4 indexed marriages · Klenovica, in the Vinodol
Kalanj
A family that married into our own direct line.
Anna Kalanj, born 3 January 1864, married Josip Defranceschi — the generation that left Istria. She came from the valley directly above Crikvenica and did not move far.
What is held
- Four marriages of the name into this family in the index.
- Two households: Josip × Ana Kalanj at Ledenice 1890–92, and at Crikvenica 1894–96 — the same couple, recorded in two parishes.
Searched beyond the parish books
Not yet searched in the Hungarian material — and it should be. The Vinodol was in Modruš-Fiume county, Hungarian crown land, which is precisely the jurisdiction whose records this archive only opened on 13 September 2026.
Where to look next
Hungaricana for the surname; the Vinodol parish books at Rijeka. Ledenice and Crikvenica are eight kilometres apart and the family used both.
The jurisdiction this family sits in
The Hungarian Littoral
Fiume (Rijeka) · Bakar (Buccari) · the Vinodol — Klenovica, Crikvenica, Ledenice, Novi · Senj
- Who held it
- Hungarian crown land, not Austrian — a separate legal world with its own ministries, budgets and civil service.
- The registers
- Državni arhiv u Rijeci and the parish books.
- Beyond the registers
- Hungaricana — free, full-text, and the single most under-used source this archive has. State final accounts naming pensioners and their orphans; parliamentary pension schedules with years of service; the National Archives of Hungary plan collection. This is where the office-holders are, and they are in none of the Austrian or Croatian portals.
- Where this archive stands
- Barely begun. Opened for the first time on 13 September 2026.