Seven families, one surname

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The archive follows seven families of the name. They arrive from different directions and the records join no two of them. This part separates a family, which is an origin, from a station on one family's road and from a namesake, then takes the others in turn: the castle parish of Svetvinčenat, the Dalmatian line out of Venice, the Cretan estate at Seget, southern Istria, Vodnjan, the Kvarner households, Dubrovnik, Corsica and the Alpine clusters of Trentino.

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1. 1The LinesA family is an origin, a station is a stop on one family's road, and a namesake merely shares the commonest patronymic in Italy.
2. 2The treesFive of the seven families drawn, each in the form its evidence supports.
3. 3SvetvinčenatA baptism of 21 December 1628, thirty-eight years before the cluster everyone knew about: the castle parish the Lines page draws as the second of the seven.
4. 4The Omiš LineA family chart for the Dalmatian branch, running from an envoy of Pope Urban V to the middle of the twentieth century.
5. 5The Imotski FranceschiA second Franceschi family, Venetian nobility on the Vrljika, wrongly joined to this one by a widely copied online tree.
6. 6Ragusa — the Dubrovnik householdA daughter who married into Ragusa, and the three children she had there.
7. 7Seget, and CreteTwo branches in Istria, one at Gologorica and one at Umag and Seget, and the second said to have come out of Crete.
8. 8The Candia decreesThe Venetian Senate's decrees on the Cretan refugees at Poreč and the hajduks at Medulin, 1671–1676.
9. 9LižnjanThird of eighteen towns in the rebuilt record sweep, and until now without a page of its own.
10. 10VodnjanTwelve families in a 1945 cadastre, and nothing behind them until the parish books were opened.
11. 11The Kvarner householdsNine households in two towns across two hundred and thirty years, with every missing join marked.
12. 12Fiume, 1626Every household of the surname that Giovanni Kobler could find in the civic records of Fiume.
13. 13CorsicaTwo women at Tomino in Cap Corse, and the reason this archive expects them to be strangers.
14. 14Trentino, and the Alpine clustersA cluster of the name in the Valsugana and South Tyrol, seen but never tested.

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