Ashley, I think we did exchange some correspondence a while back, but I don't think we made any connections so far. It's interesting to see all the names in your list - a great many I remember growing up in Appanoose County coal country-Vidas, Golic,Starcevich, Blazevichs, Tadavich, Kruzich, Kuchan, Padavich, Budeselich.....Maybe we just haven't hit the right twig on the family tree yet. >From: Ashley Tiwara <grubisicx@sbcglobal.net> >Reply-To: croatia@rootsweb.com >To: croatia@rootsweb.com >Subject: [CROATIA] Butkovic or Butkovich family from Mrkopalj,and many >other names >Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 15:36:58 -0700 (PDT) > >Vicki and others > >I am especially interested in the BUTKOVIC connection in Mrkopalj but I >do also have some stray PADEVIC names, I think in Canada. Do I >remember writing several years ago to you, Vicky, for a while, trying >to connect up? > >It was at least one e - mail address back and probably two or three >hard drive crashes ago and just tonight I am not going to take time to >find the stored files. Please remind me, anyone who is interested. I >did do some work last summer especially on various more distant family >branches. > >Sretan Uskers, >Ashley > Researching GRUBISIC / PETROVICH with associated KAUZLARIC, TOMIC, >CERNICH, and BLAZEVIC, KRUZIC, KUCHAN families from Sunger and >Mrkopalj, also BUJAN, FRANCISKO / FRANCISKOVIC, DOMJANCIC / DOMIJANCIC, > BONITA / BUNETA, GRENKO, VIDAS, TADEJ, ISKRA, SPOLAR / SPERER, >BLAZKOVIC, KOVACIC, TADEVIC, SUSIC, PERISIC, PADAVIC. STARCEVIC, GECAN, >BROZKOVIC, BROZOVIC, BUTKOVIC, KOOS, VIDAC, MANSE, GOLIK, from towns >near Rijeka like Hreljn and Brestova Draga, and the Schaeffer, SAFER >family from the eastern border of Croatia with Hungary >--- Vicky Malin <vsmalin@msn.com> wrote: > > > 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