Errands

Update 14 September 2026. Received and forwarded by DAPA, and Jasna Vlahović asks for the same completed request form as for Svetvinčenat — applicant's details, delivery address, and billing details including an OIB. Not submitted: personal data.

Sent 14 September 2026 from David's own account (thread 1a09e084997ce730). Awaiting a reply.

Sent 14 September 2026 from David's own account (thread 1a09e086d2d5d827). Awaiting a reply.

Sent 14 September 2026 from David's own account (thread 1a09e089168a2187). Awaiting a reply.

Update 14 September 2026. Zadar has replied and asks for their request form, saying they will attach the original email to it. Same pattern as Pazin. Not submitted — personal data.

Sent 14 September 2026 from David's own account (thread 1a09e08b4e206bd2). Awaiting a reply.

How it got there. The text sent on 13 September went into the site's general contact box — it arrived at documentation@ as a Kontaktanfrage, and on the morning of the 17th they sent it back: «We would like to ask you to submit your request via the online form.» Nothing had been searched and nothing refused; it was simply the wrong door. The inquiry form at arolsen-archives.org/en/search-explore/inquiries/submit-inquiry/ is the one that opens a case, and that is where it went in the same day.

What the case actually contains is one person, not five. The form takes up to five named people; the submission carries Ivan Defranceski alone, fully documented — born 25 June 1925 at Crikvenica, Brunnenstraße 7 in Pfullingen, parents and wife named, and the four Online Archive records already found for him given by link:

· 2.1.3.1 — Iwan, 24.06.1925, birthplace written «Gricivenica» — person/70823303 · 2.2.2.1 War Time Card File — JVAN, 25.06.1925 — person/71930658 · 2.3.3.1 — IWAN, 25.06.1925 — person/77422349 · 2.3.3.1 — JWAN, 24.06.1925 — person/77422350

Hedviga Blažević is in it by name but not as a listed person — she is named as his wife and the request for 1948–1951 asks for her IRO file in the same breath. Uršula Kovačina, Anton Rudolf, and Petar's CM/1 file are not in this case at all. They are the next inquiry, and the two references to quote are already written down: CM/1 3.2.1.1, ref 32110000 058.158 and T/D 349.822, ref 06030302.0.349.822.

What was asked. The wartime card itself, and any IRO registration, screening, counselling or rejection file for Ivan or Hedviga in the French occupation zone — Württemberg-Hohenzollern, Kreis Reutlingen, Pfullingen — for 1948–1951.

Why that window and not another. The family's testimony is that Ivan and Hedviga left in 1948 meaning not to come back; their son was born at Senj on 17 December 1951, which puts them home by about March 1951. A failed exit leaves nothing in a Croatian register. If it survives anywhere, it survives at Bad Arolsen.

Expect months, not weeks. Their own acknowledgement says processing may take several months, and the form's banner warns of up to thirteen.

The same request covers Car — the surname the family remembers as «Carr», which on this coast is far more likely to be the Croatian Car.

Answered 12 September 2026 by the hotel itself. Almost nothing survives from the Therapia years — no guest books, no personnel records, no programmes — and the present owners had already searched for the same material when they took the hotel over. They do not know where it went. The hotel is eliminated; the museum and the Novi list archive are not.

Update 14 September 2026. Zadar has replied and asks for their request form, saying they will attach the original email to it. Same pattern as Pazin. Not submitted — personal data.

Sent 14 September 2026 from David's own account (thread 1a09e08deda5627e). Awaiting a reply.

The prize is Julius: born 1879, in service from 1 July 1898, k. u. k. Kriegsmarine, still on the active list in July 1918. If he is a Fiume or Bakar man, his sheet says so, and the Kvarner households acquire their first documented officer.

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Answered on 17 September 2026, and the answer splits the six men in two. The Direktion des Kriegsarchivs replies under Geschäftszahl 2026-0.769.907, signed by the Archivdirektor at Vienna on 16 September, and heads the letter «Marinepersonensuche Julis Defranceschi (\1879) und Valentin Defranceschi (im Dienst 1854–1856)»* — the two sailors, and only the two sailors.

