amy davis wrote: > > if the older church records have been moved to the larger cities, would you order church records(through the lds church) from > the closest city to find your family? for example, my family is from vrbovsko, so would i order reocrds from karlovac? mr. > kurchina, are you in croatia? i was just wondering because your knowledge seems endless.... > Vrbovsko is located 53 miles WSW of Zagreb in Gorski Kotar region of Croatia and 24 miles from Karlovac. Having parish church records from one town stored in another town 24 miles distant would never have worked. Churches were allowed to keep only baptismal records and Status Animarun (i.e. Stanju Dusa (Status of Souls) - the so-called "Knjiga Dusa" - "A Book of Souls". This is a census-like document listing family memebers; i.e. a genealogical record of any one generation and lists the man and woman upon marriage and each child as born ; commented if emigrated or had died. The original church registers that were older than 1860 were sent to the 12 regional Croatian State Archives. The LDS-Mormons filmed these records at each Archive. The original records remained at the Archives. As far as I know the LDS didn't film the parish church records for Vrbovsko. no church Karlovac Archives address Drz^avni arhiv Karlovac Lj. S^estica 5 47000 Karlovac Hrvatska (Croatia) The Croatian National Archives (Hrvatski Drz^avni Arhiv) located in Zagreb is main depository of old church records for many parts of the country. You can try emailing them in English where your records might be located ? address Hrvatski drz^avni arhiv Marulicev trg 21 10000 Zagreb Hrvatska (Croatia) email : hda@arhiv.hr I am not in Croatia. But, had been in Oceanside-San Diego CA (33 years ago ?)