49 settlements, six regions
Places
Every place carries all of its names, because which name a document uses tells you who was keeping it.
49 places · everything is listed; the filters only narrow it
49 places this archive can put a person in.
| Place | Region | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Barban also written Barbana | Central & southern Istria | Two Defranceschi families in 1945, and the parish where the surname still appears in Croatian records today. 123 registers, 100 digitised. |
| Cerovlje also written Cerreto | Central & southern Istria | The municipality Gologorica sits in today. 24 registers, 21 digitised. |
| Gologorica also written Moncalvo di Pisino · Golgorizza | Central & southern Istria | The family's documented seat. A De Franceschi house of 1711 still stands on the main square. 22 registers, 16 digitised. |
| Gračišće also written Gallignana | Central & southern Istria | Eight household censuses across 150 years — the richest register series found anywhere in this project. 32 registers, 31 digitised. |
| Ližnjan also written Lisignano | Central & southern Istria | Named by the existing family research as the origin of a line that went to the United States and Germany — and never worked in an archive. 24 registers, 14 digitised. |
| Motovun also written Montona | Central & southern Istria | One family in 1945 — and 121 of 122 registers digitised, the most complete series in the study. 122 registers, 121 digitised. |
| Pazin also written Pisino · Mitterburg | Central & southern Istria | A De Franceschi household in the county town in 1684 — a hundred and seven years earlier than this archive had it, and fifty-six years before Kobler's man leaves for Fiume. 139 registers, 120 digitised. |
| Pićan also written Pedena | Central & southern Istria | The diocese Gologorica and Gračišće belonged to — but not the custodian of their registers. 34 registers, 33 digitised. |
| Poreč also written Parenzo | Central & southern Istria | Where Camillo De Franceschi was born in 1868, and where his father published L'Istria in 1879. 139 registers, 97 digitised. |
| Seget also written Seghetto · — | Central & southern Istria | An estate south of Umag, bought in 1720 by a de Franceschi family two generations out of Crete. |
| Svetvinčenat also written Sanvincenti | Central & southern Istria | The oldest De Franceschi household in Istria this archive can date: a baptism of 21 December 1628, thirty-eight years before the cluster everyone knew about. 105 registers, 90 digitised. |
| Umag also written Umago | Central & southern Istria | The hamlet of Seghetto held one De Franceschi family in 1945. Every one of Umag's 128 registers is digitised. 128 registers, 128 digitised. |
| Vižinada also written Visinada | Central & southern Istria | Twenty-three records from 1750, and the parish where the Kaštelir family's children were born. 101 registers, 87 digitised. |
| Vodnjan also written Dignano | Central & southern Istria | Twelve Defranceschi families in 1945, and — since 9 September 2026 — five documented generations behind them. The best-attested cluster in southern Istria, read out of a register nobody has indexed. 133 registers, 118 digitised. |
| Čepić also written Ceppici | Central & southern Istria | One family in 1945. The youngest register series in the study — nothing before 1782. 25 registers, 21 digitised. |
| Crikvenica also written Cirquenizza | Kvarner — Rijeka, Bakar, Senj & Vinodol | Named for a church: the Pauline monastery of 1412, in the deed that first records the name. Registers not yet inventoried. |
| Rijeka also written Fiume · Sankt Veit am Flaum · Vitipolis | Kvarner — Rijeka, Bakar, Senj & Vinodol | The largest documented concentration of the surname anywhere in Croatia — 447 records, once Vitipolis is recognised for what it is. Registers not yet inventoried. |
| Senj also written Segna · Zengg | Kvarner — Rijeka, Bakar, Senj & Vinodol | An Uskok garrison on the Habsburg Military Frontier — never Italian, unlike Istria. Registers not yet inventoried. |
| Mione also written Mion · Mione (Ovaro) | Carnia, Friuli | A hundred and thirty people at 710 metres — and the Italian end of a documented migration into Istria. Registers not yet inventoried. |
| Imotski also written Imoschi | Dalmatia — Omiš, Imotski, Split, Brač | Taken from the Ottomans in July 1717 with a De Franceschi first over the wall. The family has been here three hundred years. Registers not yet inventoried. |
| Omiš also written Almissa | Dalmatia — Omiš, Imotski, Split, Brač | A former pirate town at the Cetina mouth, and the Dalmatian family's first seat — a De Franceschi owned a warship here by 1590. Registers not yet inventoried. |
| Split also written Spalato | Dalmatia — Omiš, Imotski, Split, Brač | Twenty-five Franceschi — the largest single concentration of any spelling of this name anywhere in Croatia. |
| Rovinj also written Rovigno | Central & southern Istria | The name from 1619 — and the man «da Dignano» buried at Christmas 1728, three weeks after his wife. |