For the navy men they offer a paid search. €45 per started half-hour, the first half-hour free; they estimate an hour, so €45. The fee is payable whether or not anything is found — they say so in their own sentence, and it is the sentence that matters. Results are consulted in person in the Forschersaal at Nottendorfer Gasse 2–4, or sent as scans; only digital reproductions are made, for conservation, and up to €40 of reproduction costs are taken as agreed unless refused in advance. Acceptance is by e-mail to ka@oesta.gv.at, after which they send a costing with bank details. This is David's to accept or decline; nothing here commits him.

For the four land-forces men they offer nothing — and that is the useful half. Theodor, Alois, Eduard and Dr Cäsar Peschle are waved at the Kriegsarchiv's own «Forschungstipps (FAQ)», which they say lists all already-digitised holdings for self-study. Read plainly: the army material this archive wants may already be online and free, and nobody here has looked. That is now a work-list item rather than an errand.

One question the letter does not answer is the one the enquiry led with — whether Eduard, cadet 1859 and Unterleutnant 1863, is one man or two. It asks for a fee before saying.

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20 September: the catalogue answers the bill. The ÖStA's own free field search — archivinformationssystem.at/feldsuche.aspx, no account, no fee — was run for the first time and returns 99 records on the stem, 53 of them this name. Two of them decide this errand.

Do not buy a search for Valentin. He is catalogued to the item: AT-OeStA/KA Marine NMA PA Offiziere und Beamte Akten QL 944 — DEFRANCESCHI, Valentin, Administrations-Assistent, a naval Qualifikationsliste, marked «Permission required: Keine · Accessibility: Öffentlich». The right request is the one in their own FAQ — «Ich möchte digitale Reproduktionen von Archivalien bestellen» — quoting the signature. A file you can cite is a retrieval, not a research fee.

And Julius is very probably not there to find. He is absent from the catalogue, and the Kriegsarchiv's own navy page explains it: personnel records of men born after 1865 whose Heimatzuständigkeit lay outside today's Austria «verblieben in den jeweiligen Nachfolgestaaten bzw. wurden dorthin abgetreten». Julius was born in 1879 on the Kvarner. His Qualifikationsliste went to Yugoslavia at the dissolution — which means Zagreb or Belgrade, not Vienna. The €45 is payable whether or not anything is found.

So the reply to ka@oesta.gv.at writes itself, and it is cheaper than the quote: decline the Marinepersonensuche, order a reproduction of QL 944, and ask them to confirm in one line whether anything for a man born 1879 with Fiume/Bakar Heimatzuständigkeit could still be in Vienna before any fee is incurred. Quote GZ 2026-0.769.907.

Sent 14 September 2026 from David's own account (thread 1a09e0a6aed7b204). Awaiting a reply.

Now waiting on a decision, not on Vienna. €45 for the navy search on Julius and Valentin, plus up to €40 of scans, payable win or lose. If it is taken up, the reply goes to ka@oesta.gv.at quoting the Geschäftszahl 2026-0.769.907.

Revised 20 September. Ask for: a digital reproduction of AT-OeStA/KA Marine NMA PA Offiziere und Beamte Akten QL 944 (DEFRANCESCHI, Valentin); a one-line confirmation of whether any k.u.k. navy personnel file for a man born 1879 with Kvarner Heimatzuständigkeit remains in Vienna, before the research fee is incurred; and — separately, because it is a different department and not covered by the navy quote — AVA Justiz JM Präs. A 134.22 (Carl Dragutin Defranceschi, b. 29.7.1883 Zara, judge at Šibenik) and HHStA Ordenskanzlei 1918, Geschäftszahl 1732/1918 (Peter Defranceschi, Ritterkreuz mit Kriegsdekoration).

These eight are the ones worth a human opening. They are the issues where the name appears three or more times in a single issue, which for a four- or eight-page paper means a story about the family rather than a passing mention in a list.

The first is the prize. Journal des Österreichischen Lloyd, 7 September 1848, published at Trieste and Vienna — nine occurrences in four pages. The Lloyd's journal carried shipping movements and port and quarantine notices, and 1848 is the year Ferencz Defranceschi was running the quarantine station at Martinšćica.

