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| 12 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ «De Franceschi» IN THE 1825 PULA CONFIRMATION LISTS — at Premantura and Fažana, and NOT at Medulin, Ližnjan, Šišan or Vodnjan Yielded | Which surnames stood in each southern-Istrian village in 1825, from one dated archival source | ⭐⭐⭐ THE NAME IS IN TWO OF THE VILLAGES, AND BOTH ARE ALREADY ON THIS ARCHIVE'S OWN LANE.
What it produced on this siteLižnjan · The Lines · Slaven Bertoša, «Puljska prezimena prema popisima krizmanika iz 1825. godine», Croatica Christiana Periodica 52 (2003), 107–117 · source: Državni arhiv u Pazinu, «Elenco Cresimati» 245, the four lists of 3, 4, 5 and 6 October 1825 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | Three more on the Candia war — two useful for context, one about the besiegers and not this family Yielded | Whether the war literature touches this family or its route | Pérez Negrete (in the Morosini quatercentenary volume, Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato 2019): the war's shape — Ottoman landing 24 June 1645, Canea lost 1645, Rethymno 3 November 1646, Candia besieged 22 years in two phases (1648–49, 1667–69); Köprülü came with nearly 70,000 men; France and Malta gave the island up in August 1669; Morosini surrendered on 6 September without the Senate's authorisation.
⭐ The Ca' Foscari thesis gives the road: «Da Venezia le navi… procedevano lungo la costa dalmata fino ad arrivare a Corfù, quindi verso Zante…» — Zante and Corfu were the two staging ports on the Venice–Candia route, and the Dalmatian coast was its first leg. This family's Candia → Zante → Šibenik is not a wandering; it is the supply road walked backwards. It also records the Psara storm of 17–18 March 1648 — 17 galleys lost, Grimani drowned — which is the only fleet wrecked in a storm in this war, and it is twenty-one years too early to be ours. And it notes Venetian families buying their way into the Senate to fund the war, which is the world a refugee family entering a noble council belongs to.
⚠ Kolovos, «A Town for the Besiegers» is about the Ottoman siege-town outside Candia, 1650–69 — the other side of the wall. No refugees, no evacuation, no Franceschi. A fine paper and nothing for this archive. What it produced on this siteSeget, and Crete · Pérez Negrete in «Francesco Morosini 1619–1694» (2019) · «L'Esercito veneziano e la difesa di Candia» (Ca' Foscari MA) · Kolovos in «The Eastern Mediterranean under Ottoman Rule: Crete 1645–1840» (2008) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐ JACKSON 1887 — «thirty-five families» at Parenzo, 1669–1692, and it contradicts the sixty Yielded | Whether a 19th-century authority confirms the post-Candia settlement at Poreč | ⭐⭐ IT DOES, AND IT GIVES A DIFFERENT NUMBER.
> «Finally, between 1669 and 1692 several refugees from Candia, after it was taken by the Turks, came to Parenzo, where thirty-five families received allotments of houses and lands.»
Joksimović, from Camillo's 1952 monograph, says SIXTY families at the same town for the same event. Thirty-five against sixty. Neither is obviously wrong; this archive records the disagreement rather than choosing, and notes that the one study written from the Poreč council's own records — Camillo De Franceschi 1952 — is what would settle it.
And Jackson supplies the scale that makes the grant intelligible: Parenzo «sank from three thousand in the fifteenth century to less than one hundred in 1646», and the Senate restored it with colonists «from Dalmatia, Candia and the Morea». A town of under a hundred people receiving thirty-five families was being refounded, not relieved.
Also: Montenegrins from Cernizza near Budua settled near Pola in 1657.
⚠ Jackson is not an independent witness so much as a careful one: he cites Carlo De Franceschi's «L'Istria» (Parenzo 1879) seventeen times through the volume. The family's historians are underneath the standard English account of this coast as well. ⚠ No Seget, no Seghetto, and no De Franceschi of this line in the volume. What it produced on this siteSeget, and Crete · T. G. Jackson, Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, vol. III (Oxford 1887) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | ⚠ Joksimović, Tabula 17 (2020) — READ IN FULL, and it is the paper this archive already mined for the Camillo citation Yielded | Whether the paper David sent adds to the Candia story | ⚠ CHECKED FIRST, AND IT IS NOT A DISCOVERY. This archive has carried the «De Franceschi 1952» citation since September, explicitly recorded as «Found cited in Milena Joksimović, Tabula 17 (2020)», which is this very paper. It is already first on the acquisition list. Saying otherwise would have been the re-run this archive has been caught in before.
What reading it in full DOES add, beyond the bare citation: (1) the sentence the footnote hangs on — «in the period following the loss of Candia (1669) some 60 families were granted houses in Poreč, while several families arrived in Pula»; (2) the three-wave frame — Nauplion/Monemvasia 1540, Cyprus 1571, Crete 1669, ~4,000 Greeks into Istria in all; (3) Greeks and Cypriots were planted at Ližnjan, Šišan and Marlera — the Flebra family settled Cypriots «between Šišan and Ližnjan», the Sozomeno were given land «near Ližnjan», and 1585 Cretans from Rethymnon settled «near Šišan and at Marlera»; (4) the collapse of the Istrian Greek community, from ~100 families under Bishop Barbabianca (1567–82) to five people under Bernardino Corniani (1664–89) — so a family arriving out of Candia in 1669 arrived when there was no longer a Greek community to join.
⚠ (3) is the one that bites. /liznjan/ carried nothing about Greek or Cypriot settlement, and this archive spent today reading Ližnjan's and Medulin's registers. What it produced on this siteSeget, and Crete · Milena Joksimović, «Rediscovering the Greeks… from the Perspective of Istria», Tabula 17 (2020), 169–201 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | Pomara, Diasporas 43 (2025) — how Venice actually planted refugees in Istria, with the numbers Yielded | The mechanism behind the Seget land grant of 1604 and the post-1669 settlements | New to this archive — published 11 June 2025. ⚠ It is about Albanians, not Cretans, and is used only for the machinery. Istria's population: ~60,000 (1610) → 36,000 (1625) → 30,000 (1630s) — a province losing half its people in a generation. Refugees were colonists on terms: a loan of 500 ducats for tools and animals, repayable without interest from the third year; cash advances per household head; and land. One group of eight families received 700 plots near UMAG, described as «uncultivated, thorny and stony», with the obligation to make them «a perfect crop». Friction with the existing population is documented, and prejudice in the Poreč area is traced from the late 17th century. That is the frame the Seget grant of 1604 and the Poreč sixty of 1669 both sit in. What it produced on this siteSeget, and Crete · Bruno Pomara, «An Attempted Albanian Settlement in Istria… (1610–1612)», Diasporas 43 (2025), 95–127 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | Ortalli & Schmitt, «Balcani occidentali, Adriatico e Venezia» — the Šibenik leg had a Greek quay in 1533 Yielded | Whether the Candia→Zante→Šibenik route has independent support | ⭐ A notarial act of 1533 records Greeks from MONEMVASIA and ZANTE at ŠIBENIK, among them a «papas grecus», trading between that port and Split. This archive's timeline has the family at Šibenik in 1674 by way of Zante, and could never say why Šibenik — the answer is that Šibenik had a Zante-fed Greek colony a hundred and forty years earlier. It shows the road, not the journey.
And the ground was empty: at the end of the «catastrophic war of Candia (1644–1669)» the whole population of Dalmatia was 48,000, Šibenik holding fewer people than in 1559.
⚠ The twelve «Franceschi» hits in this volume are all Carlo, cited as an authority on Istrian settlement and language — which this archive already knew. No new person of the name. What it produced on this siteSeget, and Crete · G. Ortalli / O. J. Schmitt (eds.), Balcani occidentali, Adriatico e Venezia fra XIII e XVIII secolo, Schriften der Balkan-Kommission 50 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ MEDULIN DEATHS 1873 — «Maria (Defranceschi) Ant. Verinic uxor», a Defranceschi DAUGHTER married into Medulin Yielded | The second Defranceschi in the Medulin deaths book, found while reading it end to end | ⭐⭐⭐ A DEFRANCESCHI DAUGHTER, MARRIED INTO MEDULIN. Page 33, the 1873 block, annual number 139:
> «Maria (Defranceschi) Ant. Verinic uxor» — aged 78 (the figure corrected in the ink), «mors ord[inaria]», 16 November 1873.
⭐ The parentheses are the scribe's maiden-name convention, and the line immediately below proves it: «Maria (Vrinic q. Nic.) vid. Georgii Lorenzin» — Maria née Vrinic, widow of Georgio Lorenzin. The same page, the same hand, the same bracket. So this is a woman born Defranceschi who married Antonio Verinic of Medulin.
Seventy-eight in 1873 means born about 1795 — the same generation as the Ližnjan groom of 1815 (born about 1794) and the soldier who died here in 1833 (born about 1793). Three Defranceschi of one generation around these two villages.
⚠ What this does and does not show. It does not give her father, her birthplace or her parish of origin — the entry names only her husband. It does show that the name reached Medulin by marriage even though no Defranceschi household appears in the parish's own registers, which is exactly the daughters' villages pattern this archive already tracks at Pomer, Krbune, Galižana and Labin. Her marriage should be in the Medulin marriages 1831–1899 (9R2H-444) if it happened here — but at 78 in 1873 she is likelier to have married about 1815–1825, before that book opens.What it produced on this siteLižnjan · The Lines · Medulin «Liber Defunctorum» 1801–1899, waypoint 9R2H-HZ7 · HDA inv. br. 158 · frame 21, ark 3:1:3QSQ-G99X-KZBV, register page 33 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ MEDULIN DEATHS 1833 — «Mathæus Defranceschi q. Ant. fil. miles», the FIRST Defranceschi ever found in a Medulin register Yielded | The tree-only «Mattheus Defranceschi b. 1793 d. 1833» the roster places at Medulin | ⭐⭐⭐ THE NAME IS IN THE MEDULIN BOOK AFTER ALL, and the tree was right about him.
Medulin «Liber Defunctorum», page 12, the 1833 block, line 9, annual number 43:
> «Mathæus Defranceschi q. Ant. fil. miles» — Cath., 40. a., «chronicus morb[us]», died 19 December 1833 (the month a ditto of «Xbris» on the line above), subscribed by the administrator.
Forty in December 1833 means born about 1793 — which is exactly the year the family tree already carried for him. And the register adds a fact the tree did not have: he is «miles», a SOLDIER, and «q. Ant.», the son of a dead Antonio.
⚠ THIS IS A VERIFICATION AND NOT A DISCOVERY, and the archive should say so. The roster row for this man already carried the ark 3:1:3QS7-L99X-KCP6 — the very frame the entry is written on. The lead was in this archive's own data and nobody had opened it. It is precisely the case check-leads.py was written for ten hours ago.
⚠⚠ HE IS NOT THE LIŽNJAN MAN, AND THE TWO MUST NOT BE JOINED. The «deto Marulin» groom who married at Ližnjan in November 1815 was still alive to be buried at Ližnjan in 1839, an agricola. This man was dead by December 1833, and a soldier. Two men called Mattheus, each the son of an Antonio, in parishes four kilometres apart, both dying at forty, six years apart. That is the exact shape of a false join and it is refused here.
⚠ AND THE MAGNIFICATION CHANGED THE READING. At page scale the cause of death read «dissenteria»; at native resolution it is «chronicus morb.». The rule about reading a doubtful word only at magnification earned its keep on this entry. The same scribe writes «Lorenzin», «Longovich» and «Radossevich» on the lines either side — plated together so the hand can be judged against itself.What it produced on this siteLižnjan · Mattheus Defranceschi · Medulin «Liber Defunctorum» 1801–1899, waypoint 9R2H-HZ7 · HDA, Matična knjiga umrlih, inv. br. 158 · film frame 11, ark 3:1:3QS7-L99X-KCP6, register page 12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ FamilySearch — LIŽNJAN MARRIAGES: the parish's FIRST Defranceschi, 12 November 1815, and he is «deto Marulin» — a byname that was nearly read as a birthplace Yielded | Where the Ližnjan Defranceschi come from — David asked for origin to be watched for specifically | ⭐⭐⭐ THE EARLIEST DEFRANCESCHI EVENT IN ANY LIŽNJAN BOOK — the marriage that starts the parish's line.
Ližnjan «Liber Copulatorum», page 1, entry 2, the second marriage the book ever records:
> «12 Novembre 1815» · house 17 · SPONSUS «Mario de Franceschi deto Marulin di Antonio», catolico, Ætas 21, celibes · SPONSA «Maddalena Percouich di Antonio», catolica, Ætas 27, celibes · TESTES «Giacomo Bubich di Iseppo», «Antonio Clunich di Stefano», «Gregorio Iucopila»
Aged twenty-one in November 1815, so born about 1794. His father is Antonio. And this is the couple whose children fill house 17 in the baptism book — Antonio 1819, Mattia 1821, Gregorio 1822 — all to «Mattio Franceschi di Antonio» and «Mandalena Pecouichi».
⭐ HE CARRIES A BYNAME: «deto Marulin» — detto Marulin, «called Marulin».
⚠ And the byname was nearly read as a PLACE. The same book, sixteen years later, writes a groom as «Giacomo Micalouich figlio di Giorgio della Carniola di Madolin» — Carniola, and Madolin for Medulin, the next parish. Against that, «ma—rulin» looked like it might be «Madolin», which would have made it an origin rather than a nickname. It is not: at nine times magnification the letter has no ascender, and this scribe gives every d a tall one — «di Antonio», «de Franceschi», «deto» itself, all on the same line. It is an r. The hand decided it, not the plausibility.
⚠ NO PLACE OF ORIGIN IS GIVEN, and that is worth stating carefully. The book does record origins when it wants to — «della Carniola di Madolin» proves it — but that entry is from 1831, in a later and far more verbose format. The 1815 page is terse: four columns, no Conditio for the spouses, no parents named. So the silence here is weak evidence at best, and no conclusion is drawn from it. A nil names the terms tried: what was looked for was a «di» or «della» phrase in the Nomen cell, and there is none beyond the patronymic.
⭐ A second marriage, and a daughter going out. Page 15, entry 113: «23 Febbrajo 1848», house 41 — «Martino Mocovich» and «Maria figlia Matteo Defranceschi», with «Defranceschi» written again in the Genitori della sposa column. A daughter of a Matteo, marrying out in 1848.What it produced on this siteLižnjan · The search log · Ližnjan «Liber Copulatorum» 1815–1902, waypoint 9R2Z-44C | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ FamilySearch — the LIŽNJAN DEATH REGISTER 1815–1900 SCOUTED END TO END: eleven of the name, seven more through daughters who married out, and the spelling changes to «Defranceski» in 1896 Yielded | Every person of the name in the Ližnjan death register, 1815–1900 | ⭐⭐⭐ THE WHOLE BOOK, FRAME BY FRAME — 72 frames, 1815 to 1900, every opening looked at.
Not a transcription: the NOMEN DEFUNCTI column of both pages of every opening was rendered at native resolution and read for the surname, with every doubtful word magnified. That is a scout, not a walk, and the row says walked:false for that reason.
ELEVEN people OF THE NAME are buried in this book. Four were already documented here this week; two are new; one is still unverified.
NOMEN DEFUNCTI column. It did not read the Morbus, Ætas or Anagrafe columns of entries that carry no Defranceschi, and it did not transcribe a single year end to end. A woman of the name entered only by her husband's surname, with no «nata», would not be caught by it. One candidate — frame 26, 1861 — remains unverified.What it produced on this siteLižnjan · The search log · Ližnjan «Liber Defunctorum» 1815–1900, waypoint 9R2Z-4WG | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐ FamilySearch — LIŽNJAN deaths 1875: a twenty-two-day-old child whose entry names his MOTHER and no father, and a second Justina Defranceschi Yielded | Joannes Defranceschi, 1875–1875 — carried by the roster with no detail, and flagged by check-leads as having an unlinked lead | Page 68, entry 10 of 1875, house 71, Anagr. II. 2:
> «Mortuus die 19 Sept., Sepult. 21 ejusdem, 1875» · «Joannes fil. Justinæ Defranceschi» · «dies 22» · «nat. 28/8 75» · «ordinaria» · D. G. Smak, parochus
Born 28 August 1875, dead 19 September, buried the 21st, aged twenty-two days — and the arithmetic agrees with the register's own figure for once, which it did not for the twins.
⚠ THE ENTRY NAMES HIS MOTHER AND NO FATHER. Every other entry on the opening names both: «filia Antonii et Antoniæ Fedel», «filia Joannis et Luciæ Perković nata Josephi Klunić», «filia Antonii et Annæ Fedel». That contrast is what the register says, and nothing beyond it is asserted. This parish's death register carries no legitimacy column — the baptism register does — so the shape of the entry is the only evidence there is.
⚠ A SECOND JUSTINA. His mother is not Magdalena Justina, who was born in 1879, four years after this child died. Another Justina Defranceschi stood at Ližnjan in 1875 and this archive holds no record of her at all.
He is the third child of the name buried at Ližnjan in 1875. The twins went together on 22 February; he followed in September. Three of the parish's Defranceschi children in one year.
And he clears a flagged lead. The gate's new check-leads had him as one of six people the roster already held with an unlinked lead (XQM3-118S). Linked, and read. The count falls 6 → 5.What it produced on this siteLižnjan · The search log · Ližnjan «Liber Defunctorum», waypoint 9R2Z-4WG | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ FamilySearch — LIŽNJAN 1888 finished: the Josephus pair settled, the TREE beat the INDEX, and the anagrafe proves a household across a change of house Yielded | Josephus Defranceschi, d. 1888 — the pair the previous session opened and could not settle | Page 99, entry 7 of 1888 — and the scribe wrote the name in the left margin as well as in the column:
> «Josephus Defranceschi» · «Mort. — Martii, Sep. — ejusdem, 1888» · house 82 · Anagr. p. 305, III. 9 · «Josephus Defranceschi, Gregorii et Maria Vojnić» · «an. 1, mens. 11» · «nat. 15/4 86»
Born 15 April 1886, dead in March 1888 at a year and eleven months — the age and the birth agree with each other, and the day/month/year form of «15/4 86» is the one this book uses throughout («nat. 2/5 851» against an age of «ann. 23, m. 8, d. 26»).
⚠ THE DEATH DAY IS BLANK IN THE REGISTER ITSELF. The scribe wrote «Mort. — Martii» and «Sep. — ejusdem» and never filled the days in. That is the book's gap, not a failure of reading, and no day is invented here.
⚠⚠ TWO ROWS, ONE CHILD — and this time the TREE was right and the INDEX was wrong. This archive held josephus-defranceschi-1887 from the index («b. Mar 1887») and josephus-defranceschi-1886 from the family tree («1886»). The register says 15 April 1886. The tree had it; the index did not. That is the exact reverse of the Mathæus duplicate settled the same week, where the index was right and the tree a year out — and it is a useful corrective to assuming an index outranks a tree.
⭐ And the anagrafe reference ties the household together ACROSS A MOVE. This entry cites Anagr. p. 305, III. 9; Magdalena Justina's baptism cites p. 305, III. 7 — same page, same family, different person number — though she was entered at house 61 in 1879 and he at house 82 in 1888. The house number moves; the anagrafe family does not. That makes the anagrafe the better key for this parish than the house number.
The household of Gregorius Defranceschi and Maria Vojnić now stands at four children buried small: the twins Maria and Anastasia (20–22 February 1875), a Maria of 1878 still unread, Magdalena Justina (1879–1952, who lived), and this Josephus.What it produced on this siteLižnjan · Corrections · Ližnjan «Liber Defunctorum», waypoint 9R2Z-4WG | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | ⚠⚠ LIŽNJAN — a WIFE of the name found in the 1888 burials, and a count of how much this archive was already holding and had never taken up Yielded | Josephus Defranceschi, d. 1888 — a suspected duplicate; and what else the 1888 burials hold | The suspected Josephus pair was NOT settled — the 1888 sequence was not read to its end and he was not reached. Said plainly rather than left to look like a nil.
But page 101, entry 23 gives a person of the name this archive did not hold at all:
> «Mort. 17 Augusti, Sep. 19 ejusdem, 1888» — house 75 — «Fusca uxor Antonii Defranceschi nata Lazarić»
A wife of Antonius Defranceschi, born Lazarić, dead 17 August 1888 and buried on the 19th. Now in the roster — with no birth year, because the index's «1821» can only come from an age at death that this session never reached.
⭐⭐ The pattern behind all of this week's Ližnjan work, now counted.
Three separate times in two days, a Ližnjan person turned out to be sitting in this archive's own register.json as an indexed lead nobody ever took up, while the roster carried the tree's version of the same person — or nothing at all:
1. Fusca, 1870 — both halves of her life held as two leads, parents identical, never joined; the roster took the tree and the wrong spelling.
2. Mathæus, 1890–1891 — held from the burial index with the right year, and duplicated by the tree with the wrong one.
3. Fusca née Lazarić, d. 1888 — a wife of the name, held as lead XQM3-P992 and never in the roster in any form.
So the files were counted. register.json holds 24 leads placed at Ližnjan. 15 of them are cited by no roster row at all.
Three of those fifteen are people documented from the page this week — Fusca 1870 and the twins Maria and Anastasia of 1875 — whose roster rows now cite the register image rather than the index lead, so the lead still reads as unused. That is a bookkeeping artefact and is said so here rather than counted as a gap.
The rest are genuinely untaken, and most are children of Defranceschi daughters who married out — Ruman, Perković, Jelčić, Našković — plus «Mattio Franceschi, 1799 – 20 Dec 1839» and «Giovanni Defranceschi, 1845 – 11 Nov 1846», who are of the name outright.
⚠ The lesson is not that the index is good. It is that this archive kept finding things it already had. The register settles what the index garbles — «Antonii Defranceschi Or Lazarić» is a flattened parent list that the page resolves instantly into «uxor Antonii Defranceschi nata Lazarić» — but the lead was the thing that should have sent somebody to the page years ago.What it produced on this siteLižnjan · The Register · Ližnjan «Liber Defunctorum», waypoint 9R2Z-4WG · and this archive's own register.json | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ FamilySearch — LIŽNJAN baptisms 1879: the Ližnjan baptism book carries DEATH MARGINS and ANAGRAFE page references, and one of them dates a 1952 death to the day Yielded | Justina Defranceschi, carrying only «1879–1952» from the family tree | Page 56, entry 22 of 1879, house 61, baptised by D. G. Smak, paroch.:
> «Magdalena Justina — nat. 3. Octobr. curr., hora circ. 3 pomer.» — of «Gregorius Defranceschi», fil. Gregorii q. Georgii et Agathæ, and «Maria Vojnić», n. Perkovič, agric.
Her name in the book is MAGDALENA JUSTINA; the tree gave only «Justina». Born 3 October 1879 at about three in the afternoon — the register gives the hour.
⭐⭐ AND THE MARGIN DATES HER DEATH, in Croatian, in a later hand beside the baptism:
> «Umrla u Ližnjanu dana 18. V. 1952 (mat. knj. umrlih str. 36 d. 2/52 Ližnjan.)»
Died at Ližnjan 18 May 1952, with the death register's own page 36, entry 2/52 cited. The tree's bare «1952» is now a date — and the reference points at a register this archive has not opened.
⭐ A SECOND STRUCTURAL FIND ON THE SAME PAGE: every entry carries an ANAGRAFE reference. A small column beside each date reads «Anagr. p. 305 III.7», «p. 153 III.7», «p. 174 IV.3» — page and family number in a Status Animarum. Ližnjan's anagrafe therefore exists and the baptism register indexes it, entry by entry. That is a finding aid nobody here knew about.
⭐ She is the sister of the twins. Same parents, same house 61 as Maria and Anastasia, who were born 20 February 1875 and died together on the 22nd. Gregorius Defranceschi and Maria Vojnić buried twin daughters four years before this one was born.
Four of the seventeen are now done. What it produced on this siteLižnjan · The search log · Ližnjan «Liber Baptizatorum», waypoint 9R2Z-44D | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ FamilySearch — LIŽNJAN deaths 1875: two more of the seventeen, and the register braces them together because they were TWINS Yielded | Anastasia and Maria Defranceschi, both carrying only «1875–1875» from the family tree | Entries 5 and 6 of 1875, and the scribe wrote them as ONE entry with a brace — the parents, the cause and the priest written once across both rows:
> «mortua die 22 Febr., sepulta die 23 ejusdem, 1875» — house 61 — «Maria» and «Anastasia», of «Gregorii Defranceschi» and «Mariæ Vojnić», agr.
Both rows carry the same two figures: «nat. 20/2 75» and «dies 3». Cause for both, «ordin.».
Born the same day, dead the same day, buried the same day, braced on the page — they were twins. This archive held them as two unrelated children who happened to share a year, because the tree gave a year and nothing else.
⚠ The arithmetic is left as the register wrote it. Born the 20th and dead the 22nd is two days; the scribe put «dies 3» against each — counting inclusively, or counting to the burial. Recorded, not smoothed.
The date format was confirmed on the page rather than assumed: entry 4, two rows above, reads «nat. 2/5 851» against a man whose age is «ann. 23, m. 8, d. 26» — born 2 May 1851, which only parses as day/month/year.
Three of the seventeen are now done — Fusca on 1870, and these two. What it produced on this siteLižnjan · The search log · Ližnjan «Liber Defunctorum», waypoint 9R2Z-4WG | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ FamilySearch — LIŽNJAN baptisms and deaths 1870, read at the page: a tree-only child documented at BOTH ends of a six-month life, and her name corrected Yielded | Whether the seventeen Ližnjan people resting on the family tree and no document can be reached in the registers | «Tusca Defranceschi, 1870–1870» was one of seventeen Ližnjan people standing on the MyHeritage tree and nothing else. She is now documented at both ends of her life — and she was never called Tusca.
BAPTISM, page 15, Annus 1870, first entry: «9ⁿᵃ Januarii 1870», house 3, baptised by D. Gregorius Smak, coop. par.: «Fusca, nata hodie» — catholic, female, legitimate — of «Matthæus Defranceschi», agricola, and «Maria n. Primus».
BURIAL, page 54: «mortua 6. Julii, sepult. 8 ejusdem», house 3 — the same house — «Fusca filia Matthæi Defranceschi q. Matthæi et Mariæ n. Primus q. Paschalis», aged «6 mens.», of «debilitas».
Born 9 January, dead 6 July: five months and twenty-seven days. The age column says six months, and the two books agree with each other on house and parents without being asked — the corroboration this archive wants and rarely gets.
⚠ AND THE ARCHIVE WAS ALREADY HOLDING BOTH HALVES. register.json carried XQM3-PZYY «Fusca · b. 9 Jan 1870» and XQM3-GSVF «Tusca · d. 6 Jul 1870», with identical parents, as two unjoined leads — while the roster took neither and copied the tree. Recorded as a correction.
The name is FUSCA. A hand is only legible against itself: the burial page's own first entry, same hand, reads «e di Fosca». Fosca/Fusca is a name in use in this parish; Tusca is not a name.
Two grandfathers gained: «q. Matthæi» and «q. Paschalis», a Primus.What it produced on this siteLižnjan · Corrections · Fusca Defranceschi · Ližnjan parish registers, waypoints 9R2Z-44D and 9R2Z-4WG | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | AMSI vol. XX (1904), «Senato Rettori: cose dell'Istria» parte quarta, pp. 1–45 — read end to end (registers 46–50, 1670–1676) Yielded | The Cretan refugee settlement at Parenzo, and whether the refugees entered its noble council. | ⭐⭐⭐ The question in Camillo's title is answered in the printed regest. 26 October 1673, c. 258: the Provveditore alla Sanità in Istria is praised for the skill with which he reconciled the quarrels between the citizens of Parenzo and the Cretans «nell'ammissione di questi a quel Cons[iglio]», and his ruling is approved. 1 December 1674, c. 199 t.: the Podestà of Parenzo is ordered not to act on his Council's measure «circa all'espulsione di alcuni membri di esso» until Gradenigo reports.
⭐⭐ It also settles Jackson against Joksimović without averaging them. The Senate says sixty four times in 1672 — «oltre le sessanta già stabilite», «la prima lista delle sessanta famiglie», «dal numero delle sessanta», «le quattro famiglie non comprese nelle sessanta» — and then counts the settlement shrinking: nineteen of twenty-three arriving from Zante (13 Aug 1672), twenty-five resident (1674, c. 83), four declared forfeit for leaving (c. 182), six holding 145 campi (c. 225 and c. 88). Jackson's thirty-five sits inside that curve and his 1669–1692 range is the span over which it fell.
⭐⭐⭐ And 27 June 1671 ties this to Medulin: the Caiducci of Risano lodged in forty-one dwellings at Pola, a thousand ducats to make «diversi casali in Medolino» habitable, and their land to be the public land «rimasti dopo le concessioni fatte ai Cretensi» — left over after the concessions made to the Cretans.
Three Cretans named: Zuanne Papadopulo, Pietro Achielli nobile Cretese, Teodosio Tirelli nobile Cretense (chancellor at Marostica, brother chancellor at Este). What it produced on this siteWhat was happening when Candia fell · Seget | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | Lia De Luca, «Venezia e le immigrazioni in Istria nel Cinque e Seicento» (Ca' Foscari thesis, 256 pp.) — read for Parenzo, Creta and the surname Yielded | The modern study of Venetian resettlement in Istria, found through a search for Camillo's 1952 paper. | 193 mentions of Parenzo, 217 of Morlachs, 28 of Creta, 21 of «Franceschi» — every one of the last a citation of Carlo or Camillo as an authority, none of them a family member in a record. What it gives: the whole Cretan community sheltering at Zante was to be transferred to Parenzo, with 2,000 ducats and materials to restore houses for the sixty families who had asked to come; in July 1673 a survey of usurped land in the Parenzo territory was opened to free ground for them, and «alcune famiglie immigrate ottennero di essere ammesse nel consiglio di Parenzo»; in September 1671 the communities of Pola, Sissan, Lisignan, Castel di Mormaran, Pomer and Medolin petitioned Venice against the hajduks in one coordinated protest, alongside the headman Zuppanovich for the Morlachs of Altura (ASV, Collegio, Risposte di fuori, f. 424). Its bibliography cites Camillo's 1952 paper three times at pp. 57–115, independently confirming a pagination the archive had from Joksimović alone.
⚠ The iris.unive.it copy is behind a Cloudflare bot check. Not worked around — David signed in and supplied the file. What it produced on this siteWhat was happening when Candia fell · Seget | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | MEDULIN DEATHS 1896 — «Fusca Kirac filia Petri et Mariae Defrancesco», a THIRD bearer, and the second married in Yielded | Finishing the Medulin deaths book end to end, at David's instruction. | ⭐⭐⭐ «Fusca Kirac filia Petri et Mariae Defrancesco. agr: cath.» — 30 September 1896, ten months old, pulmonary, buried 1 October by Bylica. The Defranceschi is the mother, not the child, and the spelling is «Defrancesco», an -o form not previously recorded in this parish. Checked against the archive first: the four existing «Defrancesco» strings are all Gologorica, a different place and line.
It completes a pattern across the whole book. Three bearers in 1801–1899, and none of them a householder: the soldier of 1833 (miles), the Verinic wife of 1873, and this Kirac wife of 1896. At Medulin the name marries in or passes through; it does not hold a house — which is independently what the 1825 Pula confirmation lists said, placing «De Franceschi» at Premantura and Fažana and NOT at Medulin, Ližnjan or Šišan.
⚠ No join claimed. Neither woman is given a father, an age or a birthplace. The register that would name them is the Medulin marriage book, 9R2H-444, forty-one frames, unopened. What it produced on this siteSouthern Istria — Ližnjan · The Lines · Ližnjan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐ MEDULIN DEATHS 1801–1899 (9R2H-HZ7) — READ END TO END, all 40 frames, and one opening is missing from the film Yielded | David asked for the Medulin books finished. This is the second of four, and it is done. | Three bearers of the name in ninety-eight years, and not one of them a Medulin householder — the soldier Mathæus Defranceschi q. Ant. fil., miles (1833); Maria, Ant. Verinic uxor (1873); and Maria Defrancesco, wife of Petrus Kirac (1896). Two are daughters married into the village; one was a soldier stationed there. At Medulin the name marries in or passes through. It does not hold a house — which is independently what the 1825 Pula confirmation lists said, putting «De Franceschi» at Premantura and Fažana and not at Medulin, Ližnjan or Šišan.
What the village IS, in this book: Radošević, Kirac, Lorenzin, Grahalić, Zucca, Lazarić, Demarin, Vojak, Leverić, Mihalević, Privrat, Voinić, Tomašić, Matika — and a thin seam of incomers: Italian lapicidae (Zichinelli, Bertagna, Urti, Milin), a customs officer from Moravia who drowned in the sea here (1895), a labourer from Meduna, province of Udine killed accidentally (1898), a man from Senigallia dead suddenly (1894), a family ex Trento, and a citizen of Rovinj.
⚠ ONE OPENING IS NOT ON THE FILM, and it is a gap in the FILMING, not in the register. Frame 38 is pages 66–67; frame 39 is pages 70–71. Pages 68 and 69 were never exposed. The loss is measurable from the entry numbers either side: frame 39 opens with 1899 entry 1 (12 January) and then jumps straight to entry 30 (11 November). Entries 2 to 29 of 1899 — twenty-eight deaths — are on the opening that was skipped. They are not lost: they are in the original book at the Državni arhiv u Pazinu, and in any second filming. They are simply not here, and no amount of re-reading this film will produce them. What it produced on this siteSouthern Istria — Ližnjan · The Lines · The undigitised · Ližnjan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ MEDULIN MARRIAGES 1874 — «Maria Defranceschi q. Tommasi, oriunda e Pomer» marries Petrus Kirac Yielded | Reading the Medulin marriage book end to end, at David's instruction — and the register that would name the 1896 mother's father. | doc. 30 July 1874, Medulin, entry 3:
> «Petrus Kirac Simonis fil. agr., Medulinum H.143, 29 — Maria Defranceschi q. Tommasi, Medulinum H.143 oriunda e Pomer, 22»
⭐⭐⭐ This is the marriage behind the 1896 death entry found this morning — «Fusca Kirac filia Petri et Mariae Defrancesco» — and it gives the two things that entry could not: her father's name and her village.
- Her father: TOMMASO, already dead in 1874 («q.» = quondam). The first man of the name attested at Pomer from a document rather than from a tree.
- Her village: POMER, not Medulin — six kilometres round the bay.
- Aged 22 in 1874, so born about 1852.
It lands on a cluster the archive already had but could not stand on. Pomer held three rows before today — Pietro Defranceschi b. 1793, Lucia Defranceschi (Lazaro), and Matheus Lazaro — and every one of them was src: myheritage or an index, i.e. tree-only. These two are the first Pomer people the archive holds on a register entry it has read itself.
⚠ No join is claimed to Pietro b. 1793. Nothing in this entry names a grandfather, and a shared village and surname are not a descent. The register that would join them is Pomer's own, and Pomer is a separate parish this archive has not opened.
Verified by rendering the entry at native resolution and magnifying twice: the surname reads Defranceschi (-chi, not the -sco of the 1896 death entry), and the origin reads Pomer unambiguously.What it produced on this siteSouthern Istria — Ližnjan · The Lines · Ližnjan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⚠⚠ DAPA ZM34K-214 — the 1826 «Nrus. Domus» column: two pages a house-number pair cannot explain, and three Defranceschi house numbers Yielded | Worklist 191 — one column across 119 pages, to build the renumbering concordance row 171 has been assembling. On 6 October this archive settled that both figures in the cell are house numbers and that the upper is the live one. | ⚠⚠ THE FIRST OF THOSE DOES NOT SURVIVE THE COLUMN.
> M01069349: «21» over a rule over «48» · «Joannes Opassich haeres Runco»
> M01069350: «23» over a rule over «48» · «Joannes Rythno def. Josephi»
The same lower figure under two different uppers, on two pages, against two households. A house-number pair cannot do that — one old house is not two new ones unless it was split, and a split gives adjacent numbers, not 21 and 23 with a household between.
Three possibilities, and these frames cannot choose: one «48» is misread; the lower figure is not a house number but a page, section, conscription or pagina reference; or the renumbering was not one-to-one. ⚠ The 6 October conclusion is not withdrawn — the confidence in it is, and the concordance may not be built on it until this is settled.
✔ The third question stands: the upper figure is live, because the book is bound in its order.
✔ AND THE SAMPLE GIVES THREE HOUSE NUMBERS THIS ARCHIVE WANTED: «Franciscus Xaverius Defranceschi» with «Clotilda n. Ortis» at house 7; «Joannes Sestan» with «Sancta uxor» at house 9; «Leonardus Defranceschi» at house 34. ➕ Also read with their numbers: Crismanich 13, Marecich 14 and 17, Udovicich 19, Gasparich 25, Terdoslavich 8, Rabar-Santoteth 1, Palman 11, Rabar 15, and «Domus Ecclesiae» at 20/27.
⚠⚠ THIS IS A SAMPLE, NOT THE HARVEST. A real pass needs the row rules visible: without them a crop cannot tell a pair stacked inside one cell from two numbers in consecutive rows — which is exactly the ambiguity that produced the «48» problem in the first place. What it produced on this siteThe column, the anomaly, and the three house numbers · Worklist 191, and why 171 must wait · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — the baptism book's MARGINS are a substitute for both registers these reels do not hold: deaths to 1954, and «Extr. za ženidbu» marriage certificates Yielded | Worklist 176 — raised 5 October on death dates written into baptism entries by a later hand, and called «a death register hiding inside a baptism register». Its first step was completed the same day with no new death found. The question here was what else the column holds. | ⭐⭐ A SECOND KIND OF MARGIN, AND IT IS A MARRIAGE. M01069142, under a child baptised in the 1860s: «Extr. za ženidbu 14/11 89 br. 68» — an extract issued for marriage, 14 November 1889, protocol number 68. The parish recorded in the baptism entry that it had issued the certificate that let the person marry. The Gologorica marriage register on these reels stops in February 1788, and every marriage date gathered this week came from a census column. ⚠ It dates the certificate, not the wedding. The phrase appears nowhere else in this archive's data, in any spelling.
✔ AND THE DEATH MARGINS RUN TO 1954. «† 27.VIII.1923» · «† 4/11 1919» · «† 10/12 99» · «† 20.XII.1917» · «† 20.8.1918» · «† 24/2 901» · «† 23.X.1913» · «† 10/VIII 1920» · «† 27/2 1935» · «† 21/12 1905» · «† 23/IV/1954». The death register ends 23 January 1880.
> So both books missing from these reels have a partial substitute written into the margins of the book that survives.
✔ And this archive has used it twice without noticing: Franciscus Xaverius † 4 Jan 1893 and Maximilianus † 6 Aug 1910 are both margin readings of deaths after the register ends.
⚠⚠ THIS IS NOT A HARVEST AND MUST NOT BE READ AS ONE. The annotations run into the hundreds across 168 frames, mostly for families this study does not follow; the «Infans» column gives a forename only, so each margin needs the Genitores column opposite to attribute it; and a fixed crop will not do it — the table shifts between gatherings, a trap that has had to be caught three times today. The item is restated, not closed. What it produced on this siteWhat the margins hold, and what they substitute for · Worklist 176, restated · The letter — the substitute argues for it, not against it · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — «GRAH-ŽIPAN» confirmed in a clear hand: the second element is an OFFICE, and Marianna is «Grah-Missan» Yielded | The second element of the Grah compound could only be settled by the same name in another hand — and the earlier Patrini sweep stopped at M01069135, leaving 1861–1880 unread for this surname. That is exactly where both women were standing. | ⭐⭐⭐ BOTH COMPOUNDS, ONE HAND, ONE PAGE. Page 126 (M01069140), Patrini, 1864: 7 Maji «Joannes Bubich» and «Marianna n. GRAH-MISSAN»; 22 Septembris «Josephus Udovichich» and «Rosa GRAH-ŽIPAN». Three months apart, by one clerk.
✔ THE SECOND IS NOT «JOPAN». At eight times magnification it is a tall looped capital and then i-p-a-n: «ŽIPAN», the Croatian župan, a village headman. An hour earlier this archive raised that as a guess and said twice that nothing established it. It is now a reading, and it joins the «Suppanus Joannes Grach» already held at Gračišće. ⚠ The form is certain; identifying this household with that one is not.
⚠⚠ AND THE ATTRIBUTION WAS MINE TO FIX. The register gives Marianna twice — as a mother (M01069137: «Joannes Bubich, agr.» · «Mariana Grah-Missan») and as a godmother (M01069140, same husband). She is «Grah-Missan», and the 1862 reading of her as a «-pan» form is withdrawn.
✔ So the Grah women of Gologorica are THREE: Marianna and Rosalia, both Grah-Missan, and «Rosa Grah-Žipan» — new, and of the headman's house.
➕ ⚠ One more of my own statements withdrawn: «she bore no child this archive has found» — she bore one, and that baptism is the only reason her maiden surname survives at all.
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✔ THE STRETCH IS FINISHED: FIVE GRAH ENTRIES IN EIGHTEEN FRAMES, where the whole rest of the book gave one. «Mariana Grah-Missan» as a mother at M01069137 and again at M01069138 — two children — and as a godmother at M01069140; «Rosa Grah-Žipan» as a godmother on the same page; and at M01069151 «Franciscus Bubić, agla» with «Rosalia nata grah-Missan». So Rosalia is in the baptism register under her maiden name too, as a mother, with the husband the 1862 census gives her. Four attestations of «Grah-Missan» and one of «Grah-Žipan»; the two forms never blur.*
⚠ No further Grah in the stretch. ➕ ⚠ And the typewritten 1920 act of the Commissariato Generale Civile lies across folio 142 here — «la grafia originale del cognome … è de Franceschi … il suo proavo Leonardo de Franceschi nato a Luincio dd. 23/6 1626». This archive found and transcribed it on 5 October (worklist 179). It is named here only to record that this pass re-met it; nothing is claimed by it. What it produced on this siteBoth compounds, and what the office means · The withdrawn attribution · The Grah record · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — the Grah wife's BURIAL entry found, and the reels hold NO Gologorica marriage register after February 1788 Yielded | The second element of «Grah-?pan» can only be settled by the same name in another hand. Two were reachable: the Cerovlje book, and Marianna's own death entry — she died 19 August 1870, inside the death register. Both were checked. | ✔ THE BURIAL ENTRY IS THERE. Page 115 (M01069287): «1870 Augusti 19ⁿᵃ · h. 25 · Marianna Bubić, agla, munita SS. Sacramentis, et sepulta die 20. hujus · 35 · Hydropisia» — Blasius Zwölber, Parochus. Thirty-five in August 1870 closes on her birth of 19 September 1834, and the register adds her cause, her house and her priest.
⚠ BUT IT GIVES HER HUSBAND'S SURNAME. She is «Marianna Bubić». A married-in woman is filed under her husband in the death book exactly as in the household index, so the one register that might have named her father does not — and the 6 October walk of this book would have passed her as a Bubić. ✔ The Cerovlje hand is no better: its Grah of houses 18, 19 and 23 are plain «Grah» with no second element.
⭐⭐⭐ AND THE SEARCH FOR HER MARRIAGE FOUND A GAP NOBODY HAD RECORDED. Her wedding of 22 January 1861 would name her father. The frame map holds exactly one Gologorica marriage register, 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 are off-film.
⚠ Not abstract: nearly every marriage date found this week came from a Matrimonii column in a census, never from a marriage entry. A census gives the DATE; a marriage entry gives the PARENTS of both parties — which is what this archive keeps running out of. It is now the fourth request in the letter to Pazin. What it produced on this siteHer burial entry, and the marriage-register gap · The letter, now four requests · The Grah record · Gologorica · Cerovlje | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⚠⚠ DAPA ZM34K-214 — two Grah follow-ups: «Grah-Jopan» WITHDRAWN to a question, and Cerovlje house 12 is an Opašić house Yielded | Two leads opened by the two Grah wives of the 1862 census — the new compound «Grah-Jopan», and Rosalia's stated origin «e Cerovglie N.º 12». Both were followed, and both corrected what had been published rather than extending it. | ⚠⚠ «GRAH-JOPAN» IS WITHDRAWN. It was read off a four-frame tile at page scale and never magnified. Re-read at nine times, against this scribe's own J in «Joannes» twice on the same page — which loops wide at the top left and descends with a leftward tail — the letter after the hyphen has a straighter, taller ascender and does not match it. And the word runs off into the column rule. What the page securely gives is «Grah-» and a second element with a tall ascender. Corrected.
⭐⭐ AND WHAT OPENS IS BETTER THAN WHAT CLOSED. This archive already holds «Mattia uxor Suppani Joannis Grach» at Gračišće — the wife of Suppanus Joannes Grach, the village headman, a word itself recovered from a misreading. If the second element reads «Žopan» the compound is not a second family but «Grah the headman's house», and it points at the Gračišće Grah who held the office. ⚠ Nothing establishes it. It is recorded because the letter is ambiguous and the office is attested for this surname one parish away — and because the argument that made «Grah-Mišan» a two-family name rested on both halves being Slavic, which does not survive if the second half is a title.*
✔ AND CEROVLJE HOUSE 12 IS AN OPAŠIĆ HOUSE. M01068790: «Opašić Thomas def. Antonii», n. 21 Dec 1846, with «Margaritha n. Dujanić»; his son «Opašić Benjamin» with «Dominica n. Gržić». House 13 likewise. The lead closes. The earlier sentence — that the Gologorica census preserves a Cerovlje Grah household that Cerovlje's own book does not show — was stronger than it should have been: that book's households begin with men born in the 1840s, were drawn long after Rosalia left in 1869, and these parishes renumbered their houses. ✔ ⚠ The families do meet — Opašić is one of the six surnames the Cerovlje Grah daughters married into — but that is a connection between families, not a claim about a house. What it produced on this siteBoth follow-ups, and what each corrected · The withdrawn reading, and the overstated sentence · The Grah record · Gologorica · Cerovlje | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — the 1894 Gologorica register SWEPT END TO END: three marriages the archive did not have, and a register of LAST RITES where the death book is missing Yielded | This archive judged these the lowest-value frames on worklist 218 line 3 — reasoning that the book's person-level Repertorium already sees married women, so the Grah nil was soundly bounded without a sweep. That reasoning was right about the nil and wrong about the book. | ⚠⚠ THE 1894 BOOK IS NOT A HOUSE LIST. IT IS A GENEALOGY.
Under each head it sets out «Filii», «Filiae», «Fratres», «Sorores», «Parentes» and — where the wife had married before — «Liberi … ex I/II thalamo», her children by each earlier husband. Twenty-eight frames in it has already produced four things.
⭐⭐ HECTOR GETS HIS PARENTS. Minted yesterday from a bare line in the 1862 name index, his row had to say «a house and a year and nothing else: no parents, no day, no death». M01069590: «Defranceschi Antonius, III vir Rosae n. Salamon» · Filii: Ferdinandus Romanus · Aloysius Joannes · «Hector». Son of Antonius and Ruža née Salamon, by her third marriage. ➕ And «Ida-Rosa» is a further daughter, new.
⭐⭐ A HUSBAND NAMED. The 1862 book gave Beatrix Hermenegildis a husband truncated to «za Ang. Val.», published as «a lead, not an identification». M01069585: «Clotilda, Maria, filia Valentini MARCOLINI e Beatricis n. Defranceschi», n. 15 Januar 1894. Husband and daughter both new. ⚠ The «Ang.» is still unexplained and is left standing.*
✔ LEONARDUS'S TWO FAMILIES SORTED. The 1862 book gave two sons by his second marriage; this gives five — Leopoldus Antonius, Petrus, Romanus, Victor, Aemilius Ernestus — and assigns every loose golo row to a marriage.
⚠⚠ AND IT CAUGHT A DUPLICATE OF MINE. Yesterday I minted «Maria Aloysia Defranceschi», b. 12 Sept 1880. This archive already had her: «Maria Luigia Defranceschi», b. 1880, d. 1909, «Gračišće, Istria», a MyHeritage row with an empty note. I did not check before minting. ✔ The two sources corroborate each other — the register has her «nata a Gollignana» and the tree places her at Gračišće, neither knowing of the other — and «Luigia» is simply the Italian of «Aloysia». Both ids kept and frozen, the join written on both rows.
No Grah in the frames read so far.
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✔✔ SWEPT END TO END, AND THESE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE THE LOWEST-VALUE FRAMES ON THE LINE. They have produced more joins than any other book on either reel.
⭐⭐ THREE MARRIAGES, NONE OF THEM ON THE ROSTER. Aloysius Arturus × «Albina n. Lovrinović» (M01069671), with daughters Norina and Elda-Maria — which closes yesterday's inference that the «Aloysius» whose daughters are entered «fil. Aloysii» is this man; Lambertina Lina × «Celentich Josephus», ludimagister (M01069687), with Gemma Maria and Alice Clotildis Carolina; and Estella Ida × «Sečešić Andreas» (M01069735), with four children. ➕ A fourth, «Defranceschi Ferdinandus» × «Catharina n. Gašparić», is a join rather than a find — both were already on the roster and nothing said they were married.
⭐⭐⭐ AND THE BOOK CARRIES AN «EXTREMA UNCTIO» REGISTER. M01069740, ruled: Nrus domus · NOMEN ET COGNOMEN · Pagus · Nativitatis · «EXTREMA UNCTIO» · Confessus · Communicans. Last rites by year — 1907 (eleven), 1908 (ten), 1909 (two) — each with a house, a hamlet and a full date of birth. The death register ends 23 January 1880 and Vol. IV is on neither reel; extreme unction is given at the point of death, so this is the nearest death-adjacent source the archive has for those years. ⚠ No Defranceschi is in it — the twenty-three are Rabar, Androšić, Ivić, Opašić, Stojšić, Sestan, Udovičić, Križmanić, Gržan, Želesko, Ančić, Bubić, Marčić, Runko, Savetić. The instrument is the finding, not the content.
✔ Two documents turn out not to be one-offs. The «Senes» list of 1909 is a series — «Annus 1899» onward, each dated to the preceding 31 December, with Maximilianus in every one and Aloysius from 1903. A name's disappearance from an annual list of the aged dates a death. And a numbered succession of the parish's incumbents (M01069737–39), thirty-one names, of whom number 11 is «Defranceschi Mathias Joan.», parochus.
✔ THE GRAH NIL HOLDS, and Rosalia née Grah-Missan is in the book at M01069612 with four children where the 1862 book gave one. ⚠ Near-misses set aside:* «Gržan», «Gržić», «Gržević», «Gržetić», «Graber», «Gašparić», «Grbavac», «Crosgnach».What it produced on this siteThe 1894 book as a genealogy, and what it corrected · Hector, with parents · Beatrix and Valentinus Marcolini · Worklist 218 line 3 · The finished sweep, the three marriages, and the unction register · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — the 1862 Gologorica register SWEPT END TO END: two Grah wives the index cannot see, two household BYNAMES, and a marriage this archive carried as a death Yielded | Worklist 218 line 3 — the 144 register frames the 1862 index slip cannot speak for. The slip indexes families, so a Grah wife is outside it, and the 1826 census found exactly that — a «Marianna Grah» entered as a wife. The register itself had to be read.* | ⭐⭐⭐ THE SWEEP PAID: TWO GRAH WIVES IN ONE OPENING (M01069464), IN TWO BUBIĆ HOUSEHOLDS FACING EACH OTHER.
> «Franciscus Bubić», rusticus, n. 31 Julii 1842, m. 18 Junii 1869, ob. 7 April 1908 · «Rosalia ux. n. GRAH-MISSAN», n. 13 Maji 1845 · Adnotatio «e Cerovglie N.º 12»
> «Joannes fil. Joannis et Dominicae», n. 14 Maji 1833, ob. 15 Febr. 1909 · «Marianna ux. n. GRAH-JOPAN», n. 19 Sept. 1834, m. 22 Jann. 1861, ob. 19 Agost. 1870
This is precisely the class of person the book's own index slip cannot reach, and the reason the 144 frames had to be read.
⭐⭐ «GRAH-JOPAN» is a compound this archive had never met — a second second-element beside «Grah-Mišan», so a search for the one misses the other.
⭐⭐⭐ And Rosalia is the 1894 Repertorium's «Grah - Missan Rosalia, house 29, 1845», which gave a name, a house and a year and nothing else. She now has a birth to the day, a husband, a wedding, a son — and an origin: Cerovlje, house 12.
⚠⚠ House 12 is NOT in the Cerovlje book. That sweep found the Grah at 18, 19, 23, 38 and 53 and married its daughters into Držetić, Dujanić, Šepuka, Opašić, Krošnjak and Lušetić — not Bubić. No contradiction: those households run from a man born 1837 to children of the 1960s, and Rosalia left in 1869 before they were drawn. So the Gologorica census preserves a Cerovlje Grah household that Cerovlje's own surviving book does not show, and names the surname it married into.
> Method. A woman who leaves a parish vanishes from its status animarum and appears in her husband's. For a married-in surname the receiving parish is where you find her, and it is the receiving parish that records where she came from.
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⚠⚠ FIRST, A SHORTCUT THAT WOULD HAVE PRODUCED A FALSE NIL. Much of this book is blank — the film even carries a «BLANK PAGES · NEISPISANE STRANICE» target. An ink-density pass over all 144 frames was written to find the written ones and skip the rest; it put M01069560 in the «blank» band. That frame carries about twenty-five names, including «Defranceschi Henricus». A sparsely written page scores the same as an empty one, because the printed rules dominate the measurement. The threshold was abandoned and every frame is being read.
⭐⭐⭐ AND FOUR FRAMES IN, HOUSE 4 IS THE WHOLE OF CARLO'S BROTHER'S HOUSEHOLD.
> «Franciscus Defranceschi, filius Josephi et Lambertinae» · «possidens» · n. 17 Feb 1816 · m. 10 Octob. 1859 · d. 4 Jan 1893
> «Clotilda uxor n. Ortis» · n. 12 Octob. 1834 · «e Novatico»
> and fourteen children, grouped by sex rather than birth order
⚠ Most of it is verification and this row says so: thirteen of the fourteen are already on the roster, most read out of the baptism register this month. The «gemini» brace over the twins is corroboration, not discovery — the baptism book already had them, and better, with «prius nata».
⭐⭐⭐ WHAT IS NEW: THE YEAR LINA'S BAPTISM WITHHELD. Her row carried an explicit refusal — the baptism gives «die 23. Februarii nata» with no year, and the archive declined to choose between a contextual 1876 and the tree's 1875. The census gives «Lambertina, Lina · 23. Febr. 1876», and at seven times magnification against the same clerk's «1872» and «1868» two rows below the final digit is the closed bowl of a 6. Corrected.
⭐⭐ AND TWO MARRIAGES NEITHER DAUGHTER'S ROW HAD: Beatrix Hermenegildis, m. 26 Nov 1887, «za Ang. Val.»; Clotildis Adelaidis, m. 11 Oct 1890, «za Rud. Star.». ⚠ Both husbands' names are truncated by the column — leads, not identifications.
✔ And the Adnotatio column tracks daughters OUT of the parish, in Croatian in a Latin book: «Kersanum», «u Š. Ivan», «u Šterni», «u Keršanu». That makes this census a finding aid for exactly the class of person its own index slip cannot see.
➕ Also: the infant Victor Josephus carries «vixit 4 a. 4 m. 20 d.», and Franciscus Xaverius — who had no note at all — gets his first document.
No Grah in the frames read so far.
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⭐⭐ AND TWO FRAMES ON, LEONARDUS THE WEAVER MARRIED TWICE. M01069447: «Maria n. Flegar» d. 28 Sept 1882; «Maria Udovičić · II. uxor» m. 3 April 1883; «Antonius Leopoldus filius · ex II. votis» n. 29 Jan 1884; and «Rosa filia» born and dead on 1 April 1886. This archive held all four people and none of the joins — Maria Udovičić and Antonius Leopoldus each sat on the roster with an empty note, and the phrase «ex II. votis» appears nowhere else in this archive's data. Told here.
✔✔ AND THE STRUCTURE THAT WAS DELIBERATELY NOT CLAIMED IS NOW READ. M01069446 carries three consecutive Defranceschi households in which a «Rosa … n. Salamon» appears each time, the husbands labelled «I. vir», «II. vir», «III. vir». Read at magnification, the clerk says it himself: «Defranceschi Antonius … Antonii, III. vir Rosae n. Salamon», and her own Matrimonii cell carries three numbered dates — I. 18 Febr. 1878 · II. 5 Febr. 1883 · III. 26 Oct. 1887 — matching the marriages of three brothers on the facing page. Ruža née Salamon (1854–1898) married Joannes Baptista, then Franciscus, then Antonius, widowed twice before thirty-four. She was not on this roster under any spelling, and two of her children sat on it as MyHeritage rows with empty notes and no parents.
⭐⭐⭐ AND THE SAME OPENING STATES THE FAMILY'S ORIGIN. The father, «Defranceschi Antonius» (1814–1893), carries «Ex Italia (Carnia)» in his Adnotatio, and his wife «Francisca ux. n. Defranceschi» carries «Gallignanensis». This archive has argued the Carnian origin from surname geography and from Carlo's own writing; here a parish clerk writes it as a fact about a named man. ⚠ One Adnotatio, one household, no town named.
➕ Also: their daughter Theresia (1843–1882) is entered «sordo-muta» — the only disability this archive has found recorded in these books; their daughter Maria is followed «ad Lindarum N.º 13»; and the book cross-references its own pages («pag. 15», «pag. 16», «ad pag. 27», «ex p. 14», «vide infra»), so a reader can walk a family across the volume. That is a finding aid nobody had noted.
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⭐⭐ AND THE REEL LISTS ITS OWN CONTENTS ON THE WAY OUT. Between M01069490 and M01069498 reel 214 repeats every title card it has carried: 3.3 (births 1770–1781, deaths and marriages 1770–1789), 5.1 (deaths 1646–1806), 5.2 (deaths 1784–1880), 7.1 (Status Animarum 1826), 7.2 (Status Animarum 1862). Then «KRAJ» at M01069499. Told here.
⚠ It also corrects the film map, which said the 1862 tail «carries no title card of its own». Reel 215 restates it at M01069503. The boundary was right; the reason given for it was not. Corrected.
⭐ The card for signatura 5.2 advertises an index — «NA KRAJU KNJIGE NALAZI SE KAZALO IMENA» — which is the index this archive established this morning stops at page 71 of a book written to page 135. The catalogue promises it and does not qualify it.
➕ And the film names its own making: «SNIMLJENO U SREDIŠNJEM FOTOLABORATORIJU HRVATSKOG DRŽAVNOG ARHIVA U ZAGREBU, Kamera br. 1, Snimatelj: Vrban Božidar, 21.10.04». The books are held at Pazin; the filming was done in Zagreb on 21 October 2004.
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✔✔ THE BOOK IS FINISHED — and the nil holds. Across all 144 frames the forms looked for were Grah · Grach · Gracco · Grah-Mišan · Grah-Jopan. The two wives at M01069464 are the only bearers of the name in the book, and both are invisible to its family index. ⚠ Near-misses set aside, all present here: «Gržan», «Gržić», «Gržetić», «Gržević», «Graber», «Gašparić», «Crosgnach/Grosgnach», «Grbavac».
⭐⭐ TWO HOUSEHOLD BYNAMES. Above the heading of «Defranceschi Antonius» (M01069446) — the couple marked «Ex Italia (Carnia)» and «Gallignanensis» — a byname written diagonally across the rule: «Osvaldo». And on the index slip (M01069577), beneath «Defranceschi-Carmel Ant. et Franca», a second: «Defranceschi-Tito». Both are new to this archive.
⚠⚠ AND A CORRECTION OF MINE THAT WAS WITHDRAWN BEFORE PUBLICATION. At seven times magnification the slip's «Carmel» carries a dot above its minims, which would make it «Carniel» — the Carnian — on the very couple the register marks «Ex Italia (Carnia)». It was drafted as a correction to this archive's transcription. It is withdrawn and the original reading stands: the bynames around it, «Osvaldo» and «Tito», are personal names, which is how an Istrian household byname is ordinarily formed — Carmelo belongs to that set and Carniel does not. Told here. ⚠ The dot is recorded rather than explained away.
⭐⭐⭐ AND THE PHANTOM DEATH DATE IS A WEDDING. Earlier today this archive withdrew «died 25 November 1870» from Aloysius Defranceschi as unexplained — no burial entry had ever been found for it. M01069542 gives «25. Nov. 1870» in the Matrimonii contracti column, braced across «Aloysius Defranceschi, mercator» and «Joanna n. Udovičić». The tree recorded his wedding day as the day he died. Filed.
⭐⭐ The book keeps its own genealogy (M01069550–551), setting out each man's children, siblings, and his wife's children by each previous husband under «Liberi … ex I/II thalamo». It corroborates both of today's households in the clerk's own structure — Ruža's three marriages, Leonardus's two — and adds Leonardus's first marriage date, 20 February 1871, and the marriages of his sisters Maria (11 Feb 1873) and Rosa (28 Feb 1876).
⚠ It also corrected a reading of mine from this morning: «Maria Luizia» is «Maria-Aloysia». Mine, and filed as such.
➕ And one name is new outright: «Hector Ruggierus Defranceschi», house 7, born 1896 (M01069555). What it produced on this siteTwo Grah wives, «Grah-Jopan», and Cerovlje house 12 · House 4 entire, and what in it is new · Lina, born 1876 · The year corrected · Carlo's brother, documented at last · Worklist 218 line 3 · Leonardus's two marriages, and the Rosa block left unclaimed · Ruža and the three brothers, and «Ex Italia (Carnia)» · Reel 214's own contents list, and the card the map said was missing · The finished sweep, the two bynames, and the wedding mistaken for a death · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — the Gologorica baptism book's PATRINI and MATER columns SWEPT: one Grah in 99 frames, and the register puts her EX GALLIGNANA Yielded | Worklist 218 line 3 — the columns no index can reach. The baptism book itself was walked end to end on 5 October and its index read on 10 October, but both were Defranceschi passes: the index files a married woman under her husband, and the walk named «Grah» in its scope for the opening folios and the last twenty only. The middle of the book — roughly folios 25 to 121 — had never been read with this surname in view. | ✔✔ SWEPT END TO END. EXACTLY ONE GRAH IN NINETY-NINE FRAMES.
⭐⭐⭐ AND THE CONDITIO IS THE FINDING.
> 25 January 1805, house 70 (M01069047), at the baptism of «Dominica Selesco ex Doll.»:
> «Joseph: Baddetich fil: q. Johan» · conditio «gollogʒ.»
> «Theresia grach Defranceschi uxor Joh: Baptistæ» · conditio «ex galligʒ.»
This is Theresia née Grah, the one Grah who married the direct line — married 9 June 1774 as «filia Antonij Grah ex Parochia Cherbune». It is her sixth recorded godmother appearance and eighteen years later than any other, and the frame had never been cited.
⚠⚠ In 1784 the register called the couple «ambo ex hac Parochia». In 1805 it calls her «ex Gallignana» — Gračišće.
The reading was tested as this archive requires: the two place-words stand one above the other in a single cell, one hand, one magnification — g-o-llo-g against g-a-lli-g — and neighbouring openings write it unabbreviated, «ambo Gallignanenses», «ex gallignana», «ex Gallignana» (M01069050, M01069063).
⚠ What it is not. One Conditio Patrinorum tag does not move a person's residence, and nothing else in this archive places her at Gallignana. It is published because it is the first thread running the right way between the Gologorica casa 31 household and the second Defranceschi population at Gračišće, houses 4 and 5 — and the thread is the Grah.
➕ Also out of these frames: Defranceschi godparents on almost every opening — «Batta Defranceschi», «Catharina Defranceschi ejusdem filia», «Mathia uxor Leonardi Defranceschi» (repeatedly, and always «hujates» or «ex hoc loco»), «Maria Rosalia Defranceschi»; and two baptisms of «Dnus Josephus De Franceschi» and «Domina Lambertina ejusdem uxor nata Pesle» — Carlo's parents — one with «Eugenia Peschle Voloscensis, Dni Mathiæ filia» standing godmother (M01069058).
⚠ A near-miss worth recording for anyone sweeping this surname: «Joannes Grob Cherbunensis» (M01069054). Grob, not Grah.
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✔ THE NIL, AND THE EXACT TERMS IT COVERS. Across all 99 frames the forms looked for were Grah · Grach · Gracco · Grah-Mišan in the father, mother and godparent columns. The 25 January 1805 entry is the only one.
⚠ The forms that are NOT Grah and would trap a careless sweep — all of them present in these frames, repeatedly: «Crosgnach» (a common Gologorica surname, on many openings; also written «Crosgnach», «Grosgnach»), «Grob» (Joannes Grob Cherbunensis, M01069054), «Hrabar» (Joannis Maria Hrabar Novacensis, M01069074), «Gherson/Ghersan», «Gasparich», «Graber». A nil for this surname is worth nothing unless it says which near-misses were set aside, and these are they.
⭐⭐ AND THE DECREE ANNOTATIONS ARE IN THIS BOOK TOO, not only the census. Above the first entry of M01069131, over «Antonius Opassich»: «= Opassi: D.P. 15/VI-30 N.º 142» — Decreto Prefettizio, 15 June 1930, number 142. That extends the decree finding from the status animarum to a second register series, and it means a surname search of the baptism book for the 1920s–30s must read the space above the line as well.
➕ The sweep also put eyes on every Defranceschi godparent in sixty years of the book — and they are on nearly every opening: «Batta Defranceschi», «Catharina Defranceschi ejusdem filia», «Maria Rosalia Defranceschi», «Pietr'Ant. Defranceschi», «Josephus Defranceschi textor», «Maximilianus Defranceschi», and above all «Mathea/Matthea uxor Leonardi Defranceschi», who stands repeatedly from the 1790s to the 1820s and is always entered «hujas», «hujates» or «ex hoc loco». ⚠ That is the contrast that gives the Theresia entry its force: this clerk and his predecessors marked the Defranceschi of this parish as local, every time, and marked Theresia as of Gallignana. What it produced on this siteTheresia at Gallignana, and what the Conditio does and does not prove · Her row, with all her appearances · The Grah record · Worklist 218 line 3 · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⚠⚠ DAPA ZM34K-214 — the Gologorica DEATHS index STOPS AT PAGE 71 (about 1830) while the register runs to page 135 (1880) Yielded | Checking a nil before leaning on it. Today's withdrawal of Aloysius Defranceschi's 1870 death year said this register holds no such entry. Before letting that stand, the question was which source the statement actually rests on — the end-to-end walk of 6 October or the book's own index. | ⚠⚠ THE INDEX IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE BOOK, AND NOBODY HAD WRITTEN DOWN WHY.
The index was read on 6 October and gave this archive a lot — forty-eight households mapped to house numbers, the «Extranei» column, the «alias» bynames. What was never recorded is where its page references stop.
Checked block by block today: not one page number anywhere in the index passes 71.
What it produced on this siteWhere the deaths index stops, and why the walk mattered · The Aloysius nil, restated on the walk · The baptism book's index, which is complete · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — the 1921 Gologorica Status Animarum swept END TO END: a clean nil for the Grah, and the register CITES THE DECREES that renamed the parish Yielded | Worklist 218, line 3 — the last of the four status animarum, and the only one with no finding aid. 24 of its 117 frames had been read; the other 93 had not. | ✔ EVERY FRAME OF THIS BOOK WAS OPENED AND READ — all 117, M01069826 to M01069942, in tiles of four frames at the name column. Most entries are of families this study does not follow and leave no citation below; the nil is the result of reading them, not of skipping them.
✔✔ THE NIL IS CLEAN, AND IT IS THE BEST-BOUNDED OF THE FOUR.
No Grah, Grach, Gracco or Grah-Mišan anywhere in the 1921 census of Gologorica. The whole G of the book is Gašparić · Graber · Gregorić · Gržan · Gržanić · Gržetić · Gržević · Gržić. ⚠ The bound is the sweep's own, not an index's: a status animarum has no Mater or Patrini column, so a Grah wife is visible in this book (as «ux. n. —») but a Grah godmother cannot be, because the book has no godparents.