| Pula also written Pola · Pietas Iulia | Central & southern Istria | The see and the port at the foot of Istria — and the town a De Franceschi is called «da Pola» from, in 1619. |
| Kaštelir also written Castellier | Central & southern Istria | Seventeen records, and — read together with Vižinada and Tar — one family across three parishes. |
| Bakar also written Buccari · Buccari | Kvarner — Rijeka, Bakar, Senj & Vinodol | The deep-water bay east of Rijeka, and one of the Kvarner parishes where the surname sits in the registers with no line yet attached to it. |
| Draguč also written Draguccio | Central & southern Istria | Twenty-five records that were never here. |
| Premantura also written Promontore | Central & southern Istria | The last village before the cape at the bottom of Istria, and one of the southern parishes the surname holds in. |
| Fažana also written Fasana | Central & southern Istria | Forty-two records, every one of them ours — and most of what this archive has been calling the Pula cluster. |
| Telve also written Telve im Suganertal | Trentino & South Tyrol — same name, no proven descent | In the Valsugana, east of Trento — the largest single concentration of the name outside Istria and Dalmatia in this archive's roster. |
| Laives also written Leifers | Trentino & South Tyrol — same name, no proven descent | South of Bolzano in the Adige valley — a second Tyrolean cluster, and like Telve unattached to any Istrian line. |
| Strigno also written Strigno | Trentino & South Tyrol — same name, no proven descent | A Valsugana village a few kilometres from Telve, with the same surname and the same open question. |
| Torrington also written Torrington, Connecticut | Where they went — America, Germany, the Veneto | A brass town in the Naugatuck valley of Connecticut, and the largest American landing-place in this archive. |
| Pfullingen also written Pfullingen | Where they went — America, Germany, the Veneto | Below the Swabian Alb, near Reutlingen — where the German leg of David's own line came to rest after 1947. |
| Postira also written Postire | Dalmatia — Omiš, Imotski, Split, Brač | On the north shore of Brač, with three reconstructed households of the name. |
| Santa Maria di Sala also written Santa Maria di Sala | Where they went — America, Germany, the Veneto | In the Veneto between Padua and Venice — a mainland Venetian parish carrying the name. |
| Šterna also written Sterna | Central & southern Istria | «Bortolo figlio del q. Gio: Batta de Franceschi dalla Cargna» — the sentence this archive has been looking for since it began. 7 registers, undefined digitised. |
| Vrsar also written Orsera | Central & southern Istria | One household, five entries, sixteen years: a christening, a widowing and a death, and then the name stops. |
| Plomin also written Fianona | Central & southern Istria | Above its bay on the eastern Istrian coast, at the Kvarner end of the county of Pazin. |
| Paluzza also written Paluce | Carnia, Friuli | In the Val But of Carnia, on the road to the Plöcken pass — one of the valleys the 1679 headmen's list covers. |
| Sovinjak also written Sovignacco | Central & southern Istria | Two burials, twenty-four years apart, and both of them a son of a Gio Battista. |
| Tar also written Torre | Central & southern Istria | A man of sixty-seven buried here in 1895, and the four-year-old son he had buried twenty-five years before. 4 registers, undefined digitised. |
| Pomer also written Pomer | Central & southern Istria | Lucia Defranceschi and Matthaeus Lazar, six children, and a daughter's wedding that closed the circle. 3 registers, undefined digitised. |
| Krbune also written Carbune | Central & southern Istria | One volume, 124 images, and a De Franceschi daughter's whole family inside it. 1 registers, undefined digitised. |
| Dubrovnik also written Ragusa | Dalmatia — Omiš, Imotski, Split, Brač | Fifty-six records with no town written on them, and a family of the name in the old Republic. Registers not yet inventoried. |
| Labin also written Albona | Central & southern Istria | The oldest books in the Istrian catalogue — from 1536 — and a family that only shows up three centuries into them. 11 registers, undefined digitised. |
| Medulin also written Medolino | Central & southern Istria | Four records at the southern tip, and a Maria Defranceschi whose children married Voinich. 4 registers, undefined digitised. |
| Galižana also written Gallesano | Central & southern Istria | One entry, and it carries the surname this archive spent a day chasing at Vodnjan. 3 registers, undefined digitised. |
| Kršan also written Chersano | Central & southern Istria | Two De Franceschi women marry two Domazetović men in twelve years — and one of them is a Gologorica woman. 2 registers, undefined digitised. |
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What this page rests on
Lee Steiner, Croatia Church Books — mapped Reference not online — see the bibliography for where it is held
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