These carry the family's own spelling, which no search of the Austrian press had ever used before 14 September 2026. Three groups matter.

The casualty lists are new ground entirely — this archive has never looked at a First World War casualty list in any form, and here is the name in two of them a week apart in the war's first December.

The edict run is the interesting one. Wiener Zeitung on 21, 24 and 29 December 1872, and the Laibacher Zeitung on 3, 6 and 11 March 1875, is the publication rhythm of an official legal notice, not of news. Somebody of this name was the subject of court or estate process in Carniola across a decade.

And the Wagna camp's own newspaper is a different record from the intake lists the archive already holds.

And three more, for a different family. Maria née Fernasar is the mother of our own fourth generation and her surname has never been placed. It appears in exactly three issues of the Austrian press, and two of them are casualty lists that print forename, rank, regiment and home parish: · Il Giornaletto di Pola, 8 December 1914 · Nachrichten über Verwundete und Verletzte, 14 December 1914 · Verlustliste, 6 May 1916 If a Fernasar of Gračišće is in either list, her family acquires a place and a generation in one line.

«Državni arhiv u Pazinu ima knjigu vjenčanih 1581-1589, 1622-1623, a knjige vjenčanih 1588-1674 i 1674-1762 imamo u digitalnom obliku.»

Pazin holds the marriage book of 1581–1589 and 1622–1623 physically, and those of 1588–1674 and 1674–1762 already digitised. That covers the 1628 baptism this archive found at Svetvinčenat and the year 1679, and marriage acts name fathers.

Next step, and it needs David. Copies are issued only against DAPA's request form, which must carry his name, a delivery address and billing details (naziv uplatitelja, adresu i OIB). Guidance: https://www.dapa.hr/postupak-izdavanja-preslika-koje-podatke-navesti/ — 15 days if the form is complete, 30 by law otherwise. The form has not been filled in: it is personal data and it is his to give.

If the answer to the first is no, that is the answer this archive needs, and it will be published as such.

Four indexed records resolve into one household: Matteo Persich, born 1829, son of Antonio Persich and Teresa Martecchini, married Marietta (Maria) Defranceschi, daughter of Pietro Defranceschi, and their children were baptised at Dubrovnik in 1853, 1863 and 1871.

Marietta is the only Defranceschi here whose existence is certain, and she is documented entirely through her husband and her children. Her father is a name on one flattened index row and nothing else. Who he was, when he came, and whether he was one of a family or alone in the city, is completely unknown.

Update 14 September 2026 — the address is now known. The Commonwealth Gazette of 16 February 1979 lists both of them at 19 Anderson Street, Horsham 3400, granted certificates of Australian citizenship on 21 July 1978. Give PROV that address with the request; it is also the last documented sighting of Zdravko alive, seventeen months before the 22 December 1979 on his headstone — which makes the 1999 in the family file and the MyHeritage tree very hard to sustain.

Mione (twelve files, 420 images): one marriage — Osvaldo × Appolonia, 1808 — plus a new generation (Matteo, through the daughter Orsola, 1809), a priest of the surname in 1785, and a godfather in 1789. Four of the twelve turned out to be covering letters, not allegati.

The other fourteen files (296 images): no De Franceschi at all — but three Istrian documents: Cittanova and Verteneglio 1806, Capodistria 1807, San Lorenzo near Pirano 1807.

Since then, the Mione registers themselves. The whole death series 1806–1815 has been read, and the marriage tables for 1813 and 1814. Finds: Anna de Franceschi dead at forty-four in 1815, her husband Paolo alive and signing in 1812, Osvaldo signing twice at Muina in 1814, and «Erman de' Franceschi» shown to be one name and not two families.

What remains open: Matrimoni 1812 and 1815 and the six Nati volumes — the acts these allegati support, which would date the 1809 Cramaro marriage and might name Orsola's mother Maddalena's family. And the Pieve di Gorto baptismal books at Luincis, which every one of these extracts was copied out of.

