Hi everyone, I am a brand new, I have just subscribed and very keen to research my Croatian Ancestors. It is quite hard to refer to myself as Croatian because ever since I was little, my Nana always refered to the country as Yugoslavia, although the boarders had all changed and Split was now in Croatia. Anyway, I am researching the names BOZIN and BURAZIN from Croatia and am having some trouble starting. If anyone knows about parishes or registration districts I'd love some help. I don't know if these places are in Croatia because this is from pre Yugoslavia days, when it was still the Austria-Hungury Empire!! Some of the cities/towns/villages - I don't know!! I am looking for are Cisto, Imoska or maybe Emoska??? (I have a birth in 1865 apparently here! according to a naturalisation certificate Split - I know where this one is but don't know where to look for records. And Spalato - I have no idea where this is but apparently is where my great grandfather lived. So that is a start. I am also researching into 138 men from Dalmatia - old Austria-Hungary Empire again - but I think the Dalmatian region is the "Southern Slavs" from around the section on the coast where Split is - But Anyway - they were brought before the Royal Commission of Enquiry into Enemy Aliens working on the Goldfields of Western Australia. I will post a list of their names and some info about it and what I am doing very soon to see if any interesting connections come up. If anyone would like any further info you can email me privately. I hope to be involved in many discussions and hope I can help you as much I am sure you all will help me. Looking forward Kind Regards Renee Glasson Perth, Western Australia Researching Surnames: BOZIN, BURAZEN _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com

Renee Glasson wrote: > > Hi everyone, I am a brand new, I have just subscribed and very keen to > research my Croatian Ancestors. It is quite hard to refer to myself as > Croatian because ever since I was little, my Nana always refered to the > country as Yugoslavia, although the boarders had all changed and Split was > now in Croatia. > > Anyway, I am researching the names BOZIN and BURAZIN from Croatia and am > having some trouble starting. > > If anyone knows about parishes or registration districts I'd love some help. > I don't know if these places are in Croatia because this is from pre > Yugoslavia days, when it was still the Austria-Hungury Empire!! > Some of the cities/towns/villages - I don't know!! I am looking for are > Cisto, Imoska or maybe Emoska??? (I have a birth in 1865 apparently here! > according to a naturalisation certificate > Split - I know where this one is but don't know where to look for records. > And Spalato - I have no idea where this is but apparently is where my great > grandfather lived. > > So that is a start. > > I am also researching into 138 men from Dalmatia - old Austria-Hungary > Empire again - but I think the Dalmatian region is the "Southern Slavs" from > around the section on the coast where Split is - But Anyway - they were > brought before the Royal Commission of Enquiry into Enemy Aliens working on > the Goldfields of Western Australia. I will post a list of their names and > some info about it and what I am doing very soon to see if any interesting > connections come up. If anyone would like any further info you can email me > privately. > > I hope to be involved in many discussions and hope I can help you as much I > am sure you all will help me. > Looking forward > > Kind Regards > > Renee Glasson > > Perth, Western Australia > Researching Surnames: > BOZIN, BURAZEN nova djevojka (new girl), as oppossed to djevojc^ica (little girl) :-) Many Croatians emigrated to Oz early on in 19th c. Split (C) Spalato (I) has two place names, its Croatian name and the one in Italian. Expect the parish church records were also written in Italian. For over 450 years , Austria and Italy traded rule of parts the Dalmacija region of Croatia. When the Árpád dynasty (Hungarian) became extinct, the Croatians elected a Neapolitan (Napoli) prince Ladislas, king of Croatia (1409) and he sold Venice his rights to all of Dalmatia. By 1420 Venice controlled all of Dalmatia except Dubrovnik. 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 much smaller territories and new countries. Hungary became an entirely separate nation, but lost large (2/3) portions of its former territory, retaining only the 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) and later renamed Yugoslavia in 1929) In 1945 this became the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The six republics that formed the former Yugoslavia were : Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia, and Serbia. All that is left of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia now is (Yugoslavia, consisting of just Serbia and tiny Montenegro) NATO forces bombed Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The others are republics. The Croatian telephone directory list 22 surname bearers Boz^in (Bozhin) under splitsko-dalmatinska z^upanija (county) Most of the surnames were listed under Suc'urac (Kas^tel Suc'urac) which is located 1 mile from Split (town) and 158 miles south of Zagreb. Expect Cisto was Cista Provo (C) which is located 28 miles distant from Kas^tel Suc'urac. Imoska was perhaps Imotski which is located 25 miles distant from Split(town) ? Where was the surname Burazin from in Croatia ? Have you tried ? Australsko Hrvatska Rodoslovna i Povijesna Udruga Australian Croatian Genealogical and Historical Society http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hollow/6442/home/ Regards