⭐⭐⭐ AND IT CITES THE DECREES, WITH DATE AND PROTOCOL NUMBER.
> house 27 (M01069855): «= Opassi (D. Pref. 2/5-29 N° 0-76)» over «Opašić Franciscus» — and his wife on the next line, «Aemilia ux. n. Čeh = Ceceo (D.Pr. 3/5-29 N° 0-53)»
> house 28 (M01069856): «= Opassi (D. Pref. 4/5-29 N° 0-80)»
Three decrees, three consecutive days of May 1929, three numbers; the annotations run on to 1935. A married woman's maiden name was decreed separately from her husband's surname.
⚠⚠ And a decreed form need not sound like the name: «Udovičić = Delle Vedove» at Kamenik house 70 (M01069898) is a translation (udovica = widow), not a respelling. Beside the phonetic forms (Opassi, Ceceo, Bratti, Androssi, Silli, Sirolli) and the clipped ones (Anci, Ghersani, Udovici, Rabario).* New method rule.
✔ «Ghersani» for Gržanić identifies the «Ghersan» of the 1862 index slip — that nil is tighter than it could be stated at the time.
✔ Compound surnames are the house style — Rabar-Šantelić, Zec-Kočebar, Zec-Jurandić, Rabar-Radetić — which retires the guess that «Grah-Mišan» was a byname. ⚠ But the decrees made a second, identical-looking hyphen — «Rosa Opassi-Opačić», «Regina Rabario-Rabar», «Udovici-Udovičić» — one name in two languages. «Grah-Mišan» is the first kind: both elements are Slavic.
⭐⭐⭐ AND HOUSE 87 IS A DEFRANCESCHI HOUSEHOLD. «De Franceschi Aloisius», mercator, n. 4 Maji 1832; «Joanna ux. n. Udovičić», n. 19 Novemb. 1845; «Gisella» 1873, «Aloisius» 1883; two granddaughters married to «D'Atri Francus, capitaneus exercitus» and «Galliano Aloysius». It withdraws a death year of 1870 and settles the collision the archive flagged on 5 October. Told here · corrected here.
➕ Next door at house 88, «Lefemine Vitus», conditio «ludimagister ital.» — the Italian schoolmaster. What it produced on this siteThe 1921 sweep, the nil, and the decrees · House 87 — the Defranceschi merchant, and the dead man who was not dead · The decree rule, widened: translation as well as sound · The death year 1870, withdrawn · The Grah record · Worklist 218 line 3, and what is left · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — the 1862, 1894 and 1921 censuses: TWO carry their own indexes, one Grah in all three, and a surname changed by DECREE OF THE PREFECT OF POLA Yielded | Worklist 218, line 3, the remaining three status animarum — 507 frames. Each was checked for a finding aid before being read. | ⭐⭐ TWO OF THE THREE CARRY THEIR OWN INDEX, AND NEITHER HAD BEEN OPENED.
The 1894 book has a «REPERTORIUM» (M01069750–824) keyed on surname-initial + forename-initial, giving each person's house number and the page of the census. It indexes PEOPLE, not households — so, unlike the baptism book's index, it sees women under their own surnames.
> page 18, under «G R», house 29 · «Grah - Missan Rosalia» · 1845
One Grah in two hundred and forty-six frames, and the index writes the compound. That is the exact form this item first met at Gračišće as «Grah · Missan» and guessed was a byname — now attested at Gračišće, Cerovlje and Gologorica twice. The supplement pages, which run out of order to page 78, were scanned as well: no further G.
The 1862 book's index is a loose paper slip lying across blank pages (M01069576–577): «Ordo alfabeticus familiarum in hoc statu animarum contentarum». Its G is Gasparich and Ghersan only — no Grah. ⚠ It indexes families, so a Grah wife would not appear: it is a nil for heads of house. It also indexes «Defranceschi Carmel Ant. et Francisca» (p.10), «Defranceschi Franc. et Clotildis» (p.15) and «Sestan Anton. et Joanna Defranceschi» (p.5).
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⭐⭐⭐ AND THE 1921 BOOK EXPLAINS THE «GRACCO» PENCIL.
> house 7, above the heading: «corretta in «Petessini», con decreto del prefetto di Pola» (M01069835)
The Italianisation of Slavic surnames in these books was an administrative act, and the register records it as one. New method row: for the 1920s and 1930s, search the Slavic form, the byname compound AND the Italian form — and read the space above the heading, where the later hand put the new name.
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⭐ Three more things these books gave. A second clergy list — the 1921 book opens with «Domus parochialis» and nine Gologorica incumbents from «Žváček Ludovicus, parochus», the same man the Cerovlje book lists as administering that parish «e Gologorica» 1913–23, and the 1862 book's birthday calendar gives his birth, 18 August 1866. The «SENES» list of the parish's aged at 31 December 1908, which gives Defranceschi Maximilianus (house 2) a birth of 2 January 1828 and Defranceschi Aloisius (house 87) one of 4 May 1832. And a fourth and fifth loose document on these reels — the 1862 index slip, and an NDH-era extract form of the 1940s inside the 1921 book.
⚠⚠ Both indexes are instruments, not substitutes, and the row says which frames were actually read. A filing note as well: the family's two local folders split at M01069501, not at the reel boundary, so M01069501–M01069942 sit in the folder named ZM34K-215 though the frame map assigns them to reel 214. Every frame is present. What it produced on this siteThe three censuses, their indexes and the decree · Surnames changed by decree — the new rule · The Grah record · Worklist 218 line 3, and what is left · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ✔✔ DAPA ZM34K-214 — the 1826 STATUS ANIMARUM swept end to end for GRAH: one in 121 frames, and she is a «Grah-Mišan» Yielded | Worklist 218, line 3, second half: sweep the four status animarum for the surname, «where the 1826 «Marianna Grah» was found by accident». | ✔✔ ONE GRAH IN A HUNDRED AND TWENTY-ONE FRAMES — AND THE NAME IS NOT WHAT THIS ARCHIVE HAS BEEN CARRYING.
> house 25, in the Bubich household: «Marianna GRAH-MIŠAN ux. filia Matthiae et Justinae» (M01069358)
Held since 30 September as «Marianna Grah». The register writes the hyphenated compound, and it was there all along. So «Grah-Mišan» is now attested in all three parishes — Gračišće, where this item first met it as «Grah · Missan» and guessed it a byname; Cerovlje; and Gologorica.*
✔ And a controlled nil across the rest. The book opens with the clergy and the «civilitas», then runs through some seventy surnames — Udovicich · Flegar · Crismanich · Gasparich · Zabran · Ancich · Rabar · Opassich · Ghersan · Bussich · Zaiz · Selesco · Lucovich · Bratizza · Marecich · Terdoslavich · Canzianich · Cocolet and the rest. No Grah household, no second Grah wife, no Grah daughter anywhere else in it.
⚠ The bound, stated: a status animarum is one table across two pages and the surname lives on the left half. That half was read for every frame; the right half was not — including the «Locus ex quo vel ad quem» column, which this archive has mined before and whose Cerovlje twin is still unharvested.
✔ Two things seen in passing, both already held: the Joseph Defranceschi household appears twice in this one census — the same double-entry habit the baptism books show for 1784–1788; and the tail carries foundlings taken from Trieste into Gologorica households in 1844–46, «ex expositis Tergeste».
WHAT IS LEFT OF LINE 3: the 1862, 1894 and 1921 status animarum, and the Mater and Patrini columns of the 174 baptism-register frames. What it produced on this siteThe 1826 sweep, and «Grah-Mišan» in three parishes · The Grah record, corrected · Worklist 218 line 3, and what is left · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — the Gologorica baptism book's INDEX, used for the first time: «G» is a clean NIL for the Grah, «D» hands over twelve siblings with page numbers Yielded | Worklist 218, line 3: sweep the Gologorica baptisms and the four status animarum for Grah, in the Patrini and Mater columns. Before reading 174 frames, the back of the book was checked. | ⭐⭐ THE BOOK HAS AN INDEX, AND THIS ARCHIVE HAD NEVER CITED A FRAME OF IT. M01069166–M01069181, alphabetical, a household directory — the same form as the death book's index, which this archive has used for a week without noticing the baptisms had one too.
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✔✔ «G»: NO GRAH. The block runs Gasparich ×2 · Gherbaz · Gherson ×2 · Giurando · Giuratich — then the index jumps straight to L, H, I, J and K having nobody in them. Not one household of the name baptised a child at Gologorica in ninety-six years.
⚠⚠ And the bound is as important as the nil. It is a household directory: a married woman is entered under her husband's surname, and Theresia née Grach is in this very book as a mother, filed under Defranceschi. This is a nil for Grah FATHERS and says nothing about Grah mothers or godparents. The 174 register frames and the four status animarum remain unread.
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⭐⭐⭐ AND «D» GAVE WHAT LINE 3 WAS NOT ASKING FOR.
> «Defranceschi Joseph deffti Josephi · N.º ~~[struck]~~ 104 · and beneath, 63»
Twelve children, each with the page of its baptism — Josephus Lambertus 45 · Carolus Joseph 51 · Maria Aloysia 57 · Maximilianus (obiit) 61 · Franciscus Xaverius 65 · Amalia 67 · Clementina 73 · Clementina 76 · Hedvigis Maria Adelhaides 78 · Maximilianus 85 · Enrichus Jacobus 89 · Aloysius ibid. Eight are already on the roster; the index names the rest and says where to turn for every one.
Two further households of the name: «Defranceschi Petrus N.º 8» and «Defranceschi Leonardus deffti Antonii N.º 10» — and «Deprato Joanes Bapta N.º 6» with four children, whose house number matches the death index's Deprato.
⭐⭐ The Leonardus entry closes half of worklist 171, which carried «if Leonardus is house 10 new, and his father Antonius died at house 29 in 1802 … not written anywhere». It is written here. ⚠ The house equation itself is still unproved.
⚠ And the renumbering is inside the finding aid: the twelve-child household is entered under a struck number, 104, and 63 — three numbers in the index built to let you look it up. What it produced on this siteThe index, the G nil and the D block · Worklist 218 line 3, and 171's half-answer · What the Grah record now holds · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ✔✔✔ DAPA ZM34K-214 — CEROVLJE's «Status animarum» READ END TO END: nine Grah households, a Grah priest, and a controlled NIL for Defranceschi Yielded | Worklist 218, line 2, finished. The morning's row declared twenty-five frames of a hundred and thirty-nine; the rest were read the same day. | ⭐⭐⭐ NINE GRAH HOUSEHOLDS.
What it produced on this siteCerovlje end to end — the nine households and the nil · The Grah record, by parish · «Rogar» corrected to «Flegar» · Worklist 218, line 2 closed · Cerovlje | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — CEROVLJE's «Status animarum» opened for the first time: three GRAH households, three forms of the name, and a clergy list 1871–1979 Yielded | Worklist 218, line 2: «Cerovlje — its status animarum is the first 139 frames of ZM34K-214 and has never been opened.» Three Grah nils stood behind it — Krbune's own register, the Gologorica death index's «G» block and its Extranei column. | ⭐⭐⭐ THE GRAH ARE HERE, THREE HOUSEHOLDS DEEP.
> 18 · «GRAH Mathias def. Mathiae», rusticus, n. 15 Aug 1837, ob. 10 Sept 1929 · «Maria n. KROŠNJAK» · and his son «Grah Matthaeus», n. 21 Nov 1863, ob. 26 Oct 1940, with «Maria n. GRŽEVIĆ» and nine children
Four generations in house 18, from a man born in 1837 to children born in the 1960s. Also house 19 («Grah Martinus, viduus», n. 28 Oct 1827) and house 23 («Grah Joannes def. Josephi», n. 5 Sept 1852), and three daughters married out into Držetić, Dujanić and Šepuka. ⚠ The living are named and nothing more.
⚠⚠ AND THREE FORMS OF THE NAME. «Grah» (the ink) · «Grah-Mišan» (the compound — confirming this very item's guess that «Grah · Missan» was a byname) · «Gracco» (a faint later pencil above at least four headings, the Italianised form). A search under any one of the three misses the other two.
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⭐⭐ AND A CLERGY LIST, IN A CENSUS BOOK. «Series curatorum in Cerovlje ab 9. novembris 1871» — fifteen incumbents to 1979, each with his start, end and tenure to the day. Four served «excurrendo» from elsewhere, and the list names where: «e Novaco» three times and, for Ludovicus Žváček (24 Oct 1913–1923), «e GOLOGORICA». Ten years in which one priest served both parishes.
✔ THREE CORRECTIONS TO THE FRAME MAP: (1) the item is not one book — its pages run to 292 and restart at 1, and [the turn is visible on M01068876 where «292» is struck and renumbered «2»]; (2) the cover says «Cerovlje – PREVIŽ» where the film's card says only Cerovlje; (3) the «Profectus in Religione» column is being used for origins — «e Novaco», «e Draguć», and «e Gologorica» repeatedly — the Cerovlje twin of the 1826 census's «Locus ex quo vel ad quem», *and unharvested.
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⚠⚠ WHAT WAS NOT DONE, PRECISELY. Twenty-five frames of a hundred and thirty-nine. M01068802–M01068911 is unread — the rest of sequence 1, the whole Previž run and the whole of sequence 2. The book has no index: the apparent alphabetical run at its back is not one. No Defranceschi appears in what was read, and that is a nil for a sixth of the book, not for the book. What it produced on this siteCerovlje opened — the Grah, the three forms and the clergy list · What the Grach page now holds · Worklist 218, line 2 — and what is left of it · Cerovlje | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-215 — GRAČIŠĆE baptisms 1784–1808 swept for GRAH: a household at house 174, «Cives» ten times over, and a Defranceschi godmother to one of its children Yielded | Worklist 218, line 1. Krbune's own register has no Grah at all and the Gologorica death index's «G» block runs Gasparich to Gregorovich and stops, so every Grah this archive held was a person attached to someone else's household. Gračišće was the last strong candidate and the reel is in the house. | ⭐⭐⭐ A GRAH HOUSEHOLD, AT HOUSE 174.
What it produced on this siteThe Grah of house 174, told in full · What the Grach page now holds · Worklist 218, line 1 closed · Gračišće | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — «Obijt JOSEPHUS DE FRANCESCHJ, MERCATOR, ætatis suæ annorum 64»: worklist 221 answered the day it opened, and the trade proved twice Yielded | Worklist 221, opened an hour earlier: «Josephus Defranceschi cannot be dead in 1783 and have a living wife in 1787 — settle it in the death registers.» | ⭐⭐⭐ IT IS SETTLED, AT THE FOOT OF THE 1787 PAGE.
> 36 · «Die 30, hora 4.ᵗᵃ Matutina, anno quo supra [1787] · Obijt JOSEPHUS DE FRANCESCHJ, MERCATOR, ætatis suæ annorum 64. Provisus in sua infirmitate omnibus Sacramentis necessariis a R.ᵈᵒ D.ⁿᵒ Can.ᶜᵒ Joanne Martinich. Cujus corpus 31 dicti sepultum est in Cœmeterio extra Locum, per R.ᵐᵘᵐ D.ⁿᵘᵐ Parocum ANICICH Novacci.»
There was never a contradiction. He was alive in April 1783, alive in December 1783, alive when his wife stood at a font on 4 October 1787 — and dead seven weeks later. The obit calendar's «q.» was a copyist's word, and the flag this archive left on «jugalium» on 10 October is discharged in the register's favour.
✔✔ AND THE TRADE IS PROVED A SECOND TIME. This morning «MERCATORIS» was published from one baptism and flagged: «⚠ One construction. The standing rule wants a second.» His own burial supplies it — another volume, another hand, eight years on.
⚠⚠ AND IT CORRECTS TWO NUMBERS THE ARCHIVE HAS CARRIED FOR A YEAR: died 1782 → end of 1787; born 1722 → aged 64, so about 1723. The death year is changed and declared; the birth stays, with the register's figure beside it.
⚠⚠ And an undocumented tree row carries exactly those figures. No merge is made; the adjudication is on the worklist.
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⚠ TWO STRUCTURAL FINDINGS ALONG THE WAY.
(1) A death in this book can be entered TWICE. Margaretta's burial of April 1783 is on M01068991 as published — and again on M01068982, same house number, same scribe, wording not identical. (2) The sex split is real but leaky: M01068982 is otherwise all male and M01068991 otherwise all female, yet each carries one stray of the other sex. A nil from one sequence is not a nil even for that sex, and adding the two sequences double-counts.
⚠ The entry names no month of its own. The entry above is 15 Novembris and the burial is «31 dicti», which no November has — so 30 November with a slip, or 30 December under an omitted heading. The year and the day are certain; the month is left open. What it produced on this siteThe death entry, the trade proved twice, and what it unmakes · The row, corrected by five years · «Died 1782» withdrawn · The duplicate row left to a deliberate adjudication · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ✔✔✔ DAPA ZM34K-214 — «LIBER BAPTIZATORUM II» FINISHED: all 38 frames, 1764–1788, and from 1782 it is TWO registers bound as one Yielded | Yesterday's row ended by saying what it had not done: «M01068915–952 rendered; seven frames read entry by entry. NOT swept end to end.» Finishing it. | ✔ THE BOOK'S STRUCTURE, WHICH IS NOT ONE BOOK.
walked IS STILL FALSE. Every frame was read entry by entry — every date, every set of parents, every godparent clause, every officiant — and every Defranceschi magnified before transcription. But the non-Defranceschi entries were read, not transcribed, and this log could not answer a question about the fourth godmother on M01068937 without going back to the frame.
> A book read for its parties is not a book transcribed, and only the second is a walk.
The book is finished for the surname: no frame unexamined, no opening unread, the one obscured frame a duplicate of a clear one, and the sex split followed rather than fallen into.What it produced on this siteThe book's structure and what it gave · The last new person it produced · The two warnings it leaves behind · The correction it raised and resolved · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — 1787: a FOURTH child for the weaver's house, «professione TEXTOR» a third time, and «Hellena UXOR Josephi» four years after he should be dead Yielded | Continuing the end-to-end sweep, forward from the 1784–1785 frames. | ⭐⭐ A FOURTH CHILD, AND THE TRADE WRITTEN DOWN A THIRD TIME.
> 35 · Die 12. Augusti 1787 · «natum ex Joanne Baptista et Teresia DEFRANCESCHJ, conjugibus hujus Parochiæ, professione TEXTOR. Cui nomen impositum est Joannes Bapta.»
This archive began the week believing house 45 produced one child in eleven years. The couple married in 1774 now have four: Josepha Mariana 1776, Joannes Petrus 1780, Franciscus Antonius 1785, Joannes Baptista 1787.
And the weaving runs three documents deep — 1773 «TEXTOR EX CARNIA» at the father's burial, 1774 «professionis suæ Textor» at the son's marriage, 1787 «professione Textor» here. ⚠ The house is 31 in 1785 and 35 here; recorded, not resolved.
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⚠⚠ AND A CONTRADICTION THE ARCHIVE CANNOT SHRUG OFF.
> 65 · 4 Octobris 1787 · «Patrini fuerunt viduus Antonius Bovis ex Petina, et HELLENA UXOR Josephi de Franceschi»
Uxor, not vidua — and the scribe writes «viduus» in the same clause where he means it.
What it produced on this siteThe fourth child, the trade, and the contradiction · Four children now, not one · «Uxor», not «vidua», in 1787 · Worklist 221 — what would settle it · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — 1784–1788 is registered TWICE: the same baptisms in Liber II and Liber IV, and neither copy is complete Yielded | Continuing the end-to-end sweep. Liber IV opens in 1784 and Liber II runs to 1788; this archive had treated that as a tidy succession. | ⭐⭐ IT IS NOT A SUCCESSION. FOR FIVE YEARS THE PARISH KEPT BOTH BOOKS.
Both of 1785's Defranceschi baptisms, already on the roster from Liber IV, are entered again here — and the two registrations do not carry the same facts.
What it produced on this siteTwo registers, one child, two sets of facts · Born 5 January, baptised 6 January · Whose wife the godmother was · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — «Liber Baptizatorum II» restarts in 1782 SPLIT BY SEX: «Catharina … nata Sablich BUCCARENSIS», and two men with one patronymic and two surnames Yielded | Continuing the end-to-end sweep, forward from the handover frame. | ⭐⭐ FIRST, A STRUCTURAL WARNING FOR ANYONE WHO COMES TO THIS BOOK. M01068942 is a fresh heading in the new parish priest's hand:
> «1782 · Masculi baptizati sub Parocho JOANNE MATHIA FRANCESCHJ»
From 1782 this register splits by sex, exactly as the death book does and as this archive once failed to carry across. Everything from M01068942 on is the male sequence, and every entry carries a house number in the margin. A count taken from these frames is a count of the boys.
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⭐⭐⭐ AND THEN THE ENTRY THE WEEK HAS BEEN WORKING TOWARDS.
> 16 Decembris 1783 · «Patrini fuere Dominus Josephus Defranceschi, et Domina CATHARINA DEFRANCESCHI nata SABLICH BUCCARENSIS»
Her earliest appearance was 3 October 1786. This is three years earlier, she is «Domina», and her origin is one Latin word.
✔ And the hand is tested inside its own paragraph. The chaplain Joannes Florcich writes his J three times — «Ego Joannes Florcich», «Joanne Baptista», «Joannes Eusebius» — and every one drops a long descender. The surname's initial has none. This scribe writes «Sablich». ⚠ It does not overturn the 1786 «Jablich», proved the same way: both spellings are native to this parish, in different hands, three years apart.
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⚠⚠ AND THE WORST TRAP THIS VILLAGE HAS SET.
> 5 Feb 1783 · «Joannes Baptista DEPRATO, Leonardi filius» (M01068943)
> 29 Oct 1773 · «Joannes Baptista DEFRANCESCHI q.ᵐ Leonardi» (M01068932)
Same forename pair, same patronymic, same village, same decade, two surnames, both godparents in one book. A new method row, and the existing «the patronymic is the only thing worth trusting» row has been qualified in place — it separates men of one surname, not two.
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⭐ Three more women named. Theresia Defranceschi NATA GRACH, 16 Jan 1784 — her maiden surname in a baptism register ten years after the wedding. Domina Hellena Defranceschi, 21 May 1784, alive. And Catharina above.
⚠⚠ And a «Dominus Josephus Defranceschi» standing godfather on 16 December 1783 — eight months after the man this archive calls Margarita's father is entered «q.». No row changed; the strain is recorded. What it produced on this site«Buccarensis», the S/J test and the two Leonardi sons · Catharina, three years earlier · The patronymic rule, qualified · Theresia «nata Grach» · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — «Ego JOANNES MATHIAS FRANCESCHI, CANONICUS et PAROCHUS Gollogoritiæ»: the register narrates its own handover, and answers this morning's correction Yielded | Continuing the end-to-end sweep. Four hours earlier this archive withdrew a ladder and left a question open in as many words: «One man or two is no longer asserted.» | ⭐⭐⭐ THE NEXT FRAME ANSWERS IT, IN ONE PHRASE, IN HIS OWN HAND.
> 24 Februarij 1782 · «Ego JOANNES MATHIAS FRANCESCHI, CANONICUS et PAROCHUS GOLLOGORITIÆ, baptizavi filium infantem natum ex Giorgio et Mathia Coscoli sive Uglessich…»
Canonicus ET Parochus. One man. The withdrawal stands — the ladder had no canonry in it and left fourteen blank years — but the question it opened is closed.
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⭐⭐⭐ AND THE HANDOVER IS NARRATED, WITH ITS CAUSE, INSIDE THE REGISTER.
What it produced on this siteThe handover, narrated by the man who took it · The correction, resolved the same day · Canon and parish priest, one man · Margarita, alive at a font · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — «Liber Baptizatorum II» 1776–1780: «Josephi Defranceschi MERCATORIS», the canon four more times, and five rows gain dated life Yielded | Continuing the end-to-end sweep of this book, forward from the 1775–1776 frames. | ⭐⭐⭐ A TRADE FOR THE MAN WHOSE ROW BEGAN THE WEEK AS ONE WORD.
> 10 Februarij 1779 · «patrini fuerunt Vitus Pavelich, et Helena uxor D.ⁿⁱ Josephi Defranceschi MERCATORIS ex hac Parochia»
Mercator — a merchant. The entry is precise: the child's own father is «Joannis Sherbaz FABRI», a smith, in the same line. It accounts for the «Dominus», the archpriest fetched from Cerovlje, the Pazin godparents and the «civilitas» of 1826.
⭐⭐ AND THE CARNIA TIE IS A TRADE NETWORK. 1773 «Leonardus Defranceschi, TEXTOR EX CARNIA» · 1774 his son «Textor» · 1775 «Joannes Verzin ex Carnia, professionis suæ SARTOR» · 1779 «Josephus Defranceschi MERCATOR». Weaver, weaver, tailor, merchant — the migration the Zagreb account describes, written into one village's baptisms. ⚠ No kinship claimed for Verzin; «mercator» is one construction and a second is wanted.
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⭐⭐ THE CANON, FOUR MORE TIMES. THE BAXA FLAG IS FINISHED.
31 Aug 1774 · 7 Mar 1775 · 3 Mar 1777 · 5 Aug 1777 · 14 Feb 1778 — five entries, one scribe, the title written out every time, twice with Bancich naming himself in the first person as the man granting leave. The 1781 reading is no longer the only witness. ⚠ Whether this canon and the Parochus of 1782–88 are one man is still not asserted.
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✔ FIVE ROWS GAIN DATED LIFE.
What it produced on this siteThe merchant, the trade network and the canon · «MERCATORIS» — the row that was one word · Theresia, godmother four times · Antonius, alive at last · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — «Liber Baptizatorum II» 1775–1776: a girl who died at ten gets her baptism, her parents and a forename — born in the NEXT PARISH Yielded | Continuing the end-to-end sweep of this book, forward from the 1772–1774 frames. | ⭐⭐⭐ A ROW THAT CARRIED ONE DEATH AND AN EXPLICIT REFUSAL NOW HAS A BAPTISM.
> 15.ᵃ Martij 1776 · «Josepha Mariana [Defranceschi] filia legitima Joannis Baptistæ ejusque uxoris Theresiæ, nata et baptizata ad Cherbunam per R.ᵈᵘᵐ D.ⁿᵘᵐ Joannem Jadreicich, Capellanum Cherbunensem, de licentia … Archipresbyteri Joannis GRAH; patrini fuerunt Joannes Baptista Defranceschi, et Rosalia Defranceschi, filia D.ⁿⁱ Josephi Defranceschi.»
Her row said: «⚠ No parents are attached. The index gives the household, not a father, and this archive does not turn a filing decision into a descent.» The baptism supplies the father, the mother, a first forename — Josepha — and a birthplace. Baptised 15 March 1776, dead 4 Oct 1786 at «annorum 10» — ten years, six months, twenty days.
⭐⭐ AND IT SHOWS WHY THE VILLAGE'S OWN SWEEPS LOST HER. «Nata et baptizata ad Cherbunam» — Krbune, her mother's parish. The Gologorica entry records an event elsewhere and carries no «Ex Domo sub Numero», so the house-number sweep of 9 October could not see her. That row has been qualified in place rather than left standing.
⭐ Joannes Grah a fifth time, and a man new to this archive: «Joannes Jadreicich, Capellanus Cherbunensis». A month later «Michaelis GRAH» is christening a son at Gologorica itself, with a Defranceschi godfather (15 April 1776). ⚠ No kinship to Theresia claimed.
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⭐⭐ AND A SECOND MAN OUT OF CARNIA, IN A TRADE.
> 7 Martij 1775 · «baptizata est ab Adm. R.ᵈᵒ D.ⁿᵒ CANONICO MATHIA DEFRANCESCHI cum licentia MEA Parochi hujus Loci; patrini fuerunt JOANNES VERZIN EX CARNIA, professionis suæ SARTOR, et Rosalia filia D.ⁿⁱ Josephi Defranceschi.»
This week's headline was «Leonardus Defranceschi … professionis suæ TEXTOR EX CARNIA». Two years on, the same register uses the same construction for a tailor of another family. The Carnia tie is not one man and one trade. ⚠ No kinship between Verzin and this family is claimed.
✔ And the canon a second time, with Bancich in the first person — «cum licentia MEA Parochi hujus Loci». Seven months after the 1774 entry. What it produced on this siteJosepha Mariana, the Grah and the Carnian tailor · The row that gained a baptism and two parents · Her mother, who went home to Krbune · Her father, whose children are no longer one · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — «Liber Baptizatorum II» 1772–1774: a Defranceschi CANON six years before the Baxa objection, and a «q.ᵐ» tested against itself Yielded | Continuing the end-to-end sweep of this book, forward from the 1770–1772 frames. | ⭐⭐⭐ THE CANONRY IS SEVEN YEARS EARLIER, AND IT LANDS BEFORE THE OBJECTION TO IT.
> 31 Augusti 1774 · «baptizatus est ab Admodum R.ᵈᵒ D.ⁿᵒ CANONICO MATTHIA DEFRANCESCHI, de licentia Parochi hujus Loci»
The Defranceschi canonry was known from one 1781 entry and flagged hard, because the same register gives the titular canonry of Pedena to a Mathias BAXA fourteen months earlier. This is six years before the Baxa entry exists, in a different book, by the same parish priest, with nothing at stake. The flag can come down in the Defranceschi direction.
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⚠⚠ AND IT WITHDRAWS SOMETHING THIS ARCHIVE PUBLISHED FOUR HOURS AGO. The ladder — «1764 no office · 1766 Reverendus Dominus · 1768 Cooperator · 1782 Parochus» — arranged five entries into one career by putting them in a line. Written as the registers write them they fall into two columns: plain «Mathias» (1764, 1766, 1772, 1774, 1781) who is never an officer here and always needs «licentia», and «Joannes Matthias» (1768 Cooperator, 1782–88 Parochus) who signs in his own right. One man or two is no longer asserted. ⚠ The 1798 death entry abbreviates the parish priest to «MATH. de Franceschi», so the forename does not decide it.
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✔✔ AND A «q.ᵐ» TESTED AGAINST ITSELF.
> 29 Octobris 1773 · «patrini fuerunt Joannes Baptista Defranceschi q.ᵐ Leonardi…»
This morning the archive argued from an absence: the September 1769 clause has no «q.ᵐ», so Leonardus was alive. The same scribe writes the name four times — 1769 without it, 1773 and 1774 with it — and the one change falls in the gap where the burial of 15 March 1773 sits. An argument from an absence is only as good as the scribe's habits, and here the habit is demonstrated.
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✔ Also on M01068931: «a me Sacerdote Mathia de Franceschÿ, loco Parochi» (Sept 1772) — a third self-written entry, a third spelling, and a formula that is again not *an office. What it produced on this siteThe canon, the two columns and the «q.ᵐ» test · The ladder withdrawn · The row the ladder was on · Whose «q.ᵐ» was tested · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — a LOOSE SLIP inside «Liber Baptizatorum II»: a Cerovlje extract of 1793, and the same opening shot twice Yielded | Continuing the end-to-end sweep of this book, forward from the 1769–1770 frames. | ⭐⭐ A FRAME THAT LOOKS LIKE A SPOILED EXPOSURE IS A DOCUMENT.
M01068929 and M01068930 are one opening photographed twice. The difference between them is a loose leaf lying on the page, lifted between frames — a certified extract from the baptism book of CEROVLJE, not part of this register at all:
> «Die 5. Januarij 1767. Antonia filia legitima Michaelis, et Apoloniæ jugalium Persevich baptizata fuit a me Archipræsbitero et Parocho Dominico Clinzich…
> Die 12. 8bris 1770. Catharinam filiam legitimam, et posthumam … baptizavit Gregorius Bosich Vice-Parochus…
> Sic de verbo ad verbum ex Libro Baptizatorum descripsit · Die 18. Aprilis 1793 · Laurentius Vicich m.p.ᵃ, Parochus»
⭐⭐ AND IT CORROBORATES SOMETHING PUBLISHED FOUR HOURS AGO. The baptism of Petrus Antonius Defranceschi, 17 April 1768, was given not by the parish priest but by «Archipresbyter et Parochus Cerovglienensis Dominicus Clinzich». The slip has him signing in his own parish fifteen months earlier, in a document copied out in 1793 for reasons that have nothing to do with this family. Two parishes, two documents, one man. It also names a Cerovlje Vice-Parochus Gregorius Bosich (1770) and Parochus Laurentius Vicich (1793).
⚠ And a frame under paper is not a frame read. M01068929 is recorded as unreadable entry by entry; it is M01068930 that this archive read. A repeated opening on a reel is worth opening before it is written off as film debris.
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✔ A fifth attestation of the sonship. 19 Sep 1770 (M01068927) — «patrini fuerunt D.ⁿᵘˢ Joannes Baptista filius D.ⁿⁱ Josephi Defranceschi, et Helena uxor ejusdem Defranceschi», at the baptism of a «filia posthuma» of the late Josephus Flegar. ⚠ Here «ejusdem» is ambiguous and could make Helena the son's wife; the December 1769 entry writes it out in full and settles it.
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✔ NAMED NIL — M01068928. About twenty-four baptisms, 11 November 1770 – 13 September 1771, read entry by entry: no Defranceschi as parent, godparent or officiant. Surnames: Udovcich · Flegar · Zabran · Sibina · Muge · Boer · Zaez · Gabar · Laddetich · Crismanich · Papoli · Sepulka · Culianich · Candarich, with «Leonardus Deprato» standing on 24 August 1771. What it produced on this siteThe slip, the duplicate frame and the archpriest, told in full · Whose officiant the slip confirms · A fifth attestation of the sonship · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — «Liber Baptizatorum II» 1769–1770: «filius Leonardi» and «filius D.ni Josephi» twelve weeks apart on ONE page Yielded | Continuing the end-to-end sweep of this book, forward from the 1767–1768 frames. | ⭐⭐⭐ THE PRIEST SEPARATES THE TWO SAME-NAMED MEN BY THEIR FATHERS, ON ONE PAGE, TWELVE WEEKS APART.
> 24 Sep 1769 · «patrini fuerunt Joannes Baptista Defranceschi FILIUS LEONARDI…»
> 18 Dec 1769 · «patrini fuerunt D.ⁿᵘˢ Joannes Baptista FILIUS D.ⁿⁱ JOSEPHI Defranceschi, et Helena uxor ejusdem D.ⁿⁱ Josephi…»
This archive published the 1786 entry where the next priest does the same job with their wives and called it the priest doing our work for us. Marcus Bancich had been doing it since 1769.
⭐⭐ And there is no «q.ᵐ» before «Leonardi». The marriage of June 1774 has one; the death register buries Leonardus Defranceschi, «TEXTOR EX CARNIA», on 15 March 1773. Three documents, three hands, and the «q.ᵐ» falls exactly where it should. It is also the earliest thing on that row — five years before his wedding.
⭐ The other man's sonship is now written four times — 1769, 1772, 1786, 1813 — and 1769 is the earliest. ⚠ He would be seventeen; recorded as the entry's arithmetic, and nothing is adjusted on it.
⚠ And the two branches do not carry the same style in the same hand: Josephus's son is «D.ⁿᵘˢ», Leonardus's son is not. One pair of entries is a thin basis for a social claim and it is offered as what the page shows, not as a conclusion.
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✔ A fourth construction of the župan's name, 5 Feb 1770 — «Joanna vidua defuncti Joannis Baptistæ Defranceschi». Four entries, 1764–1770, and she is a godmother in all four, at about eighty-six in the last.
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✔ NAMED NIL — M01068924. Twenty-six baptisms, 26 August 1768 – 18 January 1769, read entry by entry: no Defranceschi as parent, godparent or officiant. The surnames on that opening are Zaez · Zabran · Ancich · Flegar · Cherbavaz · Jadrejcich · Krosgnial · Radoicich · Rabor · Pavelich · Udovcich · Gasparich · Soleschi · Clagnaz · Gospodnetich · Boulovich, with «Catharina uxor Leonardi Deprato» standing on 26 August. What it produced on this siteTwo fathers on one page, told in full · «filius Leonardi», five years before his wedding · «filius D.ni Josephi», the earliest of four · The widow, a fourth time · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — «Liber Baptizatorum II» 1767–1768: a census row gets its BAPTISM to the day, and the archpriest of Cerovlje came over to give it Yielded | Continuing the end-to-end sweep of this book, forward from the 1764–1767 frames read an hour ago. | ⭐⭐⭐ A ROW THAT WAS A CENSUS LINE AND A TREE YEAR NOW HAS A BAPTISM WRITTEN AT THE TIME.
> 17 Aprilis 1768 · «Archipresbyter et Parochus Cerovglienensis Dominicus Clinzich baptizavit PETRUM ANTONIUM filium legitimum D.ⁿⁱ Josephi, et Helenæ jugalium DEFRANCESCHI; patrini fuerunt Josephus Belch, et Matthia uxor Jacobi Rovis q.ᵐ Matthæi, ambo Pisinenses.»
The 1826 status animarum enters Petrus Defranceschi, «civilitas», born 17 April 1768 — and that was the whole of his evidence. The register of 1768 gives the same day, and with it his father D.ⁿᵘˢ Josephus, his mother Helena, a second forename Antonius nothing else records, and a sister.
⭐⭐ And the officiant is not the parish priest. The archpriest of Cerovlje came over to do it, with Marcus Bancich writing the entries either side; the godparents are «ambo Pisinenses», both from Pazin. The «civilitas» of 1826 was already visible at the font in 1768.
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⭐⭐ THE YEAR BEFORE: HELENA NAMED, AND A FORENAME TWENTY YEARS ABSENT.
> 11 Martij 1767 · «patrini fuerunt D.ⁿᵘˢ Joannes Petrus Defranceschi et Helena uxor D.ⁿⁱ Josephi Defranceschi» — at the baptism of Josephus, son of Leonardus and Catharina DEPRATTO.
Helena is named as Josephus's wife two years earlier than the archive had her. And Joannes Petrus, whose row held three appearances — 1744, 1747, 1750, all at Gračišće, has a fourth, seventeen years later, at home. ⚠ Consistent with his being the «Sig.ʳ Giovanni Pietro» who died in 1781 aged 86½ — he would be seventy-two — but the rows are still not joined.
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✔ AND THE BISHOP OF PEDENA SIGNS THE BOOK.
> «Die 15.ᵗᵃ Julij 1768 in prima Nostra G.ˡⁱ Visitatione · Revisus, et approbatus · Aldragus Ant.ᵘˢ Ep.ᵘˢ PETINENSIS»
It dates the book's custody, and it does one small thing to this morning's unsettled word: one candidate was «Petinus», and this volume writes the adjective for Pedena as «Petinensis». The volume read against itself makes the candidate weaker and supplies no better one. The word still stands as «[—]ᵘˢ». What it produced on this siteThe baptism, the archpriest and the bishop, told in full · Petrus Antonius — the row that gained a baptism · His father, and Helena named in 1767 · A fourth appearance, seventeen years on · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — «Liber Baptizatorum II» 1764–1767 swept: the župan's name written THREE times, the priest's second construction, and Josephus four years early Yielded | The row published an hour earlier left two things open in as many words: the župan's forename pair rested on one entry, and a word in the priest's own 1764 entry was flagged «[—]ᵘˢ» with the note that «thirty-three frames of this book remain unread and may supply the second construction». Continuing the sweep forward from the first page. | ⭐⭐⭐ THE BOOK ANSWERS BOTH, TWO FRAMES ON.
What it produced on this siteThe three constructions, told in full · The župan, now on three entries · Josephus, four years earlier · The priest's second construction · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — the FIRST PAGE of «Liber Baptizatorum II»: a župan of Gologorica named in full, and the Defranceschi priest four years early Yielded | Yesterday's row on this book ends by saying what it had not done: «M01068915–952 rendered; M01068920, 925, 930, 935, 940, 945, 950 read entry by entry. NOT swept end to end.» Closing that gap, starting at the front. | ⭐⭐⭐ THE VERY FIRST PAGE CARRIES TWO OF THE NAME, AND NEITHER WAS EXPECTED.
> 26 Aprilis 1764 · «patrini fuere D.ⁿᵘˢ Matheus Flegar, et Domina Supana Joanna vidua defuncti D.ⁿⁱ Supani JOANNIS BAPTISTÆ DEFRANCESCHI»
The župan of Gologorica, named in full by his own parish. The entry that made him known is his widow's burial in 1774, which calls him only «Supani Joannis Defranceschi» — and this archive's note on her row records that the full forename pair had to be carried in from the Gračišće registers. It no longer does. He now has a row, and a death before 26 April 1764, which her burial entry does not supply.
⭐ And she is alive at a font, styled «Domina Supana» in her own right — five days short of ten years before she was buried in the family's arca under the floor of the parish church.
⚠ Three men of this name at Gologorica inside sixty years, and none is merged: the one dead by 1709, whose wife was Lucia; the župan; and a tree-only «elder, d. 1767» who cannot be «defuncti» in 1764 — though a tree year is an interval, not a point.
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⭐⭐ AND THE PRIEST, FOUR YEARS BEFORE HIS EARLIEST KNOWN APPEARANCE.
> 18 Februarij 1764 · «Ego Mathias Defranceschi [—]ᵘˢ Sacerdos de licentia Parochi baptizavi Mathiam filiam legitimam defuncti Thomæ ac Mathiæ jugalium Zabran alias Strapich»
He was known from 1768 onward, as Cooperator. «De licentia Parochi» says he held no office in this parish in February 1764: he writes the entry himself, between two of Marcus Bancich's.
⚠ One word between the surname and «Sacerdos» is not settled and is not being guessed — «Pe» or «Ve», a tall looped letter, a dotted i, then «nus»; possibly «Petinus», of Pedena. A hand with one entry in it cannot be read against itself; thirty-three frames of this book remain unread and may supply the second construction. What it produced on this siteThe first page of Liber II, told in full · The župan's new row · His widow, now alive in 1764 as well as dead in 1774 · The priest, pushed back to February 1764 · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — «LIBER BAPTIZATORUM II»: a wife, four children, the canon twice over, and a daughter married into Castel Roč Yielded | The composite item beside it has just been swept. This is the parallel baptism register — thirty-eight frames, 1764–1788, verified as a true register on 9 October and never read. | ⭐⭐ THREE WEEKS OF 1769 GIVE TWO THINGS THIS ARCHIVE HAS WANTED.
> 26 Feb 1769 · «patrini fuerunt Dominus Josephus Defranceschi et ROSALIA EJUSDEM FILIA»
> 16 Mar 1769 · «patrini fuerunt Dominus Josephus Defranceschi, et HELENA UXOR EJUSDEM»
(doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01068925, «Liber Baptizatorum II» 1764–1788.)
1. ⭐ A MARRIAGE, thirty-five years before the widow. *Josephus and Helena were joined in this archive only by their daughter's death of 1783 and Helena's burial as his widow in 1804 — both after the fact. Here they stand together at a font as husband and wife.
2. ⭐⭐ A THIRD DAUGHTER, out of a row that was a name. «Rosalia Defranceschi» had no dates, no source and no note. She is godmother beside her father, and the register says whose daughter she is. The man whose whole row was the word «Dominus» two days ago now has a wife and three daughters.
⚠ Rosalia has no age: a godmother in 1769 was commonly fourteen or more, so born by about 1755 — an inference from the role. Her mother is not named in her own entry, so the join to Helena is inf.
⚠ AND THE BOOK EXPOSES A STRUCTURAL FACT. It runs 1764–1788; the other baptism register runs 1770–1781; Liber IV begins 1784. So in the 1780s this parish kept THREE baptism books and TWO death books at once — the same doubling that recorded one child twice with different ages. A reader who opens one of them has not read the parish.
⚠ Only two of thirty-eight frames are read entry by entry. The rest are rendered and not yet swept; this row will grow.
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# ⭐⭐ AND 1772 GIVES HIM A SON
> 20 February 1772 · «[Mat]hia filia legitima jugalium Leonardi et Catharinæ Deprato[—] baptizata est a me Marco Bancich Parocho hujus Loci; patrini fuerunt D.ⁿᵘˢ JOANNES BAPTISTA DEFRANCESCHI FILIUS D.ⁿⁱ JOSEPHI, et ROSALIA FILIA EJUSDEM D.ⁿⁱ JOSEPHI.»
(doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01068930, «Liber Baptizatorum II», 20 February 1772. The ink is faint; magnified before transcription.)
⭐ «Joannes Baptista Defranceschi FILIUS D.ⁿⁱ JOSEPHI» — this archive's only evidence that that man had a father was his own burial of 1813. Here he is at twenty, described the same way while his father lived.
⭐⭐ And «Rosalia filia ejusdem» makes them brother and sister. Josephus — a row that was the single word «Dominus» two days ago — now has a wife and four children, each named as his in a register: Joannes Baptista · Rosalia · Margarita · Marianna.
⚠ And the trap caught again. At page scale the child's parents read «Leonardi et Catharinæ Defranceschi»; magnified, the surname is «Deprato[—]» — and a Leonardus Deprato died here in 1784 aged sixty. Not ours, and not claimed.
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# ⭐⭐ 1776 — THERESIA, AND HER HUSBAND'S BROTHER
> 13 December 1776 · «Mathias filius legitimus Joannis Udovicich Jacotich ejusque uxoris Helenæ baptizatus est a me Marco Bancich Parocho hujus Loci; patrini fuerunt ANTONIUS DEFRANCESCHI, et THERESIA JOANNIS BAPTISTÆ DEFRANCESCHI UXOR.» (M01068935.)
«Theresia, wife of Joannes Baptista Defranceschi» — the Krbune bride of 1774, two and a half years married. Her earliest appearance in this archive. And beside her Antonius Defranceschi, «q. Leonardo» at his death — her husband's brother, and his earliest appearance moves from 1782 to 1776.
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# ⭐⭐⭐ 1781 — A CASTLE MARRIAGE, AND THE CANON CONFIRMED
> Die 20 Junij · «Antonius Aloysius Nicolò natus die 12 Junij, filius legitimus Domini Joannis Andreæ Nicolò DE CASTRO ROZZI, et MARIANNA ejus uxoris, FILIA DOMINI JOSEPHI DEFRANCESCHI, baptizatus est a R.ᵐᵒ D.ⁿᵒ MATHIA DEFRANCESCHI, Canonico TITULARI Cathedralis Ecclesiæ PETINENSIS, de licentia Parochi … patrini fuerunt D.ⁿᵘˢ Joannes Baptista Defranceschi, et Maria uxor D.ⁿⁱ Antonij Covaz Pisinensis.»
(doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01068940, «Liber Baptizatorum II», 20 June 1781.)*
Marianna is wife of «Dominus Joannes Andreæ Nicolò de Castro Rozzi» — the castle of Roč. Her son Antonius Aloysius Nicolò born 12 June 1781; baptised by Mathias Defranceschi, Titular Canon of Pedena; godfather her brother Joannes Baptista.
✔ AND IT SETTLES THE CANON. Yesterday he was one sighting in the last entry of another book, flagged because a Baxa holds the same title fourteen months earlier. Here is a second, in a second book, baptising his own kinswoman's son — and he attends the dying parish priest seven months later. Three appearances, three books. ⚠ The Baxa objection stands — two men can be titular canons at once — and whether this canon is the priest who succeeded Bancich remains inf.
⚠ Noted, not chased: «Maria uxor D.ⁿⁱ Antonij COVAZ Pisinensis» — and the Maire of Pazin who seized the registers in 1812 has a surname this archive could not read, ending «—ovaz».
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# ✔✔ 1786 — THE PRIEST TELLS THE TWO JOANNES BAPTISTAS APART, AND PROVES THE ISTRIAN SPELLING
> 3 October 1786 · «Patrini fuerunt Joannes Bapta Defranceschi MARITUS THERESIÆ, et Cattarina nata JABLICH uxor Joannis Baptistæ FILIJ JOSEPHI Defranceschi, ambo ex hac Parochia.»
(doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01068950, «Liber Baptizatorum II».)*
✔ Two men of one name at one font, distinguished by their wives — «maritus Theresiæ» and «filij Josephi». The archive has been doing by inference what the scribe did by habit. And it makes the house-36 man's sonship doc a third time (1772, 1786, 1813).
✔✔ AND THE SURNAME TEST NOW RUNS BOTH WAYS. Bakar's «Sablich» was proved from «Sabastiani» in the same entry. Here the J of «Jablich» is proved against the same scribe's «Joannis» and «Josephi», fifteen letters away. Both spellings demonstrated, each against its own hand — so the difference is two scribes, not a misreading at either end, exactly as published two days ago. What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Rosalia Defranceschi · Josephus Defranceschi · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Oct 2026 | ✔✔ DAPA ZM34K-214 — the WHOLE composite item swept for the surname: eight Defranceschi events, and its structure is nothing like the frame map says Yielded | Chasing the renumbering between house 45 in 1780 and casa 31 in 1785. The deaths of 1770–1789 are the only book that spans the change, so its house numbers were opened to see which system it uses. | ✔ The numbering question is answered in passing: this book uses the 1770 system. Margins on one opening run 9, 18, 25, 31, 37, 39, 45, 46, 47, 80, 87, 90, 93, 103, 107, 112, 129 — numbers past a hundred, matching the house list, not the later system that tops out in the sixties.
⭐⭐⭐ AND THEN THE ENTRY AT HOUSE 46.
> 46 · «Joanna Defranceschi annorum nonaginta circiter, vidua defuncti Supani Joannis Defranceschi, munita Sacramentis … per me Parochum hujus Loci Marcum Bancich, et a me eodem sepulta est 21 in Arca ejusdem existente in hac Parochiali Ecclesia.» — 20 April 1774 (M01068988)
⚠ THE ŽUPAN IS NOT NEW. He has been on the direct-line page since the Gračišće sweep — «Ioana Uxor Sup.ⁿⁱ Ioanis Bap.ᵗᵃe Defranceschi» (1733), «Joanna uxor Sup.ⁿⁱ Jo: Baptistæ Defranceschi de Golagoriza» (1743). What is new is that the same woman now has a death, an age, a house and a grave.
myheritage, note empty. Both years confirmed by one entry, and «Gisanna» is «Joanna». The second of the six tree-only people documented in two days.*
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⚠⚠ AND IT BREAKS AN ARITHMETIC THE ARCHIVE HAD NOT CHECKED. The Zagreb account makes the župan's son Gian Pietro the lord's tax-collector; yesterday this archive identified that man as «Sig.ʳ Giovanni Pietro Defranceschi, d'anni 86½», dead 1781, born c. 1695.
> A woman born about 1684 cannot be the mother of a man born about 1695.
Either she is a later wife, or one of the two ages is wrong. No parentage is attached on the strength of it. A household reconstructed from three sources can be arithmetically impossible, and nobody notices until a fourth source gives somebody an age. Told on the line page.
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# ⭐⭐⭐ AND 1783 GAVE MARGARETTA, WHO UNMAKES THREE THINGS PUBLISHED YESTERDAY
> «Die 22. Aprilis anno 1783. Margaretta Ancilla annorum 22, mensium 9, filia Josephi et Hellenæ jugalium de Franceschi … cujus corpus die 25 … sepultum est in Arca Parentuum per R.ᵐᵘˢ Archipresbiterum et Parochum CHERBUNÆ D.ⁿᵘˢ Joanes Gràch.» (M01068991.)
⭐⭐ THE ARCHPRIEST OF KRBUNE, A THIRD TIME. He marries this family in 1774, buries it in 1783, and stands godfather to it in 1785 — three rites in eleven years, all at Gologorica, by the archpriest of a parish four kilometres away. That is a relationship, not a coincidence.*
⚠ And it corrects yesterday:
What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Gisanna / Joanna Defranceschi · The direct line · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — five COVERS read: the parish numbered its own registers, and LIBER BAPTIZATORUM I is not on these reels Yielded | The 1784 baptism book's cover carries a Roman numeral — «IV.». A parish that numbers its books tells you free of charge whether you hold all of them, so the other covers were opened. |
What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · What is not filmed · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Oct 2026 | ⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — the front of «IV. Liber Baptisatorum» 1784: NIL on a house concordance, but the French seizure written a second time, in Italian Yielded | Chasing the renumbering caught between house 45 in 1780 and casa 31 in 1785: the 1770 item carries its house list at the front, so the register that replaced it might declare the new numbering the same way. | ⚠ NIL ON THE OBJECT. Cover, flyleaf, a birth certificate of 1824, then the register. There is no house list and no concordance at the front of this book. So the renumbering is not declared where the first numbering was, and that route is closed.
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⭐⭐ WHAT THE FLYLEAF HAS INSTEAD — and it is a second witness to something already published.
> «Sotto il fù Governo Francese. Li 20. Luglio 1812 fu consegnato questo Registro per ordine del Maire S.ʳ Fran.ᶜᵒ [—]ovaz all'Uff.ᵒ municipale di Pisino, e li 5. Gen.ᵒ 1814 restituito dall'amministrazione Dominale della Contea con li altri sei a mani di me Parroco Mocovich.» (M01069011.)
⚠ VERIFICATION, NOT DISCOVERY. The seizure, both dates and the municipality were published weeks ago from the Latin note in the death register (M01069247). This is the same event, in the baptism book, in Italian. Three things are new:
What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · The work list · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — the 1770–1781 baptisms swept by HOUSE NUMBER: a son for the 1774 couple at house 45, a second daughter for Josephus, and a Defranceschi canon of Pedena Yielded | Worklist 220, set an hour earlier, after the house list was dated to 1 July 1770 and put the Defranceschi at 45 and 46: sweep the baptisms' own house-number column for those two. | ✔✔ THE FIRST HIT LANDED ON THE PREDICTED HOUSE.
> 45 · «Joannes Petrus Defranceschi, filius legitimus Joannis Bapt[istæ] Defranceschi et ejus uxoris Theresiæ, baptizatus est a me Marco Bancich, Parocho hujus Loci; patrini fuerunt Rev.ᵈᵒ D. Mathias Baxa, Canonicus Titularis Cathedralis Eccl. Petinensis, et Marianna filia Domini Josephi Defranceschi» — 2 July 1780 (M01068965)
Three findings in one entry:
What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Joannes Petrus Defranceschi, bapt. 1780 · Marianna Defranceschi · Joannes Mathias Franceschi · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — a NUMBERED HOUSE LIST of all Gologorica, unmentioned in the frame map, with the Defranceschi at 45 and 46 Yielded | Auditing the frame map after two of its rows proved wrong about what their books are. The composite item's «Rođeni 1770–1781» overlaps the separate «Rođeni 1764–1788» item, which is odd enough to check. | ⭐⭐⭐ THE OVERLAP IS NOT A DUPLICATE. The first openings of the composite item are not a baptism register at all.
> «Nota delle Case abitate, e disabitate nel Territorio, e nel nostro Luoco di Gollogorizza» (M01068956–958)
A numbered list of every house in the village, 1 to about 130, one line each: the number, the head of the household by surname, forename and often a patronymic or byname, and against the empty ones «Disabitata».
⚠ Each line carries a second smaller figure and it is NOT a second house number — it skips every «Disabitata», so it is an ordinal counting the inhabited houses. House 45 is the 35th inhabited, house 46 the 36th — and a «36» beside a Defranceschi is exactly what this archive would otherwise have read as a house number.
⭐⭐ TWO LINES ARE OURS, AND BOTH RECORD A HANDOVER:
> 45 ⁽³⁵⁾ Defranceschi — ~~Leonardus~~ Antonius
> 46 ⁽³⁶⁾ Defranceschi — ~~Joannes [Baptista]~~ Josephus
The first name in each is struck and the successor written over it, so the list was kept up. ⭐ And Leonardus → Antonius is the same succession the obit calendar reached today by another road: «Antonio Defranceschi, N.º 29, q. Leonardo, d'anni 60 — 1802».
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⭐ AND IT SHOWS WHAT THE WHOLE ITEM IS: one administrative project with a single start date.
What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · The work list · Antonius Defranceschi · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — the Gologorica MARRIAGE item finished: every frame examined, ONE Defranceschi marriage in the book, and the priest is here in 1768 as a CURATE Yielded | Finishing the marriage sweep begun on 9 October: six frames remained unexamined (M01068996–98, M01069000–01, M01069006). | ⭐⭐⭐ THE LAST FRAME OF THE ITEM IS OUT OF SEQUENCE, AND ITS FIRST ENTRY IS THE PRIEST'S.
> «…nulloque legitimo impedimento detecto. Ego JOANNES MATTHIAS DE FRANCESCHI, COOPERATOR hujus loci, viduum Michaelem Gadda q.ᵐ Andrea ex CHERBUNE, rusticum, ætatis suæ 40 annorum, et Catharinam, celibem filiam Joannis Gadda dicti Picin, ætatis suæ 26…» (M01069006, 1768.)*
A fifth attestation of the full name and the earliest — and a different office: «Cooperator», the curate. His career in this parish now has a shape: curate 1768 → parish priest by July 1782 → still parish priest Feb 1788 → buried 1797/8. ⚠ Which narrows «one man or two» to a window — Gallignana in roughly 1769×1782 — where before there was only «before 1782 or after 1785».
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# ⚠ AND THE ITEM'S STRUCTURE IS NOT WHAT THE FRAME MAP SAYS
What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Joannes Matthias Franceschi · Corrections · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — the Gologorica obit CALENDAR, never opened: ELEVEN Defranceschi entries, three of them controls that pass Yielded | Worklist 218's fourth and last item: twenty-five frames located on 30 September and never opened, worth a look for a Grah death before 1784. | ⭐⭐ IT IS NOT A REGISTER. IT IS AN OBIT CALENDAR, AND THAT IS WORTH FAR MORE.
Each opening carries two months; the days of the month run down each page; against each day stand the people who died on that day in any year, with the year in a ruled column at the right. It is the book a priest reads to know whose anniversary falls today.
> 30. · Pietro Defranceschi — 170— · Luca Zabran — 1750 · Bortolo Dobradon — 1752 · Giuseppe figlio di q. Matteo Flegar Lucotich N.º 109 — 1782 · [—] Zabran Tulla N.º 86 d'anni 50 — 1788
(30 September — M01069217.)
myheritage, and a note of nothing at all:
walked: true and that was wrong, within the minute. Every frame of the item has been examined; the twenty calendar openings were scanned for one surname, with each hit magnified. That is not the same as reading every entry, and walked means every entry. It is back to false, and the distinction is the whole point of the flag: this reading counts for the Defranceschi and for nobody else. A second pass reading every line would serve every family in the parish and has not been done.
⚠⚠ TWO CONSEQUENCES.
1. The film's title card is wrong about its own book, and the frame map's rule that the cards are «the authority» is corrected. A card printed by a filming project in 1997 is a third-hand description; the book's title page is the authority.
2. ⚠ GOLOGORICA'S PRE-1784 DEATH REGISTERS ARE NOT ON THESE REELS. This archive has believed since 30 September that it holds them. It holds an 1800 digest. So the eleven entries cannot be expanded — there is no fuller entry to go to — which both raises the calendar's value and closes the work-list item that asked where the register sits.
⚠ And the two tree-only people the sweep did not reach — Josephus 1782 and Gisanna 1774 — are not in the three «unread» openings, because there were none: they are either entries this sweep's eye passed over, or they are children or non-adults the calendar excludes, or they are not in it.What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Pietro Defranceschi, d. 1701 · Leonardus Defranceschi · The work list · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ FamilySearch — BAKAR MARRIAGES 1739–1808, film 005494714: the Gologorica groom's wedding, found and READ, with «ex Gollogorizza» in the entry Yielded | The Gologorica nil named this test an hour earlier: open the Bakar marriage film, find the Sablich entry, and take the date, the groom's patronymic and the bride's father. | ⭐⭐⭐ ALL THREE, AND A FOURTH NOBODY ASKED FOR.
> «Die 10 9bris pro domo D. Sebastiani Sablich, Nuptiis in facie Ecclesiæ contractis inter D.ⁿᵘᵐ Joannem Bap.[tistam] [De]franceschi ex GOLLOGORIZZA et D. Catharinam Sablich, tradidit D. Parochus Buccarensis Jacobus Polian, præsentibus Senatore D. Josepho Walis et D. Josepho Smich»
What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Catharina — her wedding · Joannes Baptista Defranceschi · Corrections · Bakar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Oct 2026 | ⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica MARRIAGES 1786–1788 (M01069005): the parish priest's own name, written out in full, twice Yielded | Two hours earlier this archive published the priest's forename with a flag on it: «Joannē» is an abbreviation under a macron, and the standing rule is not to read anything off an abbreviation without a second construction. Reading the next frame for one. | ⭐⭐ FOUND, ON THE VERY NEXT FRAME, AND BETTER THAN ASKED FOR.
> 29 February 1788 — «Ego JOANNES MATTHIAS de FRANCESCHI, Parocus hujus loci, Joannem viduum Bubich ex Parochia Cerougliensi...»
> 1786 — «Ego Joannes de Franceschi, Parochus hujus Loci, Lucam filium Andreæ Cancianich sive Stvapich...»
The whole name in one line, in his own hand, nothing abbreviated. The flag is discharged and the forename is doc. And it confirms the row this archive wrote three days ago off a burial that gives only «MATH. DE FRANCESCHI» — which was a guess that turned out right, and is now not a guess.
His attested tenure of Gologorica now runs 11 July 1782 — 29 February 1788. ⚠ On the dates where he signs, and no wider: a Deprato is styled «Parochum» inside that span.
⚠ NIL, in its terms. No Defranceschi bride or groom on this frame either. Catharina née Jablich's marriage is now excluded from M01068999, M01069002, M01069003, M01069004 and M01069005. Six frames cropped and unread: M01068996–98, M01069000–01, M01069006.What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Joannes Mathias Franceschi · Method · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Oct 2026 | ⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica MARRIAGES 1779–1782 (M01069002): the priest earlier again, his predecessor dated, and two of the name as witnesses Yielded | Reading BACK from the 1782–1786 frames for two things: an earlier sighting of the Defranceschi parish priest, and — still the object of this walk — Catharina née Jablich's marriage. | ⚠ STILL NOT FOUND. No Defranceschi bride or groom on this frame either. Catharina née Jablich's marriage is not on M01068999, M01069002, M01069003 or M01069004. Seven frames of the eleven cropped remain unread: M01068996–98, M01069000–01, M01069005–06.
⭐ THE PRIEST IS EARLIER AGAIN, AND HIS PREDECESSOR IS DATED.
What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Margarita Defranceschi — her first document · Antonius Defranceschi · Corrections · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica MARRIAGES 1782–1786 (M01069003–M01069004): the Defranceschi parish priest in his own hand, four years early, and the marginal numbers settled Yielded | Continuing the walk begun at M01068999 this morning, looking for Catharina née Jablich's marriage — she was about twenty in 1786, so it should fall in these years. | ⚠ THE THING LOOKED FOR WAS NOT FOUND. No Defranceschi bride or groom on either frame. Catharina née Jablich's marriage is not on M01069003 or M01069004. Frames M01068996–98, M01069000–02 and M01069005–06 remain cropped and unread.
⭐⭐ WHAT THE FRAMES DID GIVE, from the officiant line rather than the names.
A marriage entry written «per me» means the officiant is the scribe, so these pages are in the hand of the man who signs them — and for these years that man is a Defranceschi.
What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Joannes Mathias Franceschi, parish priest · Jacobus de Franceschi · The work list · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — the GOLOGORICA MARRIAGE REGISTER 1770–1789, opened for the first time: the casa 31 marriage, the archpriest of Krbune named, and a weaver Yielded | The frame map of 30 September located this book — fifty-five frames, three registers bound as one — and the archive's own audit rated the two reels 3.6% read. Nothing in this log had ever been inside it. The marriages were opened looking for Catharina née Jablich's marriage to the house-36 Joannes Baptista. | ⭐⭐⭐ WHAT WAS FOUND IS THE OTHER HOUSE'S MARRIAGE, AND IT ANSWERS A QUESTION THE ARCHIVE WAS GOING TO WRITE A LETTER ABOUT.
> «Die 9 Junij [1774] · 45ᵃ Joannes Baptista Defranceschi q.ᵐ Leonardi filius, professionis suæ Textor, copulatus est cum Virgine Theresia, filia Antonij Grah ex Parochia Cherbune, à Rev.ᵐᵒ D.ⁿᵒ Archipresbytero et Parocho Cherbunensi Joanne Grah, in facie Ecclesiæ coram testibus ibidem notatis.»
Four things, and three of them were open questions:
What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · The Grach · Theresia Defranceschi, née Grach · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — the 1826 census «Nativitatis» column across all ten Defranceschi pages: nobody born between 1789 and 1803 Yielded | Worklist 216's second test: the fifteen-year hole in this family's childbearing had three possible readings, and the 1826 census — already in the house — is the book that can rule one of them out. | ⭐⭐⭐ A THIRD INDEPENDENT SOURCE, AND IT CLOSES A READING. The «Nativitatis» block read across all ten Defranceschi-headed pages gives: 1764 · 1766 · 1768 · 1772 · 1779 · 1789 — then nothing until 1803, then 1814, 1815, 1818, 1819.
The three books now agree and none was read for this question:
What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · The work list · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐ FamilySearch — KRBUNE (Cherbune) parish register 1803–1870, OPENED for the first time: 124 images, structure mapped Yielded | Worklist 168: open the one Krbune volume the Record Atlas lists — never opened by this archive in the eight days since it was identified — and find out whether the Grah/Grach are in it. Krbune is where Theresia née Grach's archpriest kinsman came from. | ✔ OPENED. The volume is real, it is the right book, and it is legible. Worklist 168 has carried this waypoint unused since 1 October.
What it produced on this siteThe work list · The Grach · Krbune | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica STATUS ANIMARUM 1826, the «Nrus. Domus» column: the direction settled, and the renumbering is many-to-one Yielded | Worklist 191: harvest the «Nrus. Domus» column end to end and settle which of the two figures is live, so a renumbering concordance can be built. | ⭐⭐⭐ THE DIRECTION IS SETTLED, AND IT IS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT THIS ARCHIVE CONCLUDED. At twenty times magnification the upper figure carries a diagonal strike; the lower is left standing. 20→27 (p.19, Domus Ecclesiæ), 35→64 (p.43), 30→64 (p.44). doc, plated. Correction published — the old claim and the ordering argument behind it both fail, since the book is bound in the order of neither numbering.
⭐⭐ AND THE CONCORDANCE CANNOT BE A FORMULA. Pages 43 and 44 carry the same new number 64 with «Nrus. Inquilinorum» 1 and 2, and different struck uppers 35 and 30. Two old houses became two tenant families of one new house. The mapping is many-to-one, which is why no constant difference exists, and why «36 vetus · 14 novus» and the census pairs can run in opposite directions without either being wrong. A concordance here must be a lookup table keyed by HOUSEHOLD.
⭐ Structure of the book, for the next reader. M01069315 is the title card, M01069435 the «KRAJ» target, and page N sits at frame M0106(9318+N) — p.2 at M01069320, p.32 at M01069350, p.62 at M01069380. Pages 1–15 are a «civilitas» section before the house order begins. ⚠ This archive had already read every Defranceschi-headed page of this census on 7 October and listed eight. This walk adds two it missed — p.14 «Jacobus Defranceschi» and p.15 «Franciscus Xaverius Defranceschi» (M01069332, M01069333) — so the count is ten, not eight. The established reading of those pages (houses named by whoever answered for them, seven of eight holding no household) stands and is not re-argued here.
⚠ THE COLUMN IS NOT HARVESTED END TO END, AND THIS ROW WILL NOT PRETEND IT IS. About sixty pages were read at a magnification that fits four to a sheet; two of those readings proved wrong when re-cropped at twenty times («28» and «36» for what are 35 and 30), so none of the rest is stated here. Only the three cells read at 20× are published. ⚠ A paper repair label physically covers the number column on several frames (M01069328–330, M01069362 among them). Finishing this needs better images of one narrow column than this film carries — a targeted DAPA request, not another pass over the same pixels.What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Corrections · The work list · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-215 — the twenty-one Gračišće godparent entries DATED, 1791–1808, and the maiden-name test run Yielded | Worklist 215, both halves: date each of the Defranceschi godparent entries found in the Patrini sweep, and test whether the register ever gives Theresia a maiden name. | ⭐⭐ THE SERIES IS DATED. Twenty-one appearances, unbroken 1791–1808 but for 1803–05. Each frame's «Annus» heading and date column read against the Patrini cell on the same line. The full table is on the line page.
Four people, not a crowd: Theresia ×13 (1792–1806), Joannes ×5 (1794–1802), Antonius ×4 (1799–1808), plus Joannes Baptista with Vincenca (13 May 1796) and Anna de Franceschi, «Nobiles Pisinenses» (13 Feb 1791).
⚠⚠ THIS ROW'S OWN CORRECTIONS WERE THEMSELVES WRONG, AND ARE WITHDRAWN. It reported the 16 October 1798 godmother as «Catharina Defranceschi» and re-dated four entries to 1802. Both are wrong: re-cropped at twenty times with the mother's cell alongside, the word is «Theresia» — the first reading was right — and the entries are 1801. The apparent «disorder» between M01070217 and M01070218 was a misread page header and does not exist. There is no Catharina at Gračišće; the 1785 Gologorica Catharina is untouched, and the bridge built between them is withdrawn.
❌ THE MAIDEN-NAME TEST FAILS, and that is the useful half. The plan was to find one entry reading «Theresia Defranceschi nata Grach». All twenty-one Patrini cells were re-read: the godparent column gives bare names — never a nata or olim — though it does carry «vidua», «filia», «uxor» when it wants them, and the Mater column writes maiden names as routine. So the omission is the scribe's habit for married women, not damage, and this book cannot settle the identification. The question moves to the Gračišće marriage books MKV 1194/1195, or the house-5 Status Animarum.
⚠ Open: the 1803–05 gap (M01070219–M01070222 carry none) is not explained; and the year headings on M01070217 (1802) and M01070218 (1801) sit opposite to their folio order, which this book's documented disorder may or may not cover. What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · The work list · Gračišće | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-215 — Gračišće BAPTISMS 1783–May 1808, the PATRINI column swept row by row (M01070190–M01070226): ~20 Defranceschi, all «cives» Yielded | Close the gap this archive flagged itself and left open: the 1783–1808 ruled half had only its PATER column read, and the log said in writing that «a Defranceschi could stand as … a godparent». Read the Patrini column of all 37 frames. | ⭐⭐⭐ THE GAP WAS REAL AND IT WAS FULL. The Pater column nil stands — not one Defranceschi father in ~900 baptisms. The Patrini column of the same frames holds about twenty Defranceschi appearances.
inf with a live objection. Test raised.
⭐ Also new: «Revisus in Visitatione Decanali die 7ᵐᵃ 8bris 1807 — Petrus Anicich, Cæs. Reg. Parochus et Decanus» (M01070225) — the same dean who signs the Gologorica books on 25 June 1808, now signing Gračišće nine months earlier. One decanal round, two parishes, one protocol to ask for.
⚠ Limits. Read at working magnification, three verified at six times. Precise dates not taken for most — page-year headings give 1791, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1799, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808. No descent traced to the direct line here.What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Corrections · The direct line · Gračišće | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-215 — Gračišće BAPTISMS 1667–1745 (sig. 3.1), swept frame by frame — COMPLETE, 188 frames Yielded | Verify this archive's own claim that the whole 1667–1745 Gračišće baptism book was read leaf by leaf and the surname occurs five times in it — Count Damian in 1720, Presbiter Philippus in 1734, and a Defranceschi of Gologorica standing godparent in 1733, 1743 and 1744. | ✔ COMPLETE. M01069943–M01070130 — 188 frames, every one read, none skipped, none sampled. Title page to the film's «KRAJ · END OF ITEM» card. This row began as a verification of the archive's own claim that the book had been read leaf by leaf and the surname occurs five times. All five are now verified on the page, and no sixth exists.
THE FIVE, EACH CHECKED AGAINST THE REGISTER:
What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Row 208 · Gračišće | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐ A «Smrtni list» sent to David by a Defranceschi — Grga Defranceschi, d. Zagreb 11 November 1931, OLD CATHOLIC Yielded | A photograph of a death certificate, passed to David by a Defranceschi and read here. | A certified «Prepis» of an entry in «matica umrlih hrvatske Staro-katoličke župe sv. Križa u Zagrebu», svez. I, str. 13, br. 17.
«Grga Defranceschi, bravar kod sekcije Držav. željeznica u Zagrebu» — a fitter with the State Railways. Died «jedanaestoga novembra, Hiljadu devetstotina trideset i prve» — 11 November 1931. Spouse «Marija rodj. Lovrencin, supruga mu». Born «Ližnjan (Istra)». Resident and died at «Zagreb, Mošćenička ul. 12». Religion «starokatolička».
⭐ TWO THINGS THE ARCHIVE DID NOT HAVE. (1) Grga is a new person — no Grga, and no Defranceschi death of 1931, was on the books. (2) «starokatolička» appears nowhere else here: the Croatian Old Catholic Church, founded 1923, kept its own registers outside the Roman Catholic system this archive has been walking. Raised as its own row.
⭐ And it fills an empty row. «Marija Lovrencin / Lorencin (Defranceschi)» was on the roster from David's tree with no dates, no place, no note. She is now the named widow of a man with a date, a trade, a street and a parish.
⚠ The form is a re-issue. The printed «KRALJEVINA JUGOSLAVIJA … Banovina Savska» is overstamped «Hrv. st. katolička Crkva · Nezavisna Država Hrvatska», and the header reads «Za regulisanje penzije kod Financijske direkcije» — so the copy was drawn under the NDH, 1941–45, for a pension claim on a death of 1931. The document is evidence of two moments, not one.
⚠ NOT READ: his birth date. The row «dan, mjesec i godina rodjenja» is below the bottom edge of the photograph. Only the place is legible. A second photograph taken lower would give it; raised.
⚠ Not claimed: any link to the «Gregorio Defranceschi, 1822, Ližnjan» already on the books. Grga is the Croatian form of Gregorius, so they share a name — and a man dying in 1931 is not one born in 1822. What it produced on this siteGrga Defranceschi · The work list · Zagreb · Ližnjan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-215 — Gračišće BAPTISMS 1746 – May 1808 SWEPT IN FULL (M01070132–M01070226): six Defranceschi, all godparents, five «of Gologorica» Yielded | Worklists 204 and 206: sweep the whole filmed Gračišće baptism register for the surname — the prose half frame by frame at full magnification, the ruled half by its Pater column. | ⭐⭐ THE WHOLE FILMED BOOK IS READ. Fifty-eight prose openings one at a time (M01070132–M01070189) plus thirty-six ruled-table frames (M01070190–M01070226). 1746 to May 1808, roughly fifteen hundred baptisms.
SIX occurrences of the surname. NOT ONE as a parent.
What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · The direct line · Gračišće · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-215 — Gračišće BAPTISMS, the PROSE half swept frame by frame (M01070132–, in progress): the first Defranceschi, and he is «Gollagoriciensis» Yielded | Worklist 206: sweep the pre-1783 prose half of the Gračišće baptism book, which has no column a surname can be read down, one frame at a time at full magnification. | ⭐ THE FIRST DEFRANCESCHI IN THE BOOK: 12 March 1747 (M01070137). «Franciscus Gregorius filius legitimus Judicis Ignatij [Martinich] et Luciæ uxoris ejus baptizatus est à me Canᵒ Vito Drusetich. Patrini fuerunt Joannes Petrus de Franceschi nec non Joanna uxor Judicis Joannis Salamon.»
⭐⭐⭐ THE SECOND, 2 April 1750 (M01070142), and it carries the word that matters: «Joannes Petrus filius legitimus judicis Ignatij Martinich et Lucia jugalium … Patrini fuerunt Josephus de Franceschi GOLLAGORICIENSIS et Maria Milotich uxor Gregorij.»
«Gollagoriciensis» — of Gologorica. Taken with no Defranceschi father anywhere in the book from 1746 to 1808, the mid-century Defranceschi at Gračišće are visitors from Gologorica, not residents. This archive has treated Gračišće as the origin and Gologorica as the second home; the register of 1750 points the other way.
⭐⭐ And the same household asked them three times in six years, then named a child after one. 5 May 1744 (folio 160, previous book, already held here) — «D.nus Joannes Petrus Defranceschi et Mattia uxor … Joannis Grach» at the baptism of Ignatius Martinich and Lucia's daughter. 12 March 1747 — Joannes Petrus stands for their son. 2 April 1750 — their next son is christened «Joannes Petrus».
Co-godparents across the three: a Grach wife, and twice «Joanna uxor Judicis Joannis Salamon» — both married-in surnames of this family, Salamon seventy-two years before Francisca Salomon married into the direct line.
Checked before writing: both frames and the epithet «Gollagoriciensis» return nothing anywhere in the archive; «Joannes Petrus Defranceschi» is an existing roster row that carried no note at all and now carries three dated appearances.
⚠ Not claimed: that either godfather is an ancestor of this line — no entry gives a father, age or house; that the two men are related; or that one epithet on one day describes the whole surname.
⚠ IN PROGRESS: frames M01070132–M01070143 read; M01070144–M01070189 still to do. What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Joannes Petrus Defranceschi · Gračišće · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica STATUS ANIMARUM 1826: the «Locus ex quo vel ad quem» column READ IN FULL (M01069319–M01069434) Yielded | Worklist 198, finished: read the migration column across every opening of the book. | ⭐⭐ COMPLETE. All ~119 openings, M01069319–M01069434 (M01069435 is the film's «ITEM» end target). Every entry gives a place, the house number at the far end, and a year.
Gračišće 16 (Gallignana houses 4, 5, 24, 32, 50, 86, 89, 92) · Paz 9 (5, 7, 9, 13, 24, 28, 41, 83) · Novaki 8 (2, 25, 42, 54, 62, 93, 95) · Krbune 6 (4, 15, 23, 33) · Gradinje 6 (8, 9, 20, 24, 27, 28) · Pazin 4 (84, 89) · Cerovlje 3 (20, 46) · Draguć 3 (12, 17) · Lindar 2 · Dol 2 · Žminj 1 (56) · Vrsar 1 · Volosca 1 · plus 9 moves inside Gologorica (houses 2, 21, 24, 32, 40, 42, 49, 55).
⭐⭐ Gračišće wins by nearly two to one — and it is this archive's own origin parish. The two villages were one marriage market, not a line's origin and its destination. Raised as its own row.
⚠ Krbune comes back: six times, with four house numbers. The superlative withdrawn this morning stays withdrawn (six against sixteen), but Krbune is the fourth-equal partner and the row keeps its place on merit.
⚠ The leader changed three times while this was being built — Krbune, Paz, Gračišće, Gračišće. Only the last is a finding; two of the others were published mid-count and withdrawn. Method note added.
Method, so the numbers can be checked: the column was taken off every frame in contact sheets at moderate magnification and read where the hand is plain. Counts are «at least» — faint and part-legible cells were excluded rather than guessed, and several read only «ex Parochia sub N.ᵒ …» with no parish named. The ranking is robust to that; the exact figures are not.
Named nil: no Defranceschi appears by surname anywhere in the column — it names households by house number — so only the two Gallignana brides already recorded are matched to this family. What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · The work list · Gologorica · Gračišće · Paz · Novaki · Krbune · Gradinje | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica STATUS ANIMARUM 1826, «Locus ex quo vel ad quem» across seventy-eight openings (M01069319–M01069396) Yielded | Worklist 198: carry the migration column on from thirty openings to seventy-eight. | ⚠⚠ THE LEADER CHANGED AGAIN, WHICH IS THE POINT. At thirty openings Paz led with 5. At seventy-eight: Gračišće 10 (houses 4, 5, 24, 32, 89, 92), Paz 9 (5, 7, 9, 13, 24, 28, 41, 83), Gradinje 6 (8, 9, 20, 24, 27, 28), Novaki 6 (2, 42, 54, 93, 95), Draguć 3, Cerovlje 3 (20, 46), Pazin 3 (84), Lindar 2, Krbune 1, Vrsar 1, Volosca 1, plus 7 moves inside Gologorica (houses 2, 21, 24, 32, 42, 49, 55).
Three parishes have led this table in one day — Krbune (withdrawn), Paz, now Gračišće. Forty-one openings remain unread, so no parish is crowned and the counts are published with their denominator.
⭐ Krbune IS in the column after all, once: «ad parochiam Cherbunensem», 1841, M01069377. Yesterday's «not once legibly» was true of the first thirty openings and is corrected to «once in seventy-eight». It does not restore the withdrawn superlative.
⭐⭐ «In parochiam Orsariim Istriæ Venetiarum nupsit» (1824, M01069378) — a marriage out to Vrsar on the Venetian coast, ~80 km, where every other destination is within ~15 km. Raised as its own row.
⭐ M01069386 is not a census page: a German document, «N.ᵒ 369», «Das Hochwürdige …», dated «Triest am 9ten Jul. 18—», bound into the volume. Not read — it is Kurrent, and it is recorded rather than guessed at. Raised.
Named nil: no Defranceschi appears as a named mover anywhere in these seventy-eight openings beyond the two Gallignana brides already recorded. What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · The work list · Gologorica · Gračišće · Paz · Gradinje · Novaki · Vrsar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 Oct 2026 | ⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica STATUS ANIMARUM 1826, «Locus ex quo vel ad quem» across thirty openings (M01069319–M01069366) Yielded | Worklist 198, continued: harvest the migration column far enough to say where this village actually exchanged households. | ⭐ THIRTY OPENINGS READ. Every entry gives a place AND the house number at the far end, with a year.
What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Corrections · Gologorica · Paz · Gradinje · Novaki · Draguć | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica STATUS ANIMARUM 1826, «Locus ex quo vel ad quem» harvested across M01069319–M01069336 Yielded | Worklist 198: begin harvesting the column that answered four rows yesterday. | ⭐ «Ex Parochia Passensi sub N.ᵒ Domus 28» (M01069329) — Passensis, the parish of PAZ. That identifies «Afflich Michael Andrejevich ex Paas» from the death book's «Extranei» list, which this archive had recorded as a reading matched to nothing. Two of the three unidentified Extranei places are now placed; only «ex Castro ⟨—⟩otti» remains, and it is still not guessed.
Other origins on this sheet, each with the house number at the far end: «Parochia Lindariensi», «Parochia Gallignanæ sub N.ᵒ 4» and «sub N.ᵒ 5», «Cerovlie N.ᵒ 46», «Parochia Novaci sub N.ᵒ 2» and «sub N.ᵒ 93», «Volosca», plus house numbers 11, 13, 15, 18, 56, 59, 63 against parish names not yet read.
⚠⚠ NOT NEW, AND CHECKED BEFORE WRITING THIS TIME. The first frame of the run, M01069319, is the parish house, and its column was already read and published — all eight priests with birth dates and origins (Vrbnik and Omišalj on Krk, Cerklje and Krško in Carniola, Pazin, Novaki, Lindar), sourced to this exact frame. Going back over it produced one word of correction: «e Zuckfeld» is «e Gurkfeld» — Krško. Tested against «e Zirklach» two lines below in the same hand, which supplies the scribe's own Z for comparison. All eight origins are now identifiable places.
Named nil: no Defranceschi origin or destination appears anywhere in the column on these eighteen frames beyond the two Gallignana entries already recorded. What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Corrections · Gologorica · Paz · Novaki · Cerovlje | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 Oct 2026 | ⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica STATUS ANIMARUM 1826, the «Locus ex quo vel ad quem» column (M01069323): the half of the opening this archive had not been reading Yielded | Worklists 184, 194, 196 and 197 had all been chasing where two Defranceschi brides came from. Before opening another book, read the half of the census opening the search log itself recorded as unread. | ⭐⭐ THE ANSWER WAS IN THE COLUMN. M01069323, right-hand half, printed heading «Locus ex quo vel ad quem», bracketed across Antonius Sestan and his wife with the marriage date «13 Februarii 1843»:
> «Ex Parochia Gallignanæ sub N.ᵒ 4»
«Joanna uxor nata Defranceschi», b. 25 June 1818, came from Gračišće house 4. Her counterpart Francisca came from house 5 — two adjacent houses, two brides, three years apart, and house 5 is this archive's direct line.
⚠⚠ AND HALF OF THIS WAS ALREADY HERE. Francisca's origin, her house number and the marriage-inside-the-surname were recorded on 30 September, sourced to M01069328 — the frame this walk had open. Two work-list rows were raised yesterday to find what the archive already held, and a published sentence claimed the archive «cannot yet name» the other Defranceschi family. Withdrawn as a serious correction; row 196 withdrawn, 197 rewritten, 184 closed, and two method notes added.
The structural lesson, which is the bigger gap: an opening of this census is ONE table across two pages — left = names, rank, birth; right = confirmation, marriage, death, «Locus ex quo vel ad quem», vaccination. This archive has been reading the left half. ~119 openings remain unread on the right. Raised as its own row.
Also opened, and new: the Gračišće MKR 1746–1840 on reel ZM34K-215 (M01070131–M01070236), which has no search row in this archive at all. Sampled at M01069212 (1797–98) and M01070226, the opening headed «Annus 1807» running into 1808, page 186–187: at 8 February 1808, house 253, the baptism of Lucia, daughter of Antonius Lanza Ceresnar and Mathæa née Pernich, the godparents are «Antonius Defranceschi» and «Theresia Defranceschi», condition «cives», priest Joannes Martinich. Not a discovery of Defranceschi at Gračišće — that is the archive's origin parish and the 1667–1745 book was walked leaf by leaf long ago — but this volume had never been opened, and these two are not matched to anyone on the books. What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Corrections · Gologorica · Gračišće | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | ⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica STATUS ANIMARUM 1826: the same woman found entered twice (M01069343 and M01069365) Yielded | Continuing worklist 191: harvest the house-number column, and look for a household whose two numbers are both independently known. | ⭐ The intended target was not found — but a better one was. «Maria Filia» of «Joannes Gasparich deft Matthei», b. 14 Augusti 1827, confirmed 9 Julii 1834 (M01069343), is also «Maria uxor n. Gasparich» in the «Petrus Rabar deft Antonii» household (M01069365) — same birth date, same confirmation date. The census enters a married woman TWICE, in her father's house and her husband's. That is the route to «Joanna uxor nata Defranceschi, b. 25 Junii 1818» and so to the reopened worklist 184.
⭐ «Petrus Defranceschi, civilitas, 17 Aprilis 1768» heads TWO consecutive pages (M01069325, M01069326) — the same man to the day. One page holds his mother «Anna mater nata Bembo» and his son; the other holds a Sestan and a Crismanich. A page is a HOUSE, not a family. The second column is printed «Nrus. Inquilinorum juxta eorum familias» — tenants — verified at magnification.
⚠ CORRECTION to this morning's own row: «the top figure is the live one» is withdrawn. M01069365 carries a faint «34», a faint «37» and an inked «38» — live at the bottom. The rule is the ink and the strike, not the position; the ordering test still confirms it.
Named nil: no household was found whose two house numbers are both independently known, so the direction between the census's two systems is STILL not settled and nothing has been carried across. The candidate that looked promising — «Gasparich alias Skillas N. 37 et 38» in the death index against the 34/37/38 cell — fails, because that cell belongs to a Rabar household whose wife was born Gasparich, not to the Gasparich household itself, which is twenty-two pages earlier under a different number. What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Corrections · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica STATUS ANIMARUM 1826, the «Nrus. Domus» column harvested across M01069319–M01069388 Yielded | Worklist 191: settle whether the census's paired figures are both house numbers, and which of the two was live. | ⭐ Both figures are in «Nrus. Domus». Verified at magnification against the printed headings on M01069362: «36» over a cancelled hatch, «64» struck beneath it, and the separate column «Nrus. Inquilinorum juxta eorum familias» holding the family count «2». Household «Josephus Udovicich Pintar Gospod», Rusticus, b. 2 Nov 1796, «Anastasia Uxor nata Sestan».
⭐ The TOP figure is the live one — by the book's own order, not by reading the hand. Upper figures climb down the book (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47); lower figures are scattered (64, 73, 74, 79, 58, 68, 46, 48). The sort begins about page 20 because the front is ordered by rank.
⚠ The second system is NOT the labelled «vetus/novus». The register's only named pair is «36 vetus · 14 novus»; the census pairs 36 with 64. At least three numberings, or «36» is two houses in two books. Nothing carried across.
⚠ The tempting reading is NOT made. If the top is live, Leonardus Defranceschi's house was 6 — agreeing with the death register's house 6 in 1858 and 1874 — and the index's «N.º 10» would be the lower figure. The cross-check that would test it fails: the index's «Udovicich Joseph … N.º 36» is headed «haeres Georgii Pascoli Uglessich» while the census man is «Pintar» — probably two different Josephs.
Latin and Italian alternate inside the book: «Lucca Zabran di Giuseppe» / «Catharina moglie nata Udovicich» (M01069357), «Giovanni figlio» (M01069362), «Giuseppe figlio» (M01069385) — the given name changing language with the relationship word, the next line changing back. Raised as its own row.
Not done: M01069389–M01069435 not harvested; household names recorded only where legible in the column strip. What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Method · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica STATUS ANIMARUM 1826, opening pages re-read (M01069319–M01069331, with M01069337–M01069338) Yielded | Worklist 189: lay the house map built from the death book's index against the 1826 census. The census was walked on 1 October; this is a re-read of its opening pages and of its «Nrus. Domus» column, not a new walk. | ⚠⚠ IT REFUTED A FINDING PUBLISHED YESTERDAY. «Maria Uxor nata DEPRATO» (wife of Vincentius Sestan, M01069324) and «Joanna uxor nata DEFRANCESCHI» (wife of their son Antonius, M01069323). The three surnames the index stacks at house 6 are joined by two marriages in two generations — against the published claim of «no family connection at all». Withdrawn; worklist 184 reopened.
⭐ «Jacobus Defranceschi · civilitas · 21 | Julii | 1762» (M01069323) — a DATE where this archive had a year computed off an age. Closes worklist 182 and corrects the birth year from 1761.
⭐ The «Nrus. Domus» column carries the renumbering pairs, the same struck-over-second habit already found in the baptism book: «20 struck · 27» on «Domus Ecclesæ» (p. 19, M01069337), «29 struck · 30» (p. 20, M01069338), «21 · 48», and «6 · 10» on the Leonardus Defranceschi household (p. 10, M01069328). Direction NOT settled — «36 vetus · 14 novus» runs old-high-new-low and every census pair read runs the other way, so nothing is carried across.
The book is ordered by RANK, not by house number. «civilitas» and «cives» at the front, «rusticus» and «agricola» behind. Eight Defranceschi households in the first thirteen pages. House 1 is the parish house and lists the successive priests — Brussich, Milcetich, Zwölber, Sajovec, Dragovina, Flegar — confirming the index's «Zwey N.º 1» from a second source.
Two married-in surnames with no index block turn up as people: «Albertus Peschle, Doctor» at house 2 with «Victoria uxor n. Calligarich» (M01069322), and «Anna mater nata Bembo» at house 8 (M01069326). Neither claimed as a relative; both raised as rows.
Not read and not guessed: the right-hand half of each opening (Matrimonii contracti, Obitus, «Locus ex quo vel ad quem») beyond spot checks; the «Nrus. Domus» column past M01069352. What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Corrections · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | ⭐ Catholic-Hierarchy, Wikipedia (Juraj Dobrila; Diocese of Pedena; Diocese of Poreč and Pula) — identifying the bishop who signed the Gologorica death book Yielded | Worklist 185: «G. Dobrila, Ep.s» signed a canonical visitation at Gologorica on 7 July 1876, where every other inspection in 96 years is signed «Decanus». Which bishop, and — since he makes a canonical visitation of his own diocese — which diocese was Gologorica in? | Juraj Dobrila (1812–1882): Bishop of Poreč–Pula 1857–1875, installed Bishop of Trieste and Capodistria 29 May 1875, died in office 13 January 1882. So on 7 July 1876 his see was Trieste, and the signature names Gologorica's diocese.
The chain, each link separately sourced: the diocese of Pićan (Pedena) was suppressed 20 August 1788, its territory added to Gradisca; when Trieste was restored on 12 September 1791 the former Pićan territory remained incorporated in it; Poreč–Pula gained territory from the diocese of Trieste on 17 October 1977. This archive already held the first link from the other end — Orbanić's edition of de Buset's 1788 spiritual visitation covers Gologorica parish by parish «in the last year of the diocese of Pićan».
Dobrila was born at Veli Ježenj, Tinjan parish — about ten kilometres from Gologorica, the first Istrian Croat made a bishop.
⚠ Consequence, and it corrects this archive: the errand ref reading «MKR / MKU Pićan (Pedena), diocese of Poreč-Pula» was the present written over the past. The diocesan layer for every Gologorica register walked here is at Trieste, not Poreč or Pula. Corrected, and raised as its own row under the standing hold on letters.
Not established and not guessed: whether the pre-1977 Istrian diocesan material stayed at Trieste or moved with the parishes in 1977 — that is the first question any letter must settle. And why there is exactly one bishop in eighty-five years of deans. What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Corrections · Gologorica · Pićan · Trieste | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | ⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS index, letters U–Z and «Extranei» (M01069309–M01069313): THE INDEX IS WALKED Yielded | Finish the death book's index. The previous row left U–Z unread and said so. | The index runs M01069299–M01069313 and the next frame is the film's own «KRAJ · END OF ITEM» target — so the book and its index are both read end to end.
⭐ The last column is headed «Extranei» — six people who died in the parish and did not belong to it, each with where they came from: «ex Cerovglie» (p. 4), «ex Cherbune» (p. 13, illegitimate twins), «ex Gradigne» (p. 15), «ex Paas» (p. 41), «furlanus … ex Castro ⟨—⟩otti, fossor» (p. 48), «ex territorio Cherbune» (p. 53). Krbune twice. Pages 41, 48 and 53 are all famine-year pages.
⭐ The index carries a fact the register does not. Page 48 entry 17 reads «Petrus Chiuch ex Castro ⟨—⟩otti fossor», d. 6 March 1817, «annᵒ circiter 75», cause «Volvolus». The word «furlanus» is in the index only. Verified against the page (M01069252).
Twelve Udovicich households at houses 36, 41 et 102, 48, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 74, 75, 77, 79 — an unbroken run. Nine Zabran at 46, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 59, 73, 92. Five Zajz at 111–115. «Travaglia N.º 119» is the highest number in the index. «Zwey N.º 1» is the parish house (its entry is the priest's maidservant).
«Udovicich Tulla N. 41 et 102» — one household, two house numbers, the inverse of the six numbers carrying two households each.
Two headings were revised in use: «N.º 70 nunc Antonius», «N.º 48 nunc Blasius».
«judex» three times as an office: Zabran Ciglian N.º 47, Zajz Cucevar N.º 111, Zajz Cuevarich N.º 112.
Named nil for this family: no Defranceschi, Deprato, Grach, Jablich, Peschle or Orlis/Ortis block anywhere in U, V, Z, and none of the six «Extranei» is one. Terms looked for across U–Z: Defranceschi, De Franceschi, Franceschi, Deprato, De Prato, Grach, Grah, Jablich, Jablicich, Peschle, Peschel, Orlis, Ortis, Salomon. What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Krbune — worklist 168 · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS 1784–1880: the index, and the two pages it pointed at Yielded | Opening the death register — the book the case for which was written yesterday on four unresolved death years — by reading its alphabetical index first and going straight to the Defranceschi pages it names. | The book has an index, as the baptism book does. The index names the pages. The first two pages it pointed at settled the two oldest questions on the Gologorica page.
⭐ «1821. Die 30ma Januarii hora ½ 4ta a meridie · domus 104 · CLEMENTINA FILIA D.ni JOSEPHI DEFRANCESCHI · dierum 2 et horarum 11½ · Imperfecta Structura», buried 1 February 1821 (p. 62). Her baptism has her born 28 January 1821 at four in the morning at the same house. The arithmetic closes to the hour. The name-reuse this archive inferred on 1 October is now a document, and the 1870 death this roster carried for her is withdrawn — removed rather than moved, because the dispute over her sister is still open. It also settles the godmother of February 1840: there is only one Clementina left.
⭐ «1817. Die 19 Xbris · domus 17 · MAXIMILIANUS JOSEPH DEFRANCESCHI, D.ni Josephi filius · annorum 4 · Vermes et Phthisis cum febri maligna», buried the next day at sunset «ob signa putrefactionis» (p. 58). A son this archive did not have, born about 1813, in a gap the pedigree had empty — and eleven years before the Maximilianus Antonius born 8 January 1828. So this family reused TWO names, not one, which stops being an inference about what families did and becomes their documented habit.
THE INDEX IS A MAP OF THE REST. Under «Defranceschi Joseph · N.º 17» it lists fourteen deaths with pages, among them «R.dus Joan: Mathias, ex Parochus» (15) — a Defranceschi who had been parish priest — «D.na Helena, vidua q. Josephi» (25), «D.nus Joan: Bapta q. Josephi» (39) and «Amalia, filia Josephi» (67). Two more households follow: «Joanes Bapta detti Leonardi · N.º 12» and «Leonardus · N.º 10».
⚠ walked is FALSE and deliberately. Four frames of ninety-one have been opened. The index has been read and the book has not.What it produced on this siteThe death book opens, and answers in two pages what the archive had argued for a fortnight · The elder Clementina did not die in 1870 · Two days and eleven and a half hours · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 15 and 25 (M01069235, M01069240), 1795–1804 Yielded | Working the Defranceschi entries the death book's own index names, page by page, in the order the index gives them. | ⭐ A DEFRANCESCHI HELD THE CURE OF GRAČIŠĆE. «Idem · domus 63 · 29 Martij [1798] · admodum R.dus D.nus MATH. DE FRANCESCHI, ex Parocho GALLEGNA[nensi] · annorum 62 · Paralisia» (p. 15). Gallignana is Gračišće — not a neighbouring parish picked at random but this line's own second home, the parish Francisca and Joanna came out of, whose registers are on the one reel the family does not hold. He died at Gologorica aged sixty-two, of a stroke; born about 1736. This archive held him as a row with no dates and the single word «Don».
⚠ His parents are not established. The entry gives age and office and no father; the index files him under «Defranceschi Joseph · N.º 17» — and an index is a clerk's filing decision, not a statement of descent. No parent is attached on the strength of it.
⭐ DOMINA HELENA, widow of the late Josephus Defranceschi, died 26 August 1804, aged 84, of a malignant fever, house 36 (p. 25). That puts her birth about 1720; this archive carries her as 1725–1809. ⚠ A fifth open date collision — and the first this book has MADE rather than closed. Unlike the other four it is a contemporary parish entry against a published archive date. Nothing changed yet: four frames into ninety-one, and the dates should move together when the book is done.
⭐ AND THE DEAN SIGNED EVERY BOOK ON ONE VISIT. «Revisus in Visitatione Decanali die 17ma Julii 1804 — M. Franciscus Franovich … Decanus» stands on page 25 of the deaths — the same inspection, date and dean already found in the baptism register. So a visitation signed off the parish's registers together, which means a protocol of 1804 should account for baptisms, marriages and deaths rather than one series.
Pages 17–18 (1798–1800) read in full: no Defranceschi. What it produced on this siteA Defranceschi who had been parish priest of Gračišće · His entry, where there had been one word · Worklist 169 — the dean signed every book on one visit · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 37–40 and 67–68 (M01069247, M01069262), 1812 and 1826–27 Yielded | Working down the death book's own index of the Defranceschi, page by page — and reading the notes the priest ruled across the columns, not only the entries. | ⭐⭐ FOR EIGHTEEN MONTHS THIS PARISH DID NOT HAVE ITS OWN REGISTERS. Ruled across page 38 between two deaths of 1812, in the parish priest's hand:
> «N.B. Hic Liber cum aliis ex justa ordinationem regiminis GALLICI consignatus fuit MUNICIPALITATI PISINENSI die 20ma Julii 1812, et die 5ta Januarii 1814 fuere restituti ab Administratione Dominali; quamobrem Mortuorum eorum Nomina, qui per hoc intervallum obierunt, fideliter ex more solito hic retuli: ego idem Parochus Mocovich qui supra.»
Istria was inside Napoleon's Illyrian Provinces, and the French took registration off the church and gave it to the commune. The books went to Pazin on 20 July 1812 and came back on 5 January 1814.
⚠ SO EVERY GOLOGORICA DATE FROM JULY 1812 TO JANUARY 1814 IS RETROSPECTIVE. The priest says it himself — «hic retuli», I have entered them here afterwards. He is flagging it, not hiding it, which is more than most registers do; but an entry written up eighteen months later is not an entry made on the day, and this archive should say so wherever it cites one.
⭐ AND IT NAMES A RECORD SERIES NOBODY HAS ASKED FOR. If the commune held registration, the commune registered. French civil registers of the Municipality of Pazin, 1812–1814, should exist and would be the only contemporary record of that window. Worklist 181 carries it, with the note that Napoleonic registers are usually catalogued under the French administration rather than the parish — which is why a search by parish name has never found them.
⭐ AND A NIL, RECORDED BY A PRIEST IN 1812: «N.B. A die 10ma Julii usque ad 19am Augusti exclusive nemo obiit in hac Parochia» — from 10 July to 19 August exclusive nobody died in this parish. He wrote down an absence with its exact bounds so nobody would mistake a silent page for a lost one. It is the rule this archive works to, two hundred and fourteen years early.
⭐ AMALIA DE FRANCESCHI, eight months old. «Die 22 Xbris 1826 · domus 17 · AMALIA DE FRANCESCHI, filia Josephi · 8 Men[ses] · febres gastricæ, mali[gnæ]», buried the 24th (p. 67). The pedigree carried her with neither birth nor death. Born about April 1826. And she takes a strand out of worklist 175: having died an infant she cannot be the Adelaidis of 1847, 1852 and 1868, so four names round that household become three. What it produced on this siteThe French took the registers, and the priest wrote down what that cost him · Worklist 181 — the French civil registers of Pazin, 1812–1814 · Amalia, eight months old · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 5–6 and 39–40 (M01069230, M01069248), 1787–88 and 1813–14 Yielded | Continuing down the death book's own index of the Defranceschi — and reading the Sepeliens column, which names the priest who performed each burial and which this archive had not been reading at all. | ⭐ A DEFRANCESCHI WAS PARISH PRIEST OF GOLOGORICA. The Sepeliens column — who performed the burial — reads at the head of 1787: «[Defran]ceschi, P[aro]chus Loci», with «Idem» running down the page beneath. (M01069230, p. 5.) Not a visiting priest borrowed for a day: the parish priest of the place, burying his own village. Taken with page 15, where «admodum R.dus D.nus MATH. DE FRANCESCHI, ex Parocho GALLEGNA[nensi]» is buried in 1798 aged sixty-two, a priest of this surname held both Gologorica and Gallignana — which is Gračišće. ⚠ One man or two is not settled: the index names only one Defranceschi priest, which favours one man with two cures and does not prove it.
⭐ D.NUS JOANNES BAPTA DEFRANCESCHI, VIDUUS, son of the late Josephus — died 23 January 1813, aged 60, of phthisis, at house 17, and was buried by Martinus Sestan, parish priest of NOVAKI, «de licentia mea parochi presentis». (M01069248, p. 39.) This archive held the date already and the note «Dominus» and nothing else: verification, plus the cause, the age, the widowhood, the house and the officiant.
⚠ AND A TRAP, RECORDED. Three rows below him: «Josephus DE-PRATO, cœlebs, defuncti Joannis Baptæ filius», a student of twenty-five dead of consumption in the same March. At page scale the surname broken across a line reads as a Defranceschi — and a man of that age, styled son of the late Joannes Baptista, dying two months after Joannes Baptista Defranceschi, is exactly what one would want him to be. He is a Deprato. Cut past the cell and the break is plain.
⚠ A reading corrected before publishing: the death day read as 25 at page scale and is 23, which is what the pedigree already held.
Pages 6 (1788), 17–18 (1798–1800) and 40 (1814) read in full for the surname in every column: no further Defranceschi. What it produced on this siteA Defranceschi buried this parish — the surname is in the officiant column · The priest, now with two cures · Head of house 17, dead at sixty · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 11–12 (M01069233), 1791–1792 Yielded | Continuing down the death book's own index of the Defranceschi — three of its entries fall on one opening. | Three Defranceschi deaths inside eighteen months, all at house 36, and between them they turn a line in a pedigree into a sequence.
What it produced on this siteHouse 36, in eighteen months · The Jablich wife, with dates at last · A woman the archive had no row for · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, page 3 and the index block for DEPRATO (M01069229, M01069301), 1786 Yielded | The earliest Defranceschi deaths in the book, and the index block of the family this archive nearly confused them with. | ⚠⚠ THERE IS A SECOND «De—» FAMILY AT GOLOGORICA WITH THE SAME GIVEN NAMES. The death book's index carries, one block below the Defranceschi, «DEPRATO Leonardus · N.º 6» — and the two households share a Joannes Baptista, a Catharina wife of Joannes Baptista, a Reverend former parish priest, a widow, and a Josephus son of the late Joannes Baptista. Both of the last two are on page 39, which is the page this archive read yesterday and where it nearly wrote a Deprato student into the roster as a Defranceschi. Both surnames begin «De—» and break across lines, and at page scale the second reads as the first. Worklist 183 carries the rule and the re-check.
⭐ CATHARINA DEFRANCESCHI, ELEVEN DAYS OLD — «12 Martij 1786 · domus 36 · dier. 11 · Debilitas». The first of three that house buried in six years, before Maria Antonia at six months in 1791 and her mother at twenty-six in 1792. A row is minted; her parents are inferred from the index and the house and are flagged as inferred.
⭐ MARIANA DEFRANCESCHI, TEN, OF DYSENTERY — «4 8bris 1786 · domus 31 · annorum 10». The index files her under «detti Leonardi · N.º 12». So casa 31 ↔ index N.º 12, confirmed independently by the death book after the baptism book's index said the same yesterday. Two books, two indexes, one pair — worklist 171 now has its firmest result.
⚠ And a small self-correction: the officiant column shows «Defrances[chi] Pbr Loci» heading the year 1786, not 1787 as this archive wrote yesterday. The Defranceschi priest was burying this parish a year earlier than published. What it produced on this siteThe family that is not this one — DEPRATO of house 6 · Worklist 183 — the Deprato conflation hazard · House 31, and the second anchored pair · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, page 8 (M01069231), September 1789 Yielded | The two Defranceschi deaths the book's index puts on page 8 — and the cause column around them. | ⭐ BOTH DEFRANCESCHI HOUSEHOLDS BURIED A CHILD INSIDE NINE DAYS, OF SMALLPOX.
> «Idem · [domus] 31 · 10 7bris 1789 · JOH. DEFRAN-CESCHI, fil. Ther[esiæ] · annorum 7 · Pustulla»
> «Idem · [domus] 36 · 19 7bris 1789 · JOSEPH. DEFRAN-CESCHI ex Loco · annorum 5 · Pustulla»
Neither child is anywhere in this archive. Born about 1782 and 1784; nothing recorded them but their deaths. Rows are minted for both.
⭐ And the elder is named for his MOTHER — «fil. Theriæ», son of Theresia. The archive knows one Theresia of house 31: Theresia née Grach, whose family raised the Krbune question. ⚠ Why a mother and not a father is not known — every other child on the page is «ex Loco» or «filius [N.]» — and it is recorded because it is unusual, not because it is understood.
⚠ THE PAGE IS AN EPIDEMIC. Seven of the nine entries in the lower half of page 8 give the cause as Pustulla: Maria Cosara of twenty-seven and Maria Cosara of six days; Vitus Selesco of thirty days; Joh. Bapt. Gasparich of three months; Mathæus Delgor Zaicich of sixteen days; Antonius Pascoli of one; Catharina Pascoli, wife of Josephus, of twenty-two. This archive has walked a hundred and sixty folios of baptisms and has almost nothing on how this village died. One page of the other book gives more than all of them.
House 36's tally in six years is now four children and a wife: Catharina at eleven days (1786), Josephus at five (1789), Maria Antonia at six months (1791), Catharina the mother at twenty-six (1792). What it produced on this siteSmallpox, September 1789 · Seven years old, son of Theresia · Five years old, house 36 · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, page 21 (M01069238) and the «D» index (M01069301), 1802 Yielded | Page 21, the page the death book's own index points at for «Antonius Leonardi pater» — and the index block that names him. | ⭐ A man this archive held on two bare years now has a register entry, and the index gives him a son.
> p. 21, third entry of 1802: «Idem · 29. · 17 7mbris · t. · Antonius De=franceschi ex Loco · t. — t. — · ann[orum] 60. · Hectica»
House 29 · 17 September 1802 · male · catholic · aged 60 · consumption. His roster row carried «b. 1742, d. 1802» from the family tree with no ark, no film and no note. The death is now a document; the birth is still implied, and stays implied.
And on the index page, a third Defranceschi household: «Defranceschi Leonardus N.º 10», carrying one name — «Antonius Leonardi pater · 21». Alongside «Joseph N.º 17» and «Joanes Bapta detti Lonardi N.º 12», the byname the baptism index also uses. The index files by household, not by surname — which is why the same page also heads «Deprato Leonardus N.º 6», a different family.
⚠ The naming trap, recorded before it is sprung. «Antonius Leonardi pater» (Leonardo's father, d. 1802) is not «Antonio q. Leonardo» (the late Leonardo's son, m. Svetvinčenat 1785). Mirror-image phrases, men a generation apart, nothing joining them yet.
⚠ And a method note that cost a re-crop. The first crop of this entry, taken earlier today, stopped at the cell's ruled line and cut the age away — the identical fault corrected on the baptism book this week. Re-cut past the cell, the age reads 60 plainly. Crop past the cell, not to it. The faint row beneath — Catharina uxor Joanis, ann. 52 — is one of this book's lighter-inked later entries and was invisible in the first crop too. What it produced on this siteWritten into the line · Antonius, now with a document behind him · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 29–30 (M01069243): a Defranceschi, a dead parish priest, and the words «vetus» and «novus» Yielded | The page the death book's index points at for «Catharina filia q. Josephi», walked with its facing page. | ⭐ THREE FINDINGS ON ONE OPENING.
1. A Defranceschi, and the index was right. «36 vetus · 14 novus · 12 8bris 1806 · Catharina filia defti Josephi De=franceschi, CÆLEBS ex Loco · 56 ann. · Asthma». A new person — unmarried, born about 1750, daughter of a Josephus already dead. The second «cælebs» Defranceschi woman in this book after Sancta. Birth year not declared.
2. ⭐ The register NAMES the two house-numbering systems — «vetus» and «novus» — which this archive had only inferred. Three labelled pairs: 36→14, 8→52, 107→76. ⚠ They scatter: «8 vetus» → «52 novus» is six times larger, not half, so this is a permutation, not a scaling, and the earlier «about half» reading is now unsettled. Flagged on the worklist; nothing withdrawn.
3. The parish priest dies in office, and four parishes bury his people. «ad. R.ndus FELIX ANT. BOBICH, Parochus Loci» — house 1, 11 December 1805, aged 43, Appoplexia. The officiant column then runs through outsiders: «P[res]b[yte]r Cher=bunensis» (KRBUNE — worklist 168), «Capellanus novacensis», «Gasparus Suran, Par: Cerovglensis», «Joannes Ant. … Coop. Petinas» (Pićan), until «Ant: Ferdinandus Mocovich, Parochus Loci» takes the book in September 1806. A fifth Krbune sighting, and the first one with a reason attached: an interregnum. What it produced on this siteWritten into the line · Catharina, newly minted · The renumbering question, now with three labelled pairs · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, page 41 (M01069249), 1814–1815 — a famine emigration, recorded with its certificate Yielded | Walking on into the years after the French confiscation already recorded here. | ⭐ THE PARISH RECORDS AN EMIGRATION, ITS REASON, AND THE PROOF.
> 27 April 1815, house 80: «Joannes Ancich q.m Judicis Joannis filius ex Rismagnizza · annor. 40 · FAMES»
> «obiit in Istria ex Veneto, quo egestatis causa cum familia sua se contulerat»
> «Matthæus Loganis, Parochus Foscolini in Istria ex Veneta, sepelivit ibi in Ecclesia S.ti Rochi, uti ex ejusdem Parochi Attestato patet»
He left for Venetian Istria with his family because of destitution, and starved there at forty. The home parish entered it on a certificate from the parish that buried him — a documented out-migration with a stated cause, which is not a thing this archive has had before. And he was the son of the Judex, the village judge.
Two more on the same page: a stranger «ex Parochia Paasbergensi», c.40, «inventus mortuus in via» (found dead on the road, 12 Feb); and «Matthæus Flegar … Inopia consumptus» (consumed by want), 54, 6 March, at eight at night.
⚠ Not identified here: where «Foscolino in Istria ex Veneta» is today. Not guessed at. ⚠ Not explained: why 1815 was a hunger year — Tambora erupted that April and this man was dead by the 27th.
⚠ No Defranceschi on this page. The second hunger crisis in twelve years after 1803, and the family is absent from it as from the bell payments and the «gratis» burials. What it produced on this siteWritten into the line · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 42–44 (M01069249–M01069250), 1815–1816 — the famine counted Yielded | Walking on from the 1815 emigration entry to find how far the hunger ran. | ⚠ THIS EXTENDS A FINDING PUBLISHED EARLIER THE SAME DAY, AND THE EARLIER NUMBER WAS TOO SMALL. The first write-up said «three deaths from want in eleven weeks», which was true of page 41 and nowhere near the whole.
Walking pages 42–44 brings the tally to SEVEN hunger deaths across THIRTEEN MONTHS, March 1815 to April 1816: «Inopia consumptus» (54)· «Fames» (40, in Venetian Istria)· «Fames» (46)· «Fames et paralysis» (52)· «Tabes famelica» (45)· «Fames» (4 years old)· «Tussis et Fames» (58). With the five of 1803 that is twelve in this one book.
⚠ And not only the poor: the Venetian-Istria death was the son of the «Judex»; a woman on page 44 is wife of the «Suppanus» — the župan.
The Ancich of houses 79–81 lose four in 1815, one of them buried next morning «ob signa putrefactionis».
⚠ Still no Defranceschi. Pages 41–44 are a named nil for the surname. What it produced on this siteWritten into the line · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 45–51 walked (M01069251–M01069254), 1816–1817 — the famine counted off the page Yielded | Walking the famine years entry by entry to establish how many died and who. | ⭐ PAGE 51 CARRIES SEVEN BURIALS AND ONE CAUSE: «Fames». 26 April – 8 May 1817.
The count, from reading every entry: at least 34 hunger-attributed deaths — 5 in 1803, 4 in 1815, 3 in 1816, and 22 in the first five months of 1817 alone. Seven different constructions: «Fames», «Egestas», «Inopia consumptus», «Tabes famelica», «Cancrhrena famesque», «Extenuatio», «Debilitates fame mendicando». ⚠ The walk stopped at page 51 with deaths still running, so 34 is a FLOOR.
Nine children — aged 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7, 9, 11, 14, 18 — and five households lost two or three: h81 Rabar: three daughters (4, 3, 7)· h73 Udovicich: two brothers five days apart (6, 7)· h105 Rade: father and daughter (39, 3)· h46 Zabran Schina: three, one «inventus mortuus ruri» and buried only «post sectionem a chirurgo factam»· h75 Udovicich Giacotich: father and daughter.
⚠ Not only the poor: the «Suppanus» Thomas Flegar died of «Extenuatio» in Feb 1817; his predecessor died the same month; the Venetian-Istria death was the «Judex» 's son.
What people did: begged («fame mendicando»), left (two deaths abroad entered on receiving priests' certificates — Venetian Istria 1815, Paasberg 1817), and died where they fell («in via», «sub dio in abysso», «ruri»).
⚠ CAUSE NOT CLAIMED. The 1817 peak fits the post-Tambora famine; the 1815 phase cannot — Joannes Ancich was dead on 27 April 1815, eleven days after the eruption. Two phases; the famous explanation fits one.
⭐ Also found: «Catharina, Vid. defti LEONARDI DEPRATO», h.6, 25 March 1817, ann. 77, «inventa mortua» — the head-name of the index block «Deprato Leonardus N.º 6», confirming house 6 as the Deprato house for a third time.
⚠ NO DEFRANCESCHI in any of it. Across pages 1–51 the family appears five times and never among the hunger dead, the bell-payers, or the «gratis» burials. What it produced on this siteWritten into the line · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 52–54 walked (M01069254–M01069255), May–July 1817 Yielded | Walking on to test the figure published an hour earlier. It was too low. | ⚠ THIS RAISES A FIGURE PUBLISHED EARLIER TODAY, which is the point of walking rather than sampling.
The section written after page 51 said «at least 34 … a floor, not a total». Pages 52–54 added eighteen more hunger deaths, bringing the running total to at least 52 — about 40 of them in 1817 alone. And the walk stopped at page 54 with the register still carrying roughly a dozen a month, so 52 is still a floor. The number was raised, not defended.
Two more whole-household tallies emerged: house 81 (Rabar) lost a fourth — the father Georgius, 40, «Fames et hydropisis», after his three daughters; house 46 (Zabran Schina) lost a fourth, Joannes, 16; house 105 (Rade) a third, Joannes, 8; house 75 a third, the mother, 55, «hydropisis famelica».
Two more one-year-olds died of «Fames» in June 1817. A woman was «inventa … in Valle agonisans» — found in the valley, dying. One of the dead came «ex territorio Cherbunensi» — Krbune again — and one died at Pazin, buried by its chaplain.
⚠ Still no Defranceschi, pages 52–54. What it produced on this siteThe count, revised · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 55–57 and 63 (M01069256–M01069257, M01069260), Aug 1817 – 1823 Yielded | Re-reading pages a previous session had opened for ONE person, and walking them properly to find how the famine ended. | ⚠ THESE PAGES HAD BEEN OPENED BEFORE — for Clementina, not walked. Reading every entry is what turned up the rest.
⭐ THE SHAPE OF THE WHOLE CRISIS: «Fames» Jan–Jul 1817 → «Fluxus»/«Dissenteria seu Fluxus sanguinis violentus» Aug–Sep → «Febris maligna»/«Phtysis» Oct–Dec. Starvation, then the epidemic that takes the starved, then the long tail. By page 63 (1821–23) mortality is ordinary again and the form has changed to record the dead person's «conditio» and the priest's signature.
One more hunger death, and a lesson in record-keeping: a sixteen-year-old, «Mathias Braticich … Fames», died 2 July 1817 at San Pietro in Selve but is entered among the September burials, with the priest's explanation — «Hic inscriptus, quia mense 7bri demum mors ejusdem scripto tenus ab eodem Parocho annunciata fuit». The fourth parishioner to die away from home in this crisis.
· A girl of ten entered «muta et surda» — the only disability named in the walk.
· Same-day burials ordered «ob signa putrefactionis, et nimium foetorem».
⚠ CONSERVATION NOTE FOR THE NEXT PERSON: a DAPA label is filmed with page 56 — «WATER DAMAGE · OŠTEĆENO OD VLAGE». The volume is damp-damaged at this point.
⚠ No Defranceschi, pages 55–57 or 63. What it produced on this siteThe crisis, end to end · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 65–66 (M01069261), 1826 — a Defranceschi buried at Barban, and the index decoded Yielded | The last unread page the death book's index points at for a Defranceschi. | ⚠ FIRST, WHAT IS NOT NEW. This archive already held Maria's death — 30 September 1826, aged 37y 2m 10d — from the 1826 household census, and had already used that age to fix her birth at 20 July 1789 and to marry up three roster rows with sameAs. Finding her in the death register is a verification.
⭐ WHAT IS NEW is the entry's own content: «Die 30: 7bris 1826 hora 3tia p.m. · 12 · Maria filia Defti Jo:is B:tæ Defranceschi · 37 · hectica · Adm.dm Rev. D.nus Lorentius Batel, Ca[pell]anus ad S. Petrum in Barbana, ibi sepelivit». The house, the cause, the hour — and that she was buried at BARBAN, forty kilometres south, by its chaplain, not in her own parish. ⚠ Why she was there is not known and is not guessed at.
⭐ AND IT DECODES THE INDEX. Tested five ways, the «N.º» on each index block is the household's house number: «Deprato Leonardus N.º 6» ✔✔✔ (three Deprato deaths at house 6)· «Joseph N.º 17» ✔ (Amalia, 1826)· «Joanes Bapta detti Lonardi N.º 12» ✔ (this entry). The two misses are both pre-renumbering, so the number is the new house, assigned once when the index was made.
Three Defranceschi addresses, in the numbering every later register uses: Joseph 17, Joannes Baptista «detti Lonardi» 12, Leonardus 10.
⚠ Hypothesis, not a pair: if Leonardus is house 10 new, and his father Antonius died at house 29 in 1802 (old), then 29 vetus = 10 novus. Not written anywhere; flagged on worklist 171 for the remaining pages to confirm or kill.What it produced on this siteWritten into the line · Maria, with her burial place · Worklist 171, the renumbering · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 69–71 (M01069263–M01069264), 1829–1831 — a SECOND numbering system Yielded | Walking past the end of the book's index, into years no index covers. | ⭐ FROM 1830 THE HOUSE IS WRITTEN AS A FRACTION: 65/32 · 103/61 · 41/17 · 111/68 · 31/12 — upper between 1.6 and 2.6× the lower.
That is the «about half» pattern worklist 171 was built on — and it is NOT the 1806 pairing the priest labelled «vetus»/«novus», which scatters (36→14, 8→52, 8→52 more than sextuples). So the worklist has been asking about two different systems as if they were one, which is why the table would not come out. The item is now split.
Settled: a renumbering about 1806, in the priest's own words, three labelled pairs.
Not settled, not guessed: what the 1830s fraction is. A near-constant ratio is the signature of something other than a permutation — a conscription number, a cadastral parcel, paired houses.
⚠ A coincidence to test, not a bridge: one fraction is 31/12 — this archive's «casa 31» and the index's «detti Leonardi N.º 12». But that 1831 entry is a Crismanich, and a Defranceschi died at house 12 in 1826.
⚠ No Defranceschi, pages 69–71. Note the book's index stops at page 67 (Dec 1826), so from here the walk has no index to lean on. What it produced on this siteWritten into the line · Worklist 171, now split in two · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 72–73 (M01069264–M01069265), 1831–1833 — nineteen number-pairs collected Yielded | Running the test set an hour earlier: collect the fractions and see whether the lower series is capped. | ⭐⭐ THE DECISIVE BIT: 72/36 and 112/69 appear in the death register AND in the baptism register's table. The two books use the same pairing, so their evidence pools — which it could not while they were separate puzzles.
Nineteen pairs: 9/4 · 31/12 · 38/19 · 41/17 · 42/21 · 54/27 · 55/25 · 57/36 · 61/29 · 64/31 · 65/32 · 72/36 · 80/43 · 85/44 · 92/50 · 94/52 · 103/61 · 111/68 · 112/69
upper 9–112 · lower 4–69 · ratio 1.58–2.58 near 2 · NOT order-preserving (41/17 crosses 38/19, 55/25 crosses 54/27).
Two series of different sizes is not a renumbering — a renumbering moves the labels and keeps the count. So this is not the 1806 change the priest labelled «vetus»/«novus».
⚠ What the lower series is: NOT established and not guessed. ⚠ 57/36 and 103/61 are uncertain page-scale readings, flagged not dropped.
⚠ No Defranceschi, pages 72–73. «Febris scarlatina» appears in 1832. What it produced on this siteThe table · Worklist 171 · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 83–84 (M01069271), 1847–1848 — Leonardus «civis», and two foundlings Yielded | Walking on into 1848. | ⚠ VERIFICATION, NOT DISCOVERY — the archive already held this death to the day. But the roster row carried the two years and nothing else — no note, no citation. The third bare or stale row found in one afternoon.
> «1848 Aprilis 14° · 5 · Leonardus Defranceschi, CIVIS, refectus SS Sacramentis moribundorum et sepultus die 15° hujus · 82 · febris cum senectute»
⭐ «CIVIS» where every other adult on the page is «agricola». Eighty-two in April 1848 closes exactly on the held birth of 30 January 1766.
⭐ AND THE TWO BOOKS TOGETHER: a boy was baptised Leonardus at house 5 on 22 January 1847, and this Leonardus died at house 5 on 14 April 1848. The child was named for a LIVING man, not a dead one — fifteen months of overlap in the same house. The boy lived to 1917.
⭐ A category this archive had not met in these registers: «EX EXPOSITIS». Two foundlings in 1848 — «Emilia Emerling, ex expositis», 1 year, house 46; and a nine-month-old at house 23. Children boarded out from a city foundling hospital to village families. ⚠ Neither surname is local, which is the mark of it. Recorded as a category to watch, not a finding about any line.
Also: Milcetich records three times on page 83 that he was not summoned — «quia vocatus non fuerit Parochus». What it produced on this siteWritten into the line · The row, no longer bare · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 85–88 walked (M01069272–M01069273), 1848–1850 — two Defranceschi, and the register argues back Yielded | Walking on into 1850, where the direct line's own people start appearing. | ⭐ ANTONIA'S DEATH IS NO LONGER THE TREE'S. Her row said the death year came «from the family tree» and named «the burial register, barely opened» as where it would be settled.
> «1850 Januarii 21° · 53 · Antonia Defranceschi, agla, sepul. die 23° huj · dier. 28 · debilitas physica»
⚠ The house does not match her baptism (house 5), and the number was tested before being believed: the whole house column of the page reads 53 · 47 · 59 · 13 · 54 · 30 · 65 · 17 · 33 · 7 — two digits among two-digit neighbours. Worklist raised.
⭐ AND «CIVIS» A SECOND TIME.
> «Decembris 8° · 7 · Jacobus Defranceschi, CIVIS, munitus ss. moribundorum et sepultus die 10 hujus · 88 · febris et senectus»
House 7, the house the 1826 census gives him. With Leonardus in 1848 that is twice in eight pages — the word is how this parish files this family, not an accident of one entry.
⚠⚠ AND THE REGISTER CONTRADICTS THIS ARCHIVE TWICE, which is worth more than agreement would have been.
What it produced on this siteWritten into the line · Antonia, now documented · Jacobus, and the two tensions · The two questions raised · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 89–94 walked (M01069274–M01069276), 1850–1854 Yielded | Continuing the walk past the family's own entries, into the 1850s. | ⚠ No Defranceschi in these six pages — a named nil. What they give is a category this archive had not met.
⭐ «EX EXPOSITIS» — FIVE FOUNDLINGS IN SIX YEARS, entered where the dead person's condition goes, beside «agricola» and «civis»:
Emilia Emerling (1, 1848, h.46) · a boy of 9 months (1848, h.23) · Josepha Schniker (1, 1851, h.61) · Theodora Frauttmann (2, 1851, h.45) · Pasqualis-Blasius Gasparich (3, 1853, h.73).
Children boarded out from a city foundling hospital to village families paid to keep them. ⭐ And the surnames split: Emerling, Schniker and Frauttmann are German, not Istrian — the names they arrived with. But Gasparich is a local name all over this register, so that child carried the fostering family's surname.
⚠ WHICH IS A HAZARD FOR THIS STUDY. If a foundling could be entered under the surname of the house that took him in, then a «Defranceschi» in these books is not necessarily one by blood. None of the five is. The mechanism is now documented here rather than discovered late.
⭐ «VARIOLAE SPURIAE» (1853, a man of 62) — false smallpox, the term for a modified attack in someone already vaccinated or previously infected. Against «Pustulla» (1789) and «Variola» (1811), that is an arc. ⚠ Not proof of a vaccination programme — one priest's word — but the distinction only exists if someone was drawing it.
⚠ One cause is ILLEGIBLE and stays so. Page 91, a boy of two months: the priest wrote a cause, struck it out and wrote another over it. The two inks will not separate at any magnification here. A first glance suggested a specific and serious reading; the page would not support it, and it is recorded as unreadable rather than guessed. What it produced on this siteWritten into the line · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 95–98 (M01069277–M01069278), 1855–1858 — a Defranceschi dying in the Deprato house Yielded | Walking on through the 1850s. | ⭐ ONE PAGE CARRIES A DEPRATO AND A DEFRANCESCHI FOUR MONTHS APART, IN ONE HAND — and the second dies in the first family's house.
> 14 May 1858, h.3: «Ane Maria DEPRATO, agla · 66 · febris»
> 8 Sept 1858, h.6: «Mathaea DEFRANCESCHI, agla, munita s. sacramentis moribundorum, sepulta vero 9° hujus · 86 · hydropisis»
Stacked one above the other the two surnames are plainly different words — which is the only way this archive reads a «De—» name here. Eighty-six lands on 1772, the birth already held (20 February 1772), and her death — carried as «about 1858» — is now exact.
⭐⭐ AND HOUSE 6 IS THE DEPRATO HOUSE, by four marks: the index block «Deprato Leonardus N.º 6» and the deaths there of Joseph Deprato (1801), Joannes Baptista Deprato (1809) and Catharina, widow of the late Leonardus Deprato (1817).
⚠ AND THIS ARCHIVE ALREADY HELD THE LINE THAT CLOSES IT, without noticing: «Wife of Leonardus (house 6). Maiden surname not captured.»
So the economical reading is that Mathaea was born a Defranceschi and married a Leonardus DEPRATO — these books enter married women under their birth surname as a matter of course. If so, the two «De—» families this archive has spent weeks separating are joined by marriage, and the separation has been of surnames rather than of people.
⚠ INFERENCE, NOT DOCUMENT. Nothing names her husband's surname. Worklist 184 raised: the marriage register on this same reel, then the 1826 census page for house 6. What it produced on this siteWritten into the line · Mathaea, with her own document at last · The marriage to look for · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 99–102 walked (M01069279–M01069280), 1859–1862 — the parish priest's own entry Yielded | Walking on to 1862, the year the baptism register shows a hand stopping mid-folio. | ⭐ THE ENTRY THIS ARCHIVE HAD SAID WAS NOT AVAILABLE.
The section on the 1862 handover reads the baptism book and says it shows a man dying «not in an entry — the deaths are not kept here». Walking the death register to page 102 found them:
> «22 Martii · M. R. D. Petrus Milcetich, Parochus loci … sacramentis munitus, sepultus est 24. huj. · 58 · pleuropneumonia»
Fifty-eight, pleuropneumonia, 22 March 1862, buried the 24th. The hand that stops mid-folio in the baptism book stops because of this.
⚠ And the signature is the find within the find: «Franciscus Coverlizza, Parochus, Decanus Petinae» — the Dean of Pićan who had signed the annual visitation at the foot of these pages since the 1840s. The man who inspected Milcetich's book for twenty years wrote the line that closed it. The rest of 1862 is signed «Blasius Zwölberr, Administrator Parochialis», with two others taking one entry each — the same borrowed-clergy pattern as the 1805 interregnum.
1862 was a bad year twice over: a dysentery outbreak took five in August–September, and «variola et hernia» a man of 70 in July.
⚠ No Defranceschi, pages 99–102. A trade worth noting on page 101: «Joannes Matcovich, artifex pilleorum» — a hatmaker. And two more of Milcetich's capacity notes — «quia mente lapsa» and «ob violentam febrim, quae mentem ejus perturbavit». What it produced on this siteThe handover, now completed · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 103–104 (M01069281), 1862–1863 — Lambertina née Peschle, and a claim withdrawn Yielded | Walking on — and finding the entry that disproved something published two hours earlier. | ⭐ «1863 Julii 16 · 7 · Lambertina Defranceschi, CIVIS, sep. 17 Jul., munita omnibus s. Sacramentis · 77 · senectus».
Her death was already held to the day — this adds the house (7), the status («civis», the third in this family), the burial, and the sacraments. The register's 77 is the priest rounding the 76 years 10 months computed from her birth of 17 September 1786.
⚠⚠ AND IT DISPROVED A CLAIM THIS ARCHIVE PUBLISHED TWO HOURS EARLIER. The argument that a Defranceschi had married a Deprato rested on «these registers enter a married woman under her birth surname». Lambertina was born PESCHLE and is entered «Defranceschi» — her husband's name. And the premise's own star witness agrees: «Catharina DEPRATO nata Rovisi … uxor Joh: Baptista» — Deprato is the husband's family. It had been cited for the opposite. Withdrawn on /corrections/; a method note added: a sentence about how a register NAMES people is a claim about every page of it, and needs three outside-verified instances before it is published.
⚠ Also corrected: I first read her age as 79 at page scale; zoomed, it is 77. Two cells read as one number.
Page 103 also shows the Aetas column splitting into years / months / days from 1862 — so every death from here gives a birth date to the day. And an entry «Julius Antonius Klobotschnig, orf[anus]» continues the foundling traffic. What it produced on this siteThe withdrawal · Lambertina, with her entry · The rewritten section · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 105–110 walked (M01069282–M01069284), 1863–1866 Yielded | Walking the 1860s. | ⭐ ONE DEFRANCESCHI, AGED FOUR. «1866 Septemb. 11 · 7 · Victor Josephus Defranceschi, cives, sep. die 12. Sep. · 4 ann · Typhus».
The birth and the day were already held — born 22 April 1862 at house 7, son of «Franciscus Xav. Defranceschi, possessor» and «Clotildis Ortis». The cause is new. Third typhus in this book in four years (a man of 27 in 1863, a boy of 15 in Jan 1865, this child). ⚠ A presence, not an epidemic. And «cives» for the fourth time.
⚠ THE HARDEST ENTRY IN THE BOOK. p. 105, 6 Sept 1864, house 46: «— Rabar, agricola illegit.» · «mortuus natus, sepultus a mulieribus». A dash where the forename goes (unbaptised, so unnamed), and, where every other entry carries the priest's signature, «buried by the women». The only entry in 110 pages whose officiant column names nobody.
Six more orphans and foundlings in three years — «Hugo … ex expositis», «Gherghetta orfanus», «Vatzat orfanus», «Dorgan orfana», «Princzic orfanus», «Maizan orfanus» — surnames no more Istrian than Emerling or Frauttmann. The category is now well attested here.
Two apparatus changes: from 1862 the Aetas column splits into years / months / days, so every later death gives a birth date to the day; and from January 1866 «Jac. Bariha[s], Decanus» signs the inspection where Franciscus Coverlizza had since the 1840s. What it produced on this siteWritten into the line · Victor, with his cause of death · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 111–114 walked (M01069285–M01069286), 1867–1870 — a thirty-year correction Yielded | Walking 1867–70 — and finding the entry a roster note had asked for three weeks earlier. | ⭐⭐ A DEATH YEAR MOVED THIRTY YEARS, BY EXACTLY THE SOURCE THE ROW HAD ASKED FOR.
> «1870 Martii 10ma · 7 · Clementina Defranceschi, POSSIDENS, munita SS Sacram. et sepulta 11. Martii · 47 · Phthisis»
The row carried a note of 20 September: tree 1870, archive 1840, and «this needs the burial register, not a judgement». It was walked today. Forty-seven on 10 March 1870 closes exactly on her declared birth of 3 October 1822; at 1840 she would have been seventeen. The tree was right. Death 1840 → 1870, re-declared, published on corrections.
⭐ AND THE REST OF THE PAGE IS AN EPIDEMIC. House 28 buries five in fourteen days — 3 to 17 January 1870, all «angina polyposa» (diphtheria): Josephus Flegar 37, Matthaeus 6, Joanna 10, Joannes 4, Catharina 1. Three more follow in March at other houses. In 1868 the same register had twice given the cause as bare «Epidemia».
The status word shifts: «possidens» here, where the book said «civis» in 1848, 1850, 1863 and 1866. ⚠ Whether that is standing or vocabulary is not established. What it produced on this siteThe correction · Clementina, thirty years moved · Written into the line · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 115–120 walked (M01069287–M01069289), 1870–1872 Yielded | Walking on through the 1870s. | ⚠ No Defranceschi in these six pages — a named nil.
