Robert you seem to be a God's gift to a woman lucky enough to have you around. Not questioning your veracity though, when do you then find time for your passion of history and genealogy? And to Ashley: Not all immigrants came from places lacking schools. US was quite enriched by the arrival of many, many Fuzinarci and Fuzinarke. And Fuzine, or Fuzina as called by its natives, celebrated several years ago the 200years of their school. To Karen: yes as Robert mentioned for many others, they came from Fuzina joining their brothers, friends and cousins. Tatjana
Tatjana and others, One of the most fascinating things about research on the internet is what you turn up by chance. My grandmother left school when she was about 10 for family reasons. She told me she'd gone to school in Mrkopalj for three years. Some time ago I looked up the Mrkopalj school on the internet. There's a web site at least in part in English. To my amazement, I learned that it was a free school and was established around 1785. That's more than two hundred years of educating the children of the Mrkopalj valley. Ever since then, looking at ships' manifests, I pity the poor emigrants who come from other areas, probably especially along the Hungarian border, who didn't have such opportunities and have to tell the clerk recording the details of their passage, ' No, I can't read or write in Croatian, or Austrian, or English, either. ' Both my Mrkopalj valley grandparents had the advantage of some schooling when they left Croatia to make their way in a new land. It helps to be able to read. Ashley ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [CROATIA-L] Girls and boys Robert you seem to be a God's gift to a woman lucky enough to have you around. Not questioning your veracity though, when do you then find time for your passion of history and genealogy? And to Ashley: Not all immigrants came from places lacking schools. US was quite enriched by the arrival of many, many Fuzinarci and Fuzinarke. And Fuzine, or Fuzina as called by its natives, celebrated several years ago the 200years of their school. To Karen: yes as Robert mentioned for many others, they came from Fuzina joining their brothers, friends and cousins. Tatjana