Next, in order: the banns for 1806, 1808, 1809, 1810 and 1813 (fifty-five images, arks an_ua667544–667550) · Matrimoni 1812 (an_ua667521), which should hold the Zanelli × Roder act · Ovaro's Matrimoni 1815, which should hold Felice Santo's marriage · and the Nati volumes, which are still not located.

The 1425 urbar has been read, and it closes a line rather than opening one. The fief's villages are Zrenj, Čepić, Šalež, Nugla, Grimalda, Crnica, Sočerga and Kodolje — not Šterna and not Sovinjak, which are the two places this family is actually documented in. The surname occurs in the article only as citations of Carlo and Camillo De Franceschi, the historians, caught disagreeing with one another in print.

Still to read: the Buzetski zbornik article, which is about the fief's villages specifically and may reach further south.

Mione's Napoleonic registers run 1806 to 1815 for marriages, banns and deaths. The Nati run four volumes and stop — 1806, 1808, 1809, 1810. Anyone born to these households between 1811 and 1815 is in the Gorto baptismal register or nowhere.

And 1807 is missing from every Mione series — though not from Ovaro, whose marriages run 1806 to 1815 unbroken. It is not missing from the year: the marriage index for 1806–1810 records «Prencis Valentina con Defranceschi Osualdo — di Mione — 6 Agosto 1807». A wedding whose act is not in the archive. Gorto would have the church record of the same marriage — and it is worth trying the Ovaro 1807 allegati (an_ua679993) first, which costs nothing.

Before 1806 there is no civil registration at all. Paolo the carpenter, Osvaldo fa legname, Francesco the tailor, Matteo the shoemaker and Felice Santo the weaver were all born before the French arrived. Their baptisms are at Gorto, and so is the generation above them — which is the generation that would meet the 1679 weavers' list.

The family has stood in this churchyard and photographed the stones. What has never been asked for is the register inside.

(a) baptisms 1811–1815, to close the gap the civil registers leave · (b) the marriage of Osvaldo Defranceschi and Valentina Prencis, 6 August 1807, whose Mione civil volume is lost · (c) baptisms about 1780–1795 for Paolo, Osvaldo, Francesco, Matteo and Felice Santo.

David and Ivan both return L-M27 — on two different companies' chips — and it is a South Asian lineage that does not appear in the Croatian reference sample at all and shows up five times in six thousand Italians. Ivan is 99.9% European autosomally with 0.0% of anything else. The haplogroup has no autosomal corroboration whatsoever.

Father and son agreeing proves only that they are father and son. It cannot distinguish between a De Franceschi male line that has carried L-M27 since before the surname existed, and a non-paternal event anywhere in the last two hundred years — at Klenovica, at Crikvenica, at Gračišće, at Gologorica, at Mione.

One test on a second male line settles it, and nothing else will. — If another documented male-line De Franceschi is also L-M27, the lineage is the surname's and the two lines' common ancestor carried it. — If he is not, the break lies between him and David, and the registers say exactly where the two lines part.

23andMe's DNA Relatives runs to its 1,500-match cap and contains no living match of the surname. The father's side clusters instead on Croatian littoral surnames — Miškulin, Vrkljan, Katalinić, Prpić-forms, Serich. There is no shortcut through the match lists; it has to be asked for.

(a) Antonio DeFranceschi of Gallignana (1856–1924) — the Eleven. His sons Antonio, Giuseppe, Gioacchino, Basilio, Rotilio, Pasquale, Nicefaro and Daniele went to New York, Tuscany and Brooklyn, and the 2012 Crystal Springs reunion album names their descendants. This is the best-documented second line and the one to ask first.

(b) the Crikvenica and Klenovica households — Ivan De Franceschi's line, and the Klenovica house 22 family.

(c) the Gologorica pedigree — any surviving male line off the Gologorica book.

What is needed is only the paternal haplogroup, not a whole kit. A cousin who has already tested at 23andMe or MyHeritage can read it off his own account in a minute; nobody needs to buy anything.

