Thomas Edlund is the gentleman who organised the filming of Croatia http://feefhs.org/fij/fij-tom1.html http://feefhs.org/cro/frg-hr.html if you email the LDS Sylvie is the one more than likely to reply to your email. I'd say she looks after Eastern Europe from what I remember her telling ME which does include Croatia but perhaps she specialises in Slovakia. If you email either one they will reply to your emails. Sylvie will also send you out a pamplet on Croatian genealogy if you ask her. I was also told by Mr Edlund that all filming had ceased in Croatia and that they had no plans on doing any more at this stage. Regards Mary -----Original Message----- From: amy davis [mailto:amy@syndromedist.com] Sent: Monday, 4 March 2002 3:13 PM To: CROATIA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [CROATIA-L] LDS question hi! when i called and asked for sylvie, they told me that sylvie handles slovakia, not croatia. my understanding is that thomas edlund handles the croatian area. Frank Kurchina wrote: > Tania & John Mahoney wrote: > > > > Hi Paul > > > > This lady Sylvie has helped me with the film numbers for Korcula. I think > > she is the international person re films at the LDS church head office . > > > > Her email is attached also the family search site is www.familysearch.org > > and on this you can put in a place and it will give you film numbers. They > > have recently added new films that are not online last time I looked, they > > are the ones I got from Sylvie. > > > > Hope this helps. > > > > Regards Tania Mahoney (nee Matulovich) > > PysnakovaSx@ldschurch.org > > Yes. > > There is also a International desk 800 number for LDS HQ in Salt Lake > City UT USA. > > You can ask Sylvie Pysnaková where the LDS microfilm numbers for Marija > Bistrica might be located ? > >From US a toll free number 1-800-453-3860, extension 2881. > > => (1707-1920) <= > Metrical books (births, marriages, deaths, status animarum) for the > Roman Catholic congregation at Marija Bistrica, Zágráb megye, Hungary; > now Marija Bistrica, Croatia. > Text in Latin and Croatian. > (under 10 microfilm numbers in the FHL catalog) > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Paul F. Kisak" <kki@visuallink.com> > > To: <CROATIA-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 12:21 PM > > Subject: [CROATIA-L] LDS question > > > > Hello Frank, > > > > Do you or anybody else have any idea > > where I could go to have the best chance of > > finding these LDS records. > > > > Can you check on line for locations that carry the films numbers? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Paul > > > > The LDS filmed the R.C. parish church records (1707-1920) > > for Marija Bistrica, Zágráb, Hungary; now Marija Bistrica, > > Croatia. > > (Marija Bistrica is located 16 miles NNE of Zagreb (city) > > Text in Latin and Croatian. > > > > film # > > 1536611-1536615 > > 1922158-1922163

I met Thomas Edlund at the FEEFHS conference, where he did one of the two presentations on Croatia. He indicated in that presentation that LDS responds to pressure in the sense of choosing projects for filming. If the Croatian genealogists assembled and lobbied LDS for anything in particular, the Croatian genealogists might possibly get it. How about filming the records of the Austrian navy? You think Austria didn't have a navy because it was and is a landlocked state? Remember who controlled Croatia during the 19th century and you will know where the Austrian navy came from. With many of the officers and men being Croatian, I think the meticulous records kept by the Austrian government of their service personnel would provide us genealogists with huge amounts of information about our naval ancestors. How about this list starts discussing what records we'd really love to have access to without travelling to Austria or Croatia to get them, and discuss then the lobbying effort needed to get LDS to provide those records? Modestly, but pleased with my late night brilliance, Ashley >Thomas Edlund is the gentleman who organised the filming of Croatia >http://feefhs.org/fij/fij-tom1.html http://feefhs.org/cro/frg-hr.html if you >email the LDS Sylvie is the one more than likely to reply to your email. I'd >say she looks after Eastern Europe from what I remember her telling ME which >does include Croatia but perhaps she specialises in Slovakia. If you email >either one they will reply to your emails. Sylvie will also send you out a >pamplet on Croatian genealogy if you ask her. > >I was also told by Mr Edlund that all filming had ceased in Croatia and that >they had no plans on doing any more at this stage. > >Regards >Mary > --