Rodoslovlje
Letter to the Archives
This documents allows you to write a letter to the archives of Serbia with your request for information. The template is in…
2003 Edition My Heritage
SGS NEWS
A few new points have been proposed out to improve the site’s services for members. These are:
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Porodično stablo
Kreirali smo na srpskom porodićno stablo na pdf format….
Board meeting 2008
Last month a board meeting was organized in Belgrade in which the full board of directors was present to discuss the many…
SGS Members
This section is for members only. Most content here is premium content that is not accessible for the public. In most cases…
How to start
How to start your genealogical research When you decided to start with your genealogical research the challenge begins. The genealogical world is…
The origin of surnames
Just as in the vast majority of other European countries the majority of Serbian surnames are patronymic. This means that the surname Jovanovic would be derived from one of the ancestors with the name of Jovan. In some very rare cases you can see the metronymic naming, but this is very rare.
The way surnames originated can be diplayed on the following way:
Patronymic; naming after one of the ancestors,
Occupational; naming after ones profession e.g. Strugar,
Geographical; being named after a geographic location,
Descriptive; being named after a special physical feature inside ones family,
Anecdotal; being named after a particular event in ones live,
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Access to the Archive Materials: Belgrade
The users of the archive materials can be classify into two groups, according to purpose: those who investigate archive materials, that is…
Glossary of Turkish word used during the Ottoman period
Ağa Chief; master; head servant of a household Akritai Byzantine frontier troops Acâriz extra-ordinary taxes levied on the reâyâ in times of…
The house of Vlastimorić; Early Serbian family history 6th-10th centuries
The house of Vlastimorić
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