FamilySearch's Crikvenica films stop at Rođeni 1896, cut at the hundred-year line as it stood when they were made, so every one of those five births falls after the end of the only collection the archive can reach for free. The supplementary collection does not stop there. This is the single most overdue book in the archive: five baptisms, one reel, and the parents named on every one of them.

The archive already wanted two other books from the same collection — the twentieth-century Status animarum (ZM-34J/251, M-5976), which is a household census that would give the whole family on one page, and marriages 1909–1947 (the same ZM-34J/362). All three should go in one request.

Ruža's 1996 death is not yet in the open index (Victoria releases deaths at thirty years), so it has to wait until 2026–27.

The index alone will not do it. A search of the free index returns a name, a year and a registration number; the parents are on the certificate, which has to be bought. This is an application, not a search — and the archive could not drive the search form from either of its browsers in any case.

It cannot be crawled out. MyHeritage blocks a POST to a local receiver and the browser tool channel truncates at about a thousand characters, which is ten people per call — eighty calls for the names alone and more for the citations. A GEDCOM is one click and one file.

It is also what caught the Horsham branch missing in the first place: David looked at his own tree and asked why the archive did not have his cousin's sister.

Cosulich is a Lussinpiccolo and Trieste shipowning house. If Emerico is a master or a mate, his occupation on this certificate joins this marriage to the Lloyd's List work directly. £12.50 and a fortnight, ordered online from the GRO with the volume and page above — no personal data of David's is needed beyond a delivery address.

Found 16 September 2026 in the Findmypast sweep.

Giovanni was born in 1895 and naturalised in 1937, so he arrived somewhere in between — and if the town is in the Val Degano or the Vinodol this is not a namesake at all. The same document exists for Antonio of Memphis, born 1875 in Italy and arrived 1902, and is worth ordering in the same letter.

Found 16 September 2026 in the Findmypast sweep.

The archive already holds the family's own copies of ITS D-1.505 and knows the tracing case T/D 349.822. It did not have this reference. Arolsen publishes its collections online without an account and answers enquiries free.

Found 17 September 2026, counting the seventy-nine records nobody had counted.

What is on the missing reel:

· Francisca's baptism, 3 February 1819, of Gračišće house 5 — the house of Giovanni Battista Defranceschi, the farmer of the direct line's second generation. She married into Gologorica house 6 in 1840 and the census records her born a Defranceschi out of house 5. If the baptism names her parents, it joins the Gologorica line to the direct line by marriage — and if it does not, the join is withdrawn.

· Francisca Salomon's baptism, 17 March 1797, which would name her parents and test whether the «Maria vidua Salamon» who stood godmother here on 26 November 1807 is her mother. The Salomon line has no register entry of its own.

· The Gračišće births of the direct line's own generations after 1807, including Antonio the stonecutter, born 20 September 1825.

And the book gives mothers' maiden surnames as a matter of course — the Matres column is written «Maria olim Zelich», «Maria Milotich olim Tirol» — so this one reel would answer the married-in question for the whole parish, not just for this family.

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⭐ 6 October 2026 — AND THERE IS NO ONLINE ROUTE. This was tested twice, three weeks apart, by two different methods.

David asked whether Gračišće could be reached on FamilySearch instead of by letter. It cannot.

· 15 September, all 3,488 FamilySearch collections walked — 44 opened, «Austria, Catholic Church Records» and «Hungary, Civil Registration» tested by name against a control: «Gračišće, Gologorica and Pićan are filmed nowhere at all.»

· 22 September, independently, [the Record Atlas's](../Record Atlas) harvest of FamilySearch's open browse endpoint — 1,733 collections, 4.25 million volumes: 0 hits for Gračišće, Gallignana or Gracisce.

⭐ And the shape of the gap is the argument for writing. «Croatia, Church Books, 1516–1994» holds Pazin, Krbune, Tinjan, Svetvinčenat, Barban, Vodnjan, Ližnjan, Poreč, Rovinj, Labin, Buzet — Istria is well covered. The parishes it omits are Gračišće, Gologorica, Cerovlje, Pićan and Lindar: precisely the parishes on the DAPA ZM34K reels. FamilySearch never filmed this series. DAPA holds it and nobody else published it — which is why a reel this family already buys from one source is the only way to the rest of the book.

