John, Does your mother know any Butkovic folks from Lika? edie ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Stefanac" <jmstefanac@hotmail.com> To: <croatia@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 5:24 PM Subject: Re: [CROATIA] about those eggs > Hi Vicky, > > Would be good if you could share some more details about your family. I am > sure my mother would know Butkovic if your grandfather was from Mrkopalj > and > Sunger is only a kilometre or so away. > > Your snake story made me laugh. Reminds of some of the things my mother > would make us all do. Whenever there is a new moon she would quickly find > some money and show the moon money saying that we will have money in the > house and the other one was make us all get down on the floor on our backs > and roll back and forth the first time thunder was heard in the new year. > She said we would be free of back pain for a whole year. > > Crazy mums :) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Vicky Malin" <vsmalin@msn.com> > To: <croatia@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 12:50 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 >> > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >