I ordered a Croatian dictionary from the book store and when I got it I realized it was very skimpy and meant for tourists. I also noticed that the records at the LDS are in Serbo-Croatian. Should I order a Serbo-Croatian dictionary? What is the difference between Croatian and Serbo-Croatian? Thanks! Mary Hegarty

Hello Mary, Order a Croatian dictionary. One major difference is the months of the year, ironically Serbian are based on the Latin month names, same as English, however Croatian are based on activities that take place in that month. For instance April is Travnj, trave means to grow, October is Listopad, list means leaf, guess the leaves are falling, August is Kolovoz kolo is wheel indicating something to do with harvest and wagon wheels. Also why not check out a couple of good web pages from my links list, for instance Visit Croatia has a downloadable travelers dictionary http://www.visit-croatia.co.uk/croatianfortravellers/ and there is a link to Croatian language on my list where you can actually hear how the words sound. http://www.hr/hrvatska/language/CroLang.html http://www.croatia-in-english.com/rj/index.html Also as far as reading the church records Tom Ninkovich has done an excellent job on this web page regarding how to read those records. http://www.croatia-in-english.com/gen/lesson5.html Robert Jerin Croatian Heritage Museum Cleveland, Ohio ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Hegarty" <mhegarty@cybertron.com> To: <CROATIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 11:30 AM Subject: [CROATIA-L] dictionaries > I ordered a Croatian dictionary from the book store and when I got it I > realized it was very skimpy and meant for tourists. I also noticed that the > records at the LDS are in Serbo-Croatian. Should I order a Serbo-Croatian > dictionary? What is the difference between Croatian and Serbo-Croatian? > Thanks! > Mary Hegarty >