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⭐ 7 October 2026 — what a full sweep of the reel's own half adds to this request. The Pater column of the filmed portion was read across thirty-six consecutive frames, M01070190–M01070226 — 1783 to May 1808, roughly nine hundred baptisms — and there is not one Defranceschi father in it. ⚠ Corrected 9 October: that father-column nil is real, but the Patrini column of the same frames was never read, and it holds about twenty Defranceschi, almost all entered «Cives». So the family WAS at Gračišće — as townspeople, continuously from at least 1791 — and simply had no child baptised there before 1808. So the missing reel is not merely where two baptisms sit — it is where the family's ARRIVAL at Gračišće should become visible*, and that is worth saying to the archive if a reason is ever asked for.

(Precision for the letter: the last written page M01070226 is headed «Annus 1807» but its entries run on to «18 Maij» 1808.)*

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⭐⭐ 11 October 2026 — the 1862 Gologorica census confirms Francisca from the other end, and sharpens what to ask for. Swept end to end, it enters «Francisca ux. n. Defranceschi» with a birth of 3 February 1819 — the date already in this request — and adds a death of 8 February 1892, a marriage of 25 February 1840, and an Adnotatio reading «Gallignanensis». Her husband is «Defranceschi Antonius» (1814–1893), whose own Adnotatio reads «Ex Italia (Carnia)» and whose household carries the byname «Osvaldo».

So the Gračišće bride and the Carnian husband are one household, and both halves are now dated. That is worth saying in the letter: the baptism being asked for is of a woman whose marriage, death and parish of origin are all independently attested, which makes her easy for an archivist to find and hard to confuse with a namesake.

A copy of DAPA microfilm ZM34K-216, or of the portion of it carrying Matična knjiga rođenih, Župa Gračišće after 1807 (frames M01070239–M01070310). The family already holds ZM34K-214 and ZM34K-215 from the same series, so this is the next reel in a set the archive has already supplied once — worth saying in the letter.

⚠ 7 October — a FOURTH entry is wanted and the draft was missing it. «Joanna uxor nata Defranceschi», born 25 June 1818, came to Gologorica «Ex Parochia Gallignanæ sub N.ᵒ 4» on her marriage of 13 February 1843 — established on 30 September and re-read from the census this week. Her baptism is on the same missing reel and would name her father. She is now in the draft.

> «Segue libro nuovo · Vol. IV»

So Volume IV exists, the parish said so, and it is on neither reel this family owns.

⭐ IT CLOSES THE LAST OPEN DEATH-YEAR COLLISION. Worklist 177 carried four; three are now closed — the burial register took two and a census took the third. The fourth cannot be closed by any book on these reels: «Antonius Defranceschi», born 3 February 1855, is given 1913 by a baptism-register margin and 1918 by the family tree. A death in 1913 or 1918 is in Vol. IV and nowhere else.

⭐⭐ AND IT WOULD TURN A DOZEN CENSUS DATES INTO BURIAL ENTRIES. The 1862 status animarum, swept end to end on 11 October, carries deaths in its Obitus column that this archive has from no register at all:*

Every one of those is a census clerk's note, not a burial entry. Vol. IV would give the day, the age, the cause and the officiating priest for the whole group — and this archive's standing rule is that a burial entry is first-hand where a margin and a tree are not.

⚠ What is NOT wanted from it: an Aloysius Defranceschi dying 25 November 1870. That date is a marriage, not a death, and the confusion is now filed.

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⭐ 11 October 2026 — a PARTIAL substitute exists, and it narrows the ask rather than cancelling it. The 1894 status animarum carries an «EXTREMA UNCTIO» register (M01069740): last rites by year — 1907, 1908, 1909 — each entry with a house, a hamlet and a full date of birth. Extreme unction is given at the point of death, so those three years are partly covered without Vol. IV. ⚠ No Defranceschi is among its twenty-three entries, and it stops at 1909. The request stands: the deaths this errand lists run from 1881 to 1917, and all but three of those years are untouched by it.