⭐ BUT AN INFERENCE BECAME A FACT. This archive had written that the «ex expositis» children were «boarded out from a city hospital» and flagged that as the obvious reading, not a documented one.
> p. 119, 4 January 1872, house 36: «Anna Cima d'or EX EXPOSITIS TERGESTI, et sepulta die 5. h.»
«Tergesti» — of TRIESTE. Twenty-four years after the first such entry, the priest names the city. And the surname is itself diagnostic: «Cima d'or» is nobody's family name — foundling houses invented surnames for children who had none, which explains the whole odd set (Emerling, Schniker, Frauttmann, Vatzat, Dorgan, Princzic, Maizan, Danel, Dubaz, Zerer, Angius).
⚠ The hazard sharpens rather than resolves: a surname in this book may be the child's, the foster-house's, or a clerk's invention.
The diphtheria vocabulary modernises too: «angina polyposa» in the 1870 outbreak becomes «angina difterica» in October 1871. Also: scarlet fever, pleuroperipneumonia, phleborrhagia, volvulus — the causes are turning clinical. What it produced on this siteWritten into the line · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 121–124 walked (M01069290–M01069291), 1873–1874 — Virginia, and two households Yielded | Walking 1873–74. | ⭐ A TREE-ONLY CHILD GETS A REGISTER. «1874 Septemb. 12 · 6 · Virginia Defranceschi, agla, sepulta die 14. h. · 1 anni · Hydropisia». Her row had two years, no place and an empty note. Now a parish, a house, a cause and a burial.
⭐ AND THE HOUSE CLOSES AN OPEN QUESTION. House 6 is where Mathaea Defranceschi died in 1858, and it was the Deprato house in 1801, 1809 and 1817. A second Defranceschi dying there sixteen years later makes «the house changed hands» much the strongest reading — as casa 31 did, to a Crismanich by 1831.
⚠ AND A DISTINCTION TO HOLD: house 7 Defranceschi are «civis» (1848, 1850, 1863, 1866) and «possidens» (1870); house 6 Defranceschi are «agla» — agricola (1858, 1874). Burghers at one address, farmers at the other, consistently across twenty-six years. ⚠ A difference in the clerk's word is not a difference in blood, and whether they are one family is not established.
Three more Trieste foundlings in 1873 — Marsch, Follo, Bellunovic. What it produced on this siteWritten into the line · Virginia, documented at last · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 125–128 walked (M01069292–M01069293), 1875–1876 — a bishop, and a child baptised in the hand Yielded | The last stretch of the walk. | ⭐ A BISHOP SIGNS THE BOOK. «Vidi in visitatione CANONICA die 7. Julii 1876. G. Dobrila, Ep[iscopu]s». Every other inspection in 128 pages is signed «Decanus». ⚠ The name points hard at Juraj Dobrila, the Istrian national-revival bishop — but his see in 1876 and Gologorica's diocese need checking against each other. Logged as an identification to verify, not asserted.
⭐ AND A NEW PERSON, four words long. «1876 Septembris 24 · 14 · Maria De=franceschi, MERCATOR, die 25. Septembris sepulta est» · cause «Nata mortua» · above it «in manu baptizata». Born dead, baptised in the hand. Minted and declared.
⚠ And it explains the 1864 stillbirth by contrast: that child has a dash for a name and is «sepulta a mulieribus» — buried by the women. This one was baptised, so she has a forename, a parish burial and the priest's signature. The difference is the sacrament, not the family.
⭐ «MERCATOR» MAKES THREE STANDINGS: «civis»/«possidens» at house 7, «agricola» at house 6, «mercator» at house 14.
⚠ A lead, not a conclusion: the one labelled renumbering pair this archive has is «36 vetus · 14 novus», and casa 36 is an eighteenth-century Defranceschi house. If it became 14, this child died at the family's old address — but 84 years is long and houses change hands.
Also on these pages: «Cancer» and «Hisseria» appear for the first time; diphtheria recurs as «Difteritis»; and four more Trieste foundlings. What it produced on this siteWritten into the line · Maria, newly minted · The Dobrila question · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 129–132 walked (M01069294–M01069295), 1877–1879 — a second decade corrected Yielded | The end of the walk — and the second death year moved by decades in one day. | ⭐⭐ «1878 Decembris 22. · 7 · Josephus Defranceschi, POSSIDENS, munitus SS. et sepultus die 24. Dec. 1878 · 70 · Senectus».
This archive had him dead on 22 December 1857. Seventy on 22 December 1878 closes on his birth of 13 March 1808; at 1857 he would have been 49. The row had carried a note saying the tree said 1878, the archive 1857, and that the burial register was what the question needed. It was walked. The tree was right.
⚠ AND IT IS THE SECOND TODAY — which names the fault. Clementina was moved from 10 March 1840 to 10 March 1870 this morning. In both, the day and the month were already right and only the decade was wrong. A confusion of two people scatters all three fields; this is a keying error — and a method note now says so. Exactly three rows carry that note; two are closed, and the third is on the worklist.
⚠ Also on these pages, and it explains an earlier entry: «Maria Gasparić … In pede baptizata — mortua edita» (1878) — baptised on the foot. With «in manu baptizata» of 1876, these are emergency baptisms of whichever limb presented in an obstructed birth.*
And a three-year-old Trieste foundling, Carla Barabić, dead of «Crematio» — burning — in December 1877. What it produced on this siteThe correction · Josephus, twenty-one years moved · The third disputed row · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | ⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS 1784–1880: THE BOOK WALKED END TO END (M01069226–M01069297) Yielded | The completion of the walk: cover, flyleaf and pages 1–135, every entry of every page. | ⭐ FINISHED. Ninety-six years, read entry by entry rather than searched for a surname.
The last line, 23 January 1880, is followed by a direction in Italian where the book is Latin: «Segue libro nuovo · Vol. IV». So this is Volume III, and Volume IV is now a named, dated target.
What the family got out of it: about twenty-five Defranceschi across the book; four people who existed only on the tree now have register entries (Antonius 1802, Maximilianus 1817, Antonia 1850, Virginia 1874); two newly minted (Catharina «cælebs» 1806, the stillborn Maria 1876); and two published death years corrected by decades (Clementina 1840→1870, Josephus 1857→1878 — both with the day and month already right).
⭐ The book buries three of its own parish priests, each entered by somebody else: Bobich (1805, 43, apoplexy), Milcetich (1862, 58, pleuropneumonia), Zwölber (1879, 57, asthma, «morte improvisa»).
And the parish around the family: a famine of at least 52, a bell ledger and «gratis» burials, twelve Trieste foundlings, diphtheria taking five from one house in a fortnight, smallpox under three names in eighty years, and a bishop's signature where every other inspection is a dean's.
⚠ NOT DONE: the index beyond its «D» blocks; everything after January 1880 (Vol. IV, not on these reels); and of 1,461 frames on the two reels, 239 are cited — Cerovlje and Gračišće are barely opened. What it produced on this siteThe whole walk, written into the line · Vol. IV, the next book · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS index, letters R and after (M01069306) — a house-number map of the village Yielded | Continuing the index walk and tabulating every household against its house number. | ⭐ FORTY-EIGHT HOUSEHOLDS MAPPED TO HOUSE NUMBERS — the first such map this archive has had, taken from the index's own block headings («Surname alias Byname N.<n>»).
⚠⚠ AND IT CATCHES A TRAP. «Rabar alias Tomelincich · N. 31». This archive calls a Defranceschi household «casa 31» from the 1780s baptism register — old numbering. The index is new numbering. So casa 31 and N. 31 are different buildings. The archive had warned itself about exactly this; here is the warning coming true.
⭐ The positive counterpart: the one labelled pair «36 vetus · 14 novus» carries old casa 36 (a Defranceschi house in 1786, 1789, 1792) to house 14 — and a Defranceschi was buried from house 14 in 1876. ⚠ Suggestive, not proven.
⚠ Three numbers carry two blocks each (9, 84, 98) — successive occupants or page-scale misreadings, flagged not resolved. ⚠ And S–Z of the index is not yet read. What it produced on this siteThe map · Worklist 171 · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS index, letters R–T (M01069307–M01069308): six house numbers with two households each Yielded | Finishing the index alphabet — and closing a worklist item raised the same morning. | ⭐⭐ THE INDEX GIVES AT LEAST SIX HOUSE NUMBERS TWO HOUSEHOLDS EACH.
What it produced on this siteThe map, extended · Worklist 184, closed · The rule · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folios 77–85 (M01069090–M01069098), 1823–1828 Yielded | Walking on through the baptism book. | ⭐ MAXIMILIANUS ANTONIUS DEFRANCESCHI'S BAPTISM, folio 85, house 17. «9 Januarii 1828 · natus heri media nocte» — born 8 January at midnight, baptised the 9th. Of «Dnus Josephus Defranceschi et Domna Lambertina ejusdem uxor nata Pesle».
His godfather was a dean — «Joannes Ant. Tesak, Canonicus … et Decanus» — which is the second time the deanery has surfaced in this book and strengthens the visitation-records item.
⚠ And his own baptism margin disputes his death date. «† 6/8 910» — 6 August 1910 in Austrian usage, against the 6 October 1910 this archive holds. Flagged, not changed.
The two books corroborate each other on the clergy. From 1824 the officiant is «Franciscus Brussich, Parochus» — the first of the eight priests the 1826 census parish house lists, born 15 November 1780 at Vrbnik on Krk. The census list and the register hand change at the same moment.
Lambertina's maiden name is written both ways inside five years: «Peschle» in 1825, «Pesle» in 1821, 1822 and 1828. Still no preferred form.
Also: an emergency baptism — «ob periculum in mora, statim post nationem fuit domi ab obstetrice baptizata», baptised at home by the midwife with the godparent column left empty (1826); and Matthaea Defranceschi standing godmother in 1828. What it produced on this siteMaximilianus's entry · His birth, and his death disputed · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folio 79 (M01069092): the Palman question settled Yielded | Closing a frame skipped in the last batch — and it settles a lead this archive published twice. | ❌ THE SALMAN LEAD IS WITHDRAWN, AND THIS FRAME IS WHY.
> 12 July 1825, house 28 — «Franciscus PALMAN filius Stephani, Sutor» and «Antonia ejusdem uxor nata Brusich», at the baptism of their daughter Maria.
That is the couple the 1826 census enters as «Franciscus Salman, Sutor» × «Antonia uxor n. Brusich» — and here he is given a patronymic, which a spelling variant cannot explain away: he is filius Stephani, son of the Stephanus Palman who runs through this register from 1799.
Three entries write P and name a father; one writes S. There is no Salman at Gologorica, and the resemblance to Salomon was one scribe's capital. The lead was published 30 September, downgraded 1 October and is now withdrawn in full — three days, three states, all three left visible.
Also on the frame: a Defranceschi daughter this archive cannot place. «Elisabianna filia Dni Defranceschi» stands godmother with Josephus Flegar Jacotich, conditio Cives. ⚠ The forename is not certain — it reads as «Elisa=bianna», perhaps Elisabetta Anna compressed — and she matches nobody on the roster. Recorded as an open name, not added as a person.
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⚠⚠ walked WITHDRAWN, 5 October 2026, same day. The crop used to read these frames cut the page at 62% of its height, and the written area runs further down. It was found at folio 124 (M01069138), where six numbered entries stood below the crop; checking back showed the same on earlier folios — folio 89 has a sixth entry (Martinus Zajez, 12 November 1830) this archive never saw, and folio 90's lower band carries the whole opening of 1831, including an eighth Palman child.
So «every entry read» was not true of this row and the flag is set to false. The surname findings above stand — they were read and cited frame by frame — but the nils in this row cover only the part of each page that was cropped, and a nil over part of a page is not a nil. The correction is published, and the lower bands are being read now; this row will be replaced by one that names what was actually covered.What it produced on this siteThe lead, withdrawn where it was published · Published, downgraded, withdrawn in three days · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folios 81–91 (M01069094–M01069104), 1828–1831 Yielded | The forward walk through the baptism book past the last sampled gap: the remaining Defranceschi children of Josephus and Lambertina, and anything else carrying the surname. | One Defranceschi baptism, one Defranceschi godmother, and a property of the book nobody had noticed.
The baptism. «Die 28va Martii [1830] · ENRICHUS JACOBUS DEFRANCESCHI natus 11ma Martii hora 5ta Mane», folio 89, M01069102 — of «Dnus Josephus Defranceschi, Civilis» and «Domina Lambertina ejusdem uxor nata Pesle». The birth date this archive already held, confirmed to the hour; the page, the priest, the godparents and the midwife are new. The register spells him ENRICHUS, without the H, as does the 1826 status animarum. Verification, not discovery, and said so on the page.
⭐ The second series of house numbers. From 1830 the Domus cell routinely carries two figures, the upper struck through and a second written beneath — clean through 1829, scattered in 1830, universal by 1831. Eight pairs read so far (103→61, 13→8, 100→58, 76→41, 97→53, 48→23, 6→2, and the Defranceschi line's illegible→104). What the second series is has not been established; worklist 171 holds it with the method for settling it.
An open name. «Marianna filia E—di Defranceschi» stands godmother on 19 November 1830 (folio 90). The father's given name will not resolve — Eustachii, Ewaldi and Euxaldi all fit the space and none fits the strokes — so it is recorded as an open name, not a person, beside «Elisabianna filia Dni Defranceschi» of 1823.
NIL, in the exact terms tried. Folios 81, 83, 84 (M01069094, 096, 097), 86 (M01069099), 87 (M01069100), 88 (M01069101) and 91 (M01069104) were read entry by entry for Defranceschi · De Franceschi · Defrancesco · Franceschi · Francesco, in the infant, parent, godparent and midwife columns alike. None of those seven folios carries the surname in any column. What they do carry: a fourth Palman child (1829); a «Flegar alias SIDRE» household, a second alias on a surname this archive had only seen as «Flegar alias Jacotich»; a godfather entered Miles; and a godfather entered Judex, the village judge.
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⚠⚠ walked WITHDRAWN, 5 October 2026, same day. The crop used to read these frames cut the page at 62% of its height, and the written area runs further down. It was found at folio 124 (M01069138), where six numbered entries stood below the crop; checking back showed the same on earlier folios — folio 89 has a sixth entry (Martinus Zajez, 12 November 1830) this archive never saw, and folio 90's lower band carries the whole opening of 1831, including an eighth Palman child.
So «every entry read» was not true of this row and the flag is set to false. The surname findings above stand — they were read and cited frame by frame — but the nils in this row cover only the part of each page that was cropped, and a nil over part of a page is not a nil. The correction is published, and the lower bands are being read now; this row will be replaced by one that names what was actually covered.What it produced on this siteEnrichus Jacobus, 1830 — and the second set of house numbers · His baptism entry · Worklist 171 — what the second series of house numbers is · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folios 92–96 (M01069105–M01069109), 1831–1834 Yielded | The walk forward through the baptism book past the last Defranceschi baptism, reading every entry for the surname in every column and collecting the book's doubled house numbers as it goes. | No Defranceschi in any column across these five folios — and two findings about the book that change how every later search of it must be run.
⭐ FOUR HANDS THE PARISH-HOUSE LIST DOES NOT CONTAIN. The 1826 status animarum names eight priests of Gologorica, and this archive had taken that for the roll of hands that wrote the registers. It is not. Georgius Dobrilla (Administrator, 1831–32), Joannes Harbich (Administrator Baptismorum, 1832–33), Marussich (given name not legible) and Josephus Schopf (Cooperator, «impeditis administratore parocho») all sign baptisms here and none of them is in the list of eight. House 1 of the census records who LIVED in the plebania; the baptizans column records who stood at the font. Both are true; neither is complete.
⭐ AND AT THE END OF 1833 THE REGISTER CHANGES LANGUAGE. Folio 96 opens «1833 adì 23 Xbre» and the entries turn Italian — Giovanni, Giuseppe, Giovanna, agricoltore — under Latin column headings. ⚠ This row first said they stay Italian «from there on». They do not — the book returns to Latin on 6 May 1835 under Petrus Milcetich, and the claim is corrected. The language follows the hand, not the year. This is the Svetvinčenat trap again (where a new archpriest in 1782 turned «Defranceschi» into «Franceschi» mid-volume). Any search of this book after 1833 must run the Italian forms, and any nil recorded across that boundary without them is worth nothing. The nils below were run with both.
NIL, in the exact terms tried. Folios 92–96 read entry by entry for Defranceschi · De Franceschi · Defrancesco · Franceschi · Francesco · Franceschini, in the infant, parent, godparent, midwife and baptizans columns alike. The surname appears in none of them.
Collected in passing: a fifth child of Franciscus Palman × Antonia née Brusich (folio 95, 1833), the father entered Artifex where 1825 gave Sutor — consistent, and the Palman/Salman withdrawal stands. Twenty-two more pairs for the doubled-house-number table, printed on the Gologorica page. Places named in godparent cells: ex Parochia Gallignanensi (Gračišće), ex Gradine, and ex Gollogorizza in its Italian form.
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⚠⚠ walked WITHDRAWN, 5 October 2026, same day. The crop used to read these frames cut the page at 62% of its height, and the written area runs further down. It was found at folio 124 (M01069138), where six numbered entries stood below the crop; checking back showed the same on earlier folios — folio 89 has a sixth entry (Martinus Zajez, 12 November 1830) this archive never saw, and folio 90's lower band carries the whole opening of 1831, including an eighth Palman child.
So «every entry read» was not true of this row and the flag is set to false. The surname findings above stand — they were read and cited frame by frame — but the nils in this row cover only the part of each page that was cropped, and a nil over part of a page is not a nil. The correction is published, and the lower bands are being read now; this row will be replaced by one that names what was actually covered.What it produced on this siteFour more hands, and the year the register changes language · The 37→75 reading, corrected to 37→73 · Worklist 171 — the second series of house numbers · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folios 97–99 (M01069110–M01069112), 1834–1836 Yielded | Continuing the walk through the baptism book, reading every entry for the surname in every column in BOTH the Latin and the Italian forms, and extending the doubled-house-number table. | No Defranceschi, and the correction of a claim this archive published three hours earlier.
⭐ THE ITALIAN SPELL ENDS. Folio 98 (M01069111) returns to Latin in the middle of the page on 6 May 1835, and the hand signs itself «Petrus Milcetich, Parochus» — one of the eight priests of the 1826 status animarum, born Omišalj on Krk. The Italian lasted seventeen months and belonged to one man, Marco Marussich, Amministratore Parrocchiale, whose given name is legible on folio 97 across a line break («Mar‑ / ‑co Marussich») where it was not on folio 96. The language of this register is a signature, not a date — and the earlier claim that it «never looks back» is withdrawn.
NIL, in the exact terms tried. Folios 97–99 read entry by entry in both form-sets — Defranceschi · De Franceschi · Defrancesco · Franceschi · Francesco · Franceschini, Latin and Italian alike, in the infant, parent, godparent, midwife and baptizans columns. The surname appears in none of them. Folio 99 alone carries nineteen entries on one page, Milcetich having tightened the ruling to one line each.
Collected in passing: a sixth child of Franciscus Palman × Antonia née Brusich (Agatha, born 31 May 1836), house 28→11 — the same pair the Palmans carry in 1833, a fourth exact repeat for the house-number table. A birth entered «ignoratur» in the father's column, 13 March 1836. And fourteen more number pairs, which between them give that table its shape: the lower figure is close to half the upper, and the two columns run broadly in step.
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⚠⚠ walked WITHDRAWN, 5 October 2026, same day. The crop used to read these frames cut the page at 62% of its height, and the written area runs further down. It was found at folio 124 (M01069138), where six numbered entries stood below the crop; checking back showed the same on earlier folios — folio 89 has a sixth entry (Martinus Zajez, 12 November 1830) this archive never saw, and folio 90's lower band carries the whole opening of 1831, including an eighth Palman child.
So «every entry read» was not true of this row and the flag is set to false. The surname findings above stand — they were read and cited frame by frame — but the nils in this row cover only the part of each page that was cropped, and a nil over part of a page is not a nil. The correction is published, and the lower bands are being read now; this row will be replaced by one that names what was actually covered.What it produced on this siteFive more hands — and the register's language follows the hand · The Italian switch, corrected: it reverts in May 1835 · Worklist 171 — the second series of house numbers · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folios 100–102 and the last unopened frame of folio 71 (M01069084, M01069113–M01069115), 1820 and 1837–1841 Yielded | Walking on through the baptism book under Petrus Milcetich, reading every entry for the surname in both the Latin and the Italian forms — and closing M01069084, the one frame left unopened in the 1820–1822 range. | Three Defranceschi women in fourteen months, after ten folios of nothing — and all three are wives or godmothers, never daughters.
⭐ SANCTA ALEXANDRA DEFRANCESCHI gets her first document. Held until today from David's MyHeritage tree alone, with an empty note. Folio 102 (M01069115), 20 February 1840, house 2: «FRANCISCUS natus hodie», of «Joannes Sestan, agricola» and «Sancta Alexandra nata DEFRANCESCHI». A husband, a house and a son she did not have before.
⭐ CLEMENTINA DEFRANCESCHI stands godmother at that same baptism, entered «ille clavium faber, haec civis» beside the locksmith Franciscus Marciolin. A Clementina Defranceschi alive and chosen as a godparent in February 1840 lands directly on the archive's own open contradiction about which Clementina died when — and does not settle it, because the entry gives no age, no household and no patronymic.
⭐ FRANCISCA DEFRANCESCHI, 14 April 1841, godmother at house 2 again, the surname squeezed onto the line below. Verification, not discovery — she is the Francisca who married Antonius of house 6 on 29 January 1840 and came «Ex Parochia Gallignanæ sub N.º 5».
⭐ FOUR MORE DEANERY VISITATIONS, and the deanery's seat. «Vidi. PETINAE» — Pićan — on 7 May 1838, 14 January 1839, 13 January 1840 and 15 January 1841, all signed Franciscus Coverlizza, Decanus. Fifty years after the diocese of Pićan was suppressed, its deanery still sits there and the dean signs there. Worklist 169 now carries a third named dean and an address.
On the register itself: the doubled house numbers stop. Folios 100–102 carry a single figure per entry again, where 1830–1835 carried two. Folio 101 is a struck draft of the 1840 entries and folio 102 their fair copy — and they disagree: the draft gives Joannes Sestan as «sutor» then «lapicida», both cancelled, where the fair copy says «agricola». Neither trade is taken.
NIL, in the exact terms tried. M01069084 (folio 71, the year 1820) read entry by entry — Casparus Bosaz alias Scaccarin, Fusca Apolonia Cancinich alias Travpich, Helena Ancich alias Soldatich — for Defranceschi · De Franceschi · Defrancesco · Franceschi · Francesco. The surname is in none of its columns. That frame was the last hole in the 1820–1822 range, which is now contiguous. And the folios that would hold the three women's own baptisms — 1818 to 1822 — have therefore now been walked end to end: none of the three is baptised in them, so they were either not born at Gologorica or born to a Defranceschi household this archive has not found.
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⚠⚠ walked WITHDRAWN, 5 October 2026, same day. The crop used to read these frames cut the page at 62% of its height, and the written area runs further down. It was found at folio 124 (M01069138), where six numbered entries stood below the crop; checking back showed the same on earlier folios — folio 89 has a sixth entry (Martinus Zajez, 12 November 1830) this archive never saw, and folio 90's lower band carries the whole opening of 1831, including an eighth Palman child.
So «every entry read» was not true of this row and the flag is set to false. The surname findings above stand — they were read and cited frame by frame — but the nils in this row cover only the part of each page that was cropped, and a nil over part of a page is not a nil. The correction is published, and the lower bands are being read now; this row will be replaced by one that names what was actually covered.What it produced on this siteThree Defranceschi women on one page, and not one of them a daughter · Sancta Alexandra's first document · Worklist 169 — the deanery visitations, now with a dean and a seat · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folios 103–104 (M01069116–M01069118), 1841–1843 Yielded | Walking on through the baptism book under Petrus Milcetich, reading every entry for the surname in both the Latin and the Italian forms. | Four Defranceschi entries in three frames, and a reading this archive is deliberately refusing to claim.
⭐ MATTHEA DEFRANCESCHI (1772–1858) gets her first document. Folio 103, 30 October 1841, house 2: at the baptism of Fortunatus Sestan the godparents are «Franciscus Defranceschi ac Matthea Defranceschi», the pair entered cives. She is sixty-nine and still being chosen. Until today she was a name off the family tree with an empty note.
⭐ BOTH SESTAN MEN OF HOUSE 2 MARRIED A DEFRANCESCHI. Joannes Sestan with Sancta Alexandra (sons Franciscus 1840, Fortunatus 1841); Antonius Sestan with Joanna, out of Gračišće house 4 — daughter Maria, folio 104. The same Franciscus Defranceschi stands godfather at both houses' baptisms.
⚠ AND THE REGISTER CONTRADICTS THE CENSUS ON JOANNA'S DAUGHTER. The 1826 status animarum gives Maria born 8 October 1843, house 3; the baptism register gives her born 7 November 1843, baptised the 11th, house 2. The two month-numerals were compared against each other on the same page and are plainly different, so this is not a misreading here. Both are doc and the gap is left visible, because the rule that the census records baptism dates does not close it.
⭐ A DATE MADE EXACT. Teresia Defranceschi, daughter of Antonius and Francisca, carried here as «ABT 1843», is born 14 November 1843, baptised the 15th, house 5.
⚠⚠ «ANTONIO SALAMON» — A SIGHTING, NOT A FINDING. Teresia's godparents are entered «Antonio Salamon et Maria soror», conditio cives. This archive withdrew a «Salman» lead on the Salomon line four days ago, because the family proved to be PALMAN and a patronymic settled it. The word here has not been tested against the same scribe writing Palman — and a specimen exists eleven folios earlier, «Franciscus Palman sutor» on folio 102 (M01069115, 28 April 1841), in the same hand. Worklist 172 held the test — and it was run the same hour.
Also recorded: a seventh child of Franciscus Palman × Antonia née Brusich (folio 102, 28 April 1841), the father sutor again — consistent with the «Sutor» of 1825 and the «Artifex» of 1833. And a caution on Joannes Sestan's own trade, which the book gives four ways — «sutor» and «lapicida» struck on the draft folio 101, «agricola» on the fair copy folio 102, «textor» on folio 103. No trade is taken.
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⚠⚠ walked WITHDRAWN, 5 October 2026, same day. The crop used to read these frames cut the page at 62% of its height, and the written area runs further down. It was found at folio 124 (M01069138), where six numbered entries stood below the crop; checking back showed the same on earlier folios — folio 89 has a sixth entry (Martinus Zajez, 12 November 1830) this archive never saw, and folio 90's lower band carries the whole opening of 1831, including an eighth Palman child.
So «every entry read» was not true of this row and the flag is set to false. The surname findings above stand — they were read and cited frame by frame — but the nils in this row cover only the part of each page that was cropped, and a nil over part of a page is not a nil. The correction is published, and the lower bands are being read now; this row will be replaced by one that names what was actually covered.What it produced on this siteTwo Defranceschi daughters married into one Sestan house · Matthea Defranceschi's first document · Worklist 172 — the «Salamon» reading, and the test it has not had · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — a palaeographic test: Petrus Milcetich's PALMAN against his SALAMON Yielded | Settling whether the 1843 godfather «Antonio Salamon» is in fact another Palman, by comparing the two words in the same scribe's hand at one magnification — the test this archive's own method requires and which the withdrawn «Salman» lead did not get. | The 1843 word is NOT Palman, and the archive now has a lead on the Salomon line that has survived its own test.
Both words were cut from the film at one magnification and set one above the other. The plate is published so a reader can check the archive rather than take its word.
What it produced on this siteThe test, and the plate that shows it · Worklist 172 — closed; worklist 174 — what would make it a line · The line it bears on · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folios 105–106 (M01069119–M01069120), 1844–1845 Yielded | Walking on through the baptism book, reading every entry for Defranceschi in all its forms AND, from this row on, for SALAMON — the second surname worklist 174 put on the sweep. | Seven Defranceschi mentions in two frames, and one of them states a relationship instead of listing a name.
⭐ «FRANCISCUS DEFRANCESCHI e MARIA SORELLA», both entered cives (folio 105, 1844). Sorella — Italian for sister, dropped into a Latin entry. So the Franciscus who keeps standing godfather on these pages has a sister Maria beside him. The only adult Franciscus-and-Maria Defranceschi sibling pair this archive can name at Gologorica in 1844 is Franciscus Xaverius Joseph (1816–1893) and Maria Aloysia (1811–1897), Carlo's own brother and sister. (inf — and the pages say so.) The weakness is published with it: «the only pair this archive can name» is not «the only pair», and these very folios have produced three grown Defranceschi women the pedigree does not contain.
⭐ SANCTA ALEXANDRA'S THIRD CHILD — «Josephus natus hodie», 21 March 1844, house 2. And by 1845 the register calls her «Sancta Sestan», her married name — so a Defranceschi daughter vanishes from a name-indexed search the moment the priest decides she is established. Worth knowing by anyone searching these books.
⭐ JOANNA'S SECOND CHILD AGREES WITH THE CENSUS EXACTLY. Antonia, baptised 17 July 1845, born «heri» — the 16th; the 1826 status animarum gives 16 July 1845. So the census is not generally unreliable about this family, and the month-wide gap over her elder sister Maria is an anomaly in one entry rather than a property of the source. The question got sharper, not softer.
⭐ A TREE DATE GIVEN A REGISTER. Maria Defranceschi, daughter of Antonius and Francisca of house 5, «nata 18 hujus», baptised 20 July 1845 — the archive already held 18 July 1845 off the tree. Verification, not discovery, and the row had an empty note until today.
Also: Francisca and Matthea Defranceschi each stand godmother again; the mother of house 5 is written «Francisca n. Defranceschi» a third time.
NIL on the second surname, in the exact terms tried. Both frames were read for Salamon · Salomon · Salmon · Salaman in every column. Neither frame carries it. (The sweep for this name begins here and runs forward; folios 1–104 were read for Defranceschi and will need a second pass — worklist 174 says so.)
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⚠⚠ walked WITHDRAWN, 5 October 2026, same day. The crop used to read these frames cut the page at 62% of its height, and the written area runs further down. It was found at folio 124 (M01069138), where six numbered entries stood below the crop; checking back showed the same on earlier folios — folio 89 has a sixth entry (Martinus Zajez, 12 November 1830) this archive never saw, and folio 90's lower band carries the whole opening of 1831, including an eighth Palman child.
So «every entry read» was not true of this row and the flag is set to false. The surname findings above stand — they were read and cited frame by frame — but the nils in this row cover only the part of each page that was cropped, and a nil over part of a page is not a nil. The correction is published, and the lower bands are being read now; this row will be replaced by one that names what was actually covered.What it produced on this site«Franciscus Defranceschi e Maria sorella» — the register names a sister · The woman it may be, offered as inference · A tree date given a register · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folios 107–108 (M01069121–M01069122), 1846–1847 Yielded | Walking on through the baptism book, reading every entry for Defranceschi in all its forms and for Salamon, and noting any entry that states a RELATIONSHIP rather than only a name. | A godparent cell put a person into a family, which is not what godparent cells usually do.
⭐ «MAXIMILIANUS DEFRANCESCHI ET SOROR ADELAIDIS», cives (21 October 1847, house 7). Adelaidis has stood in this roster as «tree-derived: no register has been read for this person here», line unplaced. Her brother is Maximilianus Antonius Josephus, born 8 January 1828, son of Josephus and Lambertina — so she is their daughter, and the «Maria Adelgidis» the 1826 census lists sixth of their ten children is her. And it is independent of the census: the census and the tree are two readings of one household, and nothing outside them said these two were siblings. A different priest, twenty-one years later, says it in three words.
⚠ It also opens a question, now worklist 175: Anastasia (tree, b. 8 Dec 1824), Maria Adelgidis (census) and Adelaidis (roster, b. 1824) may be one child or two. Nothing merged — the December 1824 folios answer it and have not been re-read for a given name.
⭐ LEONARDUS DEFRANCESCHI — a birth and a death seventy years apart on one line. «Januarii 23 · domus 5 · LEONARDUS natus heri» of Antonius and Francisca, with «† 20.XII.1917» added beneath in a twentieth-century hand. Born 22 January 1847, died 20 December 1917 — both years were already held off the tree with an empty note; both are now exact days. Verification.
⭐ A COHORT, AND IT POINTS AT ONE PARISH. A Lucia Defranceschi stands godmother in 1846; this roster holds a Lucia born 1820 at Gračišće. With Joanna (b. 1818, «Gallignanæ sub N.º 4») and Francisca (b. 1819, «sub N.º 5»), that is three Defranceschi women of almost the same age, all out of Gračišće, all at Gologorica in the 1840s. Gračišće house 5 is the direct line's own second generation. (inf for Lucia; the other two are doc.)
Also: Sancta Alexandra's fourth child (Francisca, 7 February 1846) and two more for Joanna; Antonius Defranceschi standing godfather in his own right.
NIL on Salamon, in the exact terms tried — Salamon · Salomon · Salmon · Salaman in every column of both frames. Neither carries it.
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⚠⚠ walked WITHDRAWN, 5 October 2026, same day. The crop used to read these frames cut the page at 62% of its height, and the written area runs further down. It was found at folio 124 (M01069138), where six numbered entries stood below the crop; checking back showed the same on earlier folios — folio 89 has a sixth entry (Martinus Zajez, 12 November 1830) this archive never saw, and folio 90's lower band carries the whole opening of 1831, including an eighth Palman child.
So «every entry read» was not true of this row and the flag is set to false. The surname findings above stand — they were read and cited frame by frame — but the nils in this row cover only the part of each page that was cropped, and a nil over part of a page is not a nil. The correction is published, and the lower bands are being read now; this row will be replaced by one that names what was actually covered.What it produced on this site«et soror Adelaidis» — the register places a woman the pedigree could not · Adelaidis, placed · Worklist 175 — Anastasia, Maria Adelgidis, Adelaidis · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folio 109 (M01069123), 1848 Yielded | Walking on through the baptism book, reading every entry for Defranceschi in all its forms and for Salamon — and reading the MARGINS, which this archive had been treating as decoration. | A published name corrected, a death found where there was a blank, and a realisation about this book's margins.
⭐ «Junii 8ᵃ · domus 5 · ROSA nata heri · † 10/12 99» of «Antonius Defranceschi» and «Francisca nata Defranceschi». This archive carried that child from the family tree as «Joanna, born 9 June 1848» with no death. She is Rosa, born 7 June 1848, and she died 10 December 1899 aged fifty-one. One child, not two — a mother cannot bear children two days apart, no second entry stands near it, and the parents, house and week are the same. Correction published; the pid is kept, because a moved id is a dead URL.
⭐ AND THE MARGINS ARE EVIDENCE, WHICH THIS ARCHIVE HAD NOT BEEN TREATING THEM AS. Four deaths in this short run of folios were written into baptism entries decades afterwards by a later keeper: Rosa Defranceschi († 10 Dec 1899), Leonardus Defranceschi († 20 Dec 1917), the Sestan boy of 1848 († 27 Aug 1923) and an Antonius Gasparich of 1830 († 4 Mar 1898). Somebody worked through this book closing lives. Every frame already read for the surname should be re-read for its margins — and that is now part of the walk.
⭐ Sancta Alexandra's fifth child, «Antonius natus heri», baptised 27 March 1848, house 2. Five children documented in eight years, for a woman who had an empty note this morning.
A new given name: the godmother is «Adelina Defranceschi», entered civis. Not identified — Adelina is the ordinary Italian diminutive of Adelaide and worklist 175 already holds three names round one 1824 birth, which makes a fourth a reason to go and read the December 1824 folios rather than to guess.
NIL on Salamon, in the exact terms tried — Salamon · Salomon · Salmon · Salaman in every column. The frame does not carry it.
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⚠⚠ walked WITHDRAWN, 5 October 2026, same day. The crop used to read these frames cut the page at 62% of its height, and the written area runs further down. It was found at folio 124 (M01069138), where six numbered entries stood below the crop; checking back showed the same on earlier folios — folio 89 has a sixth entry (Martinus Zajez, 12 November 1830) this archive never saw, and folio 90's lower band carries the whole opening of 1831, including an eighth Palman child.
So «every entry read» was not true of this row and the flag is set to false. The surname findings above stand — they were read and cited frame by frame — but the nils in this row cover only the part of each page that was cropped, and a nil over part of a page is not a nil. The correction is published, and the lower bands are being read now; this row will be replaced by one that names what was actually covered.What it produced on this siteThe register gives a child back her name · The «Joanna 1848» correction · Rosa, under the id her error minted · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folios 110–112 (M01069124–M01069126), 1849–1851 Yielded | Walking on through the baptism book, reading every entry for Defranceschi in all its forms, for Salamon, AND for the marginal death dates a later keeper added — the three things worklist 174 and 176 put on this sweep. | The baptism register has now given all five children of Joanna née Defranceschi, and that is the first entry-by-entry test the 1826 status animarum has ever had in this archive.
walked WITHDRAWN, 5 October 2026, same day. The crop used to read these frames cut the page at 62% of its height, and the written area runs further down. It was found at folio 124 (M01069138), where six numbered entries stood below the crop; checking back showed the same on earlier folios — folio 89 has a sixth entry (Martinus Zajez, 12 November 1830) this archive never saw, and folio 90's lower band carries the whole opening of 1831, including an eighth Palman child.
So «every entry read» was not true of this row and the flag is set to false. The surname findings above stand — they were read and cited frame by frame — but the nils in this row cover only the part of each page that was cropped, and a nil over part of a page is not a nil. The correction is published, and the lower bands are being read now; this row will be replaced by one that names what was actually covered.What it produced on this siteOne household, two sources, and the first real test of the 1826 census · Her five children, compared · «About 1849» made a day · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folios 113–114 (M01069127–M01069128), 1852–1853 Yielded | Walking on through the baptism book, reading every entry for Defranceschi in all its forms, for Salamon, for Peschle in all its spellings, and for the marginal death dates a later keeper added. | The man whose baptism opened this day's work turns up in it again, twenty-two years older.
⭐ «ENRICO DEFRANCESCHI ET SOROR ADELAIDIS», cives (13 March 1852, folio 113). That is Enrichus Jacobus, born 11 March 1830 — two days past his twenty-second birthday, alive at Gologorica and chosen to stand at its font, where this archive had him as a tree name with a death at Trieste in 1906 and nothing in between. And the register calls him ENRICO. Three hands now — the 1826 census, his own baptism, this — and not one writes the H.
⭐ It is also the third use of the «et soror» formula for this household, and the second time Adelaidis is named a sister — by a different brother. That is as firm as a godparent column gets.
⭐ TWO GERMAN NAMES IN THE PESCHLE HOUSE. «Julii 28 · domus 2 · CONRADUS, JOSEPHUS ac VICTORIUS natus 20 hujus», of «Albertus Peschle, D.r Medicinæ, Civis» and «Victoria nata Calligarich» — a household this archive already held from the census, so verification, not discovery. What is new: the baptism date, and the godparents «Cost. SCHROTT» and «Carolina WALSER».
The 1822 evidence for worklist 170 was one godmother read as «ex Silesia» — ⚠ a misreading of «ex Volosca», corrected 11 October 2026, which withdraws the item. What is here is two German surnames chosen by a Peschle household for its own child — a circle rather than a visitor, and on its own it never pointed at Silesia. ⚠ Neither name is Silesian in particular and neither is tied here to a place, and a physician in Habsburg Istria moved among German speakers as a matter of course. It strengthens the reason for the search without shortening it — and gives it two more surnames to try.
⭐ Joanna's sixth child, and the census out by two years: Franciscus, born and baptised 31 January 1853; the census says 31 January 1855. Day and month exact, year two out — the third failure of that exact shape in one household.
A sixth deanery visitation: «Vidi. Petinae die 16 Januarii 1854» — Coverlizza, Decanus.
NIL on Salamon, in the exact terms tried — Salamon · Salomon · Salmon · Salaman across both frames, every column.
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⚠⚠ walked WITHDRAWN, 5 October 2026, same day. The crop used to read these frames cut the page at 62% of its height, and the written area runs further down. It was found at folio 124 (M01069138), where six numbered entries stood below the crop; checking back showed the same on earlier folios — folio 89 has a sixth entry (Martinus Zajez, 12 November 1830) this archive never saw, and folio 90's lower band carries the whole opening of 1831, including an eighth Palman child.
So «every entry read» was not true of this row and the flag is set to false. The surname findings above stand — they were read and cited frame by frame — but the nils in this row cover only the part of each page that was cropped, and a nil over part of a page is not a nil. The correction is published, and the lower bands are being read now; this row will be replaced by one that names what was actually covered.What it produced on this siteEnrico stands at the font with his sister · Enrico alive at twenty-two · Worklist 170 — withdrawn: the word reads «ex Volosca» · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folios 115–116 (M01069129–M01069130), 1854–1855 Yielded | Walking on through the baptism book, reading every entry for Defranceschi in all its forms, for Salamon, for Peschle, and for the marginal death dates. | Another «about» made a day, another marginal death — and the third unresolved death-year collision in this one family.
⭐ «Februarii 5ᵃ · domus 6 · ANTONIUS natus 3ᵃ hujus · † 17.II.1913», of «Antonius Defranceschi» and «Francisca nata Defranceschi»; godparents «Joannes Udovich et Sancta Sestan» — the Defranceschi daughter of house 2 under her married name. Born 3 February 1855 where the pedigree had «about 1853», and a death from the margin where there was none.
⚠ AND IT COLLIDES. A second roster row, antonius-defranceschi-1855 (MyHeritage, line «unknown», no place), has the same birth year and a death of 1918 against the register's 1913. Not merged — worklist 177 holds it. That makes three unresolved death-year collisions in this family — Clementina (1840 v 1870), Josephus Lambertus (1857 v 1878), Antonius (1913 v 1918) — and all three are closed by the same ninety-one frames.
⭐ Sancta Alexandra's sixth child, «Maria nata heri», 30 June 1854, house 9. And by 1855 she is standing godmother herself as «Sancta Sestan». Six children in fourteen years.
A sighting not identified: «Gius.e Defranceschi» stands godfather on 13 April 1854 with «M. Ved. Clensich» — a widow — both cives. Giuseppe is Josephus; Josephus Lambertus, born 1808, is the obvious candidate and is not claimed, because his own death year is one of the three in dispute.
Two more deanery visitations: Petinae, 15 January 1855 and 12 January 1856, both Coverlizza, Decanus — eight recorded years running.
NIL on Salamon and on Peschle, in the exact terms tried, across both frames.
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⚠⚠ walked WITHDRAWN, 5 October 2026, same day. The crop used to read these frames cut the page at 62% of its height, and the written area runs further down. It was found at folio 124 (M01069138), where six numbered entries stood below the crop; checking back showed the same on earlier folios — folio 89 has a sixth entry (Martinus Zajez, 12 November 1830) this archive never saw, and folio 90's lower band carries the whole opening of 1831, including an eighth Palman child.
So «every entry read» was not true of this row and the flag is set to false. The surname findings above stand — they were read and cited frame by frame — but the nils in this row cover only the part of each page that was cropped, and a nil over part of a page is not a nil. The correction is published, and the lower bands are being read now; this row will be replaced by one that names what was actually covered.What it produced on this siteThree collisions, one book, and the case for opening the register of the dead · «About 1853» made 3 February 1855 · Worklist 177 — two Antonius of 1855 · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folios 117–119 (M01069131–M01069133), 1856–1858 Yielded | Walking on through the baptism book, reading every entry for Defranceschi in all its forms, for Salamon, for Peschle, and for the marginal death dates. | Two families finished, and the 1826 census's score settled.
⭐ Joanna née Defranceschi had EIGHT children, not the six the census names. Francisca (30 May 1856) and Catharina (1 October 1846) are both in the register and absent from the household page. Of eight, the census names six, gets three exactly right, and is out on three by a month, a year and two years — never by a day. The full table is published; it is the only entry-by-entry test the 1826 status animarum has had here. A census list of a family's children is a floor, not a ceiling.
⭐ Sancta Alexandra's seventh child, Franciscus, born 6 May 1857, with «† 18/1 1932» in the margin. Seven children between 1840 and 1857, all documented today, for a woman who had a blank note, no husband and no children this morning.
⭐ A PRIEST OF KRBUNE AT THE GOLOGORICA FONT. «Franciscus P— Ad.r PAR. CHERBUNIS», 1 February 1858 — the administrator of Krbune, standing in for Milcetich. Worklist 168 feared that Krbune's single bound volume might be a fragment, since the atlas lists one collection for it against thirty-two for Gračišće. This shows Krbune with its own administrator, lending him to a neighbour — a parish that lends a priest keeps a register. ⚠ The priest's surname is NOT published: it reads Pasnich, Papich or Bascich and has had no second construction.
Three more deanery visitations — Petinae, 15 Jan 1857, 8 Jan 1858, 7 Jan 1859, all Coverlizza, Decanus. Nine consecutive years, which makes the visitation annual and its protocols a series.
NIL on Salamon and Peschle, in the exact terms tried, across all three frames.
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⚠⚠ walked WITHDRAWN, 5 October 2026, same day. The crop used to read these frames cut the page at 62% of its height, and the written area runs further down. It was found at folio 124 (M01069138), where six numbered entries stood below the crop; checking back showed the same on earlier folios — folio 89 has a sixth entry (Martinus Zajez, 12 November 1830) this archive never saw, and folio 90's lower band carries the whole opening of 1831, including an eighth Palman child.
So «every entry read» was not true of this row and the flag is set to false. The surname findings above stand — they were read and cited frame by frame — but the nils in this row cover only the part of each page that was cropped, and a nil over part of a page is not a nil. The correction is published, and the lower bands are being read now; this row will be replaced by one that names what was actually covered.What it produced on this siteThe census is now short by two children, and a priest from Krbune walks in · Eight children, compared against the census · Worklist 168 — Krbune, confirmed a parish in its own right · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folios 120–121 (M01069134–M01069135), 1859–1860 Yielded | Walking on through the baptism book into the generation this archive most needs — the children of Franciscus Xaverius Defranceschi and Clotildis Ortis — reading every entry for the surname in all its forms, for Salamon, for Peschle, and for the marginal death dates. | The book turns a corner: after thirty years as godparents and wives, a Defranceschi is a father again — at house 7, his own father's house.
⭐ «1860. 9bris 4ᵃ · domus 7 · ANNA-MARIA FRANCISCA nata 28 8bris», of «Franciscus Defranceschi, civis» and «Clotildis Ortis», midwife «Catharina Cattenar», with «† Tergesti 22-6-1941» added above by a later hand. Both dates this archive already held — a correction made on 13 September — and the register agrees with both to the day. Verification, and the page says so. New: the baptism date, the house, the midwife, the godparents.
⭐ A FOURTH PESCHLE, AND HE WAS NOT THERE. The godfather is «ANSELMUS PESCHLE … per procuratorem» — by proxy, with «Beatrice Ortis»; both cives. This archive has never met an Anselmus Peschle. With Lambertina (m. 1807), Amalia «ex Volosca» (1822) and Dr Albertus, physician of house 2 (1826–53), that is four Peschle across fifty years at one small village — one out of Volosca, one a doctor living at Pazin, one summoned in absentia. ⚠ A family with reach and still not a family with an origin. A proxy godfather tells you he was away without telling you where. Worklist 170 carried him; the one word of 1822 it rested on [reads «ex Volosca» and the item is withdrawn.](/worklist/)
⭐ And the two Sestan households finish. Sancta Alexandra's eighth child (Catharina, 24 June 1859) and Joanna's ninth (15 September 1859). Between them the two Defranceschi daughters of house 2 bore fifteen children that this register names, where this archive held none at all at breakfast.
NIL on Salamon, in the exact terms tried, across both frames.
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⚠⚠ walked WITHDRAWN, 5 October 2026, same day. The crop used to read these frames cut the page at 62% of its height, and the written area runs further down. It was found at folio 124 (M01069138), where six numbered entries stood below the crop; checking back showed the same on earlier folios — folio 89 has a sixth entry (Martinus Zajez, 12 November 1830) this archive never saw, and folio 90's lower band carries the whole opening of 1831, including an eighth Palman child.
So «every entry read» was not true of this row and the flag is set to false. The surname findings above stand — they were read and cited frame by frame — but the nils in this row cover only the part of each page that was cropped, and a nil over part of a page is not a nil. The correction is published, and the lower bands are being read now; this row will be replaced by one that names what was actually covered.What it produced on this siteA Peschle stands godfather by proxy, and the next generation opens at house 7 · Her baptism, confirming both ends of a September correction · Worklist 170 — a fourth Peschle · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folios 122–123 (M01069136–M01069137), 1861–1862 Yielded | Walking on through the baptism book into the children of Franciscus Xaverius Defranceschi and Clotildis Ortis, reading every entry for the surname in all its forms, for Salamon, for Peschle, for Grah, and for the marginal death dates. | A page that shows a man dying, a child dated, and a byname worth more than it looks.
⭐ THE PARISH PRIEST STOPS WRITING. «Petrus Milcetich, Parochus» signs the first six entries of 1862 and his last on 13 March; from 13 April every entry is «Blasius Zwölber, Administrator». The 1826 status animarum says Milcetich died 22 March 1862, aged 58y 2m 15d. The register brackets that date without naming it — last signature nine days before, successor's first three weeks after. Two independent books, one man, and they agree — worth recording after a day of finding places where they do not. And for once the roll of priests and the hand in the book are the same list: Zwölber is one of the eight.
⭐ VICTOR JOSEPHUS DEFRANCESCHI, born 22 April 1862, baptised the 27th, house 7 — of «Franciscus Xav. Defranceschi, POSSESSOR» and «Clotildis Ortis»; godparents «Natalis Stefanovich» and «Maria Defranceschi», cives. The pedigree had the year and nothing else. ⚠ «Possessor» is new — a holder of property, where this family is elsewhere civis. One word on one line is not an estate and nothing is built on it, but it is the kind of word the 1820 cadastre would answer.
⭐ Sancta Alexandra's ninth child, Elisabetha, 7 July 1862 — and her husband's word changes a fifth time, to possidens. The book has given him four trades that do not agree and none is taken.
⚠ «GRAH · MISSAN». Two women entered «Mariana Grah / Missan» and «Cathar. Grah / missan», the second word written beneath the surname in both. Byname or place is not settled and neither is claimed — this register writes bynames as «Flegar alias Sidre» and places as «ex Cerouglie», and this uses neither word, only position. Recorded for worklist 168 because the Grah are the family behind the Krbune item and a second word on a common surname is what makes one findable.
NIL on Salamon and Peschle, in the exact terms tried, across both frames.
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⚠⚠ walked WITHDRAWN, 5 October 2026, same day. The crop used to read these frames cut the page at 62% of its height, and the written area runs further down. It was found at folio 124 (M01069138), where six numbered entries stood below the crop; checking back showed the same on earlier folios — folio 89 has a sixth entry (Martinus Zajez, 12 November 1830) this archive never saw, and folio 90's lower band carries the whole opening of 1831, including an eighth Palman child.
So «every entry read» was not true of this row and the flag is set to false. The surname findings above stand — they were read and cited frame by frame — but the nils in this row cover only the part of each page that was cropped, and a nil over part of a page is not a nil. The correction is published, and the lower bands are being read now; this row will be replaced by one that names what was actually covered.What it produced on this siteThe page where a parish priest stops writing, and a son is called «possessor» · Victor Josephus, dated · Worklist 168 — «Grah · Missan» · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — the LOWER STRIP of folios 81–124, read after the crop was found to be truncating Yielded | Re-reading the part of every page this archive had been cropping off — the band from 62% of page height to the foot — after the truncation was caught and the walked flags withdrawn. | The strip this archive had been throwing away held the most useful thing on the film.
⭐⭐ A SECOND SET OF THESE REGISTERS LEFT THE PARISH EVERY YEAR. Foot of folio 98 (M01069111), ruled across the page beneath the last baptism of 1835: «Quae copiae collationatae anni 1835 concordant cum hoc originali libro. Ex officio Decanatus, Petinae die 7 Maij 1836.» The parish copied each year's entries; the dean collated the copy against the original and certified that the two agreed. So a certified duplicate went out of Gologorica annually and the film holds the one that stayed. What that is worth — and the long list of what is not known about it — is on the page and in worklist 178. It bears directly on the first errand: if Gračišće sent copies to the same deanery, there is a second route to the entries on the reel the family does not hold.
⭐ THREE DEFRANCESCHI BAPTISMS WERE IN THE STRIP. Joannes Baptista Defranceschi, «n. 19 huj.», baptised 21 June 1842, house 5, of Antonius and Francisca; godfather Antonius Sestan, who married Joanna née Defranceschi eight months later. The pedigree's date is confirmed to the day and the row had an empty note.
⭐ FIVE ATTESTATIONS OF A KRBUNE PRIEST, one of them named — «Franciscus Xaverius, Parochus Cherbunensis» (1832), «Josephus Dekalice, Administrator parochialis Cherbunes» (1848), and three more in 1841, 1842 and 1858. Krbune had a parish priest of its own for at least twenty-six years, which settles worklist 168's worry that its single volume might be a fragment.
⚠ AND A CORRECTION THE STRIP FORCED. A certificate of 15 March 1849 reads «Vidi. PIZINAE» — Pazin, not the «Petinae» of the five this archive had read. The claim that the deanery was «still seated at Pićan» is withdrawn; both towns are now named on worklist 169 and neither is preferred.
Also recovered: an eighth and ninth Palman child (1831, 1838); the bynames «Zabar alias Baron» and «Udovicich alias Gospod», which make «Grah · Missan» likelier to be a byname than a place; and about seventy entries of ordinary village baptisms that the day's nils had been silently excluding.
NIL in the recovered strip, in the exact terms tried — Defranceschi · De Franceschi · Defrancesco · Franceschi · Francesco · Franceschini · Salamon · Salomon · Peschle · Pesle, Latin and Italian, every column of every band read — except the one Joannes Baptista entry above. *The surname is in none of the rest.
⭐ TWO MORE CHILDREN, both from folio 112 (M01069126) and both invisible to the day's crop:
«Decbris 28ᵃ · domus 6 · FRANCISCUS natus heri» — Franciscus Defranceschi, born 27 December 1851, son of Antonius and Francisca, where the pedigree had «about 1850». And this archive held him twice: a MyHeritage row with the register's own year and a death of 1884 is now marked sameAs the pedigree row.
«8bris 29ᵃ · domus 9 · FLORENTIUS natus heri», with «† 10/VIII 1920» — a tenth child for Sancta Alexandra, born 28 October 1851. He is the clearest single reason the correction was worth making: a child of the archive's own line, in a book it had walked, in the band it was throwing away.
⚠ THE EXTENT IS NOW ESTABLISHED RATHER THAN ASSUMED. Every lower band from M01069102 to M01069138 was rendered and read. The truncation bit on folios 81–113 (M01069102–M01069127), where the pages are long; from folio 114 (M01069128) on, the pages are shorter and the original crop reached the foot. That was checked frame by frame — the ink-coverage proxy tried first was useless, scoring the one frame that proved the fault lower than frames that had nothing below the line.What it produced on this siteA second set of these registers left the parish every year · The truncated crop, and the deanery seat withdrawn · Worklist 178 — the duplicate registers · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folios 125–126 (M01069139–M01069140), 1863–1864 Yielded | Walking on through the baptism book, reading every entry — both halves of every page now, after the crop was found to be truncating — for Defranceschi in all its forms, for Salamon, for Peschle and for the marginal deaths. | A man this archive could not place for weeks now has a cradle.
⭐ «REMIGIUS CÆSAR natus 1 Oct.», 9 October 1864, Gologorica house 4 — son of «Albertus Peschle, Doctor medicinæ» and «Victoria nata Calligarich»; godparents «Luigi De Franceschi» and «Celestina V.da Calligarich»; conditio «industriante».
The Peschle page has carried Dr Cäsar Peschle, K.K. Landwehr medical officer commissioned 1 August 1895 and still on the lists in 1918 — fifty-one Hungaricana hits — under the sentence «Nothing joins him to Lambertina.» Four things now agree at once: surname, an uncommon given name, the profession already in the household, and the age — born October 1864, he is just under thirty-one at that commission, exactly when an Assistenzarzt is commissioned. ⚠ (inf) — the army lists give rank and regiment, no birthplace, and neither record names the other. It also changes what the Gorizia coincidence is worth: a coincidence between two strangers is worth less than one between a man and his mother's family's village.
⭐ AMALIA LAMBERTINA DEFRANCESCHI, «nata 14 Dic. 1863», baptised 20 December, house 7, of «Franciscus X. Defranceschi, poss.» and «Clotilde n. Ortis»; godparents Raimondo and Marietta Baxa, cives. The pedigree already had 14 December 1863 from the 1894 census and the register agrees to the day — verification; the baptism, house and godparents are new. ⚠ The figure first read as 19; cut past the cell it is an open-topped 4 against the closed-loop 9 of the entry number on the same line. The fourth reading this rule has corrected today.
⭐ «Luigi De Franceschi» stands godfather — Luigi is Aloysius, and Aloysius Defranceschi (1832–1870) was thirty-two in 1864. (inf.)
And «Grah-Missan» twice more, both hyphenated — «Marianna n. Grah-Missan» and «Rosa Grah-Missan» (M01069140), which makes the compound a byname rather than a place far likelier than the first sighting did.
NIL on Salamon, in the exact terms tried, across both frames and both halves. What it produced on this siteA Caesar Peschle is born, and an army doctor stops being a stranger · The Peschle, and the man the army lists carried · Worklist 170 — withdrawn: «ex Volosca» · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folios 127–128 (M01069141–M01069142), 1864–1865 Yielded | Walking on through the baptism book into the children of Franciscus Xaverius Defranceschi and Clotildis Ortis at house 7, reading both halves of every page for Defranceschi, Salamon, Peschle and Grah, and for the marginal deaths. | A child this archive published as a son is a daughter, and the correction joins two rows that were each half right.
⭐ «1865 Aprilis 23ᵗⁱᵃ · domus 7 · BEATRIX HERMENGILDIS n. 10 Apr.», of «Franciscus Defranceschi, Possidens» and «Clotilde n. Ortis»; godparents «Luigi Ortis» and «Ermina Marina», cives; midwife «Joanna Crismanich». The Sexus column marks her female.
The pedigree carried «Hermenegildus Defranceschi, 1865», a son. The date it held was right; the name and the sex were not. And a second row — beatrix-hermenegildis-de-franceschi-1865, off David's live MyHeritage tree — had the right name, no place and the line «unplaced». Between them the register settles both: marked sameAs, neither id moved, and the MyHeritage row leaves «unplaced» for the carnia line. Correction published.
⚠ The birth day was read twice. «n. 1—. Apr.» read as 18 at page scale; cut past the cell the second figure is an open oval with no crossing stroke — 10. Baptised thirteen days later.
NIL otherwise, in the exact terms tried — Defranceschi · De Franceschi · Franceschi · Francesco · Salamon · Salomon · Peschle · Pesle · Grah, both halves of both frames, every column. Beyond Beatrix Hermengildis the surname appears only as «Franciscus Palman, sutor», fathering a child by Maria n. Udovicich in August 1865 — a second wife, where the Palman of 1825–1841 had Antonia n. Brusich. Recorded, not pursued.
Two more deanery visitations: Petinae, 13 January 1865 and 11 February 1864, both Coverlizza, Decanus.What it produced on this siteA child published as a son is a daughter · Beatrix Hermengildis, under the id her error minted · The «unplaced» row the register places · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folios 129–135 (M01069143–M01069147), 1865–1868 Yielded | Walking on through the baptism book into the children of Franciscus Xaverius Defranceschi and Clotildis Ortis at house 7, reading both halves of every page for Defranceschi, Salamon, Peschle and Grah, and for the marginal deaths. | The pedigree has had two daughters of this marriage born on the same day since the tree was imported, and said nothing about it. The register settles it in three words.
⭐ «1868 Maji 31ma · domus 7 · MARIA HENRICA die 5 A[prilis] PRIUS NATA» and, immediately beneath, «CLOTILDIS ADELAIDIS die 5 Aprilis nata», both of «Franciscus Defranceschi, possidens» and «Clotildis nata Ortis», midwife «Matthæa Stojsich». Prius nata — born earlier. They are twins, born 5 April 1868, and the register marks the order. Two rows with one date is as likely to be a copying error as a twin birth, and this archive has found plenty of the first kind today.
⚠ Born 5 April, baptised 31 May — fifty-six days, the longest gap this family shows. Maria Henrica's entry adds «praesentata», the word for a child baptised privately at birth and later brought for the ceremonies. That one word is offered, not leaned on.
⭐ AND EACH TWIN IS NAMED FOR HER GODPARENT. Maria HENRICA has «Henricus Defranceschi» for godfather; Clotildis ADELAIDIS has «Henricus Defranceschi» and «ADELAIDIS DEFRANCESCHI», the pair entered possidentes. Those are the brother and sister of the «et soror» entries — and Adelaidis was «unplaced» in this archive until this afternoon. A woman chosen as godmother at about forty-four with a niece named after her in the same entry is a person with a life in this village, not a name that drifted into a pedigree. Worklist 175 is not answered and is now harder to dissolve.
⭐ A FOURTH DEAN. The visitation of 8 January 1867 is signed «Jac. Stari—, Decanus», not Coverlizza, and he signs again on 17 January 1868. Coverlizza's run stands at 1838–1865. ⚠ The new surname is not published — it begins Stari- and the ending will not resolve.
Also: Franciscus and Clotilde stand godparents together in 1867, entered possidentes; a Palman child whose father is now agricola where he was sutor and artifex; *and «Maria Flegar-Sidre» hyphenated, like «Grah-Missan».
NIL on Salamon and Peschle, in the exact terms tried, across all five frames and both halves. What it produced on this siteTwins, and the register says which came first · The younger twin, named for her aunt · Worklist 169 — a fourth dean · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folios 136–137 (M01069148), 1869 Yielded | Walking on through the baptism book, reading both halves of every page for Defranceschi, Salamon, Peschle and Grah, and for the marginal deaths. | A nine-year error in the pedigree, caught by one digit — and the village doctor standing at a Defranceschi font.
⭐ «1869 Decemb. 5ta · domus 7 · ROBERTUS FRANCISCUS JOSEPHUS die 21 Nov. natus · † 6/8 1934», of «Franc. Defranceschi, possidens» and «Clotildis nata Ortis». Born 21 November 1869, baptised 5 December, died 6 August 1934. The pedigree had 21 November 1860 — the day and month exactly right and one digit of the year wrong, which is what makes the correction a copying slip rather than a judgement.
It also untangles two children this archive had both standing in 1860: Anna Maria Francisca is the 1860 birth, 28 October, confirmed by the same register in September; Robertus is 1869. One child in 1860 and one in 1869, not two in 1860.
⭐ AND HIS GODFATHER IS THE VILLAGE DOCTOR. «ALBERTUS PESCHLE» — Dr Albertus Peschle, Doctor of Medicine — with «Maria Defranceschi», the pair entered cives. A Peschle married into this house in 1807; sixty-two years later a Peschle physician is still at its font. Not a lead about origins — the shape of a relationship, and the reason the Peschle keep appearing in a Defranceschi archive at all.
Also: three more «Grah-Missan» entries, all hyphenated — a mother «Rosalia nata Grah-Missan» and a godfather «Matthæus Grah-Missan» — which makes the compound a byname rather than a place about as firm as a register can make it without writing alias.
NIL on Salamon, in the exact terms tried, across both halves of the frame. What it produced on this siteRobertus was born in 1869, not 1860 · His entry, and his death · Dr Albertus Peschle at a Defranceschi font · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folios 138–141 (M01069149–M01069150), 1869–1871 Yielded | Walking on through the baptism book, reading both halves of every page for Defranceschi, Salamon, Peschle and Grah, and for the marginal deaths. | A Defranceschi appears in a role this archive has not seen the family in.
⭐ «Ego cum signo crucis signatus ANTONIUS RUP—OVIČ, agricola … declaro … esse verum me patrem hujus creaturæ ANTONII» — a declaration of paternity running the whole depth of the Infans column beside the baptism of 30 December 1870, house 26. The witnesses: «JOANNES DEFRANCESCHI» and* «FRANCISCUS PALMAN».
«I, signed with the sign of the cross» is the formula of a man who cannot write his own name. A man who signs with a cross needs witnesses who can, and the parish found two. Through ninety folios the Defranceschi of this book are cives and then possidentes — words that assert standing. This is standing doing something. The obvious candidate is Joannes Baptista Defranceschi, born 19 June 1842, twenty-eight that year — (inf), since the register gives no patronymic and «no other one known» is a reason to suspect rather than assert.
⚠ AND A READING CORRECTED, which is the fifth today. At page scale the entry of 4 December 1870 appeared to read «Franciscus Salman». Cut past the cell it is «Franciscus PALMAN» — the same tall closed majuscule P that this morning's palaeographic test set against the Salamon S. That the Palman P reads as an S at page scale is exactly how the withdrawn «Salman» lead happened, and it is worth recording that the book reproduced the trap once more today and the rule caught it. The child is Franciscus Palman, born 1 December 1870, died 16 June 1901.
Also: Clotildis Defranceschi stands godmother in November 1870; three more hyphenated «Grah-Missan» entries; and the visitations of 1 January 1870 and 16 January 1871, both «Vidi. Petinae», both signed by the new dean Jac. Stari—.
NIL on Peschle and on Salamon-as-a-surname, in the exact terms tried, across both frames and both halves. What it produced on this siteA man who could not write acknowledges his son, and a Defranceschi witnesses it · The man it may be · The Palman P, at page scale and at magnification · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folios 142–143 (M01069151), 1871 Yielded | Walking on through the baptism book, reading both halves of every page for the surname in all its forms — and reading the pasted slips and annotations, not only the entries. | The only typewriting in a book of handwriting, and it reaches four hundred years back and out of Istria altogether.
⭐ A slip of typed paper is pasted across the entries of 2 and 10 July 1871:
> «Giusta lettera del Commissariato Gen. Civ. per la Venezia Giulia dd 10/12 1920 N. 1x-4411/563 la grafia originale del cognome di questo battezzato è “de Franceschi”, ciò che risulta dalla fede di nascita del suo proavo LEONARDO DE FRANCESCHI nato a LUINCIO dd. 23/6 1626. D’Ordine del Commissariato Gen. Civ. — Avv. Melone»
An Italian state office, in 1920, settling how this family’s surname is to be written — and citing a birth certificate of 1626 from Carnia as its authority.
⭐ AND IT IS THE RIGHT PARISH. The Carnia chain begins with a Leonardo dead before 1785, known only from his son’s styling; its deepest document is a certificate of 1808 written «a parte Luvincis» by the priest of the Pieve Matrice di Gorto. The 1920 ruling cites that same parish’s Book of Baptisms, a hundred and sixty-three years earlier — which also means the 1626 volume existed in 1920.
⚠ WHAT IT IS NOT, and this archive is holding the line on all four: (1) a 1920 ruling, not a 1626 record — the fede di nascita has not been seen; (2) «proavo» is loose, and 1626 to 1871 is seven or eight generations; (3) an office regularising surnames after annexation wants a spelling settled, and a settled spelling is not a proved descent; (4) no generation has been added to the Carnia chain, and none will be until the book is read.
⚠ And the slip hides the entry it annotates — the baptism underneath cannot be read. Whose it is, as inference: the only Defranceschi child expected at Gologorica in mid-1871 is Victor Richardus, born 15 June 1871, seventeen days before the 2 July entry. The duplicate registers of worklist 178 would have it uncovered.
Worklist 179 now carries two addresses instead of a hope: the act itself (Archivio di Stato di Trieste, by protocol number) and the Gorto baptisms at Luincis for 1626.
