Jackie: I have researched both Poland and Croatia and would weigh in that if you've done Poland, you have nothing to fear from Croatia. Croatia is much easier, in my opinion, than Poland. Good luck, Patty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie (nee Adamowicz)" <wordsmith@att.net> To: <CROATIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 4:07 AM Subject: Re: [CROATIA-L] a common practice? > 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 >