[Sergej]

Jugoslava is right, you need to be going after birth certificates and official extracts from official sources.

As for the part about Prince Lazar I do need to put some things in perspective. First, Lazar was never a prince but a despot and the difference is rather large. Second, there are no direct descendants alive today. I have had extensive contact with the Crown Council (of which some sit in our board) in the past about issues like this. Of the medieval nobility there are no direct descendants. Also please note that Serbia has a Crown Prince, HRH Aleksandar Karadjordjevic. And that at the time your great-grandfather was alive there was strive between two families, namely Karadjordjevic and Obrenovic. Which were both contesting the throne. Subsequently, a lot of misinformation has been going around in those days. Until now there has never been any genealogical data made available that would state otherwise with regard to the Lazarevic, Brankovic or other important families.

What I do think is a feasible hypothesis in your case is that you family lived in the military zone of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It wasn't uncomon for families in service of the Empire to be rewarded with the title of count, duke or knight in an order.

Please do not waste time and money on books, or organizations that claim to represent nobility etc. Your information should come from the national archives of Serbia. You could consider becoming a member and post all other private sensitive data in our member forums which are not availible for the public.

Please note that at the Belgrade Cemetary website, there is no online data available about the names you gave: http://www.beogradskagroblja.rs  But I do not know for sure if the spelling is accurate.

 

[Sergej]

Check this page out: http://www.radixhub.com/radixhub/places/vysna_jablonka

But you should check with the Slovak society, you are now with the Serbian society. What I advice is contacting (via the Radix link) the archives in the nearest  city. You can also check with churches there. I think they also microfilmed most of it.

[Sergej]

A little bit more info would be helpful. Where do you live now, some names and dates etc.

[Sergej]

Zabzun, interesting. Not so far from the Macedonian border so I wonder if there are any connections eastwards. Anybody have experience with the Albanian archives?

[Sergej]

Here is a Google Map of Milosevac.

 

[Sergej]

Just to make sure, I assume you are not in Serbia but in the States right? Is there any chance you will be in Serbia if the above is correct?

[Sergej]

Abor,

Did they tell you anything?

[Sergej]

Oh, before I forget. The images, is there a place where they can be found online besides Imageshack? Otherwise we could host them under our galleries here?

[Sergej]

I send you a PM, let me know if you run into any trouble with the system and if you need anything changed. As you can see we have limitless options and continuiously update the website.

[Sergej]

Ok, we updated the research guide for beginners and it can be found under the Learning Center menu or via this link: http://www.rodoslovlje.com/voyager/en/content/how-do-i-begin-my-research

[Sergej]

Kufurun je turska rec za kamfor.

[Sergej]

Oh, email notification for the forums should be working again. Can you please confirm?

[Sergej]

Thank you for the list. What is the source of the image, I would like to post it in our media gallery.

If you are interested we can give you a group (special section) on this website to post the info you want. We know of Rootsweb, we stopped providing info there some time ago as well. Just FYI, no need to put your email in the posts. Your user page: http://www.rodoslovlje.com/voyager/en/user/yugaya has a built in email form.

Also, our webmaster is thinking about adding Cyrillic soon.

Sve najbolje

[Sergej]

The Urosevac archives can be found at Krusevac and Raska/Novi Pazar. You should check there and see what they have. Beware though that it will take a lot of time due to the 1999 conflict.

[Sergej]

Which years does this involve?

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