[Sergej]

Hi,

Did he come thru EllisIsland? You need to have some documents where it says from where he was. A lot of surnames have one place of origin but genealogy work is based on facts and guessing can be lethal in this trade.

The Austro-Hungarian was pretty big. I held the Banat region and Croatia at times. but Koljer sounds like a Donauschwaben name to me. Either way try to see if you can find a place on any immigration document from g.fathers or g.mothers side. Most of the time families lived and migrated together from the same place, including married family.

Any documents you have with places, postcards, letters etc?

Regards,

[Sergej]

We will soon have a service page up and running with all info on this and some other subjects. I am waiting for some info from a collegue of mine

[Sergej]

Hello Bob,

Just following up on how things are going. Did you get your letter translated?

Let me know how things are going.

Regards,

Sergej

[Sergej]

Hi there,

I found Sadilovac, and the good news is that there is a Church still there. The Serbian Orthodox Church has a presentation on the net ( In Serbian though ) but there is a map: http://www.spc.org.yu/Genocid/Gornjokarlovacka/gornjol.html

It is in the GornjoKarlovacki district. I am now trying to assertain if we need to write regarding inquiries to Belgrade of to another address.

The map shows Serbian churches and monastaries in Croatia, Sadilovac is writting in Cyrrilic as: Садиловаö

You can find it at the center bottom almost where there are two icons of two churches below each other.

Regards,

Sergej

[Sergej]

Sadilovac I can’t find, are you sure about the spelling. As for Dreznik it’s right below Zagreb in Croatia in the area that is known as Krajina. There were a lot of Serbs there before the wars broke out in the 90-ties.

Most Serbs that lived there lived there since the 1500’s. They were hired by the Austrians as border guards against the Ottomans and later the Turks. I will add this to the list and soon when all people let me know what they are searching for I will get more information for you people. I don;t know what happened with the Serbian Orthodox records during the war. And I don;t know what information might be stored inside the Croatian archives.

Can you give me the family saint of your family? If you remember, maybe you have a icon somewhere people used in the family.

Regards,

[Sergej]

Hello Grigor,

Did he migrate to some other country. Meaning him being your forefather, where do you live now and did he go to this country? If so then you should first start with looking at immigration records where you live to see what they say.

I fear that if you only have a surname and no dates nor places then it’s very difficult to do any research. Do you still have family in Bulgaria? Maybe contacting the archives in Litakovo could belong to a possibility.

Please tell me where you’ve been with your researching.

Regards,

[Sergej]

Fechters are DonauSchwaben. I think the quickest way to get info from Bela Crkva is to click on the Serbian Webring link at the frontpage and click on the link of Bela Crkva. You can email them for info they speak English.

Regards,

[Sergej]

For those of you who wish to do research in Croatia, post a reply here with only the name of place you wish to do research and the religion that is involved. Thank you.

[Sergej]

Hello Jeff,

We are at the moment gathering addressess and so on to make sure we can redirect people to the right place. We will publish them as soon as we verified them.

[Sergej]

Kotor is possible. As I said before the surname originates from the Montengrin coast and since Dalmatia and Montenegro are next to each other you may have already found info on the next step. Now you just need to see if he was born in Dalmatia or Montenegro.

[Sergej]

I will contact the Serbian Orthodox Church to see where to write to extract info from those places in Dalmatia. I will also contact the Benkovac community in Dalmatia to see what they have. So I will write you as soon as I get a reply from either of them.

Regards,

Sergej

[Sergej]

Djuro is the Serbian Latin spelling. The other ones are the English versions. Yes it is important. Serbian is a lanuage that you read like it is written and vice versa. But one letter difference makes a world of difference in the meaning and location e.g. of a name and place.

Most likely immigration records have the name spelled like Juro.

[Sergej]

FYI, doing research in Croatia, Dalmatia might be a very lengthy and hard job. Especially since some places have been hit by the war in the west. We are having contact with the Dalmatian Serb community in Benkovac so we hope soon to get more info.

[Sergej]

Hello Rado,

Do you know from what place in Kosovo they came?

[Sergej]

Anyone know about some genealogical organizations from Bosna?

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