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    1. [CROATIA-L] Re: Serbian surname in Croatia
    2. My cousin was recently on a peacekeeping mission with the UN in Kosovo. He was told that our family's surname of SUDZUKOVIC (americanized to Suzukovich) was Serbian, not Croatian. Our ggrandparents were married in the Serbian Orthodox Church of Chicago around 1913. On the 1920 census, they listed Austria as place of birth, and Croatian as language. And of course, as the borders changed over the next few years, so did the country they named as place of birth on legal documents, until around 1927, when it seemed to be Jugoslavia, until they died. My ggrandmother's surname appeard as KORACH and KORCH. All documents that I have found that give a city as a place of birth, name KULA. In a few, it names KULA LIKA. I have hired a researcher who said there are many places called KULA and sorry, he had been looking in the wrong areas, and quite honestly confused me terribly with his explanations of where he looked and where he was going to look. I sent a few questions for clarification and asked for the costs of other research, but I have not heard back from him for months.He may just be very busy, but now I would like to try researching more myself. If they were Serbian, does anyone know of a place called KULA, where I might order an LDS film and search for them? I have just started ordering any Jewish films, 2 at a time, looking for them. So far there were no names ending in "vich/vic", mostly "stein". For me, this is like looking for a needle in a haystack. But I know if I don't keep looking, I will never find their family. I have Jeka Korach's passenger list (1913), but not Steven Suzukovich (1908/1910). I fear they really messed up the spelling of his surname because I have tried many Soundex variations of his name and still no luck with the passenger list indexes. I would appreciate any help on finding a new area in Croatia/Austria to start a new search. Thank you, Diane

    04/29/2002 06:13:16