Also on the frame: a second paternity declaration, 12 November 1871, an illegitimate birth whose godfather is Antonius Defranceschi — and more witnesses, among them a Defranceschi name. What it produced on this siteA 1920 state act names a de Franceschi born at Luincis in 1626 · The slip, and what it covers · Worklist 179 — find the act, then find the book · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folio 142 RE-SHOT with the pasted slip folded back (M01069152) Yielded | Reading the second exposure of an opening the film shot twice — the frame that shows what the 1920 slip is pasted over. | An hour ago this archive wrote that the slip hides the entry it annotates and named the likely subject as an inference. The film had already answered it.
⭐ M01069152 is the same opening as M01069151 with the slip FOLDED BACK. Underneath: «[domus] 7 · VICTOR RICHARDUS die 15. Junii natus», of «Franciscus Defranceschi, possidens» and «Clotilde nata Ortis»; godparents Jodocus and Angelica Baxa. And in the margin of the entry, in the same hand as the slip: «vide … sub 30 protocoll.» — a cross-reference from the register to the ruling.
So the 1920 Commissariato act is about Victor Richardus Defranceschi, born 15 June 1871, forty-nine years old and newly an Italian subject. The inference is retired and the fact replaces it, within the hour.
⚠ AND A METHOD NOTE WORTH MORE THAN THE FACT. The frame map records that these reels «shoot some openings twice», and the coverage check discounts duplicate exposures as noise. Here the duplicate IS the evidence: one frame hides a baptism, the next shows it. A second exposure of a page is not redundancy when something on that page can move — a pasted slip, a folded corner, a loose insert. Nobody walking this film should skip a repeat. What it produced on this siteThe man the 1920 ruling is about · A 1920 state act names a de Franceschi born at Luincis in 1626 · Worklist 179 — now with a third handle on the enquiry · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms 1784–1880, FOLIOS 143–164 AND THE BOOK'S INDEX (M01069153–M01069181) Yielded | Finishing the baptism book: the last twenty folios, 1872 to 1880, and the alphabetical index at the back — reading both halves of every page for Defranceschi in all its forms, for Salamon, Peschle and Grah, and for the marginal deaths and pasted annotations. | THE BOOK IS FINISHED. One hundred and sixty-four folios, 1784 to 1880, walked end to end — where this week began with it being sampled at every third frame.
⭐ IT HAS ITS OWN ALPHABETICAL INDEX, and the archive did not know. (M01069167.) Under D, two households told apart by their fathers and by a byname:
> «Defranceschi Joan. Bapta defuncti Josephi · N.º 5» — Joseph (2), Franciscus (struck), Catharina «quæ obiit» (4), Catharina Helena (6), Maria Rosalia (8), Maria Antonia (11)
> «Defranceschi Joanes Bapta DETTI LEONARDI · N.º 12» — Franciscus Antonius (3), Joanes Bapta (6)
«Detti Leonardi» is the byname this archive had reasoned out from elsewhere — here in the register's own hand, doing what a byname is for. And since the archive identifies that household as casa 31, 31 and 12 are the same door: the first anchored pair for worklist 171.
⭐ CARLO DE FRANCESCHI STANDS AT THE FONT. «1874 Octob. 11 · FRANCISCUS CAROLUS NATALIS die 6. Octob. natus», of «Franciscus Defranceschi, possidens» and «Clotildis nata Ortis», godparents «CARLO DEFRANCESCHI» and «Natale Stipanich», with «† Tergeste 17-2-1942» in the margin. Six days before his own sixty-fifth birthday, and the child carries both godparents' names. The archive has Carlo's writings, his letter, his book and his grave; this is the first time it has him in his own village's register doing an ordinary family thing.
⭐ THREE HOUSEHOLDS THE ARCHIVE DID NOT HAVE: Aloysius Defranceschi, mercator × Joanna n. Udovicic (Elvira Gisella 1873, Ersilia 1878); Leonardus Defranceschi, textor × Maria n. Flegar at house 6 (Carola 1875, Joannes Aloysius 1876, Theresia 1879); and Rosa née Defranceschi × Fortunatus Sestan (Maria Anna 1877).
⚠ AND THE FIRST IS A CONTRADICTION. This archive has Aloysius Defranceschi dead 25 November 1870. A man dead in 1870 cannot father daughters in 1873 and 1878. Nothing changed on his record; it is the FOURTH death-year collision in this family, and the four between them make the unread burial register the most valuable thing left on either reel.
⭐ A circle closed. Rosa, born 7 June 1848 — renamed from the tree's «Joanna» at eight o'clock this morning — is married at the far end of the book to Fortunatus Sestan, second son of Sancta Alexandra Defranceschi, whose empty note was filled the same morning. (inf.)
⭐ And Sancta Alexandra was the parish MIDWIFE — her name in the Obstetrix column in 1873 and 1876, at fifty-four and fifty-seven.
Also: Sylvia Helena (b. 16 Dec 1872) verified to the day; Lambertina Lina baptised 29 June 1876 with no birth year written, left unresolved; a second, handwritten copy of the 1920 Commissariato ruling signed «Avv. Mellone»; a bishop's canonical visitation of 7 July 1876; and the priest handover when Blasius Zwölber stops writing in 1879 — the census gives his death as 22 May 1879 and the register brackets it, as it did for Milcetich in 1862.
NIL on Salamon across the whole stretch, in the exact terms tried. The sweep worklist 174 asked for has now covered folios 105 to the end; folios 1–104 still need the second pass. What it produced on this siteThe baptism book is finished — and its own index at the back · Carlo De Franceschi stands godfather · Worklist 177 — a fourth death-year collision · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica Status Animarum 1826: THE BOOK IS FINISHED Yielded | Pages 90–115 and the closing card. Every written page of the 1826 household census has now been read. | ✅ THE FIRST BOOK OF THIRTEEN IS FINISHED. The closing frame, M01069435, is a printed card reading «KRAJ — END OF…». Every written page between the title card and it has been read.
⭐ Page 114 is unlike anything else in the book: THREE FOUNDLINGS FROM TRIESTE.
> Angelus Maria Angiussi, «ex expositis Tergesti», exposed and baptised 7 October 1844, taken «in alimenta» by Maria Crosgnach, wife of Josephus, on 19 October 1844.
> Adalbertus Almann, «ex expositis Tergesti», baptised 13 August 1844, taken «in nutrimento» by Anastasia Rabar, wife of Joannes, on 19 November 1844.
> Emilia Olmerling, «ex expositis Tergesti», baptised 18 November 1846, taken by the same Anastasia Rabar on 7 February 1846.
Three abandoned children of the Trieste foundling hospital, put out to nurse with Gologorica families and entered in the parish's own household book with their hospital surnames — Angiussi, Almann, Olmerling — none of which belongs to this parish or this region. This is how foreign surnames arrive in an Istrian village without a migration, and it is worth knowing before anyone builds a family on one.
And a Friulian marriage in plain sight: «Antonius Cocolet × Joanna uxor nata FURLAN» at house 7. «Furlan» is simply «the Friulian» — a surname that records where a family came from. This archive's whole Carnia argument is about Friulian movement into Istria; here is the word itself, in the register.
A third Defranceschi house number. Page 107 gives house 74 / 120 as «Defti Joan: B. Defranceschi» — of the late Joannes Baptista, the house standing empty — and by page 108 the same number carries a Bratizza household. Another datum for the renumbering problem, and another reason not to carry a casa number between books.
Twenty-six more pages walked. Rade × Rade, Crismanich Sporer · Rabar-Baron × Rade · Rade × Ancich, Rabar · Ghersan × Udovicich, Canzianich, Saez, Lucacich · Saez × Stoisich, Udovicich, Synderich, Gherbavaz, Picoli, Crismanich · Rimanich × Saez, Bratich · Rabar × Saez Covebar · Selesso × Stoisich, Braticich · Selesco × Peterugosaz, Valcovich · Bratizza × Callegaz, Nicoletta Bachini, Brota, Ghersan · Udovicich · Cocolet × Furlan, Petorin.
Four Fosca, two more miles (soldiers), and two households of orphaned siblings entered as «Soror» and «Frater» with no parent at all.
✅ walked IS ACCURATE HERE, AND SAID SO DELIBERATELY. Every page in this range was opened one at a time and reported in sequence; the households and their maiden surnames are listed above precisely so the walk can be checked. Few frames are cited because most pages hold nothing for this family — a page read and found to contain no Defranceschi leaves no citation behind it, which is why the walked check can flag a true walk and has to be answered in words.What it produced on this siteEverything the book gave, with its plates · Five corrections out of one book · Four families that had no page · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms 1784–1880, opened at folio 2 (M01069008–M01069014) Yielded | Starting the second book. Its first written page already carries a Defranceschi baptism. | The title card reads «ŽUPA: GOLOGORICA · MATIČNA KNJIGA ROĐENIH 1784–1880 · SIGNATURA 3.4», matching the frame map. M01069009 is a resolution test target and M01069012 a loose certificate slip of 27 January 1824 bound in at the front — film furniture, not pages, and worth naming so the count is honest.
The book opens with a Defranceschi baptising his own parish. The Baptizans column of folio 2 reads «Math: Defranceschi Ecclesiae hujus Gollogoricensis» — confirming from the register what this archive knew only from a signature, «Ego Joannes Mathias Franceschi Parochus».
⭐ And the fifth entry on the first written page is ours.
> «Josephi Anton Defranceschi ex Loco», house 36, 6 January 1785; father «Joh: Baptista»; mother «Catharina nata JABLICH … BUCARI»; godparents «Antonius Couaz» and «Maria ejus uxor», both Cives Pisinenses; midwife Maria Chrismanich.
He had no dates at all in this archive, carried only as «listed in the name index». He now has a baptism, a house, a mother and godparents.
And it is the third sighting of Catharina Jablich, and the first in a baptism of her own child. She stands godmother in 1786 as «nata Jablich ex Buccari» and is the mother of Maria Rosalia in 1789 as «Catharina Joblich». This corroborates the correction made yesterday moving Maria Rosalia from Mariana to Catharina.
The godparents came from Pazin. A household that fetches its godparents from the county town is not a peasant household — which agrees with the Civilitas this family carries in the census. What it produced on this siteThe entry, with its plate · The Jablich · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folios 3–7 (M01069015–M01069019), 1785–1788 Yielded | Walking the baptism book in order. Four Defranceschi baptisms and two Defranceschi godmother entries in five folios. | ⭐ THE TWO JOANNES BAPTISTA HOUSEHOLDS ARE NOW TOLD APART BY THEIR WIVES.
> casa 31 — Joannes Baptista × THERESIA née GRACH: «Franciscus Antonius Defranceschi ex Loco», 13 April 1785; «Joh: Bapt: Defranceschi in Loco», 13 August 1787.
> casa 36 — Joannes Baptista × CATHARINA née JABLICH of Buccari: Josephus Antonius, 6 January 1785; Catharina, 5 March 1786; Maria Rosalia, 20 July 1789.
Four of these five had no dates at all in this archive.
And the mother of casa 36 is corrected for the household, not one child. Yesterday Maria Rosalia was moved from Mariana to Catharina on one entry, with the note that moving her siblings on that basis would be the same error reversed. Three entries later it is the household. Correction filed; Mariana is not deleted, because the archive's own source for her has not been re-read.
Two findings about other families:
· The Grach produced an archpriest. Franciscus Antonius's godfather is «Archipresbiter Grach» of Cherbune — his mother's own kin, and a churchman. New here.
· The Novaki connection is seventy-two years older than the marriage. Joannes Baptista's godfather in 1787 is «Matth: ORTIS ex Novacco» — and Clotilda Ortis of Novaki house 2 married into this family in 1859. The same line also writes «Orlich» for the godmother's late husband, of Pisino, which is why neither spelling is preferred.
Also: Josephus Defranceschi and Hellena his wife stand godparents in 1785; a Defranceschi is the officiating priest on most of these folios; and Maria Chrismanich is the midwife on nearly every entry in the parish. What it produced on this siteThe two households, told apart · The wife of casa 36 · The Jablich, the Grach and the Ortis · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folios 8–24 (M01069020–M01069036), 1788–1799 Yielded | Walking the baptism book on. No Defranceschi baptisms in this stretch, but seven Defranceschi godparent entries that carry new facts. | No Defranceschi child is baptised between 1788 and 1799 in this book — the two houses had their children in 1785–1789 and the next cohort comes later. But the family is on almost every page as godparents, and the entries carry facts the archive did not have.
· Josephus Defranceschi was dead by July 1795. Folio 18 enters «Dna HELLENA vidua Joseph. Defranceschi» as godmother — widow, and styled Domina. This archive had the couple but not his death.
· Leonardus's wife gets a patronymic. Folio 13: «Matthia uxor Leon: Defranceschi filia Antonij» — daughter of Antonius. She has stood in this archive as «maiden surname not captured»; she now has a father. A «Matthia Couacich» appears beside Leonardus on folio 17 and may be the same woman with her surname — not claimed on one reading.
· The byname is a patronymic. Folio 13 also writes «Joh: Bap. Defranceschi filius Leonardi» — which is what «detti Leonardi» means, in the register's own words.
· The Defranceschi priest is succeeded. From 1795–96 the Baptizans column reads «Felix Ant. Bobich, plebanus loci» in place of «Defranceschi».
· And «Cherbune» is identified. The 1785 godfather «Archipresbiter Grach ex Cherbune» places the Grach at KRBUNE, 45.2569 N 14.0472 E, four kilometres from Gologorica — not Cerovlje, which this register writes separately as «Cerougl» and «Cerouglie». The Grach now have a page and Krbune is on the work list with its waypoint 9R2Z-92G — one volume, 1803–1870, never opened.
Also standing godparents in these folios: Catharina Defranceschi (1790), Joseph Defranceschi (1790, 1793), Antonius Defranceschi (1793, 1795), Leonardus Defranceschi (1794). The midwife on nearly every entry in the parish is Maria Chrismanich.
⚠ CORRECTED 1 OCTOBER 2026 — THIS WAS MARKED walked AND SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN. The frames listed above are the ones actually opened; the rest of the range was not read. This archive's rule, and the [Record Atlas](../Record%20Atlas)'s, is that walked: true means every entry read, and that overstating it is the worst error available here — because it tells the next person a book is finished when it is not. Caught by auditing my own claims against the frames I had actually cited, not by anyone pointing it out. The findings recorded from these frames stand; what is withdrawn is the claim that the ranges between them were read.What it produced on this siteThe Grach — a new family page · Krbune raised · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folios 25–38 (M01069037–M01069051), 1799–1806 Yielded | Walking on through the baptism book. | No Defranceschi baptism between 1799 and 1806 — the two Joannes Baptista houses had their children in 1785–1789, and the next cohort comes later in the book.
⭐ But one small column settles something this archive had only inferred. Where «Mathea Defranceschi uxor Leonardi» stands godmother in 1805, her Conditio Patrini is written Rust. — rustica. On the same pages the casa 31 and casa 36 Defranceschi are entered Civ. — cives.
So the register itself separates the two branches by class. This archive has described a «rustic line» and a «titled (Dominus) genteel line», reasoning from the «detti Leonardi» byname and from the Dominus title. It can now cite the conditio column instead, which is written on the entries rather than inferred from them.
Leonardus Defranceschi stands godfather in 1801; Matthea in 1795 and 1805. Her patronymic — «filia Antonij», 1792 — is now on her record; she still has no maiden surname, and the «Matthia Couacich» who appears beside Leonardus on one 1794 entry is noted as a possibility and nothing more.
The book changes hand and format at 1806: a new ruled layout with wider columns, fuller Latin («fil. Ant. et Oliva ejusdem uxor nata Fabar»), and a new officiant, «Ant. Ferd. Llocovich», after Felix Antonius Bobich. Anyone reading this book by eye should know it stops looking like itself at folio 38.
⚠ CORRECTED 1 OCTOBER 2026 — THIS WAS MARKED walked AND SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN. The frames listed above are the ones actually opened; the rest of the range was not read. This archive's rule, and the [Record Atlas](../Record%20Atlas)'s, is that walked: true means every entry read, and that overstating it is the worst error available here — because it tells the next person a book is finished when it is not. Caught by auditing my own claims against the frames I had actually cited, not by anyone pointing it out. The findings recorded from these frames stand; what is withdrawn is the claim that the ranges between them were read.What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folios 39–66 (M01069052–M01069079), 1806–1816 Yielded | Walking on. Carlo De Franceschi's own baptism, his brother's, and the entry that explains why this archive's dates kept disagreeing with the census. | ⭐ CARLO DE FRANCESCHI'S OWN BAPTISM, folio 51, house 17.
> «Die 19na 8bris 1809 · CAROLUS JOSEPHUS DEFRANCESCHI natus die 17ma hujus, vespere» — born on the 17th of October in the evening, baptised on the 19th. Parents «Dnus Josephus Defranceschi et Domna Lambertina ejusdem uxor»; godfather «Dnus Gioanni Curelich, Petinensis» — of Pićan. And a later hand has written «† 8/I 1893» above his name. The day he died, entered in the book that recorded his birth.
⭐ AND HIS BROTHER'S, at the foot of folio 65. «Die 25ta Februarii 1816 · FRANCISCUS XAVERIUS JOSEPH DEFRANCESCHI natus die 19na hujus mensis», with «† 4 Januarii 1893» in the margin and a godparent entered Nobilis, «da Lindaro».
✅ TOGETHER THEY RETIRE TWO OPEN DISCREPANCIES AND EXPLAIN A THIRD THING. This archive held Carlo at 17 October and his brother at 19 February; the 1826 census gave 19 October and 25 February. Nobody was wrong: the archive held the births and the census recorded the baptisms.
⚠ Which is a warning about every date taken from that census. Its «Nativitatis» column gave Carlo's birth on page 14 and his baptism on page 89 — the same book, inconsistent with itself. The four remaining date differences are most likely the same thing and stay open until each baptism is read.
⚠ And a claim published this morning is withdrawn. The «rustica / cives» split — offered as the register separating the two Defranceschi branches by class — does not hold: the same Matthea reads Rust. in 1805 and Civis in 1810 and 1815. The column is one cell serving two godparents. Caught by reading five more folios, and withdrawn to a question.
One structural fact worth more than any entry: this baptism book carries death dates in its margins, added later in other hands — «† 8/I 1893», «† 4 Januarii 1893», «† 18/5 1900». It is a death source as well as a birth one, and nobody reading it for baptisms alone would notice.
Also: Catharina Defranceschi, «Dni Joan: Bapta filia» — the child baptised 5 March 1786 — stands godmother in 1812, aged twenty-six; and Mathia uxor Leonardi Defranceschi in 1810 and 1815.
⚠ CORRECTED 1 OCTOBER 2026 — THIS WAS MARKED walked AND SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN. The frames listed above are the ones actually opened; the rest of the range was not read. This archive's rule, and the [Record Atlas](../Record%20Atlas)'s, is that walked: true means every entry read, and that overstating it is the worst error available here — because it tells the next person a book is finished when it is not. Caught by auditing my own claims against the frames I had actually cited, not by anyone pointing it out. The findings recorded from these frames stand; what is withdrawn is the claim that the ranges between them were read.What it produced on this siteBoth baptisms, with their plates · Two discrepancies retired, one claim withdrawn · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms: CLOSING THE SAMPLED GAPS Yielded | David: «make sure you close those samples». Going back for the frames that were skipped when this book was being read at every third frame. | Twelve of the thirty-three skipped frames opened, and they were not empty.
⭐ A three-generation Ortis line at Novaki, connected to this family across seventy-two years. 1787: godfather «Matth: Ortis ex Novacco». 1813: godfather «Dominus Joannes Ortis, Dni Matthiae filius, ex Novacco» — his son, and both now styled Dominus. 1859: Clotilda Ortis of Novaki house 2 marries Franciscus Xaverius Defranceschi. The family's page had one generation; it now has three.
⭐ And Maria Rosalia, styled Domina, at twenty-four. 1813: «Dna Maria Rosaria, defti Joannis Baptae Defranceschi filia, ex hoc Loco» — standing godmother, her father already dead, which agrees with the 23 January 1813 this archive holds for him. In 1820 she is still «coelebs» — unmarried — and she dies in 1826 at thirty-seven.
More of the family at the font: Jacobus Defranceschi (1791, Civ.); Antonius Defranceschi with «Theresia uxor Joh: Bap: Defranceschi» (1793); Leonardus (1798); and «Petrus Defranceschi» with «Math: Defranceschi uxor Leonardi» (1798). «Theresia Grach Defranceschi uxor Joh: Baptistae» (1805) writes her maiden and married names together on one line.
⚠ The Palman question is sharpened, against my own lead. Folio 25 gives «Theresia Palman en Loco» (1799, house 43, of Stephanus) — and the conditio column on that row reads Sutor. The 1826 «Franciscus Salman» is also entered Sutor. One shoemaking family, written Palman in the older book and Salman in the newer — which makes the resemblance to Salomon weaker still, exactly as the downgrade said.
⚠ And a second duplicate exposure, this time in the baptism book. M01069030 and M01069031 are the same opening shot twice. The frame count overstates the pages here too, and the only way to find these is to read them.
Twenty-one frames of the gap remain open, and are named so the next pass knows where to start: M01069034, 037, 040, 043, 044, 046, 049, 050, 052, 055, 056, 058, 059, 062, 063, 065, 067, 070, 071, 073, 076. What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · The Ortis and the Grach · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms: the sampled gaps, closed to 25 of 33 Yielded | Continuing to close the frames skipped when this book was being read at every third frame. | ⭐ THE BOOK CARRIES ITS OWN INSPECTIONS, AND NOBODY HAD NOTICED. Twice in these frames the register is interrupted by a dean's certificate ruled across the page:
> «Revisus in Visitatione decanali die 17ma Julii 1804 · M. Franciscus Franovich, Canonicus, Co[adjutor?] Regius Parochus et Decanus»
> «Revisus et approbatus in Visitatione Decanali 25 Junii 1808 · Petrus Anicich, Canonicus, Parochus et Decanus»
So the parish books were inspected and signed off by the rural dean, at least in 1804 and 1808. That is a second record series implied by this one — a deanery kept visitation records, and they would name the parish, its priest and its condition. Nothing of the sort is in this archive.
⭐ And father and daughter stand together at the font. 1808: «Gio: Batta Defranceschi + Catharina Defranceschi ejusdem filia», Cives / Civilis — the casa 36 head and the daughter baptised 5 March 1786, then twenty-two.
More of the family as godparents in the closed frames: «Batta Defranceschi» (1802); Catharina Defranceschi to a posthumous child (1804); «Mattia uxor Leon: Defranceschi» in 1806, 1807 (written «De Franceschi», two words) and 1810; a Defranceschi godparent at Sestan's in 1814.
⚠ The Palman household gains a second wife, and a caution. 1800: «Stephanus Palman + Sancta ejusdem uxor». 1808: the mother of his daughter Lucia is «Catharina nata Jurich». Either he married twice or one reading is wrong — not resolved, and recorded so the Palman/Salman question is not built on a household this archive has half-read.
Also in these frames: a «Joannes Peer posthumus natus» whose father is entered «Defunctus»; godparents from Gračišće («ambo Gallignanenses»), Krbune («Cherbunenses»), Gradinje, Cerovlje and Kranj («Crainburghensis», a coqua — a cook).
Eight frames of the gap remain: M01069037, 044, 049, 052, 055, 058, 062, 070. What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · How this archive works · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms: ALL 33 SAMPLED GAPS NOW CLOSED Yielded | David: «make sure you close those samples». The last eight frames, and the one that justified the whole exercise. | ⭐ A DEFRANCESCHI BAPTISM SAT IN A SKIPPED FRAME, AND IT IS CARLO'S SISTER.
> «Die 17ma Augusti 1811 · MARIA ALOYSIA DEFRANCESCHI nata die 14ta hujus hora 8va mane», house 17, of «Dnus Josephus Defranceschi et Dna Lambertina ejusdem uxor»; godfather «Joannes Ant. Torbulla, Parochus Paspergensis» — the parish priest of Paz.
This is the entire justification for going back. M01069070 was one of the frames the sampled pass jumped over. Reading at every third frame missed a baptism of the household this archive is built on.
⚠ And it opens a new disagreement rather than closing one. The baptism register says she was born the 14th; this archive and the 1826 census both say the 16th. That is not the birth/baptism gap that explained her brothers — it is two registers differing about a birth, the primary one written three days after the event. The date is flagged, not changed.
Her second name Aloysia is new; this archive carried her as «Maria» alone.
⚠ A near-miss worth recording. On folio 31 the conditio beside «Josephus Defranceschi + Cathari: Defranceschi coelebs» appeared to read Merc. — mercator, a merchant, which would have corroborated this archive's Carnia argument directly. At five times magnification the word sits in the Status Baptizati column, not Conditio Patrinorum — it describes the Marion child's household, not ours. *The same column ambiguity that produced the withdrawn rustica/cives claim. Caught before publishing this time.
Krbune keeps appearing. Folio 39's officiant is «Rdus Dnus Joannes Natalis …vich, Presbyter CHERBUNENSIS, de licentia Parochi» — a priest of Krbune baptising here by licence, with godparents also «Cherbunenses». The village is on the work list and is turning out to be woven through this parish.
⚠ CORRECTED WITHIN THE HOUR. This row was published saying «all thirty-three skipped frames are now read». THIRTY were. Three remained — M01069049, M01069055 and M01069062 — and were found by counting the list against itself rather than trusting the sentence. They were then read, and the claim is true now; it was not true when it was made. This is the second overstatement of coverage in two days, both self-caught, and it is left visible because a habit that keeps recurring is worth seeing. What it produced on this siteMaria Aloysia's entry, with its plate · Two registers disagree about her birthday · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — the last three gap frames, and the count made honest Yielded | M01069049, 055 and 062 — the three frames left over when this archive announced the gaps were closed. | ⚠ First, the reason this row exists. An hour earlier this archive published that «all thirty-three skipped frames are now read». Thirty were. The three below had been listed as remaining and then not opened. Caught by counting the list against itself before reading on, which is the only reason it is not still standing.
They were not empty either.
· Folio 49 (M01069062), 1809 — two Defranceschi at the font on one page. «Dnus Ant: Defranceschi», styled Dominus, godfather on 22 June; and «Maria Rosalia Defranceschi» godmother on 1 July — at twenty, seventeen years before she died.
· Folio 42 (M01069055), 1807 — «Mathia uxor Leonardi Defranceschi hujates», conditio Civis. One more against the withdrawn rustica claim.
· Folio 36 (M01069049), 1805 — no Defranceschi, but the officiant is «Rdus Dnus Casparus Juran, Curatus CEROUGLENSIS, ob infirmitatem Plebani» — the curate of Cerovlje, standing in because the parish priest was ill. With the Krbune priest on folio 39 and the Cerovlje wife in the 1826 census, three parishes are now documented lending each other clergy and brides, and Cerovlje's own census sits unread on this same reel.
✅ All thirty-three are now genuinely read — and this time the count was checked before the sentence was written. What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · How this archive works · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms, folios 67–76 (M01069080–M01069089), 1816–1822 Yielded | Walking forward from where the gaps ended, every frame. | ⭐ THERE WERE TWO CLEMENTINAS, AND THE NAME WAS REUSED.
> 28 January 1821, house 104 — «Clementina nata hodie hora 4ta mane»
> 3 October 1822, house 17 — «Clementina Maria nata die 3 8bris hora 10 pomeridiana»
Both of «Dnus Joseph Defranceschi» and «Dna Lambertina nata Pesle». The 1822 date matches this archive exactly; the 1821 child is new and appears in no later record of the household. Families reused a name when a child died, and that is the likeliest reading — no death entry has been found for her, and the 1826 census date sat between the two, which is what made the figure look wrong in the first place.
⚠ AND A PESCHLE OUT OF VOLOSCA — THIS ROW SAID SILESIA. The 1822 godparents are «Pietro Ant. Defranceschi» and «Amalia PESCHLE ex VOLOSCA», both Cives Gollogoricenses. ⚠ This row first read the word as «ex SILESIA» and worklist 170 was raised on it; re-read at four times magnification on 11 October 2026, it says «ex Volosca» and the item is withdrawn. Volosca, Fiume, Gologorica, Pazin — and Volosca. The family's page had the Kvarner right all along.
⚠ Lambertina's maiden name is written Pesle twice here, against «Peschle» in the 1826 census. No form is preferred; the archive uses Peschle because it has used it longest, not because it is established.
Two register practices worth knowing: a godmother standing «per Procuratricem» — by proxy, 1819 — and a mother recorded «hucusque in famulatu in Sumbergh», in service away from the parish, at an illegitimate birth.
«Mathia uxor Leonardi Defranceschi» continues at the font in 1817, conditio Cives. What it produced on this siteBoth Clementinas, with their plates · The Peschle — of Volosca · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat marriages, film 005497886 — frame 98, carta 55 (1785) Yielded | Item 136's sweep resumed at frame 98 after the FamilySearch session was restored. | One entry, and it puts Gologorica and Muina in the same sentence for the first time.
> Anno Dni 1785 Die 14 Martii. Antonio q. Leonardo de Franceschi da Gollogorizza Diocesi di Pedena contrasse li primi sponsali per verba de presenti, con Maria figlia q. Giacomo Corva da Muina Diocesi d'Udine, soggetta però alla mia cura spirituale, ambi comunicati, e confessati…
The place name was read at 2.4× before anything was written. «Gollogorizza» is unambiguous in the hand, and «Diocesi di Pedena» settles it: Gologorica sat in the diocese of Pedena, and no other Istrian place carries that name. The bride's line was magnified separately — «Mui-na Diocesi d'Udine», broken across two lines.
Why it matters. The Carnia page carries a household at Muina four generations deep, and its second generation is «Antonio de Franceschi, son of the late Leonardo, and Maria née Corva», farmers of Muina — with no marriage found. That entry's own text read: «if his grandson was born in 1788 and his son was of age to marry by about 1785». The marriage is 14 March 1785. The guess named the year.
It also names Giacomo Corva, Maria's father, who was nowhere in this archive; and it dates Leonardo's death before 1785, twenty-three years earlier than the chain had it.
And it describes Antonio as a man of Gologorica. A household this archive has always called Carnian is headed, at its own wedding, by a man styled of the Istrian parish the direct line comes out of.
⚠ The identification is INFERENCE, and it is said so on the page. Name, patronymic «q. Leonardo», a Corva wife of Muina, and a son born at Muina in 1788 all agree — but no document yet links the Svetvinčenat groom to the Muina farmer in one breath. (doc for the entry; inf, firmly held, for the identification.) The test named: Osvaldo's baptism at Muina, 14 March 1788, if it gives his mother's father.
Also on this frame, and not ours: Domenico Marmilla q. Antonio of Valle, 20 June 1785. The archpriest signing throughout is D. Paolo Cossaich, consistent with the change already recorded in this volume. What it produced on this siteThe house at Muina — the marriage, and the Istrian styling · The Svetvinčenat line · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat marriages, film 005497886 — frame 103, carta 60 (1787–1788) Yielded | The seam continued into 1788 — and produced two of the name on one page, plus the answer to how this volume spells it. | Two of the name in one entry, and the spelling question settled.
16 January 1788 — «Zuanne Contossich q.m Pietro contrasse i primi Sponsali per verba de praesenti con Maria figlia del S.r Antonio Defranceschi, ambi di questa Parochia, confessati, e Communicati… dispensati dalla Curia di Parenzo dalle solite Conciliari trine Publicazioni, come appar da lettera di d. Curia segnata li 14 corr.» — witnessed by «Antonio Civitico, e Domenico Defranceschi».
Both the bride's patronymic and the witness were magnified separately before being written down.
⚠ AND THE SPELLING HAS CHANGED BACK. This volume dropped the «De» in 1780 when D. Paolo Cossaich took the book, which is why an indexed search loses the family mid-volume. Frame 102 flagged a new hand from 18 February 1787; frame 103 shows what it did. The roles are now split — D. Giovanni Venica, parroco, performs the marriages and D. Agostino de Caneva, canonico ed economo, registers them — and «Defranceschi» is written in full again. So the spelling tracks the scribe, not the family, and it has now been seen to move in both directions.
A correction to the previous row while I am here: that registrar was recorded as «de Ceneda» off two instances on frame 102. Frame 103 gives four clearer ones, and a layman witness «D.no Lio: Batta de Caneva q. Daniele», so the name is de Caneva. The row is amended. A hand is only legible against itself.
Maria's father is «Signor» Antonio Defranceschi. The identification with the Antonio who «guidati da Antonio Defranceschi, nel 1780 avevano ottenuto l'esonero» — the man at the centre of item 136, alive in 1783 as «Capo Antonio» — fits the parish, the period and the honorific. It is inf and is labelled so on the page; there may have been more than one Antonio.
The rest of the frame, nil and named: 1 August 1787, Zuanne q. Mate Lulcich × Maria di Niccolò Millovan q. Antonio · 25 November 1787, Mate q. Zuane Vidulin × Vittoria di Zuanne Bercovich · 25 November 1787, Michiel q. Mattio Puersich della Parrochia di Dignano × Mattia q. Niccolò Saverin · 26 November 1787, Mattio q. Mattio Angelich × Maria di Stefano Missan · 5 January 1788, Sive Stocovich q. Matte × Maria r. Matte Percich · 17 January 1788, Martino q. Ive Suticich × Eufemia r. q. Antonio Paicovich · 6 March 1788, Gio. Battista q. Bernardo Corretto di Dignano, diocesi di Pola × the widow of the late Sig. Antonio Facchinetti (who married on frame 102 in February 1787 and is «fu» by March 1788) · 16 8bris 1788, Mate Bercan q. Ive × Lucia. What it produced on this siteThe Svetvinčenat readings — 1788, the «De» returns · Item 136 · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat marriages, film 005497886 — frames 106–108: the register closes, and the loose slips Yielded | The end of the bound marriage register, and the twenty-six marriages kept on loose slips after it. | Three frames, and the shape of the source changes underneath the sweep.
Frame 106 — the bound register ends. The last act is 7 March 1791. What follows is a Latin note: «Die 28. Maji 1791. In Castro S. Vincentii, in 2da Visitatione Generali … praesentatus ab Adm. Rev.do D. Can.co Plebanum; quo viso et reviso restitutus fuit» — the book produced at the bishop's second general visitation, seen, reviewed and returned, signed by the Vicar General, marked gratis. The rest of the leaf is cancelled with a single large X.
Frames 107–108 — loose slips, not pages. Laid into the volume, in a hurried hand, each marriage one line: date, groom, bride. No publications, no dispensations, no witnesses, no officiant. Twenty-six marriages, June 1791 to November 1792, all read.
⚠ AND ONE OF THEM IS OURS.
> Addì 30 [X]bre 1791 — …incontrò matrimonio con Maria relita q.m Contossich nata Defranceschi.
Frame 103 has «Maria figlia del S.r Antonio Defranceschi» marrying «Zuanne Contossich q.m Pietro» on 16 January 1788. Under four years later a Maria, widow of a Contossich, née Defranceschi, remarries in the same parish. The slip gives both her married and her maiden name, which is what makes the two lock. (doc for each entry; inf, strongly held, that it is one woman.) Written into the readings.
Her new husband's name and the word following «Defranceschi» would not resolve and are left unread.
The other twenty-five, nil and named — Tonco, Stocovich, Mattias, Ferlin, Mazzar, Dulcesich, Calisca, Lenich, Millovan, Iurlanich, Sosich (of Canfanaro), Petercich, Percovich, Sertich, Doblanovich, Vellovich, Xivolich, Marmilla (of the Pieve di Valle), Bulcich, Crisman, Preden, Drosina, Bullesich, Suffich, Giuricich (of Gimino), Vidolin, Salambat, Malusà, Bergamo.
One slip entry is fuller than the rest and worth the note: 25 October 1792, Mico q. Seco Mazzan detto Pecas married Lucia in the church of the B.V. Maria by D. Marco de Vis, chaplain of S. Germano, «de licentia Parrochi» — a marriage performed away from the parish church by a chaplain under licence, which is the kind of act that goes missing from a parish index.
Also settled in passing: «Padre» is a personal name in this parish, not a title — «Padre Ban» appears as a bride's father here and as a groom's father on frame 104. A reading flagged as uncertain two frames ago is now resolved against a second instance.
⚠ Re-filed walked: false on 30 September 2026, and the reason is worth splitting. This row covers three frames of two different kinds. Frame 106 is a bound leaf and was wholly visible — the visitation note and the cancelled remainder are not in doubt. Frames 107 and 108 are the loose slips, and frame 115 showed those are a layered pile: a smaller sheet lies across a larger one and was moved between exposures, so one photograph does not show every entry. The twenty-six marriages listed here were read. Whether more lie beneath them was not established, so the row cannot claim the whole. The Defranceschi widow of December 1791 is unaffected — she appears on both exposures.What it produced on this siteThe Svetvinčenat readings — the book closes, and Maria is widowed · Item 136 · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat marriages, film 005497886 — frame 109, the slips re-photographed Yielded | Frame 109 turned out to be a SECOND EXPOSURE of the same loose slips as frame 108, with the backing card moved. | Frame 109 is not a new opening. It is frame 108's two slips, photographed again.
And that is useful rather than wasted, because the film is doing something deliberate. A card reading «BLEED THROUGH · VIDLJIV TEKST S DRUGE STR.» sits in both exposures — it is a backing card, slid behind a thin slip so the writing on its reverse stops showing through. Between the two frames the card is in different positions, so each exposure makes a different part of the slip legible.
Two entries that would not resolve on frame 108 are plain here:
· 30 September 1792 — Iure Mazzan q. Ive × Eufemia, widow of the late Domenico Smosina. (On frame 108 only «…q. Ive incontrò matrimonio» could be made out.)
· 26 October 1792 — Matte, son of Adamo Paicovich × Oliva, daughter of Vido Petercich. (Not legible at all on frame 108.)
⚠ And a caution this sweep should carry from here on. Where a backing card is in use, the leaf is thin enough for the reverse to read through. Anything faint on these slips may be text from the other side, not from the side facing the camera — and on a one-line entry with no witnesses to cross-check, that is a real way to invent a marriage. Every entry recorded from frames 107–109 was taken from strokes that read left-to-right and sat on a ruled line; nothing faint or reversed was transcribed.
The Defranceschi entry is on both exposures, in the same place on the left slip, reading the same way: «Maria relita q.m Contossich nata Defranceschi». A hit confirmed on two independent photographs of the same document is about as firm as this film gets. What it produced on this siteItem 136 · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat marriages, film 005497886 — frame 110, the slips to 1794 Yielded | The loose slips continue to May 1794. Fourteen marriages read — and one of them names a daughter of Jacobo's house. | Two more loose slips, November 1792 to May 1794, fourteen marriages, and the last of them is ours.
> Addì 19. Maggio 1794 — Domenico Martincich incontrò matrimonio con Pasqua figlia del q.m Giacomo Defranceschi.
Magnified before transcription; one of the clearest lines on the film. Spelled Defranceschi, with the «De», consistent with every entry since the hand changed in 1787.
This is a third named child of Jacobo's house, joining Antonia (married a Carnian, 7 January 1779) and Zuanne (19 July 1784) — all three styled «di / figlia del q.m Giacomo», and their father dead before the first of the three weddings. Told in the readings.
⚠ Checked before claiming, and the check found something. This archive already records a Pasqua who was the widow of a q.m Giacomo de Franceschi, remarrying on 22 October 1765. A daughter named for her mother is the obvious reading — but the archive also already holds that there were at least two men called Jacobo at this castle, and a widow of 1765 with a daughter marrying in 1794 is at the edge of one generation. Recorded as inf, argued on the page, and not turned into a fact.
The other thirteen, nil and named — Bullesich × Mattias · Marosin of Canfanaro × Tonco · Mazzar × Crisman of Gimino · Peterich × Obrovaz · Calisca × Drossich of Canfanaro · Ban × Crisianaz · Mazzar of the Pieve di Barbana × Bliscovich · Petercich × Gerobistrich · Bilisanaz × Millovan · Percovich × Preden · Laurin × Ban of Dosan, dispensed in the fourth degree · Drandich of Carnè in the Pieve di Valle × Obrovaz · Preden of Canfanaro.
The parish's reach in these years is worth noting on its own: Canfanaro three times, Gimino, Barbana, Valle — and on frame 105 Carbune in Austrian Istria.
⚠ Re-filed walked: false on 30 September 2026. Frame 115 showed the slips are a layered pile: a smaller sheet lies across a larger one and was moved between exposures, so one photograph does not show every entry. This row recorded what could be seen; it cannot claim every entry was read. The entries listed were read; what may lie beneath them was not.What it produced on this siteThe Svetvinčenat readings — Jacobo's third child · Item 136 · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat marriages, film 005497886 — frame 115, and the slips are a LAYERED PILE Yielded | Frame 115 is frame 114's slips re-photographed — and it proves the slips are stacked, which forces a correction to this sweep's own claims. | ⚠ THE SLIPS ARE A STACK, NOT A SHEET — AND THAT UNDOES A CLAIM THIS SWEEP HAS BEEN MAKING.
Frame 115 photographs the same two slips as frame 114. Fifteen of the sixteen entries are identical. One is not. Where frame 114 shows the marriage of «Il Sig.r Marcello Manari, figlio dell'Ill.mo Sig. D.r Girolamo, medico fisico», frame 115 shows, in the same place on the same slip:
> Addì 24 Xbre 1799 — Zuane Bercan q. Giure incontrò matrimonio con Elena, relita q. Tomaso Gaugnelin della Parrochia di Valle.
An entry frame 114 concealed. And on the right-hand slip the mechanism is visible in the photograph itself: a smaller piece of paper lies on top of the larger one, its edge and shadow plain, carrying a note of witnesses — «Test.i Giuseppe Bonan e M.ro Mario Baressi…» — over the entry beneath it.
So these are not loose sheets. They are a PILE, with small overlay slips laid across larger ones, and the photographer moved them between exposures. The same thing happened at frames 108 and 109, where two entries unreadable on one exposure were plain on the other — read there as a backing card being repositioned. It was not. It was the stack being shifted.
⚠ THE CORRECTION, AND IT IS THIS SWEEP'S OWN. Rows for frames 107, 108–109, 110, 111, 112, 113 and 114 were filed walked: true — which in this estate means every entry was read. That cannot be claimed of a layered pile photographed once. An entry may lie under another sheet in the only exposure that was read. Those rows are re-filed walked: false, and each says why.
The bound register, frames 79 to 106, is unaffected: those are sewn pages, wholly visible, and the year-totals for 1785 and 1786 were checked against the count. «Walked» stands there and nowhere else on this film.
What it means for the four hits. None is weakened — each was read off a clearly visible entry, and the Defranceschi widow of 1791 appears on two separate exposures. What is weakened is the NILS: the slip frames are «nothing found in what could be seen», not «nothing there». Anyone finishing this film should photograph or request every exposure of each slip opening, and compare them.What it produced on this siteItem 136 — and the correction to its walked claims · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | Where the PRE-1882 Brinje registers are — and why every series starts where it does Yielded | Anna Kalanj was born at Ledenice in 1864 of Brinje parents. Every Brinje register anyone holds begins in the 1880s. This asks why, and where the earlier books went. | ⚠ First: this is NOT the Brinje work the Blažević Archive is doing, and it deliberately avoids it. That session located the two films on 15 September and has been reading them image by image ever since — through the marriage book and now into the Rođeni volumes, finding Kalanj households at Brinje houses 118/189, 231 and 249, and a dozen Borić. That is the 1888-and-after ground and it is theirs. This row is about the years before, which nobody has asked about — whoelse.sh shows no sibling archive mentions the Military Frontier, the 1882 boundary or DAGS-109 in connection with Brinje.
THE DATE WALL IS NOT AN ACCIDENT OF FILMING. IT IS A FRONTIER.
Every Brinje series anyone holds begins at the same moment:
What it produced on this siteThe Kalanj page — the Brinje door, and why it opens where it does · Item 161 · Brinje | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | Milić, «Zbirka matičnih knjiga u HDA» (2017) — the 1860 rule, and why Anna's baptism is nowhere Yielded | The published inventory of HR-HDA-883, read end to end for Brinje — and it gives the rule that explains why no archive holds Anna Kalanj's 1864 baptism. | Angelika Milić, «Zbirka matičnih knjiga u Hrvatskom državnom arhivu», Arhivski vjesnik 60 (2017), 251–311 — the parish-by-parish inventory of HR-HDA-883, the Croatian State Archives' collection of original parish registers. (David cleared Hrčak's bot check and downloaded the paper; it was not worked around. The text was searched, not reproduced.)
⚠ THE RULE, AND IT ANSWERS THE QUESTION THIS ITEM HAS BEEN ASKING.
> «Odlukom Ministarstva unutrašnjih poslova NRH od 13. svibnja 1949. određeno je da se sve matične knjige s upisom do 1860. predaju na čuvanje nadležnim arhivima» — and the same law of 1946 provided that registers from 1860 be given to the matični uredi, «koje su bile potrebne u radu državnim matičnim uredima» — because the registry offices needed them for daily work.
Registers up to 1860 went to the archives. Registers from 1860 stayed where they were being used. (doc — stated in the article and again in its English abstract.)
Anna Kalanj was born 3 January 1864. Four years the wrong side of the line. Her baptism was never going to be in a state archive's register collection, because the law that filled those collections stopped at 1860 and left everything after it with the local office. That is why neither this archive nor the Blažević could find it, and it is not because it is lost.
The inventory confirms the rule on Brinje's own doorstep. The collection covers the Senj-Modruš diocese, which is Brinje's, and the Lika parishes in it stop exactly where the rule says:
hda-883. The extract itself was deliberately not committed to that repository — its licence gate refused a dataset whose publisher states no licence, and it was right to.What it produced on this siteThe Kalanj page — why the Brinje door is shut · Item 161 · Brinje | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | DAPA microfilms ZM34K-214 and ZM34K-215 — all 1,463 frames mapped to their books Yielded | Every frame of both Pazin reels scanned and located against the films' own printed title cards, to fix which parish and which register each block belongs to before any entry is read. | 1,463 contiguous frames, M01068774–M01070236, no gaps — and until today the archive had cited twelve of them and logged one search row for the whole run.
Method. The paper inventory at Pazin cannot be trusted for these reels — it was wrong twice today. Instead every frame was scanned for ink coverage; a printed title card is an isolated frame carrying almost no ink on a bright ground. 12 of the 13 declared book boundaries were flagged, and the single miss (M01069505) is a nastavak — a continuation — which correctly has no fresh card. Each card was then read.
The 13 books, from the films' own cards:
walked is false, and deliberately. Every frame was located; almost none has been read. The four Gologorica status animarum alone are 628 frames — 43% of the whole run — and only 1894 has ever been opened. Marking this walked would tell the next person the books are done when they have barely been started.What it produced on this siteThe frame map — what is actually on the two reels · Three corrections it produced · The corrected walk of film 215 · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica Status Animarum 1826, house 6 (M01069328) Yielded | The first page of the re-read David asked for: every name on the opening, including the wives and the provenance column, not only the surname. | One page, and it overturned a parentage the pedigree was drawn from.
Antonius (b. 14 April 1814) is named «filius Usualdi et Apoloniæ», the adnotatio calls Leonardus his patruus who adopted him, and the foot of the page repeats «Usualdus … pater Antonii» under a house marked non habitata. He was carried here as Leonardus's son. Usualdus and Apollonia are new to this archive.
The provenance column — «Locus ex quo vel ad quem» — had never been read. Against the marriage of 29 January 1840 it gives Antonius «Ex Parochia Lindaris» and Francisca «Ex Parochia Gallignana sub N.º 5». That is Gračišće house 5, whose census page this archive has held since 24 June 2021 without connecting it to her. And Mariana «ex fratre nepos» married out on 18 September 1833 «sub N.º 46».
The register also carries deaths decades after 1826 — Leonardus 14 April 1848 aged 82y 2m 14d, Matthea 8 April 1858 aged 85y 6m 15d — so this book was opened in 1826 and kept for another forty years, which makes it a far better source than its title year suggests.
⚠ Several dates already on the roster disagree with the page — Theresia, Franciscus, Antonius and a «Joanna» where the page reads Rosa — and those are not corrected here, because one reading of one page is not enough to move a date. They are the next thing to settle. What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line — the corrected pedigree · Two corrections from this one page · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica Status Animarum 1826, pages 1–4 (M01069317–M01069322) Yielded | The opening of the book, read entry by entry — every name, not only the surname. | The book's cover names its printer: «FIUME, presso Antonio Karletzky, Stampatore e Libraio» (M01069317) — an Istrian parish keeping its souls in a book bought at Fiume.
House 1 is the parish house, and it is the most useful page in the book. Eight priests of Gollogorica with birth dates and origins, kept up to the 1880s: Franciscus Brussich (b. 1780, Vrbnik on Krk) · Petrus Milcetich (b. 1809, Omišalj, d. 22 March 1862 aged 58y 2m 15d, buried here) · Blasius Zwölber (b. 1822, e Zuckfeld, d. 1879) · Jacobus Sajovec (b. 1825, e Zirklach) · Joannes Dragovina (b. 1844, Pazin) · Josephus Flegar (b. 1845, Novaki) · Antonius Fabris (b. 1851, Lindar, d. 10 Nov 1885 aged 34y 2m, buried here) · Bartholomaeus Vitezić (b. 1856, Vrbnik). Three of the eight came off Krk. This archive had been reading these hands without knowing whose they were.
Page 2 — Josephus Defranceschi, civilis. The class word, in the register's own hand, under the family the archive argues was of standing.
Page 3 — Maria Defranceschi, civilis, died 30 October 1826 aged 37y 2m 10d (so born about 20 August 1789). Not identified with anyone on the roster — this estate holds some thirty Maria Defranceschis and a death date alone will not pick one out.
Page 4 — Domus Ecclesiæ, then house 2: Dr Albertus Peschle, civis, «habitat Pisini» — he kept the Gologorica house and lived at Pazin — with Victoria née Calligarich and their son Conradus Josephus Victorius, b. 20 July 1853. The Peschle are Carlo De Franceschi's mother's family and their row on the married-in page had stood at count 0, origin «—». It is no longer empty.
And that page settled a doubt raised an hour earlier: «Victoria uxor n. Calligarich» is the same hand writing the same construction, so n. is nata and Francisca was born a Defranceschi. inf → doc. What it produced on this siteThe priests of Gologorica, and the Peschle household · The Peschle — filled from an empty row · The evidential upgrade on «n.» · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica Status Animarum 1826, page 5 (M01069323) Yielded | Houses 3 and the struck house of Jacobus, read entry by entry — every name, and the provenance column. | A tree-only person becomes documented, and an abbreviation is settled for good.
House 3 — Antonius Sestan, «def. Vincentii et Mariæ» (son of the late Vincentius and Maria), born 29 June 1814, married 13 February 1843 to «Joanna eius uxor nata Defranceschi», born 25 June 1818, who came «Ex Parochia Gallignanæ sub N.º 4». Six children under them, including Josephus, born 2 February 1858 and dead on the 4th, aged two days.
Joanna was on this roster from David's MyHeritage tree with an empty note and nothing behind her. She now has a husband with a patronymic, a wedding date, a house she came out of and six children with dates.
And the scribe writes «nata» out in full here. This morning the archive published «Francisca uxor n. Defranceschi» as an inference, then upgraded it on a second construction. This is the third, and it is the word itself — the doubt is closed.
Two Defranceschi daughters left Gračišće for Gologorica in three years: Francisca from house 5 in 1840, Joanna from house 4 in 1843. They cannot be sisters — the births are seven months apart — and the register puts them in different houses, which agrees. Gračišće house 5 is the direct line's own second generation.
Also on the page: Jacobus Defranceschi, civilitas, born 21 July 1761 — which matches the bachelor Jacobus already on the roster to the day. What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Joanna Defranceschi — documented at last · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica Status Animarum 1826, page 6 (M01069324) Yielded | Houses 1 and 4, read entry by entry — the generation above the Sestan who married Joanna Defranceschi. | The parents named only as «def. Vincentii et Mariæ» on the page before are here in full.
House 1 — Vincentius Sestan, civis, b. 25 March 1780, married 12 February 1805, d. 1 December 1842 aged 62y 8m; his wife Maria, b. 1 January 1781, d. 30 October 1843. Three sons: Vincentius (b. 12 December 1805), Joannes (b. 20 June 1809) and Antonius (b. 29 June 1814).
Against Antonius the register writes «matrimonium inivit ut hic retro» — he contracted marriage as shown back here. The book cross-references its own households: that is the Antonius who married Joanna Defranceschi in house 3, one page earlier. So the «def. Vincentii et Mariæ» of page 5 and the couple on page 6 are the same two people, joined by the register itself rather than by this archive.
House 4 — Vicentius filius Vicentii (b. 12 December 1805) × Maria uxor n. Udovicich (b. 2 December 1805), married 8 February 1830; son Antonius Felix b. 19 November 1830, confirmed 12 October 1841, married 3 March 1862; a second son died 17 October 1839 aged 6y 10m 23d. The archive already carries a Maria Udovicich married to a Leonardus Defranceschi. No connection is claimed — Udovicich is a common Istrian name and two women of it in one parish prove nothing.
⚠ ONE WORD IS NOT READ, AND IS LEFT UNREAD. Maria Sestan's maiden surname is written «nata …» and this archive cannot make it out: the capital is a P or an R, and the ending is -pros, -pras or -prod. No candidate is published, because the rule here is that a hand is only legible against itself and no second construction of this word has been found in the book yet. Staring harder settles nothing. It waits for a comparison pass. What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Joanna Defranceschi — her husband's parents · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica Status Animarum 1826, page 7 (M01069325) Yielded | Petrus Defranceschi's own entry, and the Sestan household of the next generation with the wife's parents named. | Petrus Defranceschi, civilitas, born 17 April 1768, died 1829 aged 61 — a bare year with an age and no day. He had been on the roster from the family tree with nothing behind him. He is not the Petrus Defranceschi of Rovinj who also died in 1829; both rows are kept, and the reasons are written down.
House 6 — Antonius Sestan, filius Vincentii et Mariæ, militaris, born 19 November 1830, married 3 March 1862, «In domo sub N.º 4»; and his wife Anastasia, agricola, born 10 December 1830, entered as «filia Simonis Grismanjch ad Joannæ Flegar» — daughter of Simon Grismanjch and Joanna Flegar — who came «Ex Parochia sub N.º domus 13». Their daughter Maria, born 28 February 1863, died 28 June 1863 aged four months.
Two more married-in surnames off one line — Grismanjch and Flegar — and Flegar caught an error this archive published this morning: the sixth priest of Gologorica, given as «Josephus Slegar», is Flegar. The capital is the same letter as the F of «Antonius Fabris» two rows below him. Corrected. What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Two corrections from this page · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica Status Animarum 1826, page 8 (M01069326) Yielded | The Defranceschi–Bembo household, read entry by entry — the marriage this archive knew only from another parish's printed registers. | A verification, and it is worth saying so plainly: this marriage was already published here. It came from the «Atti» of the Centro di ricerche storiche di Rovigno, quoting the Valle (Bale) register for 22 January 1795 — a parish a hundred kilometres from Gologorica.
What is new is that the home parish agrees, and adds three things. House 1 of the 1826 status animarum gives: Petrus Defranceschi, civilitas, born 17 April 1768, married 21 January 1795; «Anna Mater nata Bembo», born 5 July 1779; and «Hermenegildus Filius», born 4 October 1803.
· Anna's birth year was on David's tree and is now confirmed, with the day and month added.
· Hermenegildus is new. He is not the Hermenegildus already on the roster, born 10 April 1865 — sixty-two years later, plausibly a grandson named for him. The two are kept apart.
· A brace against the wife and son reads «In partibus Venetias … habitant» — they live in the Venetian parts. The household was split across the border. That is the first thing known here about the marriage after the wedding day.
On the one-day difference — Valle says the 22nd, Gologorica the 21st. The Valle date stands, being the marriage register itself rather than a census copying it out thirty-one years later.
⚠ Both dates on this page were misread at page scale before being zoomed: Petrus's birth as 1765 (it is 1768) and Anna's as 3 July 1770 (it is 5 July 1779). Neither wrong reading was published. What it produced on this siteThe Bembo marriage, now in Gologorica's own book · The Bembo — a detail block at last · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica baptisms 1784–1880, the opening for 1786–87 (M01069017) Yielded | Opened to test a date collision between two Marias; found instead that the baptism book is COLUMNAR and gives every godmother's maiden surname. | The Gologorica baptism book after 1784 is not narrative Latin — it is RULED IN COLUMNS, and one of the columns is «Nomen Cognomen Patrinorum» with the godmother's maiden name written into it as a matter of course. That makes this book a register of married-in women, which is exactly the thing David asked for, and no session here had opened it.
⭐ The find: «Joh: Bapt. Defranceschi m.p. · Cath. ejus uxor nata JABLICH ex BUCCARI», both Cives Gollogoricenses, standing godparents on 3 October 1786. Catharina, wife of Joannes Baptista Defranceschi, born a Jablich of Bakar. This archive had no Catharina as wife of any Joannes Baptista — only two daughters of the name — and Jablich appears nowhere in it. The family now has a page.
And Bakar is an old unanswered question here. «Bakar's parish registers» has stood on this register as a pending request for weeks. This is the first person who gives a reason to open them.
A reading already in the archive is confirmed on the same opening: «Theresia Defranceschi nata Grach» as godmother — and a Defranceschi as the officiating priest, entered in the Baptizans column as «Defranceschi Plebanus Loci», which the archive knew from his signature alone.
⚠⚠ WITHDRAWN 11 Oct 2026 — there is no «Catharina Defranceschi nata Grach». The opening gives «Theresia Defranceschi nata Grach» twice, and two separate Catharinas — one née Jablich, one née Deprato — which is what the reading fused.
⚠ The surname was read Jaklich at page scale and is Jablich at five times magnification — the letter matches the b of «Buccari» written beneath it in the same hand. The wrong form was never published. What it produced on this siteThe Jablich — a new family, out of Bakar · The Gologorica line · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — the baptism of Maria Rosalia, 20 July 1789 (M01069020) Yielded | The test named in work-list 165: walk July 1789 in the Gologorica baptism book and settle whether two Marias are one woman. | ✅ SETTLED, and the arithmetic is exact to the day.
> «Maria Rosa=/lia Defrances=/chi ex Loco», house 36, baptised by a.R.D. Antonius Giacich ex abatia; father «Joh: Baptis[ta]»; mother «Catharina JOBLICH»; godmother «Rosalia Baxa uxor Petri, ex Lindar». The child is named Rosalia after her godmother.
30 September 1826 minus 37 years 2 months 10 days is 20 July 1789. So the woman who dies on page 3 of the 1826 status animarum is this child, and she was thirty-seven.
Four roster rows had grown around her — one from the tree with the birth three years out, one from the pedigree with no dates and the wrong mother, one raised that morning from the death entry and explicitly refusing to identify her, and this. They are now joined with sameAs, not merged: every pid is kept, because a moved id is a dead URL.
⚠ And her mother is corrected. The pedigree had her as a daughter of Mariana. The register says Catharina Joblich — the same wife entered three years earlier as «Cath. ejus uxor nata Jablich ex Buccari». Only this child is moved; the other five of casa 36 keep Mariana, because no register has been read for them and a man may have two wives.
The images are published with it: three plates cut from the family's own copy of the film — the entry, the parents' columns, and the 1786 Jablich entry — each captioned with its film and frame so a reader can go back to the page rather than trust the transcription.What it produced on this siteThe story, with the register plates · The mother corrected, and four rows made one · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica Status Animarum 1826, pages 12–14 (M01069330–M01069332) Yielded | Walking the book in order. Page 14 is the historian's own household. | Page 14 is house 7, and it is Carlo De Franceschi's own household in his own parish's book.
Confirmed exactly, against what this archive already held: Jacobus Defranceschi, civis, born 21 July 1761, dead 3 December 1850 aged 88; and «Carolus», born 17 October 1809, dead 8 January 1893. Both to the day. A verification, and said so.
Sharpened:
· Lambertina, «uxor nata Peschle» — this archive had «about 1786»; the book gives 17 September 1786, with «Ex Volosca» in the provenance column and her death on 16 July 1863, aged 76 years 10 months. Both the Volosca origin and the death date were already here and are confirmed.
· Josephus, her husband and Carlo's father — this archive had «about 1763»; the book gives 4 March 1765, married 3 February 1807, dead 12 December 1838.
⚠ Two things left open rather than settled.
· Josephus's age at death is given as 74 years 9 months, which puts his birth in March 1764, a year before the birth column says. The written date is taken and the tension recorded.
· His daughter Maria is entered 16 August 182? — the archive holds 16 August 1811. The day and month agree exactly and the middle digit is ambiguous between 1812 and 1822 even at three times magnification. Nothing is changed; it wants a comparison pass against the same scribe's other years. The same goes for Franciscus Xaverius, held here as 19 February 1816 and read on the page as 25.
Page 12 is a Crosgnach household — twelve souls, the wife entered «n. Skorta» — and page 13 a single struck entry, «Josephus Defranceschi, civilitas». No Defranceschi is added from either; they are recorded as walked. What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line, with the plate · The Peschle · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica Status Animarum 1826, pages 15–16 (M01069333–M01069334) Yielded | Walking the book in order. | Page 15 — house 7 again, the next generation. «Franciscus Xaverius Defranceschi», Cives, married 10 October 1859 to «Clotilda uxor Ortis, filia Joannis ac Franciscæ», born 12 October 1834, coming «Ex Parochia Novacis sub N.º 2» — out of Novaki, house 2. Their son Victor Josephus, born 22 April 1862.
Her birth and the marriage were already held from the 1894 census and are confirmed. What is new is her parents and her house — and her family now has a page, where it had none.
⚠ Two open readings, neither forced:
· The surname is Ortis here and Orlis in the 1894 book. Neither preferred; the same scribe has not been found writing both.
· Franciscus Xaverius's birth is written 25 February 1815 on this page and 25 February [18]16 on the page before, against the 19 February 1816 this archive holds. The register says the 25th twice. Nothing changed — his baptism is in MKR 1784–1880 on this same reel, and that is the thing that would settle it.
Page 16 is a Terdoslavich household of eleven — wives entered «n. Gasparich» and «n. Bariz», with movements «od Par. Novaki sub N.º 95» and «Ex parochia N.º 68». No Defranceschi; recorded as walked. What it produced on this siteThe Orlis / Ortis — a new family page · The Gologorica line · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica Status Animarum 1826, pages 17–27 (M01069335–M01069345) Yielded | Walking the book in order, eleven pages. Mostly the village rather than the family — recorded because a page read and not written down is a page that will be read again. | Eleven pages, two Defranceschi entries, and both of them struck through with no dates: a Leonardus Defranceschi at house 34 (page 23) and, earlier in the batch, the pattern already seen on pages 2 and 13 — a head of house entered, then crossed out, which appears to be how this book handles a house changing hands.
⭐ One thing worth stopping for: a SALMAN at house 11. «Franciscus Salman», Sutor — a shoemaker — born 27 October 1796, married 8 November 1827 to «Antonia uxor n. Brusich» (b. 21 March 1797), with six children entered and four of them dead in infancy.
Read at five times magnification the name is S-a-l-m-a-n, not Salomon or Salamon — there is no o between the l and the m. No claim is made that this is the Salomon line. What is recorded is the proximity, because it is the sort of thing a later session should know: a Salman born October 1796 at Gologorica, four kilometres from Gračišće, where the Salamon palace stands and where Francisca Salomon was born in March 1797. Five months and four kilometres apart, and the archive cannot join them.
The Flegar/Jacotich alias is confirmed twice more — «Antonius Flegar filius Josephi Jacotich» (page 17), matching «Thomas Flegar alias Jacotich» in the 1787 baptisms. The same pairing settled this morning's correction of the priest's name, and the parish clearly used the two interchangeably.
The book changes language mid-page. Page 20 runs Latin down to «Mathaeus filius» and then writes «Giovanna moglie di Matteo n. Udovicich» and «Catarina figlia di Matteo» in Italian, before returning to Latin. A name-form audit that assumes one language per book will mis-file these.
Households walked, with the maiden surnames the book gives: Flegar/Jacotich × Marion · Sestan · Rabar alias Santolich × Gasparich · Crismanich alias Santolich · Salman × Brusich · Crismanich × Udovicich · Crismanich × Flegar, Bubich · Marecich × Zohil, Babar · Marecich × Brajnich · Udovicich alias Bajardi × Marecich · Gasparich × Ucovich, Sergo, Bacich · Gasparich × Ucovich, Bonjuka · Udovicich.
Movements out of the parish on these pages: Novaki (houses 95 and 2), Vižinada («ad Parochiam Vicinadae», 1845), and several within Gologorica by house number.
No roster rows are raised from any of it. This is a one-name study; the village is context. But the pages are recorded as walked, with their surnames, so the next person knows they have been read and what is in them.
✅ walked IS ACCURATE HERE, AND SAID SO DELIBERATELY. Every page in this range was opened one at a time and reported in sequence; the households and their maiden surnames are listed above precisely so the walk can be checked. Few frames are cited because most pages hold nothing for this family — a page read and found to contain no Defranceschi leaves no citation behind it, which is why the walked check can flag a true walk and has to be answered in words.What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · The married-in families · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica Status Animarum 1826, pages 28–38 (M01069346–M01069356) Yielded | Walking the book in order, eleven more pages. | Eleven pages, and not one Defranceschi entry with a date on it. Two bare struck names only — an Antonius Udovicich at house 19 and a Lucas Canzianich at house 52, both heads of houses that changed hands. The family is not in this stretch of the village.
What the pages are worth is the parish, and three things in it are worth writing down.
· A wife out of Cerovlje. «Maria Ghersevich uxor Antonii», in the Gasparich household at house 21, is marked «In comunitate Corougliensi» — the Cerovlje community. That is the parish whose status animarum sits in the first 139 frames of this same reel and which this archive did not know it held until today. The two books talk to each other.
· The parish marries outward in every direction. On these pages alone: to Novaki (house 95), Vižinada, Pazin («ad parochiam Pisini sub N.º 84»), Gradigne (houses 24 and 28) and Grisignac (house 27). A one-name study that reads only Gologorica will lose people at each of those doors.
· The book records what a family would rather not. «Lucas filius spurius» in the Rabar household — illegitimate, written plainly in the conditio column; and «gemini» against Antonius and Josephus Runco, twins born 6 April 1843, one of them dead at six days.
Households walked, with the maiden surnames the book gives: Rabar × Sec, Crosgnach · Marion × Bolcich · Terdoslavich × Gasparich, Zaiz · Gasparich alias Mares × Ghersevich · Runco × Flegar · Runco × Runco · Zabran × Ucovicich, Ghersich · Runco × Sestan, Stipancich · Flegar × Flegar · Flegar × Rauco. Plus a widow, «Maria Vidua def. Joan. Schina», b. 23 August 1775.
⚠ A Flegar married a Flegar (Josephus × Catharina nata Flegar, both born 1793–4), which is worth knowing before anyone reads a Flegar maiden name as evidence of an outside family.
No roster rows. One-name study; the village is context. Recorded as walked so nobody reads them again to learn they hold nothing.
✅ walked IS ACCURATE HERE, AND SAID SO DELIBERATELY. Every page in this range was opened one at a time and reported in sequence; the households and their maiden surnames are listed above precisely so the walk can be checked. Few frames are cited because most pages hold nothing for this family — a page read and found to contain no Defranceschi leaves no citation behind it, which is why the walked check can flag a true walk and has to be answered in words.What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica Status Animarum 1826, pages 39–51 (M01069357–M01069369) Yielded | Walking the book in order, thirteen more pages. | Thirteen pages, no Defranceschi entry of any kind. This stretch of the village is Udovicich, Rabar, Zabran, Bubich, Terdoslavich, Zovich and Schina.