A copy or scan of the Gologorica death register that follows the 1784–1880 volume (signatura 5.2) — its shelf reference, and whether it is filmed on a ZM34K reel the family could buy as it bought ZM34K-214 and ZM34K-215.

If a whole reel is not available, the entries wanted are the deaths of the surname Defranceschi / De Franceschi at Gologorica from January 1880 onward, and specifically a Antonius Defranceschi, born 3 February 1855, who died about 1913 or 1918.

House 5 is the direct line and its status animarum is already read. House 4 is not held at all — so of the two houses that were marrying each other across the hill, this archive can see one.

⭐ And the 1862 Gologorica census has since confirmed Francisca from the other end. Swept end to end on 11 October: «Francisca ux. n. Defranceschi», born 3 February 1819, died 8 February 1892, married 25 February 1840, Adnotatio «Gallignanensis» — wife of «Defranceschi Antonius», whose own Adnotatio reads «Ex Italia (Carnia)» and whose household carries the byname «Osvaldo». A Defranceschi who married a Defranceschi, out of Gračišće.

What house 4 would settle: whether Joanna and Francisca were cousins — which the worklist has asked since 7 October — and whether the two houses are one family split across two doors or two families that married. ⚠ The baptisms that would name their fathers are on ZM34K-216, which is a separate request; this one asks for the household book, which gives the house entire.

A copy of the Gračišće status animarum pages for house 4, from microfilm ZM34K-217 — the reel from which the family already received frame M01072071 (house 5) in June 2021. Naming a daughter Joanna, born 25 June 1818, who married out to Gologorica on 13 February 1843.

⭐ Why now. As of 11 October 2026 the family's two reels are read end to end — the Gologorica baptisms, its deaths, all four status animarum, Cerovlje and both Gračišće baptism books. There is nothing substantial left on them. Everything the archive now wants is off-reel, and it is all held at Pazin.

What the letter would settle, in one line each:

⚠ It also says what is NOT wanted, which keeps an archivist from hunting a ghost: an Aloysius Defranceschi dying 25 November 1870 does not exist — that date is his wedding.

⚠ A partial substitute for part 2 has since turned up — the 1894 book carries an «Extrema unctio» register for 1907–1909 — but it covers three years of a thirty-seven-year gap and holds no Defranceschi, so the request stands.

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⭐⭐⭐ 11 October 2026 — A FOURTH REQUEST, and it may be the most valuable of them. Looking for one woman's father, this archive checked where the Gologorica marriage register is. The two reels hold exactly one, inside the composite at M01068953–M01069007: «Notatio Personarum Matrimonio junctarum a 1ᵐᵃ Julij 1770», running to February 1788. There is no Gologorica marriage register after February 1788 on either reel — a hundred and thirty years of marriages off-film, and this archive had not recorded the gap.

⚠ It is not abstract. Nearly every marriage date found this week came from a Matrimonii column in a census, never from a marriage entry — Aloysius × Joanna 1870, Franciscus × Clotilda 1859, Leonardus 1871 and 1883, Ruža's three, Beatrix 1887, Clotildis Adelaidis 1890, Rosalia × Bubić 1869. A census gives the DATE of a marriage; a marriage entry gives the PARENTS of both parties. That is what this archive keeps running out of.

⚠ 11 October, later — a partial substitute exists for requests 2 and 4 both, and it argues for the letter rather than against it. The baptism register's margins carry death crosses running to 1954 and «Extr. za ženidbu» notes dating marriage certificates. They are annotations, not entries: a death cross gives a date and no cause, age, house or officiant; a marriage extract dates the certificate, not the wedding, and names neither spouse. They are enough to show what the missing books would hold, and not enough to replace them.

⚠ Verify DAPA's current address and request form on dapa.hr before sending — this page carries references, not addresses. ⚠ Jasna Vlahović has previously asked for a completed request form with applicant details and an OIB for billing (errand 1); expect the same here.

⚠⚠ NOT SENT. Under the standing hold — no letter goes until David lifts it.