Our line, from Gologorica to Brisbane

Part II · 🇭🇷 🇩🇪 🇿🇦 🇦🇺

One descent of eight generations, told once in order, then drawn, then taken station by station: Gologorica, Gračišće, Crikvenica, Senj and Pfullingen, with the families of the mothers behind it and the families that married into the direct line. Every chapter carries the document it rests on and says where the evidence stops.

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1. 1The StoryThe whole descent told once, in order, with the document behind every claim.
2. 2The SpineEight generations; for four of them a page of the Gračišće parish books names the household, the wife and the trade.
3. 3Our line, drawnEight generations of a single descent, each as the couple it actually was; every child listed.
4. 4The Gologorica LineRead off the parish register itself, page by page: the ancestral line.
5. 5The ElevenThe American branch's first reunion and printed tree begin with a man born at Gallignana in 1856.
6. 6The House at CrikvenicaThe generation that came down off the Istrian hills to the Kvarner coast, with the family's own photographs.
7. 7The Senj LineBehind the wife from Senj stand carriers, tobacco-factory workers and a Karlobag ancestry.
8. 8Six Names at PfullingenA 1947 list of foreigners registered at Pfullingen: six Defranceski, five of them born at Crikvenica.
9. 9Nineteen forty-eightTold in the family and held as lore until a record says otherwise: they went to leave the country.
10. 10Salomon — FranciscaGeneration two: what can be proved about her family, and what it would take to prove more.
11. 11SalomonA family that married into our own direct line.
12. 12Fernasar — MariaGeneration three: what can be proved about her family, and what it would take to prove more.
13. 13Fernasar / TornasarA family that married into our own direct line.
14. 14Kalanj — AnnaWhat can be proved about the family of the great-great-grandmother, and what two archives disagreed about.
15. 15KalanjA family that married into our own direct line.
16. 16Kovačina — UršulaGeneration five: what can be proved about her family, and what it would take to prove more.
17. 17KovačinaA family that married into our own direct line.
18. 18Grach / GrahA family that married into our own direct line.
19. 19Sablich / JablichA family that married into our own direct line.
20. 20Orlis / OrtisA family that married into our own direct line.
21. 21PeschleA family that married into our own direct line.
22. 22The poemsA collection of poems, letters, stories and writing-course exercises, transcribed entire and in its own order: 94 pieces.

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