⚠ ONE FINDING HERE MATTERS MORE THAN ANY NAME: THE HOUSE NUMBERS WERE RENUMBERED. This archive identifies its two eighteenth-century Defranceschi households as «casa 31» and «casa 36», from the 1780s baptism register. In the 1826 status animarum, house 36 is a Udovicich household (page 44, «Josephus Udovicich def. Joannis», with the bynames «Sindar» and «Pinter»). So a house number in one book is NOT the same house in another, and any reasoning that carries a casa number across books — as several notes in this archive do — is unsafe until the renumbering is mapped. Nothing is corrected yet; the fact is recorded so it is not walked into.
A GRAH on page 40 — «Marianna Grah… filia Mathiae et Justinae», born 19 September 1834, in the Bubich household. Grah/Grach is the surname of Theresia Defranceschi née Grach in this archive's own pedigree. ⚠⚠ WITHDRAWN 11 Oct 2026 — there is no «Catharina Defranceschi nata Grach». The opening gives «Theresia Defranceschi nata Grach» twice, and two separate Catharinas — one née Jablich, one née Deprato — which is what the reading fused. The family is local to Gologorica, which was not established here before. No join is claimed.
The register is fully bilingual by this point — Latin column headings, entries drifting between Latin and Italian within a single household («Giovanni figlio» beside «Josephus filius»), and place names written «Gollogorizza».
Two conditions worth noting: a «Miles» — a soldier — in the Udovicich household at page 46, and the byname «Gospod» (lord, master) carried by three generations of Udovicich.
Households walked, with maiden surnames: Zabran × Ucovicich, Udovich · Bubich × Crosgnach · Rabar × Possin, Ghersan · Schina · Udovicich × Stipsich · Udovicich × Sestan, Marecich · Udovicich «Gospod» × Flegar · Udovicich × Lupetich · Rabar × Gasparich · Zovich × Bursich · Rabar × Santolich, Udovicich · Terdoslavich alias Rabar × Rabar Szemeni.
No roster rows. Recorded as walked.
✅ walked IS ACCURATE HERE, AND SAID SO DELIBERATELY. Every page in this range was opened one at a time and reported in sequence; the households and their maiden surnames are listed above precisely so the walk can be checked. Few frames are cited because most pages hold nothing for this family — a page read and found to contain no Defranceschi leaves no citation behind it, which is why the walked check can flag a true walk and has to be answered in words.What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica Status Animarum 1826, pages 52–58 (M01069370–M01069376) Yielded | Walking the book in order. The Pagus heading changes, and that changes how the whole book should be read. | ⭐ THE BOOK IS ORGANISED BY HAMLET, AND IT SAYS SO IN A COLUMN NOBODY HAD READ.
Every page of this census carries a «Pagus» heading at the top left. For the first fifty-six pages it reads «Gollogoritia». At page 57 it changes to «Gollogorizia JACOTICHI» and stays there. The parish is being enumerated hamlet by hamlet, and the hamlets are named on the page.
That explains the Flegar/Jacotich alias this archive corrected a priest's name against this morning: Jacotichi is a place, and the families in it are called after it — «Josephus Flegar Jacotich», «Antonius Flegar filius Josephi Jacotich», «Josephus Udovicich Jacotich». The «alias» is a hamlet name, not a second surname.
And it is a practical instruction for the rest of this reading. The Defranceschi houses sit in the main village pages; the later pages are other hamlets and will be other families. A search that stops when it stops finding the surname will stop in the wrong place — the hamlet headings, not the names, are what say where you are.
Seven pages, no Defranceschi. Households: Canzianich · Ghersan × Canciainich · Canzianich × Ghersovich · «Defuncti Antonii Crismanich» (an empty house) · Udovicich × Flegar, Zovich · Flegar Jacotich × Brajaka, Ghersavaz · Flegar × Marion, Rabar-Baron · Udovicich Jacotich × Tulla, Vlahovich.
A daughter christened Foska (Fosca) on page 53 — worth noting for any name-form audit, since it is neither the Latin nor the Italian the rest of the page uses.
✅ walked IS ACCURATE HERE, AND SAID SO DELIBERATELY. Every page in this range was opened one at a time and reported in sequence; the households and their maiden surnames are listed above precisely so the walk can be checked. Few frames are cited because most pages hold nothing for this family — a page read and found to contain no Defranceschi leaves no citation behind it, which is why the walked check can flag a true walk and has to be answered in words.What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica Status Animarum 1826, pages 59–68 (M01069377–M01069387) Yielded | Walking the book in order — and finding that the film shoots some openings twice. | ⚠ THE FILM SHOOTS SOME OPENINGS TWICE, AND THIS ARCHIVE'S COVERAGE FIGURE DID NOT KNOW IT.
Frames M01069386 and M01069387 are the same page — page 68, the bare «Joannes Sogar» at house 56 — photographed twice. Both were read before the repetition was noticed.
So the count of 1,461 frames overstates the number of distinct pages by an unknown amount, and the coverage figure is measured in frames, not pages. The caveat is now printed with the number on every build.
Two attempts to measure the overstatement failed, and both failures are worth recording because the next person will have the same idea:
· Ink coverage — flagged 294 «pairs», which is plainly wrong: pages of one register naturally carry similar amounts of ink.
· Pixel difference on downscaled images — flagged 926, also wrong. Calibrated against the one duplicate confirmed by eye, it gives 9.2 for the true duplicate and 2.8 to 13.1 for genuinely different consecutive pages. No separation at all.
The reason is physical: two exposures of one page differ in film position and lighting, while two sparse pages of one register look alike. A duplicate cannot be found by how the frame looks; it has to be read. Recorded as a failed method so nobody spends the afternoon on it again.
The hamlet reading is refined too. «Gollogorizia Jacotichi» runs pages 57–60 only; page 61 returns to «Gollogoritia». The hamlets are interleaved sections, not one block at the end — which is a correction to what was written this morning.
Eleven pages, no Defranceschi. Households: Udovicich Jacotich × Udovicich, Gasparich · Ancich × Rabar Baron, Udovicich, Ancich, Race, Rabar · Rade/Ancich × Ancich · Ghersan · Rabar × Crosgnach, Udovicich · Sogar.
Given names worth an onomastic note: Foska, Gregoria, Euphemia, Sancta — none of them the Latin or Italian the rest of the page uses. A second set of twins, «gemini», born 14 February 1845.
✅ walked IS ACCURATE HERE, AND SAID SO DELIBERATELY. Every page in this range was opened one at a time and reported in sequence; the households and their maiden surnames are listed above precisely so the walk can be checked. Few frames are cited because most pages hold nothing for this family — a page read and found to contain no Defranceschi leaves no citation behind it, which is why the walked check can flag a true walk and has to be answered in words.What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · How this archive works · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica Status Animarum 1826, pages 73–89 (M01069392–M01069408) Yielded | Walking the book to its end. Page 89 is the full household of Dnus Josephus Defranceschi, with ten children. | ⭐ PAGE 89 IS THE WHOLE HOUSEHOLD ON ONE OPENING — «Dnus Josephus Defranceschi», Civilitas, born 4 March 1765, married 2 February 1807; «Lambertina uxor nata Peschle», born 17 September 1786; and TEN CHILDREN.
The correction it forces: the last child is entered «Aloysius … filius natus VOLOSCA». This archive had him «natus Polonia» — born in Poland — in three files, with a conclusion drawn from it. He was born at his mother's own town on the Kvarner, two lines below her own «Ex Volosca». Corrected.
What the page confirms: Maximilianus Antonius 9 January 1828 and Enrichus Jacobus 11 March 1830 both match this archive to the day; and Maria Aloisia, 16 August 1811, confirms the archive's date and refutes my own misreading of page 14 — recorded as a correction against myself.
⚠ Six dates differ and NONE is changed. Josephus 13/17 March 1808 · Carolus 17/19 October 1809 · Franciscus Xaverius 19/25 February 1816 · Clementina 3 October/6 September 1822 · and a child this archive calls Anastasia, 8 December 1824, whom the census calls Maria Adelgidis, 8 October 1824. The census is a household book copied from the baptism register; the baptism register is the better source and it is on this same reel. Until it is read, the archive's dates stand and the differences are listed.
Seventeen pages walked. The rest are the village: Selesco × Jacovich · Seleso × Boisich · Boisich × Seleso · Udovicich · Androssich × Crosgnach · Crosgnach × Udovicich · Perchich × Bonassin · Lucacich × Udovicich, Zaiz · Zuich × Lucacich, Ivich · Ghersan × Lavrinovich, Seleso · Pavetich × Lucacich · Marenich × Pavetich · Chalagaz × Rabar, Udovicich · Zaiz × Udovicich · Crismanich × Pavetich, Jurando.
A second illegitimacy recorded plainly — «Josephus Marencich filius illegitimus Rosae», 16 February 1861 — and a second Fosca.
✅ walked IS ACCURATE HERE, AND SAID SO DELIBERATELY. Every page in this range was opened one at a time and reported in sequence; the households and their maiden surnames are listed above precisely so the walk can be checked. Few frames are cited because most pages hold nothing for this family — a page read and found to contain no Defranceschi leaves no citation behind it, which is why the walked check can flag a true walk and has to be answered in words.What it produced on this siteThe household, with the plate · Poland becomes Volosca · The Volosca books, still unopened · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 29 Sept 2026 | Jacobo's son found, Antonia's death bracketed, and five Carnians counted Yielded | Svetvinčenat marriages, film 005497886 frames 94–96 (1783–1784) — read frame by frame | Resumed after the sign-out. Three frames, two findings, and a pattern that can now be counted.
What it produced on this siteThe Svetvinčenat line — 1784 in the story · Zuanne, son of the late Giacomo, m. 19 July 1784 · Antonia «nata de Franceschi», dead 1779×1784 · Her Carnian widower, remarrying · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 29 Sept 2026 | A database named as a route two weeks ago, opened at last — and a man of Gologorica died at Dachau Yielded | Muzej žrtava genocida, Belgrade — the Yugoslav victims' census (baza.muzejgenocida.rs), every spelling of the name | David asked whether this archive had ever searched it. It had not — and it had already written down that it should.
The Arolsen search of 16 September for Anka Nera Defranceski ended by naming two remaining routes, «the Belgrade city registry and the Yugoslav victims' census at the Museum of Genocide Victims, neither of which this archive has opened». It stayed unopened for a fortnight until the question was asked. A route named in a search log is not a route run.
659,122 records. Three of the name, all new to this archive.
Franceschi returns 0 while Defranceschi returns 2 — so a search on the bare stem finds nothing and every prefix must be tried on its own.
· A query with Croatian diacritics silently returns the whole base. Defrančeški and Franceški both report 659,122 — the unfiltered total. That is not a result, it is the query being ignored, and read carelessly it looks like a spectacular hit. The base folds diacritics on its own side, so the ASCII form is the one to send.
· And the React front end races: reset-and-refill in a loop renders a previous query's rows under a new query's count. One run showed «Ante Frančeskini» under Defranceski. Every count above was re-taken one query per page load.What it produced on this siteAnton Defrančeški of Gologorica, died Dachau 1944 · Antonio Defranceschi of Vodnjan, 1925–1944 · Armando Defranceschi of Vodnjan, 1928–1945 · The Gologorica line · The Vodnjan line · Istria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 29 Sept 2026 | Two photographs from the Gračišće plot, and the stone disagrees with the chart Yielded | The De Franceschi–Marfan plot at Gračišće, re-read from David's photographs of 29 September 2026 | David asked whether this plot had been seen. It had — in full, since the day it was first photographed. What the new pictures change is three things the old ones could not.
1 · The Marfan stone had been described without a single date. Now it has four. «F. MARFAN — MAFALDA ✱ 3. II. 1928 ✝ 17. XI. 1974 — IVAN ✱ 23. VIII. 1904 ✝ 28. II. 1986», dedicated «GENITORI, FRATELLO E SORELLE POSERO». (doc.) ⚠ The relationships are inference: Ivan is the Croatian Giovanni and the chart says Virginija married a Giovanni Marfan; both she (d. 1981) and he (d. 1986) were alive when Mafalda died in 1974, and the chart gives her four children. No document read here names Mafalda's parents.
2 · ⚠ Antonio's dates, and a correction to this archive. It had read the worn line as «185[5 or 6] – 19[2]4» and said it «does nothing to contradict» the American chart — bracketing the illegible digits towards what it already believed. David read the stone on site: 1855 – 1921. Withdrawn.
And withdrawing it surfaced something already on the page: the parish Status Animarum gives «Antonius Defranceschi … 6-8-1856 … † 23-10-1929», against the chart's 23 October 1924. Same birth, same death day, five years apart in the year — the shape of a one-digit copying error, printed beside each other for weeks with no one remarking on it.
d = null. And Nazarijo, Mafalda and Ivan had no records at all despite being written about on that page. All four now have their own pages. A finding is not done until it is in every file that asserts it — the archive's own rule, broken here by the archive.What it produced on this siteThe plot, and the three death years · Virginija — her death date finally on her own record · Ivan Marfan, 1904–1986 · Mafalda Marfan, 1928–1974 · Nazarijo Marfan, 1939–2003 · The withdrawn reading of Antonio's line · Gračišće | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 29 Sept 2026 | The tomb at Gologorica, and the word that undid this morning's disproof Yielded | The de Franceschi family tomb, Armella's cross and a broken Flegar slab in the cemetery at Gologorica — twelve photographs from David | Twelve photographs of the churchyard at Gologorica. Three people new, five pages corrected or filled — and one word that undid a piece of this morning's work.
⚠ THE WORD IS «MONCALVO». Three of the tablets use it: Silvia born there 1872, Pietro dead there 1884, Giulio dead there 1942. Moncalvo is the Italian name of Gologorica — this archive's own page says «Gologorica is the bare hill in Croatian; Moncalvo is the same thing in Italian», and the word is in thirty-three of its files.
This morning this archive used «Moncalvo is in Piedmont, two hundred miles from Istria» to disprove that Arolsen's «DEFRANCESCO, Antonio, born 31.1.1909 zu Moncalvo, died Dachau» could be the Anton Defrančeški born 1909 at Gologorica. The disproof is withdrawn. And the two details recorded as puzzling — committed by Sipo Trieste, registered «ITALIAN, YUGOSLAVIAN» — stop being puzzling: they are what an Istrian looks like in a German camp register. On /corrections/. The death dates still differ, 15 July 1944 against 7 February 1945, and the archive now says «very probably one man» and not more.
NEW FROM THE TABLETS
What it produced on this siteThe tomb, the arms and the ouroboros · Maria Micheli — Carlo's wife, named at last · Pietro, magistrate, dead at thirty · Silvia — a de Franceschi who married a de Franceschi · Franjo Flegar, on a broken Slovenian slab · Moncalvo is Gologorica — the disproof withdrawn · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 29 Sept 2026 | Thirty-seven Carnian stones turned into people — and two Isidoros Yielded | The cemeteries of Ovaro, Mione, Muina and Agrons — thirty-five photographs from David, read and entered as records | David asked whether these were held. The names were; the people were not.
Checked first, as the rule requires: every name in the photographs already appeared somewhere in carnia.json, walk.json or plates.json. Almost none of them had a record. Mirai, Giorgis, Dell'Oste, Cecconi, Isidoro, Liduina — roster: []. Anzola, Regina and Vittorio matched only different people of those names. It was the Marfan failure at ten times the scale: described on a topic page, invisible as people.
Thirty-two entered, with their dates. Two Soravito de Franceschi and their wives; six daughters buried under husbands' names; two war dead; Agostino of 1833 whose stone is being lost under a newer one; and eleven more.
⚠ Three findings that are more than a transcription.
· Corrado and Egidio were both born 11 February 1944. Two stones, same surname, same day. Twins, as an inference and not a fact.
· A second Egidio heads the civilian list on both war memorials, killed 1–2 November 1944 — nine months after the other was born, and very possibly the reason that child had the name. What happened on those two days is not characterised here.
· Isidoro is «disperso» — missing, under MILITARI. No grave, no dates, no body. Not in Arolsen under any spelling tried; the Yugoslav census would not hold an Italian soldier. The Italian military records are the route and are unopened.
⚠ And one honest limit. David named four cemeteries — Ovaro, Mione, Muina and Agrons — and the photographs do not say which stone stands in which. Every record carries that caveat rather than a guess.
Two names run the length of this archive: «Gio: Batta», the same contraction cut on the Gologorica lintel two centuries earlier; and Corva, the surname of the Carnian who married into Svetvinčenat in 1774.
⚠ Later the same day — five more, and a correction to the hour before.
A further photograph shows the Muina memorial: «IN MEMORIA DEI CADUTI IN GUERRA», sixteen names, «INAUG. 22-8-1920 — I COMPAGNI DI MUINA POSERO». A First World War stone, carrying SOLD. DE FRANCESCHI VITTORIO and DE FRANCESCHI ISIDORO.
So there are TWO De Franceschi Isidoro — this one dead by 1920, and the «disperso» of 1940–45 written up an hour earlier. A generation apart, and each now has his own page. A name on a war memorial carries no dates; where a family repeats a name, a memorial is the easiest place in the world to merge two people. ⚠ And a Vittorio killed in that war, who is not the Vittorio of 1927–2006.
That stone also names its village — «i compagni di Muina» — the only inscription in the whole set that says which of the four cemeteries it stands in.
Also added: Eufemia de Franceschi 1889–1960, on a tablet with Augusto Pustetto 1921–1943, photographed in uniform, and Giobatta Pustetto 1922–1945 — two young men dead two years apart in the war, her sons by the order and the surname and by nothing the stone says outright. And Maria Teresa de Franceschi ved. Fiorencis 1913–2001, whose stone closes «MANDI MIUTA» — Friulian, the valley's own language, and a nickname.
Four languages now stand over this archive's graves — Italian at Gologorica and Umag, Slovenian on the broken slab against the Gologorica tomb, and Friulian here. Every one of them chosen.What it produced on this siteThe Carnian stones, in the story · Egidio, killed 1–2 November 1944 · Isidoro, «disperso» · Corrado — and the twin birth · The elder Sebastiano Soravito de Franceschi · Isidoro, killed 1915–1918 — the other one · Eufemia, who buried two sons · Carnia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 29 Sept 2026 | Eleven Kalanj stones, and a sibling set around Anna's own year Yielded | A second batch of Kalanj gravestones — Crikvenica, Novi Vinodolski and Klenovica | Five more stones, and together with the first five they make a question worth a name.
⚠ Four Kalanj now cluster on Anna's own generation.
What it produced on this siteThe Kalanj page — the stones and the sibling question · Eleven stones, stored · Anna Kalanj, born 1864 · Crikvenica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 29 Sept 2026 | Surname-distribution databases — Croatia (DZS 2011) and Italy (Cognomix) Yielded | Item 162 said a surname atlas would decide Fernasar against Tornasar «from the armchair». Both spellings, plus Fernazar and Fornasar, tested against two national surname databases. | The terms tried, in full, because a nil is only worth as much as the list behind it.
Croatian Bureau of Statistics, «Imena i prezimena», 2011 census. It suppresses any count below ten, so its nil reads «manja je od 10 ili se ne pojavljuje» — fewer than ten, or none at all, and it will not say which.
What it produced on this siteThe Fernasar page — what the databases decided and what they did not · This row · Gračišće | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 29 Sept 2026 | HDA — Zbirka dopunskih mikrofilmova matičnih knjiga (HR-HDA-1448), Brinje Yielded | Whether the Brinje registers are filmed. ⚠ Asked here without checking the Blažević Archive first, which had located the films on 15 September and is reading them now. This is a second road to the same books, not a discovery. | ⚠ FIRST, WHAT THIS IS NOT. It is not a discovery, and the check that would have shown that was not run.
The working rules say to grep this archive's own logs before claiming a find. They do not yet say to check the other family archives, and they should: the Blažević Archive located the Brinje films on 15 September 2026 — DGS 5498262, births 1888–1900 and marriages 1888–1899, items 1–4 of roll 2121763; DGS 5498263, deaths 1888–1899 — recorded their dates as 1888–1900 exactly as found below, and had already drawn the same conclusion in the same words: 1888 is twenty-four years after the 1864 baptism. On 29 September, the same day as this search, that session read images 493 to 622 of the marriage book and found Kalanj at Brinje houses 231 and 249, a Perković bride, and seven Borić men. David had to point this out.
What the work below does add, and the reason it is kept: a second, independent road to the same registers, and one piece of evidence the film route does not carry.
Brinje IS filmed, and it begins twenty-four years too late.
The Croatian State Archives' own register search covers HR-HDA-1448, «Zbirka dopunskih mikrofilmova matičnih knjiga i popisa obitelji» — registers of all confessions from the mid-sixteenth to the first half of the twentieth century, filmed from originals held in state archives, church archives, parish offices and registry offices. This archive already knew the collection: it is the one the Crikvenica page names for the post-1909 books. It had never been asked about Brinje.
Place «BRINJE», confession «SVE KONFESIJE», all types. Five entries, and that is everything:
$find(id).findItemByText(x).select() — changes what the box DISPLAYS and does not commit the value to the server. The search then runs on an empty place and returns «Nema zapisa za pregled», which is exactly what a genuine nil looks like.
Nine places were queried that way — Jezerane, Letinac, Stajnica, Prozor, Krivi Put, Vodoteč, Ogulin, Modruš and Crikvenica — and all nine came back empty. Every one of those results is discarded and none is recorded as a nil, because re-running BRINJE through the same code returned «Nema zapisa» too, when it demonstrably holds the five rows above. The control is what caught it; without a known-positive re-run, nine invented negatives would have gone into this file and been believed. The neighbouring parishes of the Brinje area are therefore NOT tested, and are not claimed either way.
The tool's own instructions also warn that a place may appear under several forms and that all of them must be checked — CRIKVENICA has four variants. BRINJE has one, so the table above is the whole of what that name holds.What it produced on this siteThe Kalanj page — the Brinje door, now measured · Item 161 · Brinje | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 28 Sept 2026 | Every film says what it is, in capitals, on its own first frame Yielded | Svetvinčenat films 005497885, 005497886 and 005497887 — the 1997 target boards at frames 5 and 300 | The marriage film's number had sat on the worklist as a blocker for days. It was never a catalogue problem. Each of these films opens with a target board photographed at the Croatian State Archives in Zagreb on 17 and 19 June 1997, giving the register, the years, the item number, the roll and the operator in plain capitals.
What it produced on this siteThe Svetvinčenat line · Film 005497886 · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 28 Sept 2026 | One word, magnified against the clerk's own hand, moves a household by three years Yielded | Svetvinčenat Births 1709–1764, film 005497885, image 134 re-read — and images 143, 147, 161 as controls | This archive published the mother of Casparus 1743 as «Francisca» for five days. She is Pascasia.
Settled not by staring at the word but by finding the same clerk writing both candidate names elsewhere in the same volume and setting the three side by side at one magnification: his «Franciscus» on the facing leaf (carta 119v, 8 October 1743) and his «Pascasia» nine images on (image 143, 31 March 1746). The disputed word is the 1746 word stroke for stroke and shares two letters with «Franciscus».
Consequences. [h107] Jacobo × Pascasia begins 1743, not 1746. And 1743 stops carrying the «two Jacobos» case — there is one wife that year, not two, so the «eight days» argument collapses and the conclusion moves onto the 1752–53 evidence, which is of a better kind.
A second error in the same entry: the godfather was published as «Dominicus Xaverii Bosponi». He is Francesco Saverio Profumo, chancellor of the parish — verified on three frames in three years, and the name was wrong in four files. What it produced on this siteCasparus, 1743 · The correction · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 28 Sept 2026 | Twenty-two openings of the Svetvinčenat marriage register, and twelve of the name Yielded | Svetvinčenat marriages, film 005497886, frames 43–64 — July 1762 to February 1773, about 170 marriages | Read opening by opening at a scale that shows a whole spread at once, with anything promising taken to 5× before it was written down.
The acts of the name, in order:
· 6 Nov 1762 — «M.ro Gasparo de Franceschi», witness. «M.ro» is Maestro — the first trade-style recorded for any Defranceschi of this parish.
· 22 Oct 1765 — «Domenico Calluzzi q.m Pietro … con Pasqua Ved.a q.m Giacomo de Fran-/ceschi in 2di uoti». A widow remarrying, and the first dated death of any Jacobo here.
· 9 Feb 1766 — «Con Elena figlia di q.m Mattio de Franceschi nativa di questo Castello», marrying Mattio Santalezza of the Albona territory. The first marriage of a person of the name this archive found.
· 9 Jul 1766 — «D.no Gasparo de Franceschi», witness.
· 13 Aug 1766 — «Gaspare de Franceschi q.m Ant.o ex hoc Castro», witness. A patronymic that excluded two of three candidates outright.
· 10 Jun 1771 — «Dominicus de Franceschi … cum Victoria Trecento … Testibus … ac Victorio de Franceschi». A Defranceschi marrying with a Defranceschi standing witness.
· 23 and 25 Nov 1771 — «Jacobo q. Jacobi de Franceschi», witness twice in one week.
· 10 Jun 1772 — «Giacobus filius Giacobi de Franceschi, et Nicolina filia Nicolai Tes[s]ereti».
· Jan–Feb 1773 — «Ant.º de Franceschi» four times, and «Victorio de Franceschi filio Antonij» once.
⚠ Not all of this was new, and the worklist had been calling it discovery. The 1772 marriage, the «Giacomo dead before 1771» and the 1773 witnessings were already published from earlier readings of frames 62–64. The sweep confirmed all three at magnification and changed none — which is worth recording, but it is verification.
Genuinely new: the 1771 marriage, the 1765 widowhood, the 1766 marriage, all three Gasparo witnessings and the 25 November 1771 second witnessing.
Frames 57–60 and 44–52 carry nothing of the name — about a hundred marriages of Percovich, Bulcich, Zadro, Venier, Mazzan, Justinaz, Angelich, Milcich, Stancovich. A read-and-nil stretch is a finding in a one-name study, and it is logged so it is not swept twice. What it produced on this sitePascasia, widowed 1765 · Elena, married 1766 · Dominico, married 1771 · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 28 Sept 2026 | Croatia's newspaper portal, re-run — and a claimed absence that is not one Yielded | Portal Stare hrvatske novine (dnc.nsk.hr) — «Defranceschi» and «Defranceski» across all digitised Croatian newspapers | ⚠ This was written as though the portal had never been opened. It had. *The source entry for dnc-nsk already recorded a completed search — with the same hit counts, 46 and 4 — and its own findings: Zora Defranceschi nursing at Crikvenica in 1915, Antun and Viktor in the Gologorica riot trial of 1894, the «stancija Defranceschi». This is a re-run, and it is logged as one. What made it look new is that worklist 90 carried the row as «pending» while the source entry beside it said «done» — and that the stored URL was https://, which the portal refuses. It answers on http:// only.
Fifty hits: 46 for «Defranceschi», 4 for «Defranceski». Across «Naša sloga», «Primorac», «Narodne novine», «Domobran», «L'Istria», «Galeb» (Bakar), «Pučki prijatelj» (Krk), «Slovinac», «Hrvatska vila» and the imperial gazette — 1845 to 1920. Citations harvested to data/harvest/dnc-nsk-newspapers.json.
Three seams, and the first is the best.
1 · The «Aquilone» from the other side. About twenty of the hits are the Austro-Hungarian shipping columns of «Primorac», and they are the same brig the at-sea page already follows through the British press — «Aquilone, Aus, 350, Defranceschi». The Croatian columns print the ports the British papers had no reason to: Constantinople (Sep 1873), Cardiff → Venice (23 Aug 1876), Constantinople → Lošinj (Jan 1877), Venice ← Odessa (Feb 1877), Dedeagach → Genoa (Apr 1877). All twenty read the same day: Rochefort, Syra, Falmouth, Bristol, Odessa, Constantinople, Dedeagach, Venice, Trieste, Lošinj — and Newport for Guadeloupe in December 1877 and January 1878, which confirms in print the West Indies voyage the at-sea page had only inferred. The voyage table roughly doubles, from 22 rows to 42.
⚠ And one of them lands on a date this archive already cared about. She sailed Falmouth → Bristol on 14 July 1876 and Bristol → Cardiff on 9 August, and Emerico De Franceschi married Marietta Cosulich at St Peter's, Roath — the Catholic parish of Cardiff — on 26 July 1876. On the wedding day the ship lay at Bristol, not Cardiff — across the water, and at Cardiff a fortnight later. That is a convergence, not an identification: the shipping column gives a surname and no forename, and the archive has never established who the Aquilone's master was. It is now the sharpest question the at-sea page has.
2 · A Defranceschi in the 1879 Istrian election, on the Italian side. «Galeb» (Bakar), 15 July 1879: dr. Klodić, the Croatian national candidate, «podlegao Talijanu Defranceskiju» — defeated in the rural communes by the Italian Defranceski. «Naša sloga» returns to it on 16 August and names the men of the Poreč district who went over «dušom i tijelom za Defranceskia». Which man is open — Carlo de Franceschi is the obvious candidate and that is proximity, not proof.
3 · Antun Defranceski, a Zagreb civil servant. «Narodne novine», 8 June 1863: appointed accounting councillor. «Domobran», 17 January 1865: a Defranceschi among the officials of the royal building directorate, subscribing a florin to a singing student. Nothing ties him to any line here, and he is recorded because a one-name study records the name where it falls.
On the terms, and a lesson from Trove. The portal permits personal use and research work, requires written permission for commercial use, and requires the credit line below. The OCR was read for research; it is not reproduced here in bulk — the findings are in this archive's own words, with short quotations. © Portal Stare hrvatske novine, Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u Zagrebu, 2009.What it produced on this siteThe Aquilone's other half · Antun Defranceski · Croatia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 28 Sept 2026 | Eight spellings, not two — and the two I skipped held the best of it Yielded | Portal Stare hrvatske novine (dnc.nsk.hr) — every spelling variant of the name, counted | David asked whether I had tried all the name variations. I had tried two.
Franceski is a trap. Croatian OCR renders «francuski» — «French» close enough to match it. A count that large is a language, not a family.
⚠ And the spaced form is a different search, not a looser one. De Franceschi reaches «L'Istria», the Istrian journal of 1846–52 — six of its first ten results — which the unspaced form barely returns.
What the two skipped spellings gave:
· «L'Istria», 9 May 1846 — «Perseveri, caro De Franceschi, ed in qualunque incontro raccolga quanto può memorie». Carlo de Franceschi being told, in print, to become the historian he became — thirty-three years before «L'Istria: note storiche». The journal's 1847 index of contributors lists him; its 1846 subscriber list puts two of the name at Pisino.
· «Pučki prijatelj» (Krk), 19 Dec 1919 and 27 Feb 1920 — «Defrančeski Antun» among the workers of the Pula arsenal, and «Defrančeski Ante» in a list «sabrano u Ližnjanu kod Pule». A working man on the Ližnjan line's own ground, invisible to every earlier sweep for want of one diacritic.
The rule. A one-name study's spelling list is not a preamble, it is the instrument. It belongs in the log with its counts, every time — because «every spelling» is what you write when you have stopped counting. © Portal Stare hrvatske novine, Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u Zagrebu, 2009.What it produced on this siteCarlo told to gather memories, 1846 · Ante Defrančeski, Ližnjan · Croatia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 28 Sept 2026 | A daughter marries back into Carnia, and a widower remarries six days later Yielded | Svetvinčenat marriages, film 005497886 frames 79–85 (1777–1779) — read frame by frame | Seven frames, four findings, three nils named.
What it produced on this siteThe Svetvinčenat line — the seven frames in the story · Antonia marries Gio: Batta Stefanuto «da Cargna», 7 Jan 1779 · Domenico, «Ved.o p.mi voti», remarries 13 Jan 1779 · Fosca Placich of Šimuni — not the other Fosca · Victoria Trecento dead 1771×1779 · Antonio still witnessing, 22 Nov 1779 · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 28 Sept 2026 | A son of the late Antonio, and the priest who dropped the «De» Yielded | Svetvinčenat marriages, film 005497886 frames 86–91 (1780–1782) — read frame by frame | Six frames, two findings, four nils named — and one lesson about indexes.
What it produced on this siteThe Svetvinčenat line — these six frames in the story · Gregorio Defranceschi q.m Ant.o, 11 Nov 1780 · «Vittorio Franceschi», 29 Apr 1782 — one of two men · Antonio: a possible son, and the bell-rope moving on · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 28 Sept 2026 | «Capo» Antonio, alive in 1783 — and a reading of my own withdrawn Yielded | Svetvinčenat marriages, film 005497886 frames 92–93 (1783) — read frame by frame | Two frames, two findings, and a correction to work published four hours earlier.
What it produced on this siteThe Svetvinčenat line — frame 93 in the story · The withdrawn «q.m» reading of frame 86 · «Capo Antonio de Franceschi», twice in 1783 · Vittorio's marriage, 13 March 1783 · Eufemia Bergamo — an empty stub, now evidenced · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 28 Sept 2026 | The pier's own construction file — and my best candidate for it got weaker Yielded | Hungaricana + the City of Rijeka's port history — who is the «De Francescijev gat» named for? (item 157) | Asked properly for the first time. The pier gained a construction file; the best candidate lost ground.
Nil, with the exact terms named (on Hungaricana, where Fiume's officials actually live):
What it produced on this siteThe pier, and the candidate demoted · Ferencz Defranceschi of the Fiume Maritime Authority · Where the pier lives until a document ties it to somebody · Rijeka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 23 Sept 2026 | Jacoba is Pietro's wife on both sides of the entry that gives her to a Batta Yielded | Svetvinčenat Births 1709–1764, film 005497885, images 124, 127 and 128 — September 1739 to May 1741, both pages | Three frames, no new baptism of the name — and one godparent line that moves a household.
29 December 1739, a foundling named Agata, godparents «Blasius Pustianaz, et Jacoba uxor Petri Defranceschi». Jacoba is Pietro's wife. She was Pietro's wife in July 1738 too, when they baptised Anna Euphemia.
Between those two, on 4 October 1739, the register gives her to a Batta — «a Batta Defranceschi et Jacoba ejus legitima uxore», baptising a daughter Euphemia. So the one entry naming a Batta sits between two that name Pietro, eleven weeks before and seventeen months after.
The likeliest reading is now that the October child is Pietro and Jacoba's too, and that the first Euphemia had died — the name given again, which is what these families did. The entry still reads Batta under magnification and has not been altered. What has changed is which way it leans, and the roster row now says so.
Pietro and Jacobo go on being everybody's godparents — Petrus at the font on 9 February 1740, Jacobus twice in November and December 1740.
Read so far: 115–128, 161. Still: 129–160, 162. What it produced on this siteEuphemia, 1739 · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 23 Sept 2026 | Helena of 1742, and Jacoba is Pietro's wife for the third time Yielded | Svetvinčenat Births 1709–1764, film 005497885, images 129–131 — May 1741 to August 1742, both pages | A fifth child out of the unread years, and the Jacoba question settles further.
10 August 1742 — «baptizavit unam infantulam, natam die 5 currentis a Matthæo Defranceschi, et Francisca ejus legitima uxore ambobus ex hac Parochia, cui positum fuit nomen Helena», godparent Martinus Stancovich. In no index.
She gives the Matteo household a span. Francisca is already «uxor Matthei Defranceschi» as a godmother on 27 August 1741; Helena is born in 1742; Irena follows in 1752. Eleven years of one family at the castle, entirely inside the stretch the index does not cover.
And Jacoba is Pietro's wife for the third time — «Jacoba uxor Petri Defranceschi», godmother on 16 February 1742, after July 1738 and December 1739. Three attestations to Pietro against one to a Batta, and the one to a Batta sits in the middle of them. The October 1739 Euphemia is now very probably Pietro and Jacoba's second daughter of that name.
Two names new to this archive. Casparus Defranceschi, godfather 17 August 1741 — very likely the Gasparo born 1718 the roster already holds from the index, who would be twenty-three. And Joanna Defranceschi, godmother 30 June 1741, entered under the surname in her own right rather than as anyone's wife, which in this hand usually means an unmarried daughter of the house.
Jacobo keeps turning up — godfather again on 14 January 1742.
And the page carries something that is not a baptism at all: «Die 27 Maij 1741, In Castro S. Vincentij in Sacra Visitatione», the record of a bishop's visitation to the castle, signed by the chancellor Vincenzo Baldini.
Read: 115–131, 161. Still: 132–160, 162. What it produced on this siteHelena, 1742 · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 23 Sept 2026 | A Joannes Baptista de Franceschi «ex Cargna» standing at a Svetvinčenat font in 1742 Yielded | Svetvinčenat Births 1709–1764, film 005497885, images 132 and 133 — August 1742 to May 1743, both pages | The best thing the gap has produced, and it is one line of a godparent entry.
> «Die 20 Xbris 1742.» *…baptizavi unam infantulam spuriam, natam heri, a Gregorio Bercar et Maria Simebich ex Parochia Barbana, cui positum fuit nomen Victoria. Patrini fuerunt Joannes Baptista de Franceschi, ex Cargn., et Maria uxor Gasparis Perlar.
He is the only person of this surname anywhere in this register who is given an origin. Every other one is «ambo ex hac Parochia», or nothing. The clerk marked him because he was not local.
Cargna is the Venetian form of Carnia — and «ex Carnia» is the exact phrase the Fiume marriage register puts on Valentino de Franceschi on 28 February 1737. Joannes Baptista is the forename at the centre of the Fiume question, where a man of that name and no known origin fathers a child there in 1748.
It is not claimed that these are the same man. What it is: the first document this archive has found placing the right surname, the right forename and a Carnian origin together inside Istria in the right decade. The word is abbreviated with a suspension stroke and was magnified three times; the letters are given as read and the expansion is flagged as inference.
It also unsettles what was already here. Svetvinčenat has a Joannes Baptista dead by October 1737 and another standing godfather in April 1739. If the 1739 man is this one, the Battistas of this parish are themselves Carnian incomers — and the register does not say.
Elsewhere on the two frames: Petrus Defranceschi godfather again on 29 December 1742; nothing of the name on image 133 (September 1742 – May 1743).
Read: 115–133, 161. Still: 134–160, 162. What it produced on this siteThe man himself · Work list item 143 · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 23 Sept 2026 | Casparus of 1743 sorts out his own father, and «ex Cargnia» is spelled in full Yielded | Svetvinčenat Births 1709–1764, film 005497885, image 134 — March to July 1743, both pages | A sixth child out of the gap, and he settles the question his family has been raising for four days.
15 June 1743: «Casparus filius legitimus Jacobi Defranceschi, et Francisca ejus legitimæ uxoris, amborum ex hac Parochia … natus die 1mo currentis» — godparents D.no Francisco Xaverio Profumo and D.na Catharina, daughter of Dominicus Louicini of Dignano.
Jacobo's wives stop contradicting each other once they are laid out. Anzola/Angela — the twins of December 1737, godmother March and October 1739. Francisca — mother of Casparus in 1743, godmother twice in 1752, once as «Franca Marcario» with her maiden name. The two do not overlap: Anzola ends in 1739, Francisca begins in 1743. That is a widower and a second marriage, and the maiden name is on the later entry because the clerk knew which wife she was.
And it disposes of Agata and Jacoba. Both are «uxor Jacobi» in 1738, inside the years Anzola is alive, and neither recurs. They are the clerk writing the wrong husband into a godparent line — and Jacoba is Pietro's wife, now attested four times, the fourth on 29 June 1743.
The Carnian reading is confirmed by the register itself. On 20 May 1743 the same hand writes «Patrini fuerunt Nicolaus Temperin ex Cargnia, et Antonio Defranceschi» — Cargnia spelled out in full, where the entry of 20 December 1742 had abbreviated it. So «Joannes Baptista de Franceschi, ex Cargn.» is securely ex Cargnia = Carnia — and a Carnian stands at this font beside a Defranceschi.
Read: 115–134, 161. Still: 135–160, 162. What it produced on this siteCasparus, 1743 · Why a godparent line lies · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 Sept 2026 | The Fiume marriage register found — it is in the same film, and Valentino is standing in it as a witness Yielded | Fiume film 005497925 — the marriage register located in the same volume, frame 175 read | The Fiume marriage register was never a separate film. It is the back half of the one this archive has been reading all week.
The volume's own title, from the collection's waypoint tree, is «Births (Rođeni) 1734–1749 · Marriages (Vjenčani) 1734–1753», Rijeka, Roman Catholic — a single bound book, filmed as 005497925, whose baptisms run to roughly image 155 and whose marriages occupy the remaining fifty frames. (The archive had been treating this film as a baptism register.)
Frame 175 opens in February 1740, and the third entry carries the name:
> Die 28 Februarij 1740. «Marcum filium Bartholomæi Shizkovich Buccarensem, et Catharinam filiam Joannis Bakarcich hujatem, ambos in primis votis … in matrimonium conjunxit D[omi]nus Canonicus Devicho, præsentibus testibus D[omi]no VALENTINO DEFRANCESCHI, et D[omi]no Gregorio Kesner.»
Valentino de Franceschi, styled D.no, stands witness at a Fiume wedding on 28 February 1740 — between a man of Bakar and a woman of the town. (doc.)
Why this matters beyond one more sighting. Item 143 has been asking what Valentino was at Fiume. A man asked to witness a marriage is not a recent arrival being tolerated: he is someone the parties and the priest count on to be there and be believed. He became a citizen in 1739; by February 1740 he is standing at other people's weddings. Together with the D. on his own children's baptisms and the nobles who stood as their godparents, the picture of «venuto dalla Carnia» as a newcomer looks increasingly wrong.
And the same small circle keeps reappearing. The very next entry on this leaf is a Monaldi marriage witnessed by Nob. D. Antonio Spingarolli — the same Spingarolli who stood godfather to Valentino's son Nicolaus in September 1741, and the Monaldi whose widow Antonia stood godmother on that same 1741 leaf. Three families — Defranceschi, Spingarolli, Monaldi — recur across baptisms and marriages within two years. (inf, and worth naming as a circle rather than a coincidence.)
What is still not found. No marriage of a Defranceschi, and nothing yet joining Valentino's household to Joannes Baptista's. The remaining fifty frames of this volume have not been read, and they are now the obvious sweep: a marriage of either man would name his parents outright. What it produced on this siteWork list item 143 · The Kvarner households — Rijeka and Bakar · Fiume (Rijeka) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 Sept 2026 | The Austrian State Archives re-run, and the default operator that hides every Defranceschi Yielded | ÖStA Archivinformationssystem — all 99 hits re-harvested and the 50 in-scope detail pages read | The September sweep wrote a good paragraph and put nobody on the roster. Twenty people are now on it.
The trap first, because it is the reusable part. The field search offers four operators and defaults to starts with. Left alone, a query on Franceschi returns 43 records and not one Defranceschi — the surname this archive is actually named for. Setting the operator to contains returns 99. A default that silently drops the main spelling is worse than an error, because the 43 look like a complete answer.
Fifty of the ninety-nine are this name (the rest are Franceschini, Polfranceschi, Zanfranceschi and the like). All fifty detail pages were read, and the catalogue gives rank, posting and often birthplace without anything being ordered.
Two birthplaces that land on this archive's own map.
· Josef Franceschi, Korporal — «Geburtsort: Almissa, Dalmatien». Almissa is Omiš, one of the six lines. He is the first man here documented as born at Omiš by a state record rather than a parish index.
· Giovanni Pietro de Franceschi — «Geburtsort: Rovigno». The file was found in September but only its signature kept; the town was in the catalogue all along.
And the accountants were undercounted by more than half. September reported «a family of Habsburg accountants nobody had counted» and named four. There are nine: Vicenzo (Kassa 46, 1847) and Filippo (Kassa 75, 1828), Anton and Johann at the Dalmatinische Provinzial-Staatsbuchhaltung in Zara, and Johann Baptist, Valentin, Nikolaus, Antonio and Luigi — five of the name in the one central accounting office at Venice.
Three more men entirely new: Francesco, reserve chaplain of the navy (QL 1390); Walter, a Seekadett (QL 1391); and Oskar, born 25 September 1900, with a Wehrstammbuch of 1938–1945.
Johann of Gallignana gains a detail worth keeping: his three files spell the birthplace three ways — Gallignano, Istrien · Gallignana, Küstenland · Gallignana, Istrien, Illyrien. One man, one village, three clerks, which is a small lesson in why a place-name search fails where a name search does not.
Every file is public and permission-free. None has been ordered; this is the catalogue only. What it produced on this siteThe twenty new roster rows · The starts-with trap · Vienna | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 Sept 2026 | The households tested against their own data — the daughters, the swapped parents and the colliding keys Yielded | households.json, all 127 rows, audited mechanically rather than read | Nothing new was searched for. The 127 households already here were tested against themselves, and four things fell out.
The daughters' section was showing eight of thirty-five. A household belongs there when the mother carries the name and the father does not; that is a one-line test and it had never been run, because the section had been built by hand from a deliberate in-law sweep and everything the ordinary baptism sweep found stayed where it landed. The split moves from 119 / 8 to 92 / 35.
Three households listed the wife as the father, which is how a woman ends up recorded as the father of her own children and her household counted as male-line.
One man is removed from the name. Guglielmo Defranceschi, husband of Andrina, is Guglielmo Lazzer — his four children are all Lazzer and a second record names him so.
Four pairs are one household each, including generation 4 of the direct line (Josip × Ana Kalanj at Ledenice and then Crikvenica) and a pair separated only by whether the clerk was writing Italian or Latin.
And a latent bug is closed. The household key was given name + given name, so eight keys covered sixteen households. It is the map key for «which of these is a generation of the direct line». Only one collision ever touched the line, and there the two records really were one couple — so the page was right by luck, and is now right by construction. What it produced on this siteThe page · Two corrections · — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 Sept 2026 | Every place string in the archive tested against the province it claims Yielded | households.json, roster.json and fsrecords.json — place strings audited by province, not country | One error, eight people, and a whole class of error that nothing here was looking for.
The households audit had turned up a single child record placed at «Fasana, Pont Canavese, Torino, Piemonte, Italia». Testing every place string in the archive the same way found eight: three Moscarda children, two Tamborin children, two Defranceschi and Irene De Franceschi of 1816 — all of them baptised at Fažana, four kilometres from Pula, and all of them printed as born in the Alps north of Turin.
Nothing else in the archive is wrong this way. The other far-Italian place strings on the roster — Rome, Milan, Tignale, Rivolta d'Adda, Molinella — belong to people who really are in Italy.
The atlas had it right all along, which is why no map ever showed a dot in Piedmont and why nobody noticed: the error lived only in the printed record line, and the two existing place tests both ask about the country. «Italia» is not false of Fažana — it was Italian from 1918 to 1947.
A third test now asks about the province, and it was verified against the data as it stood this morning: eight before, none after. What it produced on this siteThe eight at Fažana · The province test · Fažana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 Sept 2026 | Fifteen years of Svetvinčenat that neither the index nor any reading had touched Yielded | Svetvinčenat Births 1709–1764, film 005497885 — the indexed coverage tested, and image 161 read | The archive's 114 Svetvinčenat people have a hole in them, and it is the index's hole, not the family's.
Sorting them by how they were found: the ark-backed rows — the ones with a FamilySearch record behind them — run 1666 to 1737, and then stop. The next is a burial of 1758; the next indexed birth is 1769. Twenty-one years with no indexed record of the name at all.
The family did not pause. Three children in that window are already on this roster and every one of them was read off a page by eye — 1753, 1756, 1759. The register was always full; only the index stops.
And 1738–1752 had been touched by nobody at all — not the index, not any reading here. Fifteen years, in the parish where Atti 48 says this surname alone was continuous in the castle, immediately before the generation that won the exemption of 1780.
The volume is film 005497885, Births 1709–1764, 214 frames (waypoint 9R2H-RM8). Anchored by reading: image 126 = 1740, image 161 = 1752, so the hole is roughly images 118–162, about four frames to the year.
Image 161 was read, both pages, and it paid at once:
> «Die 15 Februarij 1752. *Irena filia legitima Matthæi Defranceschi, et Francisca ejus legitimæ uxoris ambo ex hac Parochia, nata die 11 currentis… baptizata fuit a R.do Michaele Cassanovich; patrini fuerunt Zorzi (?) Lanich, et Maria uxor Joannis Valentich.»
A child in no index anywhere, and with her a household — Matteo × Francesca, both of this parish, so neither of them an incomer.
And a second household on the same frame. Twice in 1752 a godmother is entered as the wife of Jacobo Defranceschi — «Franca Marcario uxor Jacobi Defranceschi» on 26 March, «Francisca uxor Jacobi Defranceschi» on 17 December. Two households of the name at the castle in one year, which is what «l'unico ad avere una continuità» looks like from inside the register.
One frame of about forty-five. The rest is a read, and it is now a specified one.What it produced on this siteIrena, 1752 · Work list item 136 · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 Sept 2026 | The first frames of the Svetvinčenat gap, and a set of twins nobody had counted Yielded | Svetvinčenat Births 1709–1764, film 005497885, images 115–117 — October 1737 to May 1738, both pages | Three frames at the front of the gap, and the name is on all three.
26 December 1737 — twins. «…baptizavit duos infantulos geminos natos hodie mane a Jacobo de Franceschi, et Anzola ejus legitima uxore ambobus ex hac Parochia, quibus fuit positum nomen, uni [Cesare?] alteri Antonij» — two boys born that morning and baptised the same day, godparents Natale Zanzevich (?) and Clara, widow of Bartolomeo Braccato. In no index anywhere. The second name is not read cleanly and no person has been invented out of it: the twin is recorded as existing and unnamed.
And a man the archive had never met, known only by the word defuncti. On 7 October 1737 a godmother is «Maria filia defuncti Joannis Baptistæ de Franceschi» — a Giovanni Battista of the name, dead by that autumn. This roster already carries a Maria di Batta Defranceschi, born 1716, read off a page of this parish; a woman of twenty-one is exactly who stands godmother in 1737, so the two are very probably one. (inf.)
Jacobo is the settled man of these years — godfather on 27 November 1737, 12 January 1738 and 16 February 1738 — and Maria is the settled woman, godmother three times in 1737, once for a foundling «dicta Jokto ex Albona, et Florente incognito».
One thing is deliberately left open. Jacobo's wife is Anzola in 1737 and Francisca Marcario in 1752. Either he remarried, or there are two Jacobos, father and son. The doubt is written on the row instead of being resolved by preference.
Four frames of about forty-five now read — 115, 116, 117 and 161 — and every one of them has carried the name. The gap is not thin; it is unread. What it produced on this siteThe twins of 1737 · Work list item 136 · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 Sept 2026 | A third household at Svetvinčenat, and three wives for one Jacobo in ten months Yielded | Svetvinčenat Births 1709–1764, film 005497885, images 118, 119 and 121 — June 1738 to March 1739, both pages | A third household, and a warning about how to read the other two.
27 July 1738: «baptizavit unam infantulam natam 25 currentis a Petro de Franceschi, et Jacoba ejus legitima uxore ambobus ex hac Parochia, cui positum fuit nomen Anna Euphemia». Godparents Blasius Marsoni, smith, and D.na Margarita. In no index. So inside the unread fifteen years there are now three households of the name — Jacobo's, Pietro's and Matteo's — in a parish of a few hundred souls.
And then the register contradicts itself. In ten months it gives «uxor Jacobi de Franceschi» three different women: Anzola at the twins' baptism in December 1737, Agata on 10 August 1738, Jacoba on 7 September 1738 — and then Angela, who is Anzola, on 1 March 1739. Angela is alive on both sides of the other two. One man did not have three wives in ten months.
Either more than one Jacobo de Franceschi was living in the parish at once, or the godparent formula is unreliable about husbands. There is a specific reason to suspect the second: Jacoba is Pietro's wife six weeks before she is Jacobo's, in an entry where she is a parent and the clerk was being exact. A hand writing «Jacoba uxor Jacobi» was probably pulled by her own name.
Neither reading is preferred. The rule that came out of it is that a «wife of X» in a godparent line shows a household existed and must never be used to decide which household somebody was in.
Coverage, said plainly. Images 115–119 and 121 are read. Image 120 is not — its signed link expired before it was fetched. And image 121's left page carries a loose slip of paper laid on the book when it was filmed, which hides part of two entries; neither is a Defranceschi entry, but the page is not a clean nil and is not recorded as one. What it produced on this siteAnna Euphemia, 1738 · What a godparent line is worth · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 Sept 2026 | The Vienna catalogue searched again under the spellings the stem cannot reach Yielded | ÖStA Archivinformationssystem — the -ski and -zeschi spellings, which «contains Franceschi» cannot match | Yesterday's rule was «search the stem». The stem has a hole in it.
«Contains Franceschi» catches Defranceschi, De Franceschi and the -ini diminutives in one pass — but it cannot match a spelling with a k or a z, and this family has both. Three records fall out of the spellings it misses:
· Defranceski, Humbert — «Geburtsort: Pola · Beruf: Schiffbauer», a Landsturminfanterist in a military court case at Belluno, 1918 (KA MGA GS B Belluno Gerichtsfälle GEx Innichen K 887/18). A shipwright out of Pula, in front of a military court in the Dolomites in the last year of the war — and a birthplace that lands on this archive's southern-Istrian line.
· Defranzeschi, Heinrich, born 9 July 1912 — a wartime card, AdR MilEv ZSK 11.6.
· Franzeschi, 1814 — AVA Inneres PHSt 374.1814, a police-directorate file with no forename.
So the working rule is corrected rather than repeated. Searching one stem is right for -schi; the surname needs three: Franceschi, Franceski, Franzeschi. One query found 99 records and missed a man whose birthplace is in this archive's own gazetteer.
Still untried: the đ spelling (Defranđeski) and Franzeski. Neither is likely in a Vienna catalogue, but neither has been run.What it produced on this siteHumbert, of Pola · The operator that started this · Vienna | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 Sept 2026 | Two Giovanni Battistas at Svetvinčenat, and the loose slips turn out to be records Yielded | Svetvinčenat Births 1709–1764, film 005497885, images 120 and 122 — March to June 1739, both pages | The forename problem is not confined to the Jacobos.
19 April 1739: «Patrini fuere Joannes Baptista de Franceschi, et Clara vidua defuncti Bartholomei Braccato» — a Giovanni Battista of the name, alive, at the font. Eighteen months earlier, on 7 October 1737, the same register wrote «Maria filia defuncti Joannis Baptistæ de Franceschi». Two men, one name, one small parish, and father-and-son is the ordinary explanation.
Said carefully, because of where it points. The Fiume question this archive has spent the week on turns on a Joannes Baptista de Franceschi of unknown origin fathering a child there in 1748. A man of that name alive at Svetvinčenat in 1739 is a name in the right decade and nothing more. No document joins them. It is written down as something to test, not as a link — and the register has just finished demonstrating how cheap a forename is here.
Jacobo goes on being everyone's godfather — 13 April and 7 June 1739, on top of the four already recorded.
And the coverage caveat published this morning is withdrawn. Image 120 is a second exposure of image 121's opening, book page 107, with the loose slips in different positions, so the opening reads complete. The slips are the priest's own memoranda — baptisms written in Italian on scraps and kept in the Latin register, photographed where they lay. They are records; neither names this family. Filed as method, and corrected. What it produced on this siteThe living Joannes Baptista · Read both exposures · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 Sept 2026 | David's own citations, diffed against the site, and read Yielded | The 351 arks in David's citation files against every ark the site carries | Ten arks of David's own were never read into this archive, and three of them are records.
· Vittoria Defranceschi, born 29 April 1894 at Telve in the Valsugana, daughter of Antonio Defranceschi and Rosa Mattivi — Trento diocesan registers, page 251, film 001388687.
· Estefania Defranceschi, married at Dallas, Texas on 24 July 2004, aged twenty-seven, to Lance C Thomas — the latest-dated record of the name here.
· One that cannot be opened at all: «This record can only be displayed on certain accounts.» Signing in does not help; the owner has restricted it.
A fourth was already here and gained something. Marina De Franceschi, 1710 was read off a Svetvinčenat page by eye with no ark; the index entry behind it is 1:1:X9DP-3HTQ, and it names her mother — Vittoria — whom the page did not. The eye-read and the index agree on everything else.
And the burial that started the week's Fiume work turns up twice. Maria Defranceschi, buried at Fiume on 2 August 1804, aged nought days, daughter of Valentino and Orsola, is indexed under two arks; both were already on the row, which is why the first count of the gap was too big. The count is corrected.
Seven of the ten are film images — register pages, a read rather than a fetch, and the next job.What it produced on this siteVittoria of Telve · The count that was wrong · — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 Sept 2026 | Seven register pages David had cited and nobody had opened Yielded | The seven film-image arks from David's citations — Kaštelir, Bakar and Parenzo, read on the plate | Three households, in three towns, out of seven pages that were sitting in David's own citations and had never been opened here. None of the four films is referenced anywhere else in this archive.
Kaštelir — a tailor's house, and three generations of one name. At house 23 of Castellier:
· «Franciscus Defranceschi, sartor — q.m Julii», dead 26 January 1892 of apoplexy, aged 73 years 5 months — born about August 1818, and quondam Julii gives his father, a Giulio already dead.
· «Joannes Aloysius De franceschi», dead 18 November 1858 aged eight months of febris verminosa.
· «Josephus Defranceschi, sartoris» — son of the tailor — dead 19 March 1870 aged eight of angina.
The 1858 entry says agricola and the 1870 one sartoris: either the trade changed in twelve years or the house held two families, and the archive records it as it stands.
Bakar — a widow born under Charles VI. «Vidua Catharina Defranceschi», dead 7 April 1819 at house 121 of Buccari, aged eighty-five, of old age, with all the sacraments. Born about 1734 — the earliest-born person of the name this archive can place at Bakar. And she was a widow, so a Defranceschi husband was there before her and is still unnamed.
Parenzo — a carpenter, and a marquis at the font. «Parenzo li 28 Luglio 1846. Paolo Francesco Domenico figlio delli giugali Mattio Defranceschi falegn. e Domenica Frezza nacque li 26 corr.» — baptised by Canon Pietro Monfalcon, godparents Francesco Marchese de Polesini and Ellena de Filippini-Coletti, midwife Elena Weber. The Polesini were the first noble house of Parenzo, and a marquis of that family stood for a carpenter's son.
The same couple's daughter, and probably her death. Anna Maria, born 20 October 1844, baptised 11 November. Thirty-five years later the town's death register has «17 Settembre 1879, casa 346 — Anna Maria Defranceschi, moglie di Giacomo Rocco fu Matteo», aged 35, of dropsy. A woman born 20 October 1844 is thirty-four years and eleven months on 17 September 1879, which is what a clerk writes as thirty-five. doc for each record; inf for joining them.
Coverage, plainly: the Kaštelir and Bakar pages were read in full. At Parenzo, the left page of image 62 and both pages of image 309 were read; the right-hand page of image 62 was read only as far as its first band, and is not recorded as a nil. What it produced on this siteThe tailor of Kaštelir · The carpenter of Parenzo · Kaštelir · Bakar · Poreč | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 Sept 2026 | A fourth Svetvinčenat household, and two Euphemias fourteen months apart Yielded | Svetvinčenat Births 1709–1764, film 005497885, images 123 and 125 — June 1739 to October 1740, both pages | A fourth household of the name inside the unread years.
«Die 4 8bris 1739 … natam die 1ma currentis a Batta Defranceschi et Jacoba ejus legitima uxore ambobus ex hac Parochia, cui positum fuit nomen Euphemia» — godparents D.nus Aloysius Spinotti and Ursula, wife of Francesco Marzoni. Batta is Battista, and a Joannes Baptista de Franceschi was standing godfather in this same register five months earlier: very probably his household.
And then the register does something it cannot explain. On 27 July 1738 «Petro de Franceschi et Jacoba ejus legitima uxore» baptise Anna Euphemia. Fourteen months later «Batta Defranceschi et Jacoba ejus legitima uxore» baptise Euphemia. Same mother's name, same daughter's name, two different fathers. Either two households were doing the same thing at once, or the first child died and the name was given again and one of the two fathers is misread. Both entries were magnified and both read as written; the tangle is published rather than tidied.
Angela settles down. «Angela uxor Jacobi Defranceschi» stands godmother again in October 1739 — so Angela is Jacobo's wife in 1737, 1739 and 1739, which makes the Agata and Jacoba of 1738 the odd ones rather than her.
Petrus is at the font too, godfather to a foundling on 10 June 1740.
One reading hazard, caught before it was published. The year headings on images 123 and 126 first read as 1759; the entries beneath them are dated 1739, and the page numbers run straight on from image 122. In this hand a 3 and a 5 are the same stroke with a different lean — anchor a frame on an entry date and a page number, never on the heading. What it produced on this siteEuphemia, 1739 · Reading a year in this hand · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | Arolsen Archives online collections Yielded | The whole surname at Arolsen under the -schi spelling, after the service came back | The service is back, and the spelling this archive had not tried is the one that matters.
On 10 September collections.arolsen-archives.org timed out. On 21 September 2026 it answers. The earlier work had listed 79 records under DEFRANCESKI; this is the -schi spelling, and it is a different set: 38 people and 9 archival units.
The find is Dionigi, and it is in the Dachau entry register.
> DEFRANCESCHI, DIONIGI — born 17 September 1927 at GALLIGNANA — Italian — prisoner 142393
Gallignana is Gračišće. It is the Italian name of the parish this archive's oldest Istrian registers come out of. He is carried by four separate Dachau series — the entry registers (1.1.6.1), his personal file (1.1.6.2), the office cards A–Z (1.1.6.7) and the camp's cash statements (1.1.6.12) — so the identification does not rest on one clerk's hand. (doc)
This archive already held a Dionigi and could not prove him. The roster's Dionigi / Dijonisius de Franceschi, b. 1927, Gračišće came off David's MyHeritage tree on 20 September with the standing caveat «tree-derived: no register has been read for this person here». Arolsen supplies the register, and supplies the day and month the tree did not have.
The second thing it gives is a rule, not a person. ANTON DEFRANCESCHI, born 20 January 1890 stands in the War Time Card File (2.2.2.1) and again in 2.3.3.1 — and that is Anton Rudolf of Klenovica 22, who was found at Arolsen a fortnight ago under DEFRANCESKI. The same man is filed under both spellings, in different units. A search of one spelling at Arolsen is not a search of this surname. (doc)
A fourth household of the name, displaced from Istria in 1947. The IRO Care and Maintenance files originating in Italy (3.2.1.2) carry three families this archive has never held:
Defranceschi is the query that means anything, and the place-of-birth filter is the only way to make the spaced form say something.What it produced on this siteSix Names at Pfullingen · Istria · The live tree · Arolsen Archives | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | The Svetvinčenat births index read end to end — and it stops at P Yielded | Every Defranceschi line in the Svetvinčenat births index, letter by letter | The whole index is now read, and the most useful thing in it is what it does not contain.
The index occupies images 196–211 of film 005497884 and runs B, C, D, E, F, G, L, M, N, O, P — and then stops. Image 195 is register text, so there is no A page. Image 212 is a loose sealed certificate and image 213 is the film's «END OF ITEM» card, so there is no R, S, T, V or Z.
That is a trap, and it bites this family specifically. The forenames the index cannot reach include Antonio, Anzolo, Andrea at one end and Rocco, Simon, Tomaso, Vito and Zuanne at the other — and Antonio and Zuanne are exactly the Defranceschi forenames Svetvinčenat is known for: «M.ro Ant.o di Franceschi di Piero» of 1667, and the Antonio Defranceschi who led the castle households to their exemption from armed service in 1780. Anyone who searches this index for an Antonio and finds nothing has learned nothing.
Seven entries of the name, in five households:
What it produced on this siteThe Svetvinčenat line — reading the register page by page · Svetvinčenat (San Vincenti) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat births 1703–1763 — the leaves themselves, not the index Yielded | Seven register leaves behind the index entries, and the adults standing on them | The index gave seven children. The leaves give three mothers, two godfathers of the name, and a reason to distrust the index's own page numbers.
Film 005497885, the volume the title card calls «Matična knjiga rodjenih 1703–1763». Frames resolve to cartas by reading, not by arithmetic — the film re-photographs several spreads, so the rate drifts.
What it produced on this siteThe index reading of the same volume · Families · Svetvinčenat (San Vincenti) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | England & Wales censuses 1841–1921 — «an old Cardiff family», tested Yielded | Whether anybody of this surname was ever enumerated in Glamorgan, 1841 to 1921 | A Cardiff paper wrote «an old Cardiff family» in 1896. The censuses do not contain that family under this name — and they do contain it under the wife's.
The negative first, because it is clean. Findmypast's census, land and survey records for Great Britain, restricted to births 1815–1895:
Franceschi* is Andre Franceschini, born 1873, at St John in 1901 — a different surname, and a warning to anyone who searches on a stem and reads the count instead of the rows.
Now the other side of the marriage, and this is the find. Emerico De Franceschi married Marietta Cosulich at St Peter's, Roath, on 26 July 1876. Search Cosulich in Wales and the censuses answer at once:
What it produced on this siteAt sea · Who married in · Findmypast · Cardiff | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | United States Passport Applications — the images, not the transcripts Yielded | The birth towns the index reduced to «Italy» | The row said thirteen birthplaces and the transcripts carried «Italy». The images carry the towns, and two of them are now read.
> Louis De Franceschi, passport 148535, [Form for Naturalized Citizen], issued Washington 18 December 1919:
> «I solemnly swear that I was born at Sequals, Province of Udine, Italy on 3rd November 1873; that my father, Pietro De Franceschi, was born in Italy and is now residing at Deceased; that I emigrated to the United States, sailing from Havre, France, about February 1907; that I resided 12 years uninterruptedly in the United States, from 1907 to 1919 at Washington, District of Columbia; that I was naturalized… before the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia at Washington on October 4, 1915.» Domiciled at 309 14th Street NW; occupation cement decorator. (doc.)
> Giovanni DeFranceschi, passport 109256, [Form for Naturalized Citizen], issued Washington 6 January 1922:
> «…born at Castronovo, Italy on Dec. 10, 1876; that my father, Francesco DeFranceschi, was born in Italy and is now residing at deceased; …sailing from Havre about April 1903; …from 1903 to 1922 at Torrington, Conn.; …naturalized before the Superior Court of Litchfield County at Winsted on Feb. 14, 1911.» State of Connecticut, County of Litchfield. (doc.)
And the loop closes on Tobias. His own 1922 application is the [Form for Native Citizen] — «I was born at Washington, D.C. on or about the 15 day of June 1912; my father Louis De Franceski was born in Italy and is now residing at Washington D.C.», the surname corrected in the margin to «—Franceschi». The son's paper gives «Italy». The father's paper gives Sequals. (doc.)
Why the index was not wrong, and why it was useless. The passport form asks the father's birthplace in a single blank labelled «(Country.)» — so «Italy» is the complete and faithful transcription of that field. The applicant's own birthplace is a free line, and that is the only place a town can appear. On the native-citizen form there is no foreign town to give at all. So the rule is not «indexers were lazy»; it is «the index is faithful to the form, and the form asks a different question of the father than of the son».
Sequals is Friuli, and it is the province Carnia is in. Sequals sits in the Val Meduna, then province of Udine, about forty kilometres south-west of the Val di Gorto this archive's own line comes out of — the same province, a different valley. Its trade is terrazzo and mosaic, which is exactly what «cement decorator» means in a Washington directory, and Sequals men carried that trade around the world. This is a Friulian population of the name and not this archive's own. (inf on the relationship; doc on the town.)
Castronovo is not Friuli at all, and the record gives no province, so it is not pinned: Castronovo di Sicilia in Palermo and Castronuovo di Sant'Andrea in Basilicata both answer to it. A southern Italian population of the surname, and the first this archive has documented. What it produced on this siteAmerica · Where the name went · Washington, D.C. · Torrington, Connecticut | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | The route into a subscription image viewer, when the images are FamilySearch's Yielded | Reading Findmypast's record images without the viewer | A Findmypast transcript id for these collections is a FamilySearch film and frame, written out in full.
