Your welcome. The more we share the more we learn. His information is so helpful to many of us. The gentleman running this web page has just spent the past 6 months in Croatia and given me one of the biggest gifts I could ever ask for, he went personally to see the priest I had previous dealings with and took digital pictures from the books held at the church and even went out to the village my parents came from and took pictures of the grave stones of the names Im interested in. Alot of information I already had bar one family line and now and some other things that the priest had not previously mentioned. My tree is growing. So Im busy now importing and checking off my information. Good luck in your search. Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie (nee Adamowicz)" <wordsmith@att.net> To: <CROATIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 8:29 PM Subject: Re: [CROATIA-L] a common practice? > At 06:19 AM 5/15/2002, you wrote: > >If you go to this web page and read under inheritance customs and under > >Domazet it will give you an explanation on this. > > Excellent information...thank you, Mary! > > Jackie > > > Researching: > ~~~~~~~Poland~~~~~~~ > ADAMOWICZ - BANASZEK - BURDA > CHOJNACKI / HOJNACKI > MIKULSKI / MIKOLSKY > CIEBIEN~ - MAZIK - KROL / KRUL > ~~~~~~~Croatia~~~~~~~ > OCVIRAK / OCVIRK - SNEPERGER > >

At 06:40 AM 5/15/2002, you wrote: >My tree is growing. So Im busy now importing and checking off my information. My family is both Polish and Croation and it's the Croatian research that intimidates me most. It is the smallest part of my heritage and so the one I have the least information about. My grandmother (whose father and mother both emigrated -- separately before they were married) insists her father came through Ellis Island but I can find no record of him anywhere. It's very frustrating. He was the only of his family to emigrate, too...so there is no one to ask. He did have twin sisters in Croatia -- I found their names listed in his obit. So I'm taking it a slow step at a time. I think the first thing I'm going to do is order the LDS microfilms for the villages I "think" they came from and attempt to find some reference of their names. I'm also thinking of sending a "could we be related" letter to a couple individuals I found listed in those same villages with the same surname (after I find someone who can help translate for me.) Thanks again for the URL. This should help a lot! Best, Jackie Researching: ~~~~~~~Poland~~~~~~~ ADAMOWICZ - BANASZEK - BURDA CHOJNACKI / HOJNACKI MIKULSKI / MIKOLSKY CIEBIEN~ - MAZIK - KROL / KRUL ~~~~~~~Croatia~~~~~~~ OCVIRAK / OCVIRK - SNEPERGER