> > > >I thoght these names and places could as easily be Croatian and > > >forwarded them to the Croatia list. > > Ashley >> >>******************************************************************************* >> >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/353 >> >@rootsweb.com >> > >> >Hello, >> >I am new to this list and am trying to research my paternal side of the >> >family. My grandfather was John Guntner b. Sept 9, 1911 in Ulianik, >> >Slovoninja. He was the son of Joseph Guntner b. April 28, 1878 >>in Sokolovac, >> >Slovoninja and Juliana Hegyi b. June 9, 1879 Korenica, >>Slovoninja. They were >> >married March 6, 1902 in Daruvar, Slovoninja. From the little bit of >> >information that I have I was told that Joseph worked/owned a grist mill. >> >They did come to America around 1903 and stayed for a few years and had at >> >least one child in New York in 1905. They then returned to Slonvonija for >> >several more years and returned to the US in 1913 (Joseph) and >>1914 (Juliana >> >& children). This family lived in Chicago in 1917 where a daughter Sophie >> >was born and then moved to Florida in Westville. Any help deeply >>appreciated. >> >Kindest regards, > > >Denise Guntner Talbot >********************************************************************************* >The response quoted below is from the listmaster at Croatia-L > >Since I don't believe this query actually refers to the Republic of >Slovenia (Slovenija) will reply here. > >Recently replied to another reseacher's ? query below. > >Daruvar is located 61 miles ESE of Zagreb and 10 miles north of Pakrac >in Bjelovar z^upnija (county), Croatia. > >You give no dates for the surnames. [ the previous query ] > > >Were you looking for the Daruvar above , or for the other Daruvár ? > >Darowa was latter's German place name identifier. >Formerly Daruvár, Krassó-Szörény megye, in the Bánát region of Hungary; >also called Kranichstätten, now Darova, Timis, Romania and located 227 >miles WNW of Bucharest. >This is across the Croatian border and across the Serbian border and >near Timisoara in Romania. > >Village Names: > > German: Darowa, Kranichstätten > Official: Darova > Hungarian: Daruvár > Spelling and/or dialect variants: > >Location: > > Country: Romania > 15km SW of Lugosch > Postal Code: 1826 > Railroad station: Boldur > >Population: > > 1977: 1806 > 1930: 1917 (98.3% Germans) > 1910: 1500 (95.6% Germans) > >Genealogical Records: > > Village name in FHL records: Kranichstätten, Daruvár > Church records available at FHL: Christenings 1786-1835 only, > Marriages 1786-1835, Deaths 1786-1835 > FHL Microfilm Nr. 1190378 > >Daruvár, Krassó-Szörény megye, Hungary, also called Kranichstätten, now >Darova, Timis, Romania. >Donauschwaben (German) > >http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/ESE/dschwaben.html >-----------------------------------------*********************************************************** >My reply to this query is more difficult. >Günther is a German surname. > >Ulianik is located 52 miles ESE of Zagreb. >On a map, Ulianik appears to form apex of a triangle with Daruvar and >Pakrac, so Daruvar located in Croatia seems to be correct place name. >(61 miles ESE of Zagreb and 10 miles north of Pakrac) > >LDS-Mormons filmed the R.C. parish church records (1791-1921) >for Daruvar, Slavonia, Austria; later Daruvár, (Poz^ega) Pozsega Megye >(county), Hungary; now Daruvar, Croatia. >Text in Latin and Croatian. > >film # >1419050 >1419051 >1921762 >1921763 >2061737 >2061738 >. >. >etc >(16 films total) > > >A Sokolovac Daruvarski is located 52 miles ESE of Zagreb and 4 miles >from Ulianik. >Korenica is probably Titova Korenica located 74 miles SSW of Zagreb >in Zadar region and near the current Bosnia & Herzegovina border. > >There is also another Sokolovac located 40 miles ENE of Zagreb and >a third Sokolovac is located 135 miles east of Zagreb. > >Slavonia (E), as in Croatia-Slavonia was called Slavonija (C) and >Szlavónia (H) > >Before WW I there was no country called Slovenia (Slovenija) because >it was part of the Austrian provinces. > >In 1920, 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 was renamed Yugoslavia on Oct. 4, 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. --