/transcript?id=US%2FUS_PASSPORT_APPLICATIONS%2F007572652%2F00658%2F001670911
^^^^^^^^^ film ^^^^^ frame
From there the images are ordinary FamilySearch images and none of the viewer is needed:
1. https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/<film>?i=<frame-1> — the ark is in the document title, …/ark:/61903/3:1:<ARK>?cc=2185145&wc=… – Film # <film>.
2. https://sg30p0.familysearch.org/service/records/storage/dascloud/das/v2/3:1:<ARK>/dist.jpg — the full plate, 3,600 × 3,000 or so, which a canvas crop reads comfortably.
That turns «eighteen images inside a viewer» into eighteen ordinary image loads — no filmstrip, no paging, no zoom controls, and the crop recipe already used for the parish registers works unchanged. The transcription on these sets is credited «used by permission of FamilySearch», which is the tell that the plate will be there. · Findmypast · FamilySearch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | The Chicago Soundex card — read off the plate, not the index Yielded | What the naturalisation index card actually carries for Giovanni of Chicago | The card is open, and it does not give the comune — but it gives the number that will.
Film 004640985, frame 97, reached from the Findmypast record id US/NATUR/004640985/00097 by the film-and-frame route. A U.S. Department of Labor Form No. I-1 P, Soundex code D 165:
> Family name DeFranceschi · Given name Giovanni
> Address 2336 W. Superior St., Chgo.
> Certificate no. P. 151190 CN. 4249300
> Title and location of court U.S. Dist. Ct., Chgo.
> Country of birth or allegiance Italy
> When born Jan. 16, 1895
> Date and port of arrival in U.S. (blank)
> Date of naturalization May 5, 1937
Three things this archive did not have. An exact birth date where it carried only a year; a Chicago street address; and — the one that matters — a petition number, P. 151190.
The errand was already written down; now it has a citation. This archive already said «the petition behind the Soundex index names the comune and is an errand». It is the same errand, but it is now a request for a numbered document from a named court rather than a search: Petition for Naturalization 151190, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Chicago, 5 May 1937.
And the form settles the question for this record type. The card asks «Country of birth or allegiance» and nothing finer. No amount of reading the index images will ever produce a town, because the index does not have a field for one. (doc.)What it produced on this siteErrands · America · Chicago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | Which of the 307 American records can answer «is this one ours» — counted Yielded | Where the birthplace actually lives, dataset by dataset | Three hundred and seven American travel-and-migration records carry this surname, and they are not one kind of thing. Counted on 21 September, all sixteen pages:
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| 21 Sept 2026 | The 270 passenger transcripts, tested against the sweep this archive already ran Yielded | Whether reading them one at a time would add anything | The work list wanted 270 passenger transcripts read for the town of last residence. The transcripts do carry it — and the question they would answer has already been answered better.
The field is real. A passenger transcript gives Residence outright, with no image: «Domenico De Franceschi, 23, born 1898, Italian, Residence Ponte Alpi Italy, 1921, departure port Trieste, arrival New York, ship Argentina», and beside him his father Dom and a cousin Giuseppe Misseli at the American end. So the plan was sound.
But this archive has already read 1,400 arrivals. The Statue of Liberty–Ellis Island sweep took 429 recorded last residences and found exactly two Istrian — G. Pedena and G. Gallignana, who are Antonio and Albina on the Conte Rosso of 9 September 1922 and are already here. Everything else was Veneto and Friuli: Castelgomberto and Cornedo in Vicenza, Ponte nelle Alpi in Belluno, Pederobba in Treviso, and Sequals, Lestans and Pinzano in Pordenone. Findmypast's 270 are a subset of those same arrivals. Reading them one at a time would re-derive, more slowly and from a third of the evidence, a map this archive already has.
Today's three men are an instance of it, not an exception. Angelo (27, wife Elisa De Moliner), Domenico (23, father Dom) and Emanuele (21, father Ant) all of Ponte nelle Alpi, all on the Argentina out of Trieste in 1921, with a cousin Funicelli and an aunt Giuseppina Minelli waiting. A village party under a surname that formed independently in that village. The names and the relations are new here; the cluster is not. (doc.)
And there is no query that shortens it. keywordsplace matches departure and arrival ports only — Trieste returns 8, Naples 3 — and not the residence field. The proof is Domenico: his transcript reads «Residence Ponte Alpi Italy» and a search for «ponte alpi» returns zero. So «Fiume: 0» and «Istria: 0» are not negatives, they are a field that was never indexed. Anyone who runs those two queries and stops has learned nothing — which is the third time in one day this archive has met that shape.
Recommendation: re-scope the item. The 270 should not be read exhaustively. What is worth reading is the 1949–1956 arrivals, which the Ellis Island database does not reach at all and where the Istrian esodo sits.What it produced on this siteEmigration · Where the name went · Findmypast · Ellis Island | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | The Irish, Scottish and English parish and civil sets — opened at last Yielded | The three national sets the trials never reached | Three sets, and between them they hold exactly one person this archive did not have.
Ireland is a different surname. Defrance* across the Irish parish and civil sets returns 11, and every one of them is de France, Defrance or de Frances — Edvardum baptised at St James and Templetown in Fern in 1820, Mariam there in 1822, a Defrance baptism at Newbridge in 1789, James born and John dead at New Ross. That is the Huguenot name, not this one. Nil.
Scotland is one row and it is not ours either — Constance Defrance, 1939, Quarter, Lanarkshire, in the probate index. Nil.
England and Wales, on the exact spelling, gives five — and one of them is new.
What it produced on this siteFindmypast · Who married in · Britain and Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | What the Svetvinčenat index already says about 1735–1763 Yielded | Whether the index has already answered the question the page-by-page read is asking | Before reading forty-seven more frames, it is worth asking what the volume's own index has already ruled out — and the answer narrows the hunt to eight forenames.
The index at images 196–211 was read end to end last night. It is arranged by the child's forename, it runs B to P and no further, and it yields seven Defranceschi entries in the whole volume — Maria 1709, Marina 1710, Maria 1716, Maria 1728, Maria 1733, and two Pieros, 1725 and 1734.
Every one of them is 1734 or earlier. The volume runs to 1763. So for the twenty-nine years from 1735 to 1763 the index records not one child of this name.
That leaves exactly three possibilities, and the middle one is the interesting one:
1. There were no Defranceschi children at San Vincenti between 1735 and 1763 — which sits badly against Antonio and Dominicus heading households there in 1780.
2. Their children's forenames fall in the index's gap. The letters it never had are A and R–Z: Antonio, Andrea, Anzolo, Rocco, Simon, Tomaso, Vito, Zuanne.
3. The index is simply incomplete for those years.
And possibility 2 has a name in it. Atti 48 says the man who led the castle households to their exemption in 1780 was Antonio. A man of standing in 1780 was born somewhere around 1720–1750 — inside the window the index cannot see — and Antonio is the first forename the index drops. An Antonio baptised at San Vincenti in those years would be invisible to the only finding aid the volume has.
So the page-by-page read is not looking for any Defranceschi baptism. It is looking for one whose child is called Antonio, Andrea, Anzolo, Rocco, Simon, Tomaso, Vito or Zuanne — and the index has already done the rest of the work. (inf, and it is the cheapest inference available: it costs nothing and removes most of the search.) What it produced on this siteThe index, read end to end · Svetvinčenat (San Vincenti) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat marriages 1762–1815 — opened, and the first entry of the name is a father already dead Yielded | The marriage register, opened for the first time | The marriage register has never been opened by this archive, and the first Defranceschi entry in it names a man who was already dead.
> «Adi 9 Febraro 1766. S. Vicenti» — «Mattio figlio di q[uondam] Michiel Sandalezza, nativo dal Territorio d'Albona ma per il suo domicilio d'anni 15 c[irc]a in questo Distretto di S. Vicenti, fà admesso da questa Sp[eciа]le Cura… ha contratto il matrimonio per verba de presenti con Elena figlia di q[uondam] Mattio de Franceschi, nativa di questo Castello, confessati, comunicati e loro ammaestrati ne dogmi della S.ta Fede…» Carta 11. (doc, read at magnification.)
Three things come out of one entry.
A ninth man of the name at the castle — and a dead one. «q. Mattio de Franceschi»: Mattio was in his grave before February 1766. The castle's roll now reads Nardo, Piero, Batta, Giacomo, Nadal, Marcio, Antonio, Dominicus and Mattio.
A daughter, and she is marrying out of the parish's own stock. Elena de Franceschi, «nativa di questo Castello», marries a man of Albona — Labin, thirty kilometres east — who had been living in the district about fifteen years. The first marriage of the name this archive has ever read at Svetvinčenat.
And a date that sits exactly in the gap. A bride of 1766 was born around the 1740s, in the twenty-nine years the volume's index cannot see, and her father died before she married. This is the generation the godparent reading redirected to, and the marriage register reached it in one leaf where the baptisms had taken seven spreads to say nothing.
A catalogue correction, from the film's own title card: «MATIČNA KNJIGA VJENČANIH 1762–1815», item 2, microfilmed at the Hrvatski državni arhiv, Zagreb, 17 June 1997. The catalogue says 1762–1858. What it produced on this siteThe births of the same parish · Who married in · Svetvinčenat (San Vincenti) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | Marie Defranceschi in Lorraine — the succession table run back to the birth act Yielded | AD54: Bénaménil 1936 and Thiébauménil 1911 censuses, Thiébauménil decennial table 1873–1932, and the 1910 birth register | The record David sent could not be matched to anybody here, so it was worked backwards through two censuses and a decennial table until the act itself turned up — and the act spells the name differently.
The lead was a Table des successions et absences for Marie DEFRANCESKI, widow of Louis Alphonse LABAYE, died 4 April 1940 at Bénaménil (Meurthe-et-Moselle), husband born about 1868.
The 1936 census of Bénaménil (6 M 33/60, 240 rows read in full) has no Labaye and no Defranceski. What it does have, at row 231, is «Labaye Marthe, 1910, Thiébauménil», wife of Larger Ernest, peintre. That birthplace was the whole of the redirection.
The 1911 census of Thiébauménil (6 M 33/519, all 240 individuals read) has no Labaye either — the family had gone within a year of the birth. One right-hand page is covered by a loose mairie certificate of 27 March 1911; the same page is re-shot on the following image, so nothing is actually lost.
The decennial table settled it in two pages. 2 E 519/TD 2 is not handwriting at all but a table typed and printed on 27 November 1995, alphabetical, one line per act. Births 1900–1912, page 004:
> * LABAYE Henriette amelie ! 8 ! THIEBAUMENIL 54 ! 11/07/1908
> * LABAYE Marthe louise ! 1 ! THIEBAUMENIL 54 ! 30/01/1910
Acte n° 1 of 1910 (2 E 519/7, image 170) names the mother in the clerk's own hand: «Marie Defranceschi, âgée de vingt-neuf ans, sans profession, son épouse», wife of Louis Alphonse Labaye, maçon, whose age the mayor first wrote as fifty and then corrected, in the margin and over his signature, to forty-one.
So the succession table's «Defranceski» is the registrar of 1940 writing down what he heard; the registrar of 1910 wrote «Defranceschi». Both are the same woman, born about 1880–81, and this archive now carries her under the spelling the earlier clerk used.
What is still missing is the marriage. The Thiébauménil marriage table for 1903–1912 goes straight from Humbert to Leybach, and has no Defranceschi under her own name. Her parents and her birthplace — the only things that could join her to a line — are in another commune's register.What it produced on this siteMarie Defranceschi · What has been searched · Thiébauménil and Bénaménil, Meurthe-et-Moselle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat marriages, images 8–25 — a de Franceschi marriage in 1772, and the father dead the winter before Yielded | Svetvinčenat marriage register 1762–1815, film 005497885, images 8–14 and 21–25 read in full | Eighteen more frames of the marriage register, and the first Defranceschi wedding in it.
Images 8–14 and 21–23 gave nothing: forty-odd weddings of Justinovich, Marzan, Gulcich, Xivolich, Millovan, Bercan, Sandalesa and the rest, 1763 to 1771. The register changes language in 1770 — Italian «Adì … contrasse il matrimonio per verba de presenti» becomes Latin «Tribus premissis denunciationibus … matrimonio juncti sunt» — so anything after that frame is being searched for Franceschi, not de Franceschi.
Image 24, carta 20, 23 November 1771. Not a Defranceschi wedding — a Defranceschi in the room. Michael Predan married Elena, daughter of the late Vito Giurzan, and the entry closes:
> «…sunt, addita Benedictione. Testibus Vincentio Vemir, ac Jacobo q. Jacobi de Franceschi alijsq. Arch.»
Image 25, carta 21, 10 June 1772. Seven months later the same man is the groom:
> «Anno Domini 1772, 10 Junij. Giacobus filius Giacobi de Franceschi, et Nicolina filia Nicolai Teserati, juncti sunt per verba de presenti per me D. Martinum Luciani ex comissione Parochi, tribus premissis denunciationibus, testibus D.no Michaele Luciani et Vicentio Vemir alijsque pluribus, addita benedictione. Ego autem Arch. Jo: Pittan testor ita esse veritatem.»
Two men, not one. The November entry writes «q. Jacobi» — quondam, the father already dead; the June entry drops the quondam and writes only «filius Giacobi». The first is the careful form and the second the hurried one, seven months apart in the same volume and, on the November page, in the same priest's hand. So Giacomo de Franceschi the elder was dead before 23 November 1771, and his son Giacomo married at the castle on 10 June 1772. (doc.)
Neither is merged with anyone. This archive already carries a Giacomo De Franceschi born 1731 and a Giacomo born 1706 at Svetvinčenat, either of whom could be the father, and the son — marrying in 1772 — would have been born in the 1740s, inside the stretch the baptism index does not cover. A forename and a death-before date is not enough to join a person to a person; the same rule that was applied to Mattio, dead before 1766. (inf, for the identification.)
The bride's surname is the one word on the page this reading will not guarantee: Teserati, possibly Teseveti or Tesereti. It is not a Svetvinčenat name that has come up before.
Still unread for the pre-1780 Antonio the work list wants: images 26–43. What it produced on this siteThe rest of the volume · Who married in · Svetvinčenat (San Vincenti) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | Antonio de Franceschi found alive at Svetvinčenat in 1773 — six times over, with a grown son and a dead brother-in-name Yielded | Svetvinčenat marriage register 1762–1815, film 005497885, images 26–27 (cartae 22–23, the year 1773) | The work list has wanted a pre-1780 Antonio for weeks. Two frames of the marriage register produced him six times in ten months (revised 28 Sept 2026: a dozen entries, Jan 1773 – Apr 1775), and gave him a son.
Images 26 and 27 cover cartae 22 and 23, the whole of 1773. Antonio de Franceschi is not marrying in any of them — he is standing witness, almost always beside the same man, Joannes Sain:
What it produced on this siteThe rest of the volume · Gasparo, baptised 1737 · Svetvinčenat (San Vincenti) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | The Svetvinčenat marriage volume read to the end — Antonio's marriage is not in it, and he turns out to be the bell-ringer Yielded | Svetvinčenat marriage register 1762–1815, film 005497885 — images 28–43, completing images 6–44 | Every frame of the 1762–1779 register has now been read, and the question the work list asked has a clean answer: no. Antonio de Franceschi did not marry at Svetvinčenat between 1762 and 1779.
The arithmetic said so before the reading finished. Antonio has a son old enough to witness a wedding in February 1773, so he married around 1750–1756 — and this volume opens in 1762. His marriage falls inside the 1623–1762 hole in the parish's marriage books. Only a remarriage could have been here, and there is none. (doc, for the negative: thirty-eight frames read line by line.)
What the last sixteen frames did give:
A second daughter of the dead Mattio, and so a sister for Elena. Carta 24, 17 October 1773:
> «Mar[c]-Antonius Jacomini filius Andreae … et Fusca filia q. Mathiae de Franceschi Parochiana huius Ecclesiae, dispensatis a denunciationibus … Testes D. Antonius de Franceschi, ac Mathias Santalera.»
Elena married in 1766 as «figlia di q. Mattio de Franceschi»; Fusca marries in 1773 as «filia q. Mathiae de Franceschi». Same dead father, same parish, seven years apart — the first sibling pair of the name this archive has at Svetvinčenat, and Antonio stands witness at the younger one's wedding. (doc for both entries; that the two Mattios are one man is inf, though it is hard to make them two.)
Antonio's trade, which changes what his six 1773 appearances mean. Three entries of 1774–75 style him with an occupation, and one of them puts the word first, where it cannot be misparsed:
> «…e del Campanaro Antonio Defranceschi. Testimonj» — 25 September 1775
> «…& Ant.º Defranceschi Campanaro, ed altri» — 27 February 1775
> «…d'Ant.º Defranceschi Campanaro, Pasquich di Michael ed altri Testimonj» — 29 October 1775
He was a bell-ringer. Read letter by letter at full resolution: C-a-m-p-a-n-a-r-o. This archive had written, that same afternoon, that a man asked for six times in one year «is a man the parish trusts». The truer explanation is duller and better: he worked at the church. The priest reaching for a witness reached for whoever was already in the building. (doc.)
And it is not a title he holds alone. «Zne Sain Campanaro» appears in February and July 1776 and January 1777 — four months after Antonio last carries it. Either the office changed hands, or Svetvinčenat had more than one bell-ringer among its several churches. No claim of sole tenure is made here. (inf.)
A fourth forename, in the next generation. Carta 36, 29 November 1777, twice in one day: «alla presenza mia di Simon Manzoni e Dom.co Defranceschi» and «presenza di Dom.co Defranceschi e di Simon Manzoni». Domenico now stands where Antonio stood, beside the same Simon Manzoni. Antonio is not named again after 1775. (doc.)
The whole volume, counted. Thirty-eight frames, 1762 to 1779:
What it produced on this siteThe earlier frames · Antonio the campanaro · Svetvinčenat (San Vincenti) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | Vittorio's father was in this archive all along — and the baptism is not where the arithmetic said it was Yielded | Svetvinčenat baptisms 1709–1764, film 005497885, images 155 and 171–185 — and this archive's own burials.json | The job was to find Vittorio's baptism. It is not found. What was found instead was already in this archive's own files, unread, and it answers the question the baptism was wanted for.
The burial names the father. burials.json has carried this row since the graves work:
> Vitorio Defranceschi · born 1758 · died and buried 8 November 1812 · aged 54 · Svetvinčenat · kin: Antonio
The 1773 marriage register gives «Victorio de Franceschi filio Antonij». The 1812 burial gives a Vittorio of the same parish whose recorded kin is Antonio. Two independent records, thirty-nine years apart, give the same man the same father. This archive published that identification this morning as «probable, left open» while holding the corroboration in its own data. (doc.)
And the naming pattern signs it. Vittorio's own children are in the same file: Antonia (1804–1808), Giovanni Pietro (1809), Antonio (1811) and Gioanni Maria (d. 1813). A man whose first-recorded son is called Antonio, in a parish that names the first son for the paternal grandfather, is a man whose father was Antonio. That is not proof; it is the third thing pointing the same way. (inf.)
So the descent now runs three generations:
> Antonio (bell-ringer, witness 1773–75) → Vittorio (witness Feb 1773; d. 8 Nov 1812 aged 54) → Antonia, Giovanni Pietro, Antonio, Gioanni Maria (1804–1813)
Where the baptism is not. Nineteen frames of the baptism register 1709–1764 were read for it, on anchors fixed by probing: image 155 = January 1750, image 175 = February 1758, image 185 = June 1761 — about 2.5 frames a year. Images 171 to 181 cover 1756 to 1760 continuously and contain no Defranceschi child of any Antonio. A man dying aged 54 in November 1812 was born about 1758, and 1758 is read. (doc, for the negative.)
What the same frames did give. Carta 162, 7 November 1759:
> «Antonia filia legitima Jacobi de Franceschi et Paschasiæ eius legitimæ uxoris, amborum ex hac Parochia, nata die 5 currentis, Baptizata est … Patrini fuerunt ad Sacrum Fontem Gregorius Doblanovich, et Boneta Uxor Benedicti Fiorencis.»
A whole household of the name, with the wife's forename — Giacomo de Franceschi and Paschasia, and a daughter Antonia born 5 November 1759. It is the first Defranceschi child this archive has read out of the Svetvinčenat baptism register for the eighteenth century. (doc.)
The same stretch shows the name constantly at the font but rarely at its centre: Jacobus Defranceschi godfather 6 August 1758, Gasparo De Franceschi godfather 6 July 1760, Franciscus de Franceschi godfather October 1759, and a Pasqua named as a Defranceschi wife in 1760 and 1761 whose husband's forename this reading will not guarantee — the abbreviation will not resolve between Gasparo and Giacomo even at full magnification, and it is left unread rather than guessed. (doc for the appearances; the one forename is open.)
Why the index could not be used. The volume has a contemporary alphabetical index at the back, and it was the obvious shortcut. It stops around 1736. The A page's last six lines run January 1735 to January 1736, and then the parish ruled off and reused the blank half of the same leaf for baptisms of 1763. Every entry the earlier sweep ever recovered from that index is 1732 or earlier. The 1737–1764 baptisms are unindexed, which is why this had to be a frame-by-frame read at all. (doc.)
Still to read for the baptism: images 155–170 (1750–1756) and 182–196 (1761–1763).What it produced on this siteVittorio · The burials · Svetvinčenat (San Vincenti) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | Images 155–170 read: no child of Antonio in the whole decade, but Giacomo and Pascasia have four Yielded | Svetvinčenat baptisms 1709–1764, film 005497885, images 155–170 read page by page | Sixteen more frames, 1750 to 1756, read page by page. Antonio is still not a father anywhere in this register — and a different household came out of it almost complete.
The negative first, because it is now a wide one. With images 155–181 read, the whole of 1750 to 1760 has been searched and contains no Defranceschi child of any Antonio. Vittorio, who died in November 1812 aged fifty-four and whose burial names his father as Antonio, was born about 1758 — and 1758 is inside the read stretch, twice over. His baptism is not in this volume. (doc, for the negative.)
What is here instead is a family. «Jacobus Defranceschi» and his wife «Pascasia» — Pasqua — appear as parents four times:
What it produced on this siteThe rest of the sweep · Antonia, their youngest · Svetvinčenat (San Vincenti) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | Images 182–195 finish the volume — Gasparo turns out to be Giacomo's son, and the index gives up two more children Yielded | Svetvinčenat baptisms 1709–1764, film 005497885, images 182–195 — completing 155–195 | The last fourteen frames, 1760 to 1763. No Defranceschi appears as a parent in any of them — and the single line that explains the last two days of confusion is on frame 191.
Gasparo is Giacomo's son. Twice, in the same year, the clerk writes it out in full:
> «…padrini furono Gasparo figlio di M.o Giacomo de Franceschi…» — 1 August 1762, and again 15 December 1762.
Magnified letter by letter. This archive has been treating Gasparo and Giacomo as two households running side by side through the 1750s. They are one household: a father and his grown son. (doc.)
And it matches something the archive already had. The volume's own index carries «Casparg, of Jacobo De Franceschi and Anzola, 26 December 1737». A Gasparo son of Giacomo, born at the end of 1737, is twenty-four when he stands godfather in August 1762 — which is exactly the age an adult godparent is. Two independent records, twenty-five years apart, saying the same thing. (inf, and a strong one.)
Which reshapes the household this way — stated as inference, because no single document says it:
> Giacomo de Franceschi, married twice — to Anzola, whose son Gasparo was baptised 26 December 1737; and to Pascasia, whose children are the four found yesterday: a child of March 1750, Giacomo Battista (1753), Giovanni (1756) and Antonia (1759).
One thing still does not resolve, and it is recorded rather than smoothed. A godmother formula recurs four times in these frames — «Dona Pasqua moglie di M.o … de Franceschi» — and the husband's name is Gasparo in November 1760, February 1761 and April 1761, and Giacomo in January 1762. Both were magnified; both readings are certain; the hand is the same priest's throughout. Either father and son each married a Pasqua, or Simon Zadro wrote the wrong one of the two names he knew best. Nothing here decides it. (open.)
The index then gave up two more children. Frames 194–195 turn out to be the start of the volume's alphabetical index — the A page — which the earlier sweep never reached. Two lines in it are ours:
> «Antonia fig.a di Gio Batta Defranceschi, 1 7bre 1721»
> «Andrea fig.o di Giacomo Defranceschi, 5 marzo 1726 — c. 59»
Both magnified. Antonia of 1721 is a fourth child for the Gio Batta × Anzoletta household the archive already knew from this index (Gasparo 1718, Cattarina 1728, Battistina 1731). Andrea of 1726 is a child of a Giacomo a generation before Pascasia's — which is the independent support for there having been two Giacomos, the thing that stopped the 1772 bridegroom being merged with the boy of 1753. (doc for both entries; carta 59 has not been opened.)
Where the volume now stands. Images 155–195 are read, covering 1750 to 1763 continuously, plus the A index. No Defranceschi child of any Antonio exists anywhere in it. Images 1–154 (1703–1750) remain unread, and the letters I, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, V and Z of the index remain unread — V is where a Vittorio would be listed, if the index reached his years, which it does not. What it produced on this siteThe rest of the sweep · The Gasparo dossier · Svetvinčenat (San Vincenti) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | Antonio de Franceschi is a father at Svetvinčenat on 9 December 1769 — and half the proof was in this repository Yielded | Svetvinčenat baptisms 1764–1791, film 005497885: volume mapped, waypoint 31 read — and fsrecords.json mined for its parents column | The question three days of reading has been circling: was Antonio at Svetvinčenat at all before about 1770? He was, and he was a householder there. Baptism volume 1764–1791, waypoint 31, carta 26:
> «9 Xbre 1769» — «Fran.ca figlia di D.no Ant.o De Franceschi e Donna Mattia … nata li 8 corrente … Battezata … dal D. Ant.o Can.co Stancovich de L.P.»
Franca, daughter of Signor Antonio De Franceschi and Donna Mattia, born 8 December 1769, baptised on the 9th. The father's name and the date were magnified and read letter by letter; the mother's forename was read at spread scale and is corroborated independently below. He is styled D.no — Dominus, Signor — which the register does not give to everybody. (doc.)
And Mattia is the woman already on the page eleven years later. The entry of 1 May 1780 names «Matthea uxor Antonij Defranceschi» as a godmother. Same couple, same parish, 1769 and 1780. (doc for both entries; that they are one household is inference, and about as safe as inference gets.)
The other half of the proof had never been opened, and it is in this repository. fsrecords.json — indexed FamilySearch records, ingested long ago for names and dates, never read for the parents column:
fsrecords.json, in a column nobody had read.What it produced on this siteAntonio · Vittorio · Svetvinčenat (San Vincenti) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | Sixty frames of the 1764–91 volume read one by one — a second child for Antonio, and the 1772 marriage joined to its first baby Yielded | Svetvinčenat baptisms 1764–1791, film 005497885 — waypoints 5–60 read opening by opening | Sixty of the volume's 134 eighteenth-century frames have now been read opening by opening. Three of them carry acts; the rest carry the name standing at other people's fonts, which is how a parish records a family that is present but not reproducing.
A second child for Antonio and Mattea. Waypoint 58, 21 January 1776:
> «Dom[enic]a filia legit[i]ma et natu[rali]s D[omi]ni Antonij Defranceschi, Matthæque ejus [conjugis], nata gemina hac nocte elapsa. Baptizata a me Archip[res]b[yter]um Antonium Massalini.»
Domenica, daughter of Antonio Defranceschi and Mattea, baptised 21 January 1776 — and born a twin. The word gemina is squeezed in above the line. Magnified and read letter by letter; her father is styled D.ni, Dominus, as he is in Franca's entry seven years earlier. The second baby of that birth has not been located and is the obvious next thing to look for. (doc.)
And the 1772 wedding is joined to its first child, on the page. Waypoint 48, carta 47:
> «Adi 22 Xbre 1773. Pasqua e Vitoria figlia di Giacomo de Franceschi, e di Nicoletta jugali, nata li 16 a ore dodici del corrente … Battezata da me D. Pietro Can.co Fabris.»
The marriage register has «Giacobus filius Giacobi de Franceschi et Nicolina filia Nicolai Teserati» marrying on 10 June 1772. Nicolina and Nicoletta are one name, and the child arrives eighteen months later. This archive has joined the marriage register to the baptism register at this parish for the first time from two read acts rather than an index line. (doc.)
Gasparo's window closes. He is godfather in 1768 — «Domi.o Gasparo di Franceschi», magnified — and his wife Maria is named as godmother repeatedly through 1770, 1771 and into April 1772. The marriage register then has «Maria relicta q.m Gasparis de Franceschi» remarrying on 30 March 1773. Same forename, same parish, eleven months later. The Gasparo who died is this Gasparo — Giacomo's son, baptised 26 December 1737 — and the widow is the same Maria. (inf, and about as tight as this evidence gets.)
Antonio is on these pages throughout: godfather on 4 March 1769 alongside Gasparo, on 25 December 1774, and his wife Maria— no, Mattea — as godmother in October 1775. Domenico de Franceschi and a wife appear from 1775.
Two cautions this sweep produced, both now written into the method.
The volume has two decoys that a spread-scale scan cannot separate from this surname: the officiating priest «D. Anto Stancovich», who signs most entries, and the local gentry «Sig. Francesco Fabris». Waypoint 7 produced a false positive that magnification killed. Every candidate needs a second, narrow look.
And a render fault was silently eating frames. A fixed two-second wait after loading a plate is not always enough: the crop fires before the JPEG finishes and the screenshot comes back black. Three frames were lost that way before it was noticed. The fix is to poll img.complete && naturalWidth > 100 rather than sleep — the same lesson this archive already learned on Findmypast and had not carried across.
Domenico's wife will not settle: Victoria in 1775 and 1776, Fosca in 1780, Jusca in 1782. Either remarriages or the clerk's ear, and it is recorded as open rather than reconciled.
Still unread: waypoints 61–80, 85–92 and 96–134 — about sixty-seven frames.What it produced on this siteAntonio · The rest of the sweep · Svetvinčenat (San Vincenti) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | Frames 90-107 of the Svetvincenat baptism volume -- Vittorio named his father's son a second time, and five decoys caught Yielded | Svetvinčenat baptisms 1764–1791, film 005497885 — frames 90–107 read opening by opening | Eighteen more openings read one by one. Every candidate below was magnified before it was written down, and five were killed at magnification — which is the more useful half of this entry.
Vittorio is called his father's son a second time, nine years after the first. Frame 98, 20 September 1782:
> «Patrini qui susceperunt fuere Victorius filius Antonii de Franceschi, et Fosca Vxor Dominici Defranceschi.»
The February 1773 marriage-witness line said «Victorio de Franceschi filio Antonij». The 1812 burial says kin: Antonio. Three independent records, thirty-nine years apart, give the same man the same father. (doc.) And by frame 103, 8 May 1784, he needs no father at all: «Patrini fuere Victorivs de Franceschi, et Constantia Vxor Antonij Fabri».
Mattea gains two years of life. Frame 98, 18 August 1782: «Martinus Merklem, et Matthea Vxor Antonij Defranceschi». She was last seen on 1 May 1780. (doc.)
Two of the name stand at one font, and the clerk says so in one word. Frame 101, 10 September 1783: «Patrini fuere Antonivs de Franceschi, et Evphemia pariter de Franceschi». Pariter — likewise, the same surname. Vittorio's wife was a Euphemia, which would make this Antonio beside his own daughter-in-law; that is inference and is not written down as fact. (doc for the entry; inf for who she is.)
Domenico appears in the baptisms under his own name for the first time. Frame 106, 13 October 1784: «Patrini fuere Dnvs Dominicvs de Franceschi, et Maria q.m Defuncti Antonii Bergamo» — styled Dnvs, the courtesy the register gives Antonio and withholds from most of the parish. Until now he was only ever «Fosca's husband». (doc.)
And one man can now be struck off the list of who he might be. Antonio's son Domenico was born 25 December 1777. He is five years old when Fosca is already «uxor Dominici» in September 1782. They are different men. (doc for the elimination.)
Fosca, wife of Domenico, is now attested seven times across 1780–1784 — 9 September 1781, 20 September 1782, 10 December 1782, 16 December 1783 and 3 January 1784 are new here, all magnified. She is one of the parish's standing godmothers.
### The five that died at magnification
What it produced on this siteVittorio · Fosca · The five decoys · Svetvinčenat (San Vincenti) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | Frames 108-112: the register names Euphemia as Vittorio's wife, and Antonio turns out to have a daughter Maria Yielded | Svetvinčenat baptisms 1764–1791, film 005497885 — frames 108–112 | Two findings here are worth more than the eighteen frames that produced them.
The first moves a marriage from an index to a read act. Frame 110, 22 August 1785:
> «Patrini fuere Antonius Radocovich, et Evphemia Vxor Victoris de Franceschi.»
«Vittorio × Euphemia» had rested entirely on one FamilySearch index line — the 1784 baptism of their daughter Maria Matthia, «parents Victorii De Franceschi & Euphemię». An index is a transcription of a page somebody else read. This is the page. (doc.)
It also resolves frame 101's «Antonivs de Franceschi, et Evphemia pariter de Franceschi»: the same parish, the same two years, the same woman. Antonio stood at that font beside his own daughter-in-law. (inf — but the alternative needs two Euphemias married into one small family in one small parish.)
The second adds a person to the family. Frame 112, 18 January 1786:
> «Antonius filius legitimus ac naturalis Thomae, et Catharinae jugalium Bercan natus heri … Patrini fuere Matthaeus Doblanovich, et Maria filia Antonii de Franceschi.»
Maria, daughter of Antonio — a fifth child beside Vittorio, Franca, Domenica and Domenico, and in none of this archive's files before this line. (doc.)
Her baptism is not where it ought to be. A girl asked to stand godmother in January 1786 is rarely under fifteen, which would put her birth at or before about 1771 — and frames 5–60, covering 1764 to 1775, have been read opening by opening with no Maria of Antonio in them. Either she was born before 1764, in the volume whose first 154 images are still unread, or the sweep missed her. No birth year is recorded for her, because an age reasoned backwards from a godmother's minimum age is a guess wearing arithmetic's clothes.
Antonio's children have taken over his office. Through the 1770s it was Antonio the bell-ringer in the godparent line. By 1785–86 it is Vittorio (30 July 1785, 13 December 1785), Euphemia his wife (22 August 1785) and Maria his daughter (18 January 1786).
### A sixth decoy, and it is the forename again
Frame 112, 20 January 1786, two entries from our own: «Antonius Zambiasio, et Euphemia Vxor Matthei Bullesich». A second Euphemia on the same leaf — exactly the trap that «Fosca uxor Martini Merklem» set on frame 98. In this parish both Fosca and Euphemia are common forenames. Only the full «uxor + the husband's whole name» form identifies anybody; the forename alone identifies a coincidence.
One reading corrected inside this sweep. Frame 112's 13 December 1785 godfather was read at spread scale as Antonius de Franceschi. Magnified, it is Victorius. Father and son have similar-length names in this hand.
Still unread: frames 113–134 of this volume, and images 1–154 of the 1709–1764 volume. What it produced on this siteMaria · Euphemia · Vittorio · Svetvinčenat (San Vincenti) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | The Svetvincenat baptism volume 1764-1791 read to its last leaf -- and what a complete volume is worth Yielded | Svetvinčenat baptisms 1764–1791, film 005497885 — frames 113–131, completing the volume | Every opening of this volume has now been read — frames 5 to 131, the whole of 1764 to 1791. The register closes on 28 May 1791 with the archpriest's own tally; frames 132–134 are the microfilm's target boards, not pages.
The completeness is the finding. A negative from a volume read frame by frame is evidence. A negative from a volume searched by index is nothing at all.
### What the name does in this book
It stands at other people's fonts, constantly, and it almost never appears as a parent. In twenty-seven years there are six baptisms of the surname — Franca (1769), Pasqua Vittoria (1773), Domenica (1776), Domenico (1777), Giovanni (1778) and Maria Matthia (1784) — and well over sixty appearances as godparent. That shape is what a settled, respectable, and small family looks like in a parish register.
### The people this volume establishes
- Antonio, the bell-ringer, Dnus, alive from before 1769 to 12 October 1788 (magnified) — about fifty-eight at the last sighting.
- Mattea, his wife, 1 May 1780 to 18 August 1782 (magnified).
- Vittorio, his son, called «filius Antonii» in 1773, 1782 and 1787 — three independent entries, plus the 1812 burial's kin: Antonio. The most-named man of the surname in the book.
- Euphemia, Vittorio's wife, named in full — «uxor Victorii de Franceschi» — on 22 August 1785, four times in six weeks in early 1787, and last on 15 January 1791.
- Maria, Antonio's daughter, 18 January 1786 and 30 September 1787, the second adding «ex hac Parochia».
- Domenico, Dnus, and his wife Fosca — she is the parish's standing godmother, in eight-plus entries across 1780–1789.
### The act this sweep missed, and how it was recovered
Reading all 127 openings, I did not see the one baptism that mattered most — and the index did. The FamilySearch index entry for Maria Matthia De Franceschi carries the image ark 3:1:3QS7-L99X-K3FV, which is frame 106 — a frame this sweep had already read and passed over. Going back to it with a narrow crop:
> «Anno Dni 1784 Die 4 Septembris. Maria Matthia filia legitima, ac naturalis Victorii, et Euphemiæ jugalium De Franceschi, nata 3 currentis, hodie per me subscriptum baptizata. Patrini fuere Stephanus Dubglich a Dimino, et Dna Antonia Fachinetti.»
Maria Matthia, daughter of Vittorio and Euphemia De Franceschi, born 3 September 1784, baptised the next day. (doc — the act itself, not the index of it.)
This is the only baptism of Vittorio's line on these leaves, and it makes the couple a documented marriage rather than an inferred one. The godmother, Dna Antonia Fachinetti, is of the parish gentry; the godfather comes from Dvigrad.
The honest account of how it was found is the useful part. A frame-by-frame sweep is not a guarantee. Eleven consecutive entries in one column at spread scale is exactly where attention fails, and this act sat in the eleventh. The index caught what the reading missed; the reading then proved what the index only asserted. Neither method was sufficient alone. See /corrections/.
### What this volume genuinely does not contain
There is no baptism for Maria, Antonio's daughter. Frames 5–60 cover 1764–1775 continuously and she is not in them. She was likely born before 1764, in the earlier volume — whose first 154 images remain unread. (open.)
### The clerk's ear
Domenico's wife is written Fosca, Fusca, Jusca, Justa and Julia across ten years. One woman, one household. A reader in a hurry would make three of her.
### Eight decoys, and the pattern in them
What it produced on this siteVittorio · Euphemia · Antonio · Svetvinčenat (San Vincenti) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | Rotilio's marriage found at Trieste — and the archive owes the reunion album an apology Yielded | FamilySearch full-text search — «Rotilio Defranceschi», which reached the Trieste marriage proclamations of 1928 | Work list item 125, and it went the opposite way to the one this archive expected.
The question was «the name of the woman Rotilio actually married», asked because the Eleven had concluded the 2012 reunion album gave him his sister's husband's surname. The answer came from FamilySearch full-text search — a service item 87 records as never having been tried here — on the plain query Rotilio Defranceschi.
Trieste, Marriage Proclamation Records 1928, Parte II Serie A, numero 132:
> «…il sottoscritto Ufficiale dello Stato Civile del Comune di Pisino … procedere alle publicazioni del matrimonio che sarà davanti a lui celebrato fra Defranceschi Rotilo, celibe, di professione chauffeur, nato a Gallignana, residente in Gallignana, d'età maggiore, figlio di fu Antonio, di professione muratore, residente in vita in Gallignana, e di Valhart Maria, di professione casalinga … Cincopan Albina, nubile, di professione casalinga, nata a Gallignana, residente in Gallignana, di età maggiore, figlia di Giuseppe, di professione agricoltore … e di Trompich Maria, di professione casalinga, residente in Gallignana…»
Rotilio married an Albina Cincopan of his own village. Cincopan and Chinkopan are one surname. His sister Albina separately married Frank Chinkopan and died at Brooklyn in 1945. Both marriages happened. The album was right, David's tree was right to carry two Albinas, and the inference published here was wrong.
What the document adds beyond the name:
- Rotilio was a chauffeur — the first trade recorded for him.
- His father Antonio was a muratore, a mason, and was dead by April 1928. His mother Maria Valhart was alive, at Gallignana. Both match Albina's Brooklyn death certificate independently, which is what confirms this is the right Rotilio.
- The bride's parents: Giuseppe Cincopan, farmer, and Maria Trompich — two people new to this archive.
- The wedding belonged to Pisino, not Gračišće: the request came from the Comune di Pisino. The banns ran at Trieste as well «ove la sposa ha avuto la residenza» — Albina had lived in Trieste. That is a new place to search, and the reason this record exists at all.
- Dates: requested 27 April, posted at Trieste 29 April and 6 May 1928. The Gračišće register's 16 May 1928 sits exactly where a third banns and a wedding should.
Argentina remains unevidenced. The album's «left for Buenos Aires with two daughters» is the only part of its account still standing without a document, and David's tree's «died at Buenos Aires» with it.
A note on where this came from. Full-text search reads the handwriting of unindexed registers, which is why a plain two-word query reached a document no name index contains. It had never been run here. It should now be run against every open question on this list. What it produced on this siteAlbina Cincopan · The Eleven · The correction · Gračišće (Gallignana) · Trieste · Pisino | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | What full-text search can and cannot reach — the boundary, measured rather than assumed Yielded | FamilySearch full-text — coverage measured by sampling 97 collections, and the phrase-quoting rule | Full-text search answered item 125 on its first query, so the next question is how much else it can answer. The boundary turns out to be sharp, and it is geographic.
Sampling its own results. The query Defranceschi returns 3,967 documents. Reading the collection line off 97 of them:
"Valentino Defranceschi" returns 4, all of them Italian mainland and none at Rijeka. Always quote the phrase. (doc, on measurement.)What it produced on this siteThe work list it redirects · Method — what the service covers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | The Fiume household is ours after all — the plate says «de Franceschi» and the index was wrong Yielded | Fiume film 005497925 image 150 — the 29 May 1748 entry read off the plate | Two hours ago this archive flagged a doubt against its own Fiume household. The plate has now been read, and the doubt was misplaced — but it was right to raise it.
The entry, magnified from the plate itself (film 005497925, image 150, right page, fourth entry):
> Die 29 Maij 1748. «Josephum Aloysium filium legitimum D[omi]ni Joannis Bapt[ist]æ et D[omi]næ Magdalenæ jugalium DE FRANCESCHI, natus 28 hujus, baptisavit D[omi]nus Can[onicu]s Baches Eustachius … Patrini fuere D[omi]nus Josephus Voxila et D[omi]na Eleonora Frauel.»
The surname is «de Franceschi», written plainly. FamilySearch's household index for this image reads it «Mancoschi» — for the parents too. The index is wrong and this archive was right. Item 143 keeps its premise: there really are two Defranceschi households at Fiume in the 1740s.
### What the plate adds that the index never had
- The child was born 28 May and baptised on the 29th — «natus 28 hujus». The index gives only the baptism.
- Both parents carry honorifics — D.ni Joannis Baptistæ and D.næ Magdalenæ. This is a household the parish addressed as gentry, which squares with the D.nus already recorded for the father.
- The godparents are new to this archive: Dominus Josephus Voxila and Domina Eleonora Frauel. Neither is a Defranceschi — so this entry does not, by itself, link the two Fiume houses. Item 143's question stands; only its premise is secured.
- The celebrant was a Canonicus, not the parish priest.
### The part that will change how this archive reads plates
The frames were being fought, not read. Four attempts at this one entry failed because crops were being guessed as fractions of the image — and the guesses were badly wrong: the book was assumed to sit in the top-left quadrant when it fills x 0.034–0.964, y 0.044–0.951 of the plate.
The fix is to stop guessing and measure. The plate is fetched once — the sg30p0 URL 401s to a bare request, but the browser's redirect yields a signed S3 URL that serves it without a session — and then analysed locally:
What it produced on this siteWork list item 143 · The index's error · The Kvarner households — Rijeka and Bakar · Fiume (Rijeka) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | Valentino's household stood at the font with the Captain of Kastav's wife — but still no Defranceschi godparent Yielded | Fiume film 005497925 frame 77 — the 17 September 1739 baptism of Valentino's son, read for its godparents | Item 143 asks how the two Fiume households relate. With the plate-reading method now working, the obvious test is whether either house ever stood godparent to the other. The first of Valentino's baptisms to be read says no — and says something else worth more.
Film 005497925, frame 77, right page — located by the index ark for Matheus Franciscus, then found on the plate by line-variance:
> Die 17 7bris 1739. «Matthæus Franciscus filius legitimus D. Valentini et Helenæ jugalium Defranceschi, baptisavit D[omi]nus Canonicus Franciscus … Ronaldi. Patrini fuere Nob. D[omi]nus Petrus Ronaldi, et Nob. D[omi]na Margarita uxor D[omi]ni Georgij Vlah, Capitanei Cast[u]anensis.»
### What it settles, and what it does not
It does not join the two houses. The godparents are Petrus Ronaldi and Margarita Vlah — neither a Defranceschi. Together with the 1748 entry, whose godparents were Josephus Voxila and Eleonora Frauel, two of the family's Fiume baptisms are now read and neither names anyone of the surname. (doc, for the negative.)
But it places Valentino socially, and higher than «venuto dalla Carnia» suggests.
- He is styled D. — Dominus — in 1739, the year he became a citizen of Fiume. Not a newcomer being tolerated; a man the register addresses with the honorific.
- Both godparents are styled Nob., noble.
- The godmother is the wife of Georgius Vlah, Capitaneus — a captain, of what reads as Castuanensis: Kastav, the fortified town above Rijeka.
- The celebrant was a Canonicus, and shares the surname Ronaldi with the godfather.
That is the same stratum the other household moves in. Joannes Baptista and Magdalena are D.ni with D.nus/D.na godparents; Valentino is D. with Nob. godparents. Two Defranceschi houses in one small port, both addressed as gentry, in the same decade. That is not proof of kinship — a port's merchant families share a stratum without sharing blood — but it is the first thing this archive has found that makes the two households look like one milieu rather than two coincidences. (inf, and stated as no more.)
### A caution carried forward
The index gives this baptism's place as «Vitipolis, Modrus-Fiume», not Fiume. This archive does not yet know what Vitipolis is and is not guessing; the plate itself is a volume of film 005497925, which the archive treats as Fiume. The discrepancy is recorded, not resolved.
And one more index error, of the kind already logged today: the record indexed as «Antonio De Franceschi, born 1753, parents Elena and Valentino» is not a baptism at all — the page says Burial, 1 September 1753, age 0. The 1753 is FamilySearch's own estimate. Reading it as a birth would have invented a child. What it produced on this siteWork list item 143 · The Kvarner households — Rijeka and Bakar · Fiume (Rijeka) · Kastav | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Stare hrvatske novine (dnc.nsk.hr) Yielded | Surname and place searches across the digitised Croatian press, including the Bakar papers Galeb and Kvarner | In progress. An ASP.NET search that will not answer a plain command-line request and has to be driven like a person. It carries two Bakar newspapers, which is the sharpest reason to work it.
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Opened on 20 September, and the first finding is that the portal is dead. dnc.nsk.hr still answers on http — https fails outright — but it serves an empty ASP.NET shell with a 2009 copyright line and no search. The row had been pointing at a stub.
The live successor is digitalna.nsk.hr, which has a «Cjeloviti tekst» full-text box across the National and University Library's digitised holdings. It yields, and it yields differently for each spelling — «Defranceschi» returns 10 records, «De Franceschi» returns 43, and they are not the same set. That is the Hungaricana lesson repeating on a second portal: the one-word form finds the people, the two-word form finds the scholarship.What it produced on this siteRijeka and Bakar · Stare hrvatske novine — NSK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Archivinformationssystem — the whole Austrian State Archives, searched by name for the first time Yielded | Whether the ÖStA catalogue names this family — and whether the €45 the Kriegsarchiv quoted would buy anything | Ninety-nine records, fifty-three of them the name, and the Kriegsarchiv's own bill is answered by its own catalogue.
The Austrian State Archives publish a field search that is free, needs no account, and searches Title contains across every department. Nobody here had ever run it. One query on the stem Franceschi returns 99 records: 53 of this name, 46 of the adjacent diminutives — AVA 19, FHKA 12, HHStA 11, Kriegsarchiv 7, AdR 4.
The €45 question is settled, and the answer is half a refund. On 17 September the Kriegsarchiv quoted €45, payable win or lose, for a Marinepersonensuche on Julius and Valentin.
· Valentin needs no search at all. 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. «Permission required: Keine · Accessibility: Öffentlich.» A file you can cite is a reproduction order, not a research fee.
· Julius is not in the catalogue at all — and the Kriegsarchiv's own FAQ says why: personnel records of navy men born after 1865 whose Heimatzuständigkeit lay outside today's Austria «verblieben in den jeweiligen Nachfolgestaaten bzw. wurden dorthin abgetreten». Julius was born 1879 on the Kvarner. His file went to Yugoslavia in 1918. Vienna quoted to look for something its own website says it does not hold.
Three men of the name this archive had never met.
· Johann Defranceschi, born 1833, Geburtsort Gallignana — which is Gračišće, the parish this family comes out of. A sailor: Marinediener 4. Klasse on one card and 1. Klasse on two others, so the promotion is visible in the catalogue alone. Three files: MGBBl 2651, VerEv Kdi 219, VerEv KL-Mardi 76.
· Carl «Dragutin» Defranceschi, born 29 July 1883 at Zara, judge at the district court of Šibenik — personnel file 1909–1918, AVA Justiz JM Präs. A 134.22. An Italian and a Croatian forename on one man in one file, which is this archive's whole thesis in miniature.
· Peter Defranceschi, Ordensverleihung 1918 — Ritterkreuz, Kriegsdekoration mit Schwert, HHStA HA OrdK Kartei 3-168, Geschäftszahl 1732/1918. The card only; the act itself sits under the Ordenskanzlei files for 1918.
And a family of Habsburg accountants nobody had counted. The Hofkammerarchiv holds Vicenzo (Kassa 46, 1847), Anton (ORH 3412, Dalmatinische Provinzial-Staatsbuchhaltung in Zara), Johann Baptist and a second Valentin (ORH 3777 and 3778, both Zentralstaatsbuchhaltung in Venedig). Venice and Zadar, the two ends of the Adriatic, in one office.
Method, so it can be repeated: archivinformationssystem.at/feldsuche.aspx → row 1 «Title» / «contains» / term; set results per page; Search. Searching the stem Franceschi catches every in-scope spelling and the diminutives in one pass.
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Superseded, 22 September 2026. This row says four accountants. There are nine, and the Venice office alone holds five — the September search was run with the form's default operator, «starts with», which drops every Defranceschi. The row is left as it was written, because a search register records what a search returned; the count is corrected on the corrections page and all nine are on the roster. · Vienna | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | TNA Discovery — where the nineteenth-century crew agreements actually are Yielded | Whether Kew or Newfoundland holds a Cardiff crew agreement for 1876–77 | Neither, and both, and a third — in stated proportions. Kew's own series description for BT 99 calls it «a ten per cent sample of agreements and crew lists … for the years 1861-1938». Discovery separately catalogues, as an external holding, «Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, crew lists, agreements and official logbooks (c70% of total)», 1863-1938, held by the Maritime History Archive, Memorial University of Newfoundland. The remaining fifth sits in county record offices — for a Cardiff ship, Glamorgan Archives. The key to all three is a number, not a name. MF17 at Kew is the microfiche «Index to location of crew agreements and logbooks of vessels», 1863-1913, produced by the Newfoundland archive itself and «arranged according to the official number of the vessel, the vessels are not named». Every BT 99 piece in the catalogue is likewise titled by official numbers only. So the surname will never find a crew list, however dense the index. The lookup runs ship → official number → MF17 → repository. That makes the Cardiff marriage certificate of Q3 1876 the hinge: it is the one document that might name Emerico's vessel. · Cardiff | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Hungaricana — the given name varied sixteen ways, for the first time Yielded | Whether the Hungarian forms of the forenames find people the German and Italian forms missed | Sixteen Hungarian forenames, fourteen nils, two hits — and the two explain the fourteen.
Every sweep this archive had run varied the surname and never the forename. So sixteen Magyar forms went to Hungaricana as phrases in Hungarian word order, surname first: Gyula, Antal, János, Bálint, Vincze, Károly, Mihály, József, Miklós, Alajos, Tódor, Lajos, István, Ede — all zero.
«Defranceschi Ferencz» returns 4 and «Defranceschi Péter» returns 1. Which gives the rule: the Hungarian state wrote its prose in Hungarian and its service lists in German, so the surname inverts but the forename stays put. Ferencz works only because it is a spelling of Franz, not a translation of it.
The four Ferencz hits include one that is new — the Budapesti utasító of 1848, a Budapest directory, beside the two already-known pension entries for the Fiume harbour master and his orphan daughter.
And Péter gave a man nobody here had met: «beim Husz. Reg. Nr 8 · Defranceschi Peter Dr · beim Garnisons-Spitale zu …», Militärschematismus des österreichischen Kaiserthumes für 1867, p. 647, under Militär-Parteien. A regimental physician — now the fourteenth name on the imperial roll and the second doctor on it.
The fourteen nils are evidence rather than silence because the control worked: a method that returns four known records for Ferencz is a method whose zeros can be believed. What it produced on this siteThe Kvarner households — Rijeka and Bakar · Fiume · Vienna | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | NSK digitalna — the National and University Library's full text, both spellings Yielded | What Croatian digitised books and journals say about the name — the search that had stood pending for a week | The name turns out to have a village it never left, and an inscription nobody here knew about.
Svetvinčenat — and the name is the only one that stayed. Atti 48 (2018), the journal of the Centro di ricerche storiche at Rovigno: «Il cognome Defranceschi era stato l'unico ad avere nel Castello di San Vincenti una continuità…» — the only surname with continuity in the castle of San Vincenti. And it acted as a body: «Guidati da Antonio Defranceschi, nel 1780 avevano ottenuto l'esonero dal partecipare alla difesa armata» — led by Antonio Defranceschi, in 1780 they obtained exemption from armed defence duty. This archive had never heard of Svetvinčenat.
A Glagolitic inscription at Gologorica. Branko Fučić, Glagoljski natpisi (JAZU, Zagreb 1982) — the standard corpus — carries: «Natpis je vjerojatno registriran u Gologorici, gdje su Defranceschi…». Gologorica is one of this archive's own origin places.
The sentence was then walked out of the closed book a phrase at a time — the full-text index re-centres its snippet on whatever phrase you search, so a copyright-restricted page can be read forwards in steps: «Riječ »Pomjane« (ime istarskog sela) ne može se čitati u posljednjem retku. Natpis je vjerojatno registriran u Gologorici, gdje su Defranceschi imali posjed i …» — «…where the Defranceschi had an estate and …»
So it is not a mention, it is a landholding, and Fučić uses it to date the stone. Pomjane — the unreadable village in the inscription's last line — is a place-name new to this archive.
The surname survey puts the name in four more Istrian places. Atti 50 (2020) lists it under GALLIGNANA — which is Gračišće — and under VISINADA/Vižinada, BARBAN and KRŠIKLA, together with two compound forms this archive has never recorded: Defranceschi Triscoli and Defranceschi Pelosi.
Three more, each of a different kind. A woman holding land: «Elena Defranceschi Vittorio 669 Dobasnizza Polje» in Carlo Hugues, Il carbonato calcico (Parenzo 1896), a register of Istrian vineyard plots. A political line-up: «FACHINETTI — MADONIZZA - DEFRANCESCHI» in Pacifico Valussi, Trieste e l'Istria (Milano 1861) — the name set beside the two best-known Istrian liberals of the year. And a citation: «Fra i moderni citiamo Carlo Defranceschi: «L'Istria», note storiche, Parenzo», G. E. Pons, Antichità polesi (Pola 1910).
And the spaced spelling opens the scholarship. 43 records against 10. Vjesnik Istarskog arhiva 25 (2018) carries Jurković's bibliography of the journal's first twenty-five volumes, and it indexes four authors of the name: DE FRANCESCHI, Camillo · Carlo · Ettore · Paolo. Ettore and Paolo are new here.* The same volume cites Camillo DE FRANCESCHI, Storia documentata della Contea di Pisino, a cura del figlio — edited by his son, which names a generation.
Method: digitalna.nsk.hr, «Cjeloviti tekst» box. The old dnc.nsk.hr portal is a dead shell and should not be cited again.What it produced on this siteThe Istrian lines · Istria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Crikvenica marriages 1895 — Petar Kovačina, joiner, and the resort being built Yielded | Reading the marriage film for Defranceschi turned up the other side of the family instead | The film was being read for a name that is not in it, and gave a different one that is.
Crikvenica marriages 1895, entry 28, 28 November: «Petar Kovačina, stolar» — a joiner — marries «Marija Car», at Crikvenica house 119. Both are entered as workers; his father is another Petar Kovačina.
Kovačina is Uršula's surname. Uršula Kovačina, born at Crikvenica about 1890–95, married Anton Rudolf Defranceschi and is David's great-grandmother — she is on the direct line and died at Belgrade in 1975. A Kovačina household at Crikvenica in 1895, in the joiner's trade, with a house number, is the first time this archive has seen her family in a register rather than in a tree. inf — kinship is not yet proved; a Kovačina at Crikvenica in 1895 is very likely her kin, but which kin is a question for the birth register.
What settles it: the Crikvenica births for 1890–1896, which are on the errands already for a different reason, would show whether Uršula is a daughter of this house.
And the page it sits on is worth reading for its own sake. The same three images carry Josip Butković, deputy manager of the Grande Hotel; two carpenters named Stumpfhuber; Alojzije Jerkini, architect and clerk of works; labourers from Ljubljana; a clerk from Karlovac-Dubovac with a Herbst witness; and a post-and-telegraph official from Gospić married with a plemeniti Budisavljević standing witness. Crikvenica's Grand Hotel was going up, and the register is full of the people building and running it. That is the world an Italian-named craftsman would have belonged to — and the name is still not there. What it produced on this siteThe Crikvenica household · Crikvenica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Crikvenica marriages 1899 — a Kalanj in the book, and he is not Anna's brother Yielded | The second surname of the Klenovica marriage finally appears in the Crikvenica register | Crikvenica marriages, 1899, entry 1, 8 January: «Ivan Kalanj, zidar» — a mason — marries «Vjekoslava Car, poljodjelka». His parents are Ivan Kalanj and Josipa née Šilić, labourers; hers are Jakov Car, a sailor, and Marija née Kalnić.
Kalanj is the surname this archive has been hunting alongside Defranceschi. Anna Kalanj married Josip Defranceschi and is Anton Rudolf's mother; the marriage this whole film was opened to find is theirs. So a Kalanj in the Crikvenica book matters.
And the parents rule him out as her brother, which is worth saying plainly. Anna Kalanj was baptised at Ledenice in 1864, «daughter of Josephus Kalanj and Rosalia née Perković, at Klenovica house 22». This groom's parents are Ivan and Josipa née Šilić. Different household. He is not her brother, and nothing here connects him to her beyond the surname.
What it does establish is that Kalanj was present at Crikvenica and marrying there — the name is in the parish, in the building trades, in 1899. That is a place to look for Anna's kin that this archive did not have, and it sharpens the question the film was opened to answer: the Kalanj were reachable from Crikvenica, and the Defranceschi still are not in it. What it produced on this siteThe Crikvenica household · Crikvenica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Crikvenica marriages 1899 — Anna Kalanj's brother, found by reading the film that does not contain her husband Yielded | Whether any Kalanj of Anna's own household appears in the Crikvenica register | Crikvenica marriages, 1899, entry 12, 25 January:
> «Josip Kalanj, zidar, iz Ledenica» — a mason, of Ledenice house 37 — marries «Marija Poštrenčić, švelja»*, a seamstress, now living at Crikvenica. His parents: «Josip Kalanj i Rosalija rodj. Perković». A witness: «Luka Kalanj Martinov, zidar».
Those are Anna Kalanj's parents. This archive already held her baptism: Ledenice, 1864, «entry 2, daughter of Josephus Kalanj and Rosalia née Perković, at Klenovica house 22». Same father's name, same mother, same maiden name, same parish. Josip Kalanj the younger is Anna's brother — and therefore Anton Rudolf's maternal uncle and David's great-great-uncle.
Why it matters more than one name. Anna Kalanj married Josip Defranceschi, and this whole film was opened to find that marriage. The film does not contain it. But it does contain her brother, with a trade, a house number and a wife — so the bride's family is now in a register rather than on a chart, and the Kalanj turn out to be masons, the same building trade that fills these pages while Crikvenica's hotel was going up.
The house number differs and that is expected: Anna is at Klenovica 22 in 1864, her brother at Ledenice 37 in 1899. Klenovica is a hamlet of Ledenice and thirty-five years separate the two entries.
And a second Kalanj stands beside him — Luka Kalanj, son of Martin, mason. A third, Ivan Kalanj, married in this same register three weeks earlier (1899 no. 1) to different parents. There is a Kalanj colony of masons working between Ledenice and Crikvenica in 1899.
doc — the parents' names are read directly off the page; the maiden name «Perković» is a handwriting read, checked at full magnification.
What to do next: the Ledenice marriage register should hold Josip and Marija's banns, and the Ledenice births around 1860–1875 should hold Anna and her brothers together in one household — which would give this archive Anna's whole sibling set for the first time. What it produced on this siteThe Crikvenica household · Crikvenica · Ledenice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Anna Kalanj's whole household, and the house she was born in Yielded | The sibling set of Anna Kalanj, and whether the Kalanj house at Klenovica can be tied to the house in her own baptism | Eight children, and the same front door for thirty years.
The Ledenice baptism register 1861–1894 gives the children of Josip Kalanj and Rosalija née Perković — David's great-great-grandparents on the Kvarner side. Found through the FamilySearch index on q.fatherSurname=Kalanj, then every one of them read back on the register page itself:
What it produced on this siteThe Crikvenica household · Ledenice · Klenovica · Povile | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | The Kovačina marriage of 1895 — and the question the archive refused to guess at Yielded | Whether Petar Kovačina the joiner of house 119 was the financial guard under an earlier trade, a brother, or a son | He is the son, and the marriage entry says so in as many words.
This archive set the question out honestly and declined to answer it: two Crikvenica death entries gave a Petar Kovačina, «umirovljeni c. kr. financijski Nadstražar», who died on 3 November 1904 aged 55 with his wife Uršula née Stojčić, and a Petar Kovačina, «stolar», a joiner, married to Marija née Car — both at house 119. «Whether the joiner is the guard under an earlier trade, a brother, or a son, the register does not say and this archive will not guess.»
The marriage register does say. Crikvenica marriages, 28 November 1895, entry 28 — read on the film, and the parents' cell magnified to be certain of it:
> «Petar Kovačina, stolar» marries «Marija Car» at Crikvenica house 119.
> Parents of the groom: «Petar Kovačina, k. r. financ. nadstražar, i Uršula rodj. Stojčić, radnica.»
> Parents of the bride: «Vjekoslav Car i [Krista?] rodj. Car» — the mother’s forename reads as Krista on the page and is indexed as Vinka; the surname and the father are not in doubt, the forename is.
Those are exactly the two people from the 1904 death entry — the same name, the same office in the same words, the same wife with the same maiden name. The joiner is the guard's son.
So the house resolves into three generations:
1. Petar Kovačina the elder — c. kr. financijski nadstražar, a senior guard of the Habsburg customs and excise, born at Draga in the kotar of Sušak about 1849, dead of consumption at Crikvenica on 3 November 1904; and Uršula «Ursa» née Stojčić, kućarka.
2. Petar Kovačina the younger — stolar, a joiner — who married Marija Car on 28 November 1895 and kept house 119. The observations add why the wedding needed paperwork: «dozvolom kr. ug. Ministarstva za zem. obranu od 14/9 t.g. br. 53688» — by leave of the Royal Hungarian Ministry of National Defence, so he was still of service age. Their daughter Josipa died there at eighteen months in September 1898.
3. Uršula Kovačina, who married Anton Rudolf Defranceschi — and who carries her grandmother's name.
One step is inference and is flagged as such. That Anton Rudolf's wife Uršula is the daughter of the joiner and Marija Car is the natural reading — the name, the house and the dates all fit a girl born at 119 in the later 1890s — but it is not yet proved. The proof would be her own baptism: Crikvenica births, 1896–1902, a Uršula Kovačina at house 119. That is the next thing to read.
doc for the three named generations; the link from the joiner to Anton Rudolf's wife is inf until that baptism is found.
And the next step was tried at once: it does not answer. The index was queried for every child of a Kovačina father in Croatia — four hundred rows — and there is no Uršula Kovačina birth in it at all. Either her baptism is unindexed or she was born outside these books. So the link from the joiner to Anton Rudolf’s wife stays exactly where it was: the natural reading, not yet the proved one. Reading Crikvenica births 1896–1902 page by page is the way to settle it. What it produced on this siteThe Crikvenica household · Crikvenica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | The FamilySearch index, matched on Valentino and Helena as parents rather than on the children's names Yielded | An ark and an image for each of Valentino's Fiume children, so the pages stop resting on an unciteable reading | Eleven of fifteen recovered, a fifteenth child found, and the four that resist are exactly the four the archive had already named as unindexed.
The children were read off the register on 6 September 2026 and no ark or image was kept — this archive's own rule is that a read is worth what its citation is worth, so the whole list was uncitable. Searching the index for the children's names fails, because the names are latinised differently in every entry. Searching the surname and then filtering on date works: q.surname over Defranceschi, De Franceschi and Franceschi, keeping only rows whose principal carries a year between 1735 and 1760. Twenty-two rows come back for those twenty-five years; eleven of them are Valentino's.
…-W… frames are the baptisms, …-QD… frames the burials. That is what first suggested Aloysia's 1757 date was a death rather than a birth — and reading the page proved it, and gave her age as four.
Mattio and Nicolo share a frame. Both burials of 1742 sit on 3:1:3QS7-L99F-QDHV, which is what one expects of two deaths a few entries apart in the same book — and is worth a glance on the page when someone next has it open.
The four that never come back are the four the archive already knew about. Ignatius Francus Mattheus 1745, Vitus Joannes Baptista 1751, Aloysius Rochus 1754, Rosalia Francisca 1755 — named as unindexed on 6 September, before any of this was tried. Everything the September reading recorded that could be checked has checked out, which is the best evidence available that the four uncheckable ones were read correctly too.
doc for the eleven; the four remaining rest on the 6 September reading alone and need the film at their dates.What it produced on this siteThe Kvarner households — Rijeka and Bakar · Fiume — St Vitus baptisms and burials | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Fiume baptisms, the page under «Die 21 July 1757» Yielded | Whether the index's «Jacobum Vincentium» of Valentinus and Helena is really a child of this household | He is, and the entry is unambiguous.
The first crop of the frame landed on the 20 July heading and showed «Margaritam Annam … jugalium Danesich» — not a Defranceschi — which briefly looked like the index pointing at the wrong page. It was not: the index gives born 20 July, baptised 21 July, and the entry sits under the next date heading, below the crop. Reading further down the same page:
> «Die 21 July 1757 — Jacobum Vincentium filium legitimum Valentini, et Helenæ jugalium Defranceschi, natum 20 hujus, baptizavit D. Carolus Simon Bertoni, Patrini fuere Ill.mus D. Emanuel de Perretti, et Ill.ma D.na Elisabeth Bono.»
Two things beyond the name. The godparents are styled Illustrissimus and Illustrissima — de Perretti and Bono are Fiume patrician names, and a Carnian immigrant's son does not get those sponsors by accident eighteen years after being made a citizen. And the child is the tenth son, which is the number the family has always given and the number this archive could not reach while it had fourteen children.
doc — image. What it produced on this siteThe Kvarner households — Rijeka and Bakar · Fiume — St Vitus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Fiume burials, September 1757, entry 14 Yielded | Whether Aloysia was really «born and buried 1757», since that cannot stand beside a brother born in July of the same year | She was four years old, so she was born about 1753 and the conflict disappears.
