Natalie, I recall you mentioned family in Istria... we have some Istrianci in Cleveland and an Istrian Club... I know SUGAR family and at least one other person but can not recall her name right now... I've got to quit using that aluminum cookware :) Robert Natalie Prodan <prodan@alltel.net> wrote: THANK YOU! I am so truly very greatful for the advice. I have forwarded it onto my father and his brothers. :) They are most happy. If there is any way great or small that I or my family can help you in return please do not even hesitate to contact us! Yours truly, Natalie Prodan On Apr 8, 2007, at 6:29 PM, Robert Jerin wrote: Natalie, Here is the name and contact info for a Croatian Attorney here in Cleveland Katica Markulin, Attorney At Law 18975 Villaview Road Cleveland, OH 44114 Tel.216.531.5898 Fax.216.531.5824 Contact: Katica Markulin Also the link below is for a man (who in recent years immigrated from Slavonija) and is married to a woman (can't recall her first name but her maiden name is Oroz) who is an attorney CROATICA Fine Wine Imports 935 Addison Road Cleveland, OH 44103 Contact person: Jure Mijic-Barisic, Vice President Tel. / Fax. 216-391-4228 Website: none E-mail:croaticaimports@hotmail.com Or maybe someone at the Embassy or one of the Consulate offices of The Republic of Croatia may be able to help. I would believe they should know something about these situtations considering the size of our Croatian community here. Robert ------------------------------- 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 learn about my October 2007 Heritage and History tour of Croatia http://www.croatia-in-english.com/rj/jerin2007.pdf

Hello List, Does any one have the following books, or know where to purchase them, they seem very interesting. 1)Genealogical catalog of eighteenth century Slavonian families by Ive Mazuran 2) Stanovnistvo Vukovara i Vukorvarskoga Kraja by Alica Wertheimer-Baletic I have contacted Alica Wertheimer-Baletic, but not yet heard from her. Thank You Kurt The following information is Found in Grant Karcich's website the Croatian Genealogy Newsletter http://www.durham.net/facts/crogen/ ======================================== Stanovnistvo Vukovara i Vukorvarskoga Kraja (The population of Vukovar and the Vukovar region) by Alica Wertheimer-Baletic, published, Zagreb Nakladni Zavod Globus, 1993. 239 pages. ========================================= This book covers the region around Vukovar in the extreme eastern part of Croatia which borders on the Danube River. The list of the towns covered; Bapska, Berak, Bobota, Boksic, Bogdanovci, Borovo, Brsadin, Catovci, Celjia, Grabovo, Ilok, Klisa, Lipovaca, Lovas, Ludvinci, Miklusevic, Mohovo, Negoslavci, Opatovac, Pacetin, Petrovci, Sarengrad, Sotin, Svinjarevic, Tompojevci, Tovarnik, Trpinja, Vera and Vukovar. The text is in Croatian and its genealogical importance lies in the detail it provides of the population structure and ethnic composition of the region. The book is useful for determining a town’s ethnic majority and the language of the genealogical records for that community. The ethnic mix for the region of Vukovar includes Croatian, Serb, Hungarian, Slovak, German, and Rusyns. Maps show the distribution of ethnic groups in 1948 and in 1991. The genealogical catalog of eighteenth century Slavonian families by Ive Mažuran entitled Stanovnistvo i Vlastelinstva u Slavoniji 1736. godine i njihova ekonomska podloga (Inhabitants and property holdings in Slavonia in 1736 and their economic basis) is a good companion volume to this book for identifying surnames and individuals in the Vukovar region. Slightly under half of the population in this region of Slavonia is Croatian. The area north of the city of Vukovar and north of the Vuka River is predominately Serb, including the towns of Vera, Ludvinci, Trpinja, Borovo, Pacetin, Lipovaca and Brsadin. The eastern end of the region containing the towns of Ilok, Bapska, Lovas, Sarengrad, Tovarnik have a Croatian majority. The central part of the region is more ethnically mixed with the town of Cakovci is primarily Hungarian and the towns of Petrovci and Miklusevci have a Rusyn majority. The Rusyns, alternatively known as Ruthenes in English and as Rusini in Croatian originally inhabited the area of the Eastern Carpathian Mountains but later Rusyns migrated to Slavonia during the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Some consider the language of the Rusyns separate from other Slavic languages to which it is related, while others consider the language a dialect of Ukrainian or Slovak. The city of Vukovar and the region sustained one of the heaviest military engagements following the break-up of Yugoslavia. Many residences were displaced during the war and Stanovnistvo Vukovara i Vukovarskoga Kraja deals with this period in a separate chapter covering 1991 and 1992. Stanovništvo Vukovara i Vukorvarskoga Kraja contains a large number of graphs and tables outlining the population structure of the region. Comparisons are drawn between the city of Vukovar and its hinterland, and the growth of the city is illustrated with using statistical data. Population figures are provided for every decade from 1857 to 1991 for every major town. Ethnic settlements as percentage of the population are presented for 1910 and 1921. --------------------------------- Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users.