to mix it up. Late years I've >> > been sewing muslin bags to boil it in, as it's very hard to find pig >> > intestines without a lot of driving, and the muslin is actually easier >> > to stuff since I make them 3 or 4 inches across. >> > >> > Grandma was a PETROVICH and BLAZEVICH from Sunger / Merkopalj, in the >> > hills above Rijeka. Grandpa was a GRUBISIC / TOMICH from the same >> > small village. Anybody out there who might be a cousin? >> > >> > Sretan Uskers, >> > Ashley >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > CROATIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > >> >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>CROATIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>quotes >>in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CROATIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >