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Heavenly music and "little stars" (Advent Calendar: Christmas Music)
I've often wondered what Christmases were like for my great-grandmother as a child growing up in what is today northern Croatia. What were the traditions of the season in her home and village when she was a six-year-old girl in 1890? I know that Chri...
Childhood memories of a Croatian winter\'s night (Advent Calendar: Holiday Parties)
Marija Bango wrote a charming children's book entitled Kralj Drave (King of the Drava) about the lives of two young sisters growing up near the Drava River in the village of Legrad in what is now northern Croatia. Marija was born in the village in 19...
Međimurje: Meeting place of rivers and cultures
This article originally appeared here at 100 Years in America on April 27, 2008. I've reposted it here in honor of Geography Awareness Week. It is also one of my favorite contributions to the Carnival of Genealogy, whose participants (including mys...
Wordless Wednesday: Cemetery in Legrad, Croatia
Photographs of the evangelical cemetery in Legrad (evangeličkog groblja u Legradu) thanks to Z.G. ...
Ilona's emigration: The one hundred year anniversary
Exactly one hundred years ago today a twenty-four-year-old young mother and her two-year-old son boarded the S.S. Carmania in the port of Fiume, Hungary (now Trieste, Italy). A segment of the S.S. Carmania list of passengers departing Fiume, Hungary ...
Ferencz Ujlaki and the trip he didn't take: Part 2
If you read Ferencz Ujlaki and the trip he didn't take: Part 1 you know that I had some work to do in order to solve the mystery of my great-grandfather's appearance on the passenger list for the ship S.S. Kroonland which departed Antwerp on April 2,...
Ferencz Ujlaki and the trip he didn't take: Part 1
Ferencz Ujlaki, New York City, New York. Sepia photographic print.Circa 1909-1910. Privately held by Lisa, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,]. 2009.As the family story goes, my great-grandfather hurried to leave his homeland and his young wife to begin a new...
Remembering Mother Magdalena: 1860-1957
The Bridge~ Dorothy Hilliard MoffattThe way I walk I see my mother walking,The feet secure and firm upon the ground.The way I talk I hear my daughter talkingAnd hear my mother's echo in the sound.The way she thought I find myself now thinking,The ge...
Međimurje: Meeting place of rivers and cultures
The land of Croatia is a crossroads. It has been since recorded history and will probably always remain so. Just look at its profile on a map: the crescent-shaped country looks as if it had been pressed at the center and pushed toward western Europe ...
A thousand words and a few pictures
They say, "A picture is worth a thousand words..."I say: "Possibly even more when the words you'd like to read are written in a language that you can't easily understand!"Years ago I learned about Dr. Dragutin Feletar's book about the history of Legr...
Happy Easter from Croatia
An Easter gift for you and me: photos of Legrad's beautiful Catholic Church decorated for the most important holy-day of the year!Thanks very much to Zlatko Gres for taking and sharing these pictures. What a glorious place to visit after this Holy We...
If only a church could tell stories
Legrad, Croatia's Holy Trinity Catholic church has seen many days in the lives of my ancestors. Marriages, baptisms, funerals, Masses... so very many since the day it was built around 1780. If only its walls could speak. Thankfully, the parish prie...
Where was your family in 1908?
It was a banner year for the Wright Brothers and their flying "aeroplane". It was the year that Henry Ford's Model T went into production and the year that General Motors was founded. 1908 saw the race to the North Pole, the automobile race from Ne...
Childhood memories of a Croatian winter's night
Marija Bango wrote a charming children's book entitled Kralj Drave (King of the Drava) about the lives of two young sisters growing up in the village of Legrad in what is now northern Croatia. Marija was born in the village in 1917 and became friends...
Heavenly music and "little stars"
I've often wondered what Christmases were like for my great-grandmother as a child growing up in what is today northern Croatia. What were the traditions of the season in her home and village when she was a six-year-old girl in 1890? I know that Chri...
