Branko, The LDS Church microfilmed records in Udine that are in the 1800s. I am not an expert and have looked at only 3 rolls from this area. They happened to be the most informative records I have come across as they were Austrian military records complete with birth and parent information. You might try looking up the index available at a LDS Family Home Center for you ancestral surnames and see if such films will help. By the way, have you come across a town in the Udine area called Tyrol? Dick Puz

PUZEXPRESS@aol.com wrote: > > Branko, > > The LDS Church microfilmed records in Udine that are in the 1800s. I am not > an expert and have looked at only 3 rolls from this area. They happened to > be the most informative records I have come across as they were Austrian > military records complete with birth and parent information. You might try > looking up the index available at a LDS Family Home Center for you ancestral > surnames and see if such films will help. > > By the way, have you come across a town in the Udine area called Tyrol? > > Dick Puz For over 450 years , Austria and Italy traded rule of parts the Dalmacija region of Croatia. In 1409 the Croatians elected a Neapolitan prince Ladislas, king of Croatia and he sold Venice his rights to all of Dalmatia. By 1420 Venice controlled all of Dalmatia except Dubrovnik. Napoleon I signed a peace treaty with Austria in 1797. Whereby Austria ceded to France its holdings in Belgium and along the Rhine River in return for Istria, Venetia, and Dalmatia, which had belonged to Venice. The Republic of Venice ceased to exist. Austria's acquisitions along the Adriatic Sea were short-lived. After Napoleon's campaign of 1805, another peace treaty required Austria to surrender all the lands it had acquired from Venice to a newly created French dependency called the Kingdom of Italy. After another French victory in 1809 , Napoleon forced Austria to cede part of Carinthia and Croatia south of the Sava River, which together with Istria and Dalmatia were formed into the Illyrian Provinces attached directly to France. This Illyrian territory existed 1809-1813. The French entered the city-republic of Dubrovnik in 1806 and in 1807 incorporated it into the Illyrian Provinces. After the fall of Napoleon, Austria regained all those territories that it had held prior to the Napoleonic era , as well as those they had held and lost between 1805 and 1809, plus Dubrovnik. 1867-1918 Istria was part of of Austria under the dual Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. 1918-1947 Istria was part of Italy, not Croatia or Yugoslavia. Following the First World War, new borders for Austro-Hungarian Monarchy were set by the Treaties of Saint Germain-en-Laye (September 10, 1919) and Trianon (June 4, 1920). As a result, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was utterly transformed into smaller territories and new countries. Hungary became an entirely separate nation, but lost large portions of its territories as well, retaining only core Hungarian-speaking areas. A new country of Yugoslavia was also formed including the former Austro-Hungarian lands of the southern portion of the Banat, the southern portion of the Batschka, Bosnia-Hercegovina, the southern portion of the duchy of Carinthia (Slovenia), most of the of duchy of Carniola, Croatia-Slavonia, the kingdom of Dalmatia, the southern portion of Swabian Turkey, the southern portion of duchy of Styria, and Syrmia. (The Kingdom of Serbs,Croats and Slovenes was established on Dec. 1, 1918) renamed Yugoslavia on October 4, 1929. It existed as such until 1941 and as a Communist state (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) from 1945 to 1991. The six republics that formed the former Yugoslavia were : Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia, and Serbia. Following WW 1, Italy took for itself the southwestern portion of duchy of Carniola, the county of Gorizia-Gradisca, the margraviate of Istria, the town of Trieste, the southern portion of the county of Tyrol, city of Zadar /Zara (formerly part of the Kingdom of Dalmatia), and the islands of Cherso/Ceres, Lusino/Los^inj, and Lagosta/Lastovo. [Trieste (I) Trst (C/Sl) Triest (G)] In 1926, Trieste, Istria, southwestern Carniola, and northern Dalmatia was divided into the districts of Trieste, Rijeka/Fiume, and Pula/Pola by Italy. The 1947 (WW 2) peace treaty recognized Yugoslavia's acquisition of the former Italian territory. This included Dalmatian city of Zadar/Zara and the islands of Cres/Cherso, Los^inj/Lusino, and Lastovo/Lagosta, as well as former city of Rijeka/Fiume and, farther north, western Slovenia and part of Istria. Because of the Italian connection there are more Italian surnames in Istria than in any other part of Croatia. More Slavic surnames begin with the initial letter K than other letters. Italian has no letter K and uses the letter C instead. [letter 'C' (before e/i) is pron. as phonetic ch letter 'C' (before a/o/u) is pron. as phonetic k] Today Trieste is not part of Istria nor of Croatia, but of Italy. In 1947, the Free Territory of Trieste was created . Zone A (city of Trieste) was administered by Anglo-American forces and Zone B by the Yugoslavs. In 1954, the Free Territory of Trieste was abolished. Zone B was given to former Yugoslavia and Zone A was given to Italy. Udine (I) Videm (Slovene) Venedig (G) is located 43 miles distant from Trieste (I) The Austrian military Kirchenbucher (church books) microfilms won't help unless a surname had served in the Austrian Army at one of Udine military garrisons. Tyrol (E/G) Tirolo (I) was an Austrian province (1867-1918) The Tirolo Archives are located at Innsbruck, Austria.