Croats from Bachka (Bačka)

Croats from Bachka (Bačka)

At the bordering area between Hungary and what is today known as Serbian Vojvodina (part of the Republic of Serbia), a region named Bachka (Bačka)…

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Wolf in Croatian surnames

Wolf in Croatian family names

Of all Croatian surnames that originate from words denoting various spiecies of the animal kingdom, probably the most frequent are those with the word “vuk”…

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Genealogical software for Croatian Genealogy

Genealogy software that supports Croatian letters

One of the most convenient ways to gather and organize data about our ancestry is to put the data in the computer format, so that…

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Croatian State Archive

Places to look for vital records

As a devoted genealogist that keeps looking for data about his or her Croatian ancestors, it is sooner or later inevitable to realize that probably…

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Lećevica Vital Records

Lećevica records available only in the local parish

We have an important piece of information for genealogists who seek to find ancestry from the village of Lećevica near Split. Most of vital records…

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Croatian book about genealogy

The new book “Facing the Riddle of Family Tree”

“Facing the Riddle of Family Tree”, a brand new how-to book on Croatian genealogy was officially introduced on Tuesday, November 13th at the presentation organized…

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Turks in Croatian Surnames

How Turks ended up in Croatian Surnames

There are quite a few surnames among Croats that are motivated by the word for Turkish nation (Croatian: Turci). Reasons are of a historical nature:…

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