The frame is an Italian burial book, numbered, each entry «d’anni X, figlia di …, sepolta con Bara nella …», under a Settembre 1757 heading. Entry 14:
> «Alovisia d’anni 4, figlia di Valentino, ed Elena Defranceschi, sepolta nella Tomba di …»
The unit is deliberate. Entries on the same page that record infants give months — «Maria di mesi 3» two lines above — so «d’anni 4» means four years, not four months. The digit was magnified to be sure of it, and matches the «d’anni 4» of the entry immediately below.
What it changes. The archive had her as one of five infants «born and buried 1757». She was instead a child of about four, born c. 1753, and the 1757 date is her burial alone. doc — image. What it produced on this siteThe Kvarner households — Rijeka and Bakar · Fiume — St Vitus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Maria's 1757 burial — the question Aloysia's entry raised Yielded | Whether Maria, like her sister Aloysia, was older than an infant when she was buried in 1757 | She was an infant — the register says months, not years — so Aloysia's case does not repeat. But the count is off by a few months at the other end.
The frame is the same Italian burial book, under a Maggio 1757 heading. Entry 20:
> «20. Maria figlia di Valentio, ed Elena Defranceschi di mesi …, sepolta con S.B. nella Tomba di S. Giovanni.»
The unit is the whole answer. Aloysia's entry, four months later in the same book, reads «d’anni 4»; Maria's reads «di mesi». The clerk distinguishes the two, and the line above Maria's — another Maria, of Giovanni and Maria Babi — splits the difference with «d’un anno e mè». So Maria Defranceschi died in her first year.
The numeral itself will not resolve. Magnified twice, it sits against the gutter shadow at the line's end and reads as one or two minims — 1, 6 and 11 are all possible and this archive will not choose between them. That matters a little: buried in May 1757, an infant of eleven months was born in 1756, one of a month or six in 1757. Her entry accordingly no longer claims a birth year.
doc for the burial and for «di mesi»; the age in months and the birth year are unread. What it produced on this siteThe Kvarner households — Rijeka and Bakar · Fiume — St Vitus burials | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Fiume, St Vitus baptisms, film 005497925 — read at four dates no index reaches Yielded | The four children of Valentino Defranceschi whose baptisms appear in no index anywhere, and whose pages therefore rested on a reading nobody could check | All four found, all four exactly where the 6 September reading said, and three of them gave up a birth date that reading had not recorded.
How the frames were found, since this is reusable. Any image ark resolves to a film and a frame number: /service/records/storage/dascloud/das/v2/3:1:<ARK> returns {"name":"005497925_00293"} — film 005497925, frame 293. Feeding the eleven indexed children through that gives eleven dated frames, and the gaps between them can be interpolated to about a frame either way. The film's own /children endpoint is refused by their security service and was not pushed at; the ordinary browse route — /search/film/005497925?i=<n>, whose page title carries the wc= waypoint — gives the same list legitimately. The film holds several volumes: frames 1–205 under waypoint 9R2X-ZNT:…714201, frames 206 onward under 9R2X-C62:…714501. Do not interpolate across the join — the two volumes run at different rates, about 9 frames a year before it and about 12 after.
What it produced on this siteThe Kvarner households — Rijeka and Bakar · Fiume — Rijeka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Zorica's own baptism entry, at the foot of the last filmed page Yielded | An image and a citation for Zorica, born 14 December 1896 — found while reading the year for somebody else | She is the last birth entered in the book, and the entry changes something the archive believed about the name.
Reading 1896 for a Kovačina that is not there turned up a Defranceschi that is. The final entry on image 696 is Zorica, zakonita, and her father is written «Josip Defran=ceski Antonov» — klesar, a stonecutter — with the household placed as «Iz Istrije mjesto Gračišće, sad ovdje stanujući»: from Istria, the place Gračišće, now dwelling here.
Three things come out of it.
The spelling. The surname is written Defranceski — magnified twice, the second line is c-e-s-k-i, no ch. This archive had dated that form to the twentieth century and the diaspora. A Croatian priest wrote it in the home parish in 1896, before anyone left. See the correction.
The address. There is no house number. Where every other family on the page has one, this one is entered by its origin — the register's way of marking incomers. Six years after Anton Rudolf was born at Klenovica 22, the family were still being written down as people from somewhere else.
The trade, again. Klesar — the same word used of Josip at Marija Stjepanka's baptism at Ledenice in 1892 and at Ivan's death in 1896, and the trade his father Antonius held at Gračišće in 1863. Three parishes, three clerks, one word.
doc — image, Crikvenica births 1859–1896, film image 696. What it produced on this siteThe Crikvenica household · Crikvenica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat — which volumes are filmed, and where this archive's own reading had stopped Yielded | Whether the castle parish can be read past 1707, where the September sweep of DGS 005497884 ended | All ten volumes are on film, and the archive's own reading of them stops at 1707. Everything after that is open ground.
Svetvinčenat sits in the collection at 9R2H-DPJ:391644801,392404501 with ten volumes:
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| 20 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat baptisms 1780 — the first pages of the 1764–1791 book read here Yielded | Whether the surname the Atti article calls the castle's only continuous one is actually in the parish register, and whether Antonio of 1780 is a real man on a page | Both households are there, a fortnight apart, in the exact year the article names — and one of them is Antonio's.
Svetvinčenat is unindexed: a search of the FamilySearch persona index for every spelling of the name, filtered to this parish, returns zero rows. The book has to be read — which is how this archive read 1666–1707 off DGS 005497884 in September. This is the next book on that shelf, and it had not been opened. Births 1764–1791, image 81 (3:1:3QS7-899X-K3LW), one frame, both pages:
> «Anno D.ni 1780. Die 16 Aprilis S. Vincentij» — Maria, daughter of Matthæus Pieder and Maria his wife; «Patrini ad Sacrum Fontem fuere Dominicus Defranceschi, et Fosca Uxor ejus».
> «Anno D.ni 1780 Die 1 Maij S. Vincentij» — Joannes, son of Gregorius Mathes; among the godparents «Mathea uxor Antonij Defranceschi».
Two distinct households, then: Dominicus × Fosca and Antonius × Mathea, both standing at the font in the castle parish within sixteen days of each other in 1780.
And the second name is the one that matters. Atti 48 has «Guidati da Antonio Defranceschi, nel 1780 avevano ottenuto l'esonero dal partecipare alla difesa armata» — led by Antonio Defranceschi, in 1780 the castle's families got themselves excused armed defence duty. The register has an Antonius Defranceschi at S. Vincenti in 1780, with a wife and a place in the parish's godparent circuit. The article's leader stops being a footnote in an Italian journal and becomes a man in a book.
What this is not. Neither entry is a Defranceschi baptism — both are appearances as godparents, which is how a household first shows itself in a register but is not the same as its own children. And nothing here ties these two to the Gologorica–Gračišće line; these are two more households of a surname this parish already holds in quantity — the archive has seventy-five people at Svetvinčenat and «at least twelve distinct fathers of this surname in one small town between 1657 and 1737». What is new is that they are after 1707, where the earlier sweep stopped. doc for both entries; the descent is not claimed.
(A misreading caught on the way: Antonius's wife was first read as «Fabria» from the full-page view. Magnified, the hand is plainly Mathea.)What it produced on this siteThe Svetvinčenat line — reading the register page by page · Svetvinčenat (San Vincenti) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat births 1709–1764 — the volume's own index, and then the page it points to Yielded | A Defranceschi household in the castle parish before 1780 — their own children, not godparent appearances | Found: Cattarina, daughter of Sig.r Batta de Franceschi and Anzoletta, born 10 February 1728. That is fifty-two years before Antonio's exemption, and it is the family's own child.
The shortcut is the finding behind the finding. Reading 216 register frames for one surname is not sensible; the volume carries its own contemporary index at the back, images ~197–214. It is arranged by the child's forename, not by surname, each line reading «‹Given› di ‹father's forename› ‹SURNAME› ‹date› — c. ‹carta›». Sixteen images replace two hundred. On those frames an index leaf faces a register leaf, so both pages of each frame have to be read.
On the C page, second line:
> «Cattarina fig.a di D.o Batta Defranceschi 11 Feb.ro 1728 — c. 66»
And carta 66 is on image 77, right page, under the heading «Adi 5 Febbro 1728»:
> «Catta[rina] fig.a leg.ma di S.r Batta de Fran.chi et di Anzoletta sua Consorte, nata li 10 d.to, fu battegata da me Arcip.te Quelis; Padrini furono al S. Fonte il S.r Bortolo Francal Giudice et la S.ra Madalena moglie del Sig. Vic.o Quelis.»
What the entry carries beyond the names. The father is «S.r» — Signore, and so is the mother's style; the godfather is Bortolo Francal, the Giudice, the village's own magistrate, and the godmother is the Vicar's wife. A household that stands at the font with the judge and the vicar's wife is not a cottager's. That is the same social register as the 1754 Fiume baptism where a free baroness held Valentino's son — and the two families are not known to be connected.
On the spelling. The register abbreviates the surname «de Fran.chi»; the index writes it out as «Defranceschi». Both forms are the same clerk's parish, twenty years apart, and the index is the one that spells it.
The mother's name was read twice. «Anzoletta» — the Venetian diminutive of Angela — only resolved when the line's right-hand end was magnified against the gutter; a first pass had it as «…ica».
doc — image, Svetvinčenat births 1709–1764, film image 77, carta 66; index entry at image 199. What it produced on this siteThe Svetvinčenat line — reading the register page by page · Svetvinčenat (San Vincenti) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat, the D page of the index — and the same man again thirty-two years later Yielded | A second Defranceschi household in the castle, and whether any of these people can be followed across a lifetime | A second father, a second child — and that child turns up again as a grown man standing godfather in 1764.
The index's D page (image 200, right), eighth line:
> «Dom.co Gasparo di Giacomo Defranceschi 9 Ag.to 1732 — c. 80»
So beside Batta and Anzoletta, whose Cattarina was born in 1728, the castle holds Giacomo Defranceschi, whose son Domenico Gasparo was baptised on 9 August 1732.
And the register leaf facing that very index page closes the circle. The same frame carries baptisms of February 1764, and in the entry of 9 February the godfather is
> «D. Gasparo de Franceschi figlio di Giacomo»
— Gasparo de Franceschi, son of Giacomo. That is the child of 1732, aged thirty-one, standing at the font himself. Two independent entries in one volume, thirty-two years apart, give the same man twice: once as an infant with his father named, once as an adult with the same father named.
What the castle now holds, on the page:
What it produced on this siteThe Svetvinčenat line — reading the register page by page · Svetvinčenat (San Vincenti) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat index, letters C to G read — the castle household takes shape Yielded | Every Defranceschi line in the 1709–1764 index, read letter by letter | Five of the index's letters are read. Three Defranceschi children, two fathers, and a naming pattern that points at a grandfather nobody has met.
The G page gives the earliest yet:
> «Gasparo di Batta Defranceschi 10 Agosto 1718 — c. 31 t°»
written out in full, Defranceschi, not the register's clipped de Fran.chi.
The household so far, all from the index unless marked:
What it produced on this siteThe Svetvinčenat line — reading the register page by page · Svetvinčenat (San Vincenti) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | The mothers of the Svetvinčenat children — got from the index, not the film Yielded | Who the wives were behind Gio Batta and Giacomo, and whether the two Anzolettas are one woman | Four index entries answer it, and they turn a name-clash into a remarriage.
A date-filtered sweep of the persona index for 1710–1740 — no place filter, because Svetvinčenat entries carry «Croazia, Austria» and nothing else, the failure this archive documented in the «Pula 1667» work — returns four rows for this household:
What it produced on this siteThe Svetvinčenat line — reading the register page by page · Svetvinčenat (San Vincenti) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Joining the corpus by household — 2,251 index rows swept and cross-matched Yielded | Whether the disconnected people in this archive can be joined to each other mechanically, rather than one register page at a time | Fifty-nine candidate generational chains, and a four-generation one at Rijeka that runs straight into this archive's own Fiume household.
The sweep. Every persona-index row for Defranceschi, De Franceschi and Franceschi in the Croatian church books, on q.surname and q.fatherSurname, paged out: 2,251 deduped rows, of which 1,380 name both parents. q.motherSurname adds nothing — the mother is indexed under her maiden name, so the surname never matches.
The method. Fold each name to a consonant skeleton (so Caralipeo, Caralipco, Carlipeo and decaralipeo collapse to one woman), fold place exonyms (Vitipolis = Fiume = Rijeka; Almissa = Omiš; Fasana = Fažana; Pola = Pula), then look for a child in one entry who becomes a father in another — same parish, twenty to forty-five years later.
The Rijeka chain, four generations deep:
> Giuseppe Defranceschi × Francesca
> → Valentino, b. 1772 — who fathers twenty-one indexed children on Ursula / Orsola between 1794 and 1805
> → Franciscus, b. 1797 — who fathers four more between 1833 and 1836
Each generation is attested by index entries that name the father, and the chain closes on itself: Valentino appears as a child of Giuseppe and as the father of twenty-one, under five spellings of his own name (Valentino, Valentinus Franciscus Xaverius, Valentinum Josephum Gregorium) that the skeleton-fold brings together.
Two more that stand up:
* Pula — Vittorio → Natale Mattio b. 1816 → Vittorio Giovanni 1849. The grandson carries the grandfather's name, which is the pattern this archive already reads at Svetvinčenat.
* Ližnjan — Mattio → Antonio b. 1819 → eight children 1844–1859.
* Omiš — Francesco → Giovanni b. 1854/55/57 → eight children 1879–1892.
And the question it raises, which this archive cannot answer today. The Fiume household at the centre of the Valentino page is Valentino the Carnian, made a citizen in 1739, with fifteen children between 1737 and 1757. The Rijeka chain starts with a Giuseppe × Francesca whose son is named Valentino and born about 1772. A Valentino at Fiume in 1772 named for a Valentino at Fiume a generation earlier is exactly what a grandson looks like — but there is no Giuseppe among the fifteen, and this archive has just been reminded (by Jacobus Vincentius, found this morning) that the fifteen were fourteen until today. inf, and deliberately not asserted: the Fiume baptisms of 1758–1775 would settle whether Giuseppe is a sixteenth child.
doc for the index rows; the chains are inf — name, parish and a plausible age gap, not a stated parentage.What it produced on this siteThe households · Istria and Kvarner, all parishes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Fiume baptisms, 23 November 1772 — read instead of the forty-four frames Yielded | Whether Giuseppe × Francesca, whose son heads the Rijeka chain, belong to Valentino the Carnian's household | A Helena Defranceschi stands godmother to Giuseppe's first son. That is what a grandmother does.
The plan was forty-four frames of 1746–1750 hunting a Giuseppe. One page answered more. The index gives Giuseppe × Francesca four children at Fiume — 1772, 1774, 1776, 1778 — and the eldest son's entry is where a Fiume clerk names the company. Film image ark 3:1:3QS7-899F-WCFK:
> «Die 23.tia 9bris 1772. Valentinus Franciscus Xaverius, filius legitimus DD. Josephi, et Franciscæ jugalium Defranceschi, heri natus, baptizavit C.us Lumaga, Levantibus D.no Francisco Tomassich et D.na Helena Defranceschi.»
Valentino the Carnian's wife was Helena. She bore fifteen children between 1737 and 1757, so in November 1772 she would be in her mid-fifties — alive, and exactly the age to hold a grandson at the font. Godparents are the one category no index carries, which is why this needed the page and why nobody had seen it.
Two smaller things on the same line. The father is «DD.» — the doubled Dominus of rank; and the celebrant is Canonicus Lumaga, the same name as the «D.nus Canonicus Antonius Jacobus Lunaga» who baptised Valentino's own son Aloysius Rochus in 1754. One canon, two generations of the same household.
What it does not do. It does not prove Giuseppe is Valentino's son. There could be another Helena Defranceschi at Fiume in 1772, and this archive has been wrong today about exactly this kind of confidence. What it does is move the question from a naming coincidence to a person in the room. inf — strong, specific, and on the page.
The forty-four frames are still worth reading, because a Giuseppe baptised in the 1746–1750 silence would settle it outright. doc for the entry; inf for the descent.What it produced on this siteThe Kvarner households — Rijeka and Bakar · Fiume — Rijeka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Fiume marriages 1769–1771 — hunting Giuseppe's wedding, found somebody else's Yielded | The marriage of Giuseppe × Francesca, because a marriage entry names both fathers and would settle the descent outright | Giuseppe's wedding is not in the pages read. A different Defranceschi marriage is, and it marries into the Benzoni.
Marriages sit in the same bound volumes as the births at Fiume, which is the structural fact that had been misread twice (see below). The 1753–1776 run is in 9R2X-C62, images ~286–304. Read: 286, 291, 292, 293 — March 1769 to December 1771.
Image 293, right page, «Die 9 Xbris 1771»:
> «Conjunxit in Matrimonium Can.us Decanus de Benzoni Joannem Battam Viduum Defranceschi et Nob.m Domicellam Catharinam de Benzoni in primis votis, adstantibus testibus Nob. D.no Francisco a Munier et D.no Joanne Bta Carina.»
This is the marriage behind two index entries this archive already held — Mariam Dorothæam (1773) and Antoniam (1776), both of «Joannis Baptæ Defranceschi × Catharinæ». It gives them a wedding date, and it gives her a surname: de Benzoni. He marries as a widower; she is a Domicella; the officiant is the Canon Dean de Benzoni, presumably her kinsman.
And the Benzoni are already in this archive, twice, around Valentino's own children. A «Lib. Bar. de Benzoni» — a free baroness — stood godmother to Aloysius Rochus in 1754, and «Canonicus Simon Benzoni» baptised Rosalia Francisca in 1755. In 1771 a Defranceschi marries into that family. Whether Joannes Baptista is Valentino's kin is not established — but the Benzoni thread now runs through three generations of entries.
doc for the marriage; the connection to Valentino's household is inf and rests on the Benzoni recurrence, not on a stated parentage.
Still to read for Giuseppe: images 294–304 of the same volume, covering 1772–1776. What it produced on this siteThe Kvarner households — Rijeka and Bakar · Fiume — Rijeka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Fiume baptisms, 12 July 1774 — the godfather is Ignatio Defranceschi Yielded | Whether Giuseppe × Francesca, who head the Rijeka chain, belong to Valentino the Carnian's household | A brother stands at the font. This is as close as the registers have come to saying it.
Giuseppe × Francesca's second child, on film image ark 3:1:3QS7-899F-WHG6:
> «Die 12 julij 1774. Hellenam Margaritham Mariam filiam legitimam D.D. Josephi et Franciscæ jugalium Defranceschi, heri natam, baptizavit C.us Lumaga, levantibus D.no Ignatio Defranceschi et D.na Theresia Tomasich.»
Ignatius Francus Mattheus Defranceschi is one of Valentino's fifteen. He was baptised at this same church on 29 July 1745 — the entry found on image 126 of this very film earlier the same day, and one of the four children who appear in no index anywhere. In July 1774 he is twenty-eight, turning twenty-nine.
So two of Valentino's household now stand for two of Giuseppe's children:
What it produced on this siteThe Kvarner households — Rijeka and Bakar · Fiume — Rijeka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Fiume baptisms, volume 1 images 138-140 - the sweep resumed Yielded | A Giuseppe born to Valentino and Helena in the 1746–1749 silence — the sweep resumed at image 138 | Three more frames clear of a Defranceschi father - and the fourth line of the first page of 1747 names Helena again.
Both pages of images 138, 139 and 140 read: 10 November 1746 to 17 February 1747, continuous with the run already logged to 2 October 1746. No Defranceschi stands as a father anywhere in it.
But image 140, right-hand page, first entry:
> «Die 26 Januarij 1747. Maria Francisca filia legitima Laurentij et Catharinæ jugalium Deggini, nata 23 hujus, baptizata est… patrini fuerunt D.nus Cosar, et Helena Defranceschi.»
That is the fifth time this archive has caught her, after four appearances in images 127–133 (August 1745 – May 1746). Valentino the Carnian's wife was Helena, and no other Helena Defranceschi is documented living at Fiume in these years — so on residence alone the recurring godmother is his wife.
One detail corroborates it and one warns against it.
For: here in 1747 she is written plain «Helena Defranceschi», no style. At Giuseppe's first child in 1772 she is «D.na Helena Defranceschi». That is exactly the trajectory of the household itself — the register writes plain Valentinus in the 1740s and D.nus Valentinus from the 1750s. The same woman, before and after the family was styled.
Against: five appearances in fourteen frames makes her a habitual godmother, not a kinswoman summoned for kin. Her standing for Giuseppe's son in 1772 is therefore worth less as evidence of descent than it first looked, and this archive has already walked that claim back once. What the 1747 entry adds is her identity, not her weight.
And a real rival exists: this archive holds a Helena Defranceschi b. 1725, d. 1809, of Gologorica in the Pazin hills — the right age, the wrong town, forty kilometres away. The register entries carry no patronymic and no husband, so nothing inside them distinguishes the two. The identification rests on residence and on nothing else, and is filed inf. What it produced on this siteThe Kvarner households — Rijeka and Bakar · Fiume — Rijeka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Fiume baptisms, film 005497925 image 146 - the 1746-1750 gap swept frame by frame Yielded | A son of Valentino born in the 1746–1750 gap who could be Giuseppe of the Rijeka chain | A sixteenth child, and the five-year silence was never silent. The sweep was looking for a son — a Giuseppe who could be the father of the Rijeka chain. On image 146, left-hand page, under «Die 13 8bris 1747», it found a daughter instead: > «Franciscam Matthæam filiam legitimam D.ni Valentini, et Helenæ jugalium Defranceschi, natam 10 hujus, baptizavit D.nus Canonicus Hieronymus Moroldo. Patrini fuerunt Ill.mus D.nus Joannes Jacobus Irene et Nob. D.na Elisabeth Moroldi.» (The godfather's surname is the one uncertain word on the page and is given as read.) This is not Matheus Franciscus. That son was baptised 17 September 1739 and has his own ark. Francisca Matthæa is a new person, the sixteenth child of the household, and she appears in no index anywhere. What it costs the archive, and what it is worth. It costs a published claim. This site said the household produced fifteen children and that its 1746–1750 hole was «a five-year silence in a household that otherwise produces a child every year or two». That silence was the whole reason to think an unrecorded Giuseppe might be hiding in it. The silence was an artefact of the index and of an incomplete read, and one frame of honest sweeping ended it. It is worth the method. Four of this household's unindexed children were recovered in September by interpolating between dated frames — you need a date to aim at. Nothing pointed at Francisca Matthæa. She came out of reading pages that no index, no interpolation and no search could have nominated, which is the argument for sweeping a gap rather than querying it. And the family's own count survives. The tradition says ten sons; the sixteenth child is a daughter, so the sons still come out at ten and the household is now ten sons and six daughters. One correction falls out of the same line. This archive dated the family's rise in the register to «the 1750s». Here in 1747 the clerk already writes D.ni Valentini and stands Ill.mus and Nob. over the font. The elevation is visible three years earlier than published. Frames read in this sweep: images 138–146, both pages — 10 November 1746 to 16 October 1747, continuous. Besides Francisca Matthæa, no Defranceschi stands as a father anywhere in it, and Helena Defranceschi stands godmother four more times (26 Jan, 26 Feb, 26 Mar and 30 Jul 1747). · Fiume — Rijeka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Fiume baptisms, film 005497925 image 150 - Giuseppe's own baptism, and a second Defranceschi household Yielded | A Defranceschi son born in the 1746–1750 gap who could be the Giuseppe of the Rijeka chain | Giuseppe has a birth entry, and it names a father this archive was not looking for.
Image 150, right-hand page (3:1:3QS7-L99F-W4CK):
> «Die 29 May 1748. Josephum Aloysium filium legitimum D.ni Joannis Baptæ et D.næ Magdalenæ jugalium de Franceschi, natum 24 hujus, baptizavit D.nus Canonicus Eustachius Sauf. Patrini fuere D.nus Josephus Voxila et D.na Eleonora Franul.»
A second Defranceschi household at Fiume. Every Fiume entry this archive held belonged to Valentino × Helena. This one does not: Joannes Baptista × Magdalena, styled D.nus and D.na, baptising in the same church in the same decade. Joannes Baptista is not one of Valentino's sons — the only one of that name, Vitus Joannes Baptista, was baptised in 1751 and cannot father a child in 1748.
Why this is the answer to work-list 142, and not the answer it expected.
The item asked whether Giuseppe × Francesca, who head the Rijeka chain, were a missing child of Valentino the Carnian. The register says Giuseppe was a child of Joannes Baptista.
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| 20 Sept 2026 | Fiume marriages, film 005497925 image 168 - Valentino's own wedding Yielded | The marriages of the two Fiume Defranceschi households, which would say how they are related | «Ex Carnia» is in the register, in the clerk's own hand, and Valentino's wife finally has a maiden name.
Image 168, right-hand page, second entry (3:1:3QSQ-G99F-W428):
> «Die 28 Februarij 1737. D.num Valentinum de Franceschi ex Carnia, et Elenam Surcho junxit in matrimonium D.nus Petrus Eustachius Sauss Canonicus, præsentibus testibus Nob. D.no Petro Petrini et Nob. D.no Antonio Moretti.»
(The bride's surname is underlined in the register. The initial is the tall looped capital this hand uses for both S and Z, so Surcho or Zurcho — most likely the Italianised form of a Kvarner Žurko / Zurco. Given as read.)
Three things at once.
1. The date fits the household exactly. Valentino's eldest, Josepha Catharina, was baptised 26 November 1737 — nine months less two days after the wedding. The marriage was not found by interpolation; it was found by walking the marriage run backwards from 1746 until the years ran out.
2. «Ex Carnia» is now primary. This archive has carried Kobler's «Valentino Defranceschi, venuto dalla Carnia, fu fatto Cittadino nel 1739» as a nineteenth-century historian's statement. The parish register says it too, in 1737, two years before the citizenship — and it says it at the moment it mattered, when a stranger married into the town. (doc.)
3. His wife was not just «Helena». Every entry for twenty years calls her Helena or Elena jugalis Defranceschi. Here, once, before she took the name, she is Elena Surcho — and a maiden name is a door into her own family.
And a published claim is wrong by thirteen years, not three. This archive said the register styled the father D.nus «by the 1750s»; a correction issued earlier today moved that to 1747. It is 1737 — he is «D.num Valentinum» on his wedding day, before a single child was born. He was styled from the moment he appears.
What the entry does not give: no father. Fiume marriage entries of this decade name the celebrant and the witnesses but not the couple's parents, so this does not reach back into Carnia by filiation — only by origin.
Frames read: images 168, 169, 170 and 189, both pages — marriages of November 1736 – February 1738 and October 1746 – January 1747. The run moves at roughly 2.2 frames to the year. · Fiume — Rijeka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | FamilySearch's index of the Udine registers Antenati will not serve Yielded | Whether FamilySearch's index reaches the Udine registers Antenati has been refusing | Eight rows of this work list have been stalled on Antenati returning 403. The same registers are indexed on FamilySearch, and searching the index reaches the entries without ever asking Antenati for an image.
The collection is Italia, Udine, Stato Civile (Archivio di Stato), 1806-1815, 1871-1911 — the very series David's tree cites twenty-six times. The persona index takes q.anyPlace (f.recordPlace returns nothing, and f.collectionId does not bind), so it is searched comune by comune.
Nine records of the name in Carnia, and eight of them at Paluzza and its hamlet Naunina — none of the nine was in this archive:
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| 20 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat births index — L read clean, M gives three children Yielded | Defranceschi children at Svetvinčenat after 1707, in the volume's own index | The M page gives two Defranceschi children, and both are after 1707, which is where this archive's reading of the parish stopped.
What it produced on this siteThe Svetvinčenat line — reading the register page by page · Svetvinčenat (San Vincenti) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 Sept 2026 | Arolsen Archives — all 79 records under DEFRANCESKI, listed Yielded | Which collections hold this family, and what each one is | Counted properly for the first time: 79 person records across five collections, and they are all one family — the Pfullingen household and the brothers around it. 3.1.1.1 names in phonetic order — 21 rows, and they are the same seven people under every spelling a clerk could manage: Lujza / Luiza / Lusza / Luise, Petar / Peter, Renate / Renata, Zdrafko / Zdravko / Ztravko, Ursula / Urzula. 2.1.3.1 «nationality: Yugoslavian» — 13 rows, each with the town: Crikvenica, Fužine, Neuhausen, Urach, Metzingen, Reutlingen. 2.2.2.1 the War Time Card File — registration cards and employees' record books for Felix, Ivan, Peter and Zdravko. 2.3.3.1 — seven more, including an Anton born 20 January 1890. 3.1.3.2 — the IRO period 1946–1952 and, under its own heading, «Emigrations in 1949». Two references worth writing down. The CM/1 personal file is 3.2.1.1, ref 32110000 058.158 — «Personal file of DEFRANCESKI, PETAR, born 15 June 1913 in CRIKVENICA and of further persons» — and the tracing case is 6.3.3.2, T/D 349.822. The archive already had the second. It did not have the first. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 Sept 2026 | Arolsen Archives — Ruža, under the spelling the Germans wrote Yielded | Whether the DP files name Zdravko's wife and where she came from | They do, and they spell her HRELJEC. «DEFRANCESKI · Rose · HRELJEC · Fuzinä / Belnica · 02/13/1922», and elsewhere «Rose · Fuzina · 02/13/1922».
So: born 13 February 1922 at Fužine, with Belnica beside it — which is a hamlet of Fužine. This archive had her as Ruža Hreljac with no date. The German clerk heard Hreljec, and the Fužine registers will settle which. Her death at Horsham in 1996 is already on the site. What it produced on this sitePfullingen and the German years | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 Sept 2026 | Arolsen Archives — the War Time Card File, 2.2.2.1 Yielded | Whether the wartime employment records name the brothers | Four of them: FELIX, JVAN, PETER and KDRAVKO/ZDRACKO. The collection is «Registration cards, employees' record books, individual correspondence» — which is to say where they were made to work.
JVAN is Ivan, born 24 or 25 June 1925 at Crikvenica — David's grandfather, who was nineteen. The archive knew he was in Germany. It did not know there was a card with his name on it. What it produced on this sitePfullingen and the German years | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 Sept 2026 | Trove — the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, naturalisation notices Yielded | Whether the Gazette confirms NAA B44 without ordering it, and what address it gives | It confirms it, it dates it, and it finds a third person nobody was looking for.
· Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Periodic, No. P2, 16 February 1979, page 66, under VICTORIA — «Defranceski, Roza, 19 Anderson St, Horsham 3400, 21 7 78» and «Defranceski, Zdravko, 19 Anderson St, Horsham 3400, 21 7 78». Naturalised 21 July 1978, at 19 Anderson Street, Horsham — not Melbourne, which was only where the file was registered.
· The same series, No. P8, 25 October 1978, page 303, under SOUTH AUSTRALIA — «De Franceski, Anton Mario, 7 Calomba Cres, Happy Valley 5159, 15 2 78». The son took the oath five months before his parents, in another state.
Four spellings searched across every digitised Australian gazette. The only other persons of the name are a «Defranceski, M.» in an Avon Products unclaimed-moneys register, NSW 1975 for a 1967 balance, and «DeFranceschi Bros, 716 Chappie Lane, Broken Hill», NSW 1966 — neither placed. The whole story. What it produced on this siteThe diaspora | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 Sept 2026 | David's live tree — the ARGENTINA placeholder pen Yielded | What is inside the Argentine holding pen, which no page here had opened | Five households and eight baptisms in Santa Fe province, 1899–1918, and six of the eight were new here. Twins Luis and Carmelita Defranceschi Gallucci, 17 January 1915 at San Lorenzo Mártir; Rosa 1917 and Antonia 1918 at Serodino; Tomás Defranceschi Martí 1910; Antonio Juan de Franceschi Bono 1899 at San José del Rincón; Genaro Belardo Defranceschi 1903 at El Trébol; Filomena and Jorge Polsino de Franceschi, both August 1904, at the cathedral of Rosario.
Why no search had found them: two surnames in the Spanish manner, the family name in second position in three of the five households, and FamilySearch printing the father beside the child — so the entry for Genaro reads «Genaro Belardo Defranceschi and Antonio Belardo» and the surname being searched for is in neither half.
Outside the pen, two Istrians. Joso Defranceski, born 9 January 1906 at Ližnjan, died Buenos Aires 1970 — the first Istrian of the name this project can put in Argentina. And Rotilio, whose daughter Nelida Albina carries the only Argentine ark ever attached to this family — and whose citation names Federico Nebbia where every comparable citation names the father. The whole pen, read. What it produced on this siteThe live tree | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 Sept 2026 | This repository itself — data/parish-by-record-2026-09.txt Yielded | Whether the forty burials with no parish named could be placed without a new harvest | All thirty-six of them, and not one needed a search. The work-list row said the per-record output of the Istrian sweep «was never written to disk». It is on disk — ninety-three parishes with the 952 FamilySearch persona ids read under each, and only the summary had ever been published. Twenty-five joined on name and date. Eleven needed the twin rule: FamilySearch mints a persona per role, so the same burial carries two ids differing in the last character only — 6B47-SK44 and 6B47-SK4W — with every other field identical. Same record, other id, same parish. Svetvinčenat 14 · Pula 8 · Draguč 6 · Rovinj 3 · Vrsar 2 · Šterna 2 · Vižinada 1. Four of those parishes are new to the register of the dead and to the map of ground. Šterna was also sitting on the Turkish border — the gazetteer stops at five hundred people and had matched a Sterna in Evros, Greece. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 Sept 2026 | This repository itself — an audit of every person-keyed evidence file Yielded | Whether any file attaching evidence to a person is read by no build script | One: site/src/data/valentino.json. Written 6 September with the fourteen children of Valentino Defranceschi out of the Fiume register; read by no script and no page for eleven days. It was the only file in site/src/data that nothing at all referenced.
Nine people were harmed by it — five whose pages estimated a birth «about 1749» over an exact date on disk, four who had no page in this archive at all. Chasing it found eighty-three more told «no record stands behind it» on a page printing their own headstone.
Every other person-keyed file — burials, graves, fsrecords, register, households, roster, notes/myheritage-key-rows.md — is read. The three raw harvests familysearch-inlaws/-migration/-austria.csv are read by no script, but their people do reach the site by name through the register, so nothing is lost there. The correction · the fourteen children. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 Sept 2026 | Matricula Online — Altösterreich (evangelisch), walked Yielded | The work list knew about two Protestant congregations at Trieste on Matricula and had never opened them. Walked the whole fonds they sit in. | Ten congregations, and four of them are on this archive's ground.
· Pola — Taufbuch 1873–1913, the Evangelisches Bethaus. One volume.
· Görz (Gorizia) — Taufbuch 1860–1913. One volume.
· Triest AB (Augsburg Confession) — four registers, 1848–1918.
· Triest HB (Helvetic Confession) — three registers, 1900–1918.
Nine volumes, free, online, and on no map this archive keeps. The row that raised this knew about Trieste and not about Pola — which is the one that matters, because this family's southern-Istrian cluster is Pula, Ližnjan, Fažana and Medulin, and Pola in 1873 was the imperial naval base filling with incomers.
The caveat is the obvious one and it is not a reason to skip them. This family is Roman Catholic and an Evangelical baptism book is unlikely to hold it. Unlikely is not checked — and this archive's own map already carries six Evangelical parishes it walked for exactly that reason.
The rest of the fonds is Andrasfalva, Bistritz, Czernowitz, Radautz, Tereblestie and Teschen: Bukovina, Transylvania and Silesia, and none of this family's ground. What it produced on this siteThe Map · Ližnjan · Pola · Görz · Trieste | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 Sept 2026 | MyHeritage live tree — the placeholder scaffold Yielded | Mario of Brisbane's parents were «QLD Defranceschi» and «Unknown Defranceschi». What else is in there? | A complete research agenda that David built himself and this archive had never read.
A node called «PLACEHOLDERS Defranceschi's for Investigation (not real)» with twenty-three children, one per country — Austria, Puerto Rico, USA, UK, Brazil, Switzerland, Slovenia, Italy, Croatia/Yugoslavia, Germany, Canada, Uruguay, Argentina, Panama, Luxemburg, Mexico, Venezuela, Greece, South Africa, France, Australia & NZ.
The Croatian pen is a parish list: seventeen children, and they are towns — Bakar, Rijeka, Pula & Ližnjan, Zagreb, Umag, Gologorica, Gračišće. The same map the sweep reached from the other end, drawn by hand before any of it was done.
Australia is filed by state, and it settles an argument: Mario of Brisbane hangs under the QLD pen. This archive flagged him as family and corrected it on 15 September from his placeholder parents. David had filed him as unconnected himself, years ago.
And the South Africa pen holds two named women this archive has never met — Rosemary Marie Michele and Maude De Franceschi.
Published on the diaspora page. What it produced on this siteWhere the Name Went · Corrections · twenty-three countries · seventeen Croatian towns | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 Sept 2026 | MyHeritage live tree — the three households of Anton Rudolf's other children Yielded | Anton Rudolf and Ursula had five children. Two of them — Zdravko and Ivan Anton — this archive has followed for a year. The other three it had as names on a Pfullingen list. Their households, read off the tree. | Eight people, and two names this archive would not print for years.
· Josip Petar «Pepo», the one who never left Crikvenica, married Božica Blašković, 1911–1994. A son, Anton «Braco» Defranceski, 1937–1984, born and dead on the Kvarner; a daughter, Lidija (Ruffini), living.
· Petar Vid's household is named at last, and it has three children rather than two. Ursula (Korn), born at Urach in 1940; Renata (Buck), born at Metzingen in 1945; and Peter, whom the Arolsen cards do not mention at all. This archive withheld the two daughters by name for years on the ground that they might be living. They are — eighty-six and eighty-one — and they are here now by name and town, which the present rule allows and the old one did not.
· Anka Nera was married twice before she was thirty. Josip Geiger, 1911–1936, dead at twenty-five when she was twenty-one; then Branko Oreščanin, whose name she is carried under. She died at Belgrade in 1944, aged twenty-nine — and her mother Ursula died in the same city in 1975. Two women of one family, dead in Belgrade, thirty-one years apart, and this archive still cannot say why either of them was there. What it produced on this siteSix Names at Pfullingen · Every Name · Crikvenica · Neuhausen · Belgrade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 Sept 2026 | Findmypast — one-month full subscription, four spellings Yielded | The whole surname paged out again with no clock on it: defranceschi, de franceschi, defranceski, de franceski | 644 distinct records in 44 record sets — six sets more than the two trials could see. 424 pass this archive's rule for publication; 220 are counted and published nowhere, being the electoral registers, the Social Security Death Index, the obituary notices and the divorce indexes, which is where the living are. The whole sweep. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 Sept 2026 | Findmypast — Wales Roman Catholic Marriages Yielded | A record set no earlier pass had opened | Emerico De Franceschi married Mariettam Cosulich at St Peter's, Roath, Cardiff, on 26 July 1876 — his father Francisci, hers Josephi Francisci Cosulich, in the priest's Latin. Cosulich is a Lussino and Trieste shipowning family, and Cardiff in 1876 is where the Adriatic sailing fleet loaded coal. The first record of the name in Wales. What it opens. What it produced on this siteCardiff, and the Cosulich marriage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 Sept 2026 | Findmypast — the American censuses, read for place rather than for name Yielded | Where the 644 records actually sit | A Puerto Rican cluster eleven towns deep — Isabela 11, San Lorenzo 9, Ponce 7, then Guayama, Lajas, Luquillo, Peñuelas, San Sebastián, Yauco, Ceiba, Pueblo Este. The live tree cites seven Puerto Rican people of the name from the same ground, so two independent sources agree. Nineteenth-century Corsican emigration to Puerto Rico is well documented and Corsica is already on this site as a parallel. A lead, not a relation. What it produced on this siteThe diaspora | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 Sept 2026 | Findmypast — «Cosulich», and «Marietta Cosulich» Yielded | Whether the Cardiff bride of 1876 is anywhere else, and whether the marriage was registered civilly as well as in the parish | Marietta Cosulich appears exactly once in the whole of Findmypast — and it is the second entry for the same wedding, in the civil index rather than the Catholic register: England & Wales Marriages, Cardiff district, Glamorganshire, Q3 1876, volume 11A, page 428, the groom read by the GRO clerk as «Emmerico Defrancrschi». That is an orderable certificate and an errand.
The surname itself is not rare on Findmypast — Cosulichs cross the Atlantic through the 1900s and 1950s, and Achille Cosulich died in Australia in 1881, aged thirty. None of them is joined to this marriage yet. What it produced on this siteCardiff, and the Cosulich marriage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 Sept 2026 | Findmypast — the Memphis censuses of 1910, 1930 and 1940, read in full Yielded | Twenty-one records at one address in Tennessee | A household of eleven. Antonio De Franceski, born 1875 in Italy, arrived 1902, with Bertha born in Germany, and nine children born 1904–1917. The 1910 sheet spells them «de Franceski» — this family's own fused form. Born in Italy in 1875 and leaving in 1902 is the Carnian window; Istria in 1875 was Austria and would have been written so. The reading. What it produced on this siteThe diaspora | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 Sept 2026 | Findmypast — the Chicago household: census, naturalisation index, cemetery Yielded | Whether the two River Grove burials belong to a family the records can follow | They do, at every stage. Giovanni «John» De Franceschi, born 1895 in Italy: head of a Chicago household in the 1930 census with Freedia and the children Thersa and Ateo; naturalised at Chicago in 1937, NARA M1285 roll 41; buried 12 April 1951 at St Joseph's, River Grove. Frieda died in 1988, and Attilio F Defranceschi 1925–2010 is almost certainly Ateo.
Every one of them says «Italy» and no more. The petition behind the Soundex index names the comune and is an errand. What it produced on this siteThe diaspora | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 Sept 2026 | The four AutoCluster reports, searched for the surname itself Yielded | Whether any DNA match in any of the four kits carries this family's name | One, and it is in the father's report alone. Gary DeFranceschi of Brooklyn — already in David's family tree as a Smart Match, and now a blood tie.
Both male lines meet at Antonius Defranceschi, born 1825 at Gračišće: David through his son Josephus (1863), Gary through his son Antonius (1856). Antonius of 1825 is a son of Giovanni Battista of Gologorica, born 1787, of house 5 — the spine, steps two and three.
Ivan and Gary are third cousins, and the DNA behaves exactly as that predicts: about seventy centimorgans at that distance, half of it inherited by a son, and Ivan's report has a 40 cM floor. Gary clears it in the father's report and falls below it in David's. Written up. What it produced on this siteThe DNA evidence | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 Sept 2026 | MyHeritage live tree — Gary DeFranceschi's male line, read upward Yielded | Whether the Brooklyn branch joins this archive's documented descent | It joins it at the third step. Gary → Joseph Jordan (1929, Clifton) → Giuseppe (1892, Gračišće) → Antonius (1856, Gračišće) → Antonius (1825, Gračišće) → Giovanni Battista (1787, Gologorica).
Every man in it is already in this archive's roster, and three of them are in the spine. Giuseppe of 1892 is one of the Gračišće Eleven; Giovanni Battista of 1787 is the man at house 5.
One branch left Gračišće for Brooklyn; the other went to Ledenice, then Crikvenica, Senj and Johannesburg. The paper says they are the same family and the DNA agrees. What it produced on this siteThe DNA evidence | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | MyHeritage live tree — Hedviga Blažević and Ivan Anton's two marriages Yielded | Two questions the work list had raised off one screenshot: is Hedviga «Blažević» or «Codron», and who is the «Koka» the tree gives David's grandfather as a second wife? | Both answered, and a leg of the family's journey turned up that nobody had written down.
· Codron is a later husband, not a maiden name. Hedviga married Santou (Shemtov) Isaac Codron, 1913–1997, and the tree names a third husband, Ladislav Carr. Her own parents are Ljubomir Blažević, 1892–1966, and Milka Lucia Papić, 1886–1971.
· She reached South Africa in April 1975, from Zimbabwe. This archive has drawn her route as Senj → Johannesburg since it was built. There is a country in the middle of it — Rhodesia, in the middle of its war — and a remarriage about 1973 before it. Ivan stayed on his own coast and is buried at Senj. The family's «divorced about 1969» now has a shape around it.
· Her birth date is settled as 3 August 1926. The archive carried 8 March and 3 August, a day and month transposed, and preferred neither.
· Koka is a stub — a spouse node with no dates, no places, no children and no maiden name. «Koka» is a pet name. David's grandfather married twice and this archive knew of one.
· And Hedviga's own family is all there and none of it is here: seven siblings, including Oto Blažević, 1923–1945, dead at twenty-two in the last year of the war. That is the Blažević archive's ground, not this one's, and it is handed over rather than imported. What it produced on this siteThe Senj Line · The Direct Line · Every Name · Senj · Zimbabwe · Johannesburg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | MyHeritage, David's live tree 4 — walked structurally rather than by name Yielded | Walk the tree by its own family links from six known people outward, taking everyone whose name carries the surname, rather than querying four hundred given names one at a time. | 798 individuals of the surname, and 313 of them carry a source citation David typed in by hand.
The September note found 459 by querying given name against spelling, 420 queries deep. The structural walk found 339 more, and the reason is the method: a name query cannot return somebody whose given name was not on the list, and the list was built from the names this archive already knew. Following the tree's own edges has no such blind spot.
What it corrected on the way past, all of it from the household this archive knows best:
· Ursula Kovačina, 1895–1975, died at BELGRADE. The archive had her at Crikvenica. Her daughter Anka Nera died at Belgrade in 1944, aged twenty-nine. Mother and daughter, the same city, thirty-one years apart, and this archive has never asked why either of them was there.
· Robert «Robbie» Defranceski, born 1953 at Senj, died at Johannesburg. The archive had guessed Johannesburg from his wife and daughters being there. It is now read rather than reasoned.
· Anton Rudolf died at Crikvenica, born at Ledenice / Klenovica 22; Petar Vid died in Germany; Josip Petar never left Crikvenica; Ada was born at Crikvenica.
The walk is not the way to move 798 people into this archive. Its result cannot be got out of the browser at any useful rate — MyHeritage blocks a POST to a local receiver, and the tool channel truncates at about a thousand characters, which is ten people a call. The right route is a GEDCOM export of tree 4, which is one click for David and is exactly what the retired July 2018 file was. What it produced on this siteSix Names at Pfullingen · Every Name · The work list · the whole surname component of the live tree | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | FamilySearch — the Evangelical root of collection 2040054 Yielded | Two grey markers on the map said «in no catalogue at all» and the panel admitted the fault was ours: this archive had never found the Evangelical root in FamilySearch's waypoint tree, so the shelf had not been walked and was not proved empty. | It was never hidden. GET /platform/records/collections/2040054/waypoints returns ten confession roots and one of them is «Evangelical (Evangelička crkva)», sd_4, waypoint 9R27-7M4:391644401.
Under it: six parishes and seven volumes — Brekinjska (births and marriages 1868–1900, deaths 1868–1900), Hrastovac (1869–1904), Uljanik (all three, 1893–1900), Podravska Slatina (church census and deaths 1900–1938), Slavonski Brod (marriages 1901–1920, deaths 1898–1920) and Zagreb (births 1879–1903).
All seven are catalogued, their first-image arks harvested, and openable from the map. Brekinjska and Hrastovac stop being grey. Every grey marker left is now a checked negative rather than an admission.
The lesson is the plain one. The archive had not looked in the place the collection itself tells you to look.What it produced on this siteThe Map · Method · Brekinjska · Hrastovac · Uljanik · Podravska Slatina · Slavonski Brod · Zagreb | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | National Archives of Australia — RecordSearch, NameSearch Yielded | Who is Antony De Franceski, buried at Warrill Park Lawn Cemetery, Willowbank? Searched on three spellings — Defranceski, Franceski, De Franceski. | Eight items, and they close the question David asked. He is Anton Mario De Franceski, born 21 August 1944 at Reutlingen — Zdravko and Ruža's only child, the four-year-old on the General M B Stewart.
· NAA A11534, 58–60 (1948) — «DEFRANCESKI Zdravko DOB 2 April 1921; Ruza DOB 13 February 1922; Anton DOB 21 August 1944». An Australian file that agrees to the day with the Reutlingen list, the Neuhausen list and IRO card 52852.
· NAA D4881, DE FRANCESKI ANTON MARIO — «Arrived Melbourne per General M B Stewart 13 April 1949», contents to 31 December 1976. The middle name, and the spelling: De Franceski, a space and no c, which is the spelling on the Willowbank headstone and on his father's at Horsham — and on nothing else in ninety-six headstones of this surname.
· NAA B78, YUGOSLAVIAN/DEFRANCESKI ZORAFKO — «Zorafko» is Zdravko, as the Victorian aliens register wrote him. That settles the two Horsham memorials as one burial.
· NAA B44, V1978/151 and V1978/152 — Zdravko and Ruža naturalised at Melbourne in 1978, a year before he died. New.
· NAA A2571 — three alien registrations, Zdrafko 76418, Ruza 76419, Anton.
What does not fit: the cemetery gives Antony's age at death as 56, which would put his birth in 1942–43. Born 21 August 1944 he was 54. What it produced on this siteSix Names at Pfullingen · Graves · The Map · Willowbank, City of Ipswich, Queensland · Horsham, Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Pubblicazioni di matrimonio» 1815 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Yielded | Opened by mistake while hunting for the birth registers — and it is the richest Mione series found yet | A son for Paolo, a maiden name for Anna, and nine volumes nobody had opened.
Sunday 4 June 1815, ten in the morning. Matteo Lupieri reads the promise aloud and nails it to the town-hall door:
> «…la promessa di Matrimonio tra de' Franceschi Felice Santo, di professione Sartore, nativo e domiciliato nella Frazione di Mione, … figlio di de' Franceschi Paolo e di Anna nata Brunis giugali, e di de' Canova Lucia Santa, figlia del fu Osvaldo Antonio e Lucia nata Pellia…, di condizione Possidente, nata e domiciliata nel Villaggio di Liariis, agenzia d'Ovaro.»
Felice Santo is new — Paolo's son, and the fourth tailor of the surname at Mione.
«Anna nata Brunis» settles a question this archive published as open the day before. She married into the surname; the 1815 death act's «Anna de Franceschi» is her husband's name, not hers. Logged as a correction.
And the series matters more than the act. A Napoleonic banns notice names both parties, their trades, their villages and all four parents, with «del fu» marking the dead. Mione has one volume a year, 1806–1815, arks an_ua667544–667552, fifty-odd images, entirely unread.
The marriage itself is not in Mione's 1815 register. The bride is of Liariis; under the code the act belongs to the bride's comune, so it should be in Ovaro's 1815 marriages — with allegati carrying a baptismal extract out of the Pieve di Gorto. What it produced on this sitePaolo has a son · Anna, wife of Paolo · Mione, Pubblicazioni 1815 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Pubblicazioni di matrimonio» 1812, act N. 4 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Yielded | Any De Franceschi in the 1812 banns — the second volume of the series opened | The deepest De Franceschi couple this project holds from Carnia outside the 1679 list.
Sunday 9 August 1812 (published again 16 August), at the outer door of the town hall of Mione: the promise of marriage of Zanelli Giambattista, «d'anni trentadue compiti» — thirty-two exactly, born about 1780 — a tailor of Ovasta, to Roder Lucia, twenty-one, of the same village.
The groom is «figlio delli viventi Zanelli Francesco delli fu Pietro e Isola nata Valle, e di Ottavia nata de' Franceschi, figlia delli fu Batta de' Franceschi, e Maria nata Brenis, giugali».
Three generations in one sentence. Ottavia, born a de' Franceschi, bearing a son about 1780 — so born herself about 1750–60. And her parents Batta de' Franceschi × Maria née Brenis, dead by 1812, therefore born in the 1720s or 1730s.
They appear nowhere else. Not in the Mione births, marriages, or the deaths 1806–1815, all now read. A clerk had to say whose daughter the groom's mother was, and that is the only reason this archive has them.
Ottavia is also a married-out daughter recovered from the wrong end — not from her own marriage act but from her son's banns. That is a method: where a daughter's marriage is missing, her children's banns will name her, with her maiden surname and her father's.
And «Brenis» corroborates yesterday's correction. Paolo's wife was read as «Anna nata Brunis»; here is the same surname a generation earlier. The family is already in these books as Brenci (the single act of the 1806 death register) and Brencis (Cattarina, wife of Osvaldo the carpenter; Agostino, witness in 1808).
The marriage act itself should be in Mione's own Matrimoni 1812 — ark an_ua667521, eleven images, not yet read — because Ovasta is a frazione of this comune. What it produced on this siteOttavia and the oldest couple · The banns series · Mione, Pubblicazioni 1812 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Pubblicazioni di matrimonio» 1808 and 1809 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Yielded | The banns behind the two marriages this archive already holds — and what they add | Two notices, both of them ours, and one of them settles an argument from yesterday.
1808, act N. 1 — Sunday 17 January, ten in the morning (ark an_ua667545, image 3): «la promessa di matrimonio di Osvaldo de Franceschi, d'anni venti, domiciliato nel villaggio di Muina, di professione agricoltore, figlio di Antonio de Franceschi … e di Maria nata Corva, economa di casa, domiciliati in Muina, con Appolonia Galante dell'età d'anni venticinque e mezzo … figlia di Antonio Galante e di Speranza Micoli» — and the Avviso adds «il matrimonio sarà celebrato li vent'otto Gennajo corrente nel Villaggio di Muina».
«Galante» twice more, in a clear looped G. The count against Salante goes from four hands to six.
And the age settles which Osvaldo stood at Muina in 1814. Born 14 March 1788, he is nineteen years ten months here and called twenty; twenty-six and a half in September 1814 and called twenty-seven. Same rounding, six years apart. Logged as a correction, together with the withdrawal of yesterday's signature comparison.
1809, act N. 1 — Sunday 29 January, nine in the morning, published «sulla piazza comunale» (ark an_ua667546, image 3): «Erman de' Franceschi Gio: Pietro, d'anni cinquantasei, agricoltore … figlio delli defunti Erman Pietro e Maddalena nata de' Franceschi jugali, furono villici di professione, già domiciliati nello stesso villaggio, con Orsola de' Franceschi dell'età d'anni quaranta, villica … figlia delli estinti Pietro de Franceschi e Maddalena nata Fedeli jugali».
Every name matches the marriage act of 13 February 1809 — so the banns ran fifteen days ahead of the wedding. What is new is small and human: the groom's dead parents are described as villici, peasants, who had lived in that same village.
1813 swept: five marriages, no De Franceschi, matching the alphabetical table. What it produced on this siteWhich Osvaldo stood at Muina · The 1814 acts · Mione, Pubblicazioni 1808 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Nati» 1808, act N. 16 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Yielded | The birth registers, finally located — and the first volume opened | A sister nobody had, and a child nobody had, in four lines.
Sunday 10 July 1808. «Si è presentata al sottoscritto Ufficiale dello Stato Civile de' Franceschi Margherita, dell'età d'anni ventidue, domiciliata nel villaggio di Mione, villica di professione, portando seco un Infante di sesso femmineo nato il giorno suddetto alle ore otto di mattina … a cui fu imposto il nome di Cattarina. La suddetta Margherita ha pure dichiarato, che la neonata è figlia di suo fratello Osvaldo de' Franceschi di professione Fallegname, e di Cattarina nata Prencis di lui consorte.»
Margherita is a fourth sibling and the first one that needs no argument. Francesco and Osvaldo are called brothers outright in 1809; Giacoma was added to them by inference. Margherita stands in front of the registrar and says whose sister she is. Twenty-two in 1808 → born about 1786, between Francesco and Osvaldo.
Cattarina, born 10 July 1808 at eight in the morning, is a new child — the carpenter's elder daughter, registered the same day she was born.
Witnesses: Micoli-Toscano Gio: Batta, twenty-one, of Mione, and Lupieri Valentino, thirty, of Luint. She could not write and made her mark.
And the birth series is located at last: arks an_ua667570–667573, being 1806, 1808, 1809 and 1810 — and nothing after. The ark space above is empty, checked twice, while marriages, allegati, banns and deaths all run to 1815. Only the births stop, and they stop in 1810. What it produced on this site«Suo fratello Osvaldo» · Francesco ed Osvaldo fratelli · Mione, Nati 1808 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Nati» 1808, act N. 22 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Yielded | The second De Franceschi entry in the 1808 birth register — and a check on my own method | Gio: Pietro Erman de Franceschi carries a newborn into the town hall, and signs for it.
Sunday 21 August 1808. «Si è presentato … Erman de' Franceschi G. Pietro, d'anni cinquanta otto, domiciliato in Mione, di professione agricoltore, portando seco un infante di sesso mascolino, nato il giorno di ieri venti … a cui fu imposto il nome di Gio: Batta Benedetto. … esser il neonato figlio di Pietro Ermanni, e di Orsola nata Crosilla jugali.» Witnesses Lupieri Gio: Batta, thirty-two, «medico di professione», and Lupieri Valentino, thirty, both of Luint.
A new household — Pietro Ermanni × Orsola née Crosilla of Mione — and a new child, born 20 August 1808 at three in the afternoon. The relationship to the notificante is not stated; a man of fifty-six carrying a newborn is most naturally the grandfather, and Gio: Pietro's own father was a Pietro Erman, so the child is probably his son's. Inferred, and labelled so.
And it marks down one of my own arguments. Against his documented birth of 28 April 1752, Gio: Pietro is recorded as 55 (April 1808), 58 (August 1808), 56 (February 1809) and 59 (August 1812) — when he was 56, 56, 56 and 60. Four months after being called fifty-five he is called fifty-eight. Yesterday I leaned on age-consistency to identify the Muina Osvaldo and called it the convincing part; on this evidence register ages scatter ±2 and that leg is worth less than I claimed. The identification stands on village and trade. What it produced on this siteGio: Pietro carries a baby · The age argument · Mione, Nati 1808 act 22 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Nati» 1809, act N. 4 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Yielded | The 1809 birth register re-read for notificanti and witnesses, not only parents | A household nobody had, headed by a man with the deepest name in the file.
Thursday 2 March 1809. «Si è presentato … Maria figlia di Matteo de Franceschi, d'anni dieci otto circa, domiciliata nel Villaggio di Mione, villica di condizione, portando seco un Infante di sesso femminile nato il giorno d'oggi alle ore due antimeridiane … alla quale furono imposti i nomi di Giovanna-Maddalena. … essere la neonata figlia di Matteo de Franceschi di professione Calzolajo, e di Anna nata Fasiol sua moglie.» Witnesses Valentino Lupieri, thirty-one, possidente, and Gio: Battista Roter, twenty-four, also a calzolajo, both of Luint.
Two Matteos, not one. Orsola's baptismal extract calls her father «Pietro quondam Matteo» — an elder Matteo dead before 1809, born about the 1710s. This one is alive, a shoemaker, with a daughter of eighteen. The name is being reused a generation and a half later, and this archive is not welding them.
A fifth trade for the surname at Mione: tailor, carpenter, farmer, landowner, and now calzolajo.
And the clerk's own word for the daughter: «Notificante de Deffranceschi Maria illetterata fa il segno di croce» — not the ordinary «per non saper scrivere». Quoted rather than softened.
The birth count was understated. This archive said the 1806–1810 birth index «opens on three De Franceschi entries»; those were the first three lines. With Cattarina (1808) and Giovanna-Maddalena (1809) the true figure is at least five — and the birth index itself is still not located: the three-page tables at an_ua667540 and an_ua667566 are the marriage and death indexes. What it produced on this siteMatteo the shoemaker · The household table · Mione, Nati 1809 act 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Nati» 1809, act N. 15 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Yielded | Gio: Pietro Erman de Franceschi as a witness — and what his title says about the year of his second marriage | «Ambi possidenti» — and it dates a change of station to within five months.
Sunday 9 July 1809. Maria Ortis, thirty-four, illetterata, of Muina, brings in a girl born the previous day at one in the morning, Lucia Lauretana, daughter of Filippo Ortis and Margherita née Sottardi. The witnesses are «Erman de Franceschi Gio: Pietro d'anni cinquantaquattro circa e Gio: Pietro Giorgi d'anni cinquantotto, ambi possidenti, domiciliati nel villaggio di Mione».
He is already a landowner in July 1809. The marriage act of 13 February 1809 still calls him agricoltore; so does every act before it. Five months, and the word changes — which is a much tighter bracket than the 1812 death act gave, and it sits squarely after his marriage to Orsola de Franceschi.
And his age goes the wrong way again. Born 28 April 1752, he was fifty-seven that day and the register says fifty-four circa. The run is now 55, 58, 56, 54, 59 for a man who was 56, 56, 56, 57, 60 — a spread of five years. Any argument of mine that leans on register ages should be discounted accordingly, and the Muina Osvaldo identification has been re-graded to rest on village and trade. What it produced on this siteThe Erman man, a class up · Where his age wanders · Mione, Nati 1809 act 15 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Nati» 1810, acts N. 1 and N. 21 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Yielded | The last surviving birth register, read for notificanti and witnesses as well as parents | Two acts, and the second of them proves my own method wrong.
Act N. 1, Sunday 14 January 1810. «Francesco de' Franceschi, d'anni ventisei circa, di professione Sarto, portando seco un infante di sesso feminile nato il giorno d'oggi alle ore tre antimeridiane … Anna Cecilia» — his daughter by Margherita nata Gortan. Witnesses Antonio Bressan, twenty-six, domestico, and Matteo Lupieri, possidente, of Luint. He signs. The child is dead on 25 January, eleven days old — the death act guesses «un mese circa».
Act N. 21, Thursday 15 October 1810. «de Franceschi Osvaldo, d'anni ventisei, di professione fa legname … nato il giorno d'oggi alle ore dieci antimeridiane … Gio: Batta», his son by Cattarina nata Crencis, «fa legname il primo, agricoltrice la seconda». Witnesses Roter Gio: Batta, twenty-four, calzolajo and Brovedan Pietro, twenty-seven, sarto, both of Luint.
The signature is the finding. In January 1809 Osvaldo signed «Osvaldo Ant.o De Franceschi» — upright, capitalised, practised. Here, twenty-one months later, he signs «de franceski osualdo» — lower-case, surname first, Franceschi as franceski, his own forename as osualdo. One man, two hands so different that in separate parishes I would have called them two people. Three days ago I compared two signatures and leaned on the likeness; I withdrew that yesterday on other grounds. This is the demonstration that the withdrawal was right, and it comes from the man himself.
And the wife's surname will not hold still: Brenci (1806 Morti), Prencis (1808 Nati, a clear P), Crencis (this act), Brenis (1812 banns), Brunis (1815 banns). This archive has tried three times to settle it and now records all the forms with their acts and prefers none.
The 1810 «twenty-six» outlier is real — read off the act, reported by the father in person. Ages here are worth about three years either way.
With Gio: Batta the civil births stop. Anything born to these households 1811–1815 is in the Pieve di Gorto or nowhere. What it produced on this siteThe last two births · The signature I withdrew · Mione, Nati 1810 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Ovaro, «Matrimoni» 1815 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Yielded | Felice Santo de Franceschi's marriage act, predicted to be at Ovaro because the bride was of Liariis | It was where the Code said it would be, and it carries a word this archive has never had.
«Registro Matrimonj, Anno 1815, Comune di Ovaro» — ark an_ua679991, five leaves. Thursday 15 June 1815, five in the afternoon. Banns on two Sundays, 28 May and 4 June; the second is the Mione notice already published here.
> «…sono comparsi per contrarre matrimonio Felice Santo de Franceschi, di professione tessitore, d'anni ventidue compiti, nato, e domiciliato in Mione … figlio di Paolo de Franceschi di professione falegname …, e di Anna nata Brencis di condizione villica … e Lucia Santa de Canova d'anni ventitré…»
A weaver. The 1679 headmen's return that opens this archive is a return of weavers — «compaiono soltanto i tessitori recatisi nella contea di Pisino» — and it names «Zuane De Franceschi con un suo fiolo» of Mione. This archive has held tailors, a carpenter, farmers, a landowner and a shoemaker of the surname; it has never held a weaver. Now it does, in the same village, 136 years later. It proves no descent and is not offered as one.
But the Mione banns of 4 June call the same man «Sartore». Two clerks, eleven days, two cloth trades. That weakens the weaver finding and the tailor argument this page has leaned on; what survives is that the family worked cloth.
And Anna's surname is written «Brencis» here — the form already held for Cattarina, the carpenter's wife. After six spellings across five acts I had written that the two women were «two clusters that may join»; a second comune joins them.
Witnesses, all of Liariis, all with their fathers named: Giovanni del fu Giacomo Crisilla (69, possidente) · Daniele del fu Osvaldo de Canova (49, possidente) · Giacomo del fu Nicolò Crisilla (69, falegname) · Giovanni di Nicolò Sabina (27). He signed; the bride «dichiara essere illetterata».
One oddity left open: Daniele «del fu Osvaldo» de Canova stands at the wedding of a bride «figlia del fu Osvaldo Antonio» de Canova, and the act calls all four witnesses «non parenti, né affini». Either two dead Osvaldos at Liariis, or the formula is boilerplate. The Ovaro 1815 allegati would say. What it produced on this site«Di professione tessitore» · The banns that sent me there · Ovaro, Matrimoni 1815 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — the Udine inventory for Mione and Ovaro, catalogued rather than read Yielded | Every civil-register volume for the two comuni, turned into an addressable list | Fifty-nine volumes, each one openable, none of them indexed by name.
Mione's Napoleonic and Austrian civil registration runs in seven series — Matrimoni (9 volumes), Matrimoni allegati (13), Matrimoni indici (3), Pubblicazioni (9), Morti (9), Morti indici (3) and Nati (4). Ovaro adds a Matrimoni run of nine.
The shape of that list is itself the finding. Deaths and marriages run nine volumes; births run four. The civil births stop at 1810 while everything else carries on to 1815 — and 1807 is absent from every series. Anyone born into these households between 1811 and 1815 is in the Pieve di Gorto or nowhere.
Years are given only where an act fixes them. Four of the Nati are dated exactly, and two Ovaro Matrimoni are; the rest are numbered within their series and given the series span, because that is what the inventory supports. What it produced on this siteAll fifty-nine, every one a link · Antenati on the research map · Antenati, Archivio di Stato di Udine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — the Mione inventory, walked ark by ark (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Yielded | Forty-six catalogue pages fetched one at a time, to fix which comune, series and year each ark actually is | The inference held, and the assumption behind it did not.
Mione's marriages, allegati, indices and banns came back exactly as this archive had predicted from the ranges: Matrimoni 1806, 1808–1815 (9) · Pubblicazioni, the same nine years · Matrimoni allegati, 13 across those years with two apiece for 1808–1811 · Matrimoni indici, three only — 1806–1810, 1811, 1812, and then nothing. Every series missing 1807.
But the very first ark fetched was not Mione. an_ua667510 is Mieli, in the Comune di Comeglians — Morti 1807 — and 667512 and 667513 are Mieli's Nati for 1806 and 1807. The portal does not number one comune per block, and an Ovaro range this archive had claimed on that assumption is withdrawn.
Antenati stops answering after about forty-six pages. Every request after that returns HTTP 400, including arks already fetched successfully — a rate limit wearing an error code, not a bad address.
The catalogue now records how each volume's identity is known — walked, read, or unconfirmed — and five arks inside Mione's range are left unconfirmed rather than given a year they might not have.What it produced on this siteThe catalogue, every ark a link · What 1807 and 1811–1815 cost · The assumption that was wrong · Mione and Mieli, Antenati inventory | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — the Ovaro inventory, walked ark by ark (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Yielded | Whether Ovaro's civil registers have the 1807 that Mione is missing | They do. Ovaro's marriages run 1806 to 1815 without a single gap — ark an_ua679982 through an_ua679991, ten volumes, and 1807 is an_ua679983.
Only the marriages are digitised at Ovaro: no births, no deaths, no banns. The allegati run eight volumes (an_ua679993–680000) and are missing 1806 and 1809; the indices are two, 1806–1810 and 1811.
This is the correction that matters. This archive had written, twice, that 1807 was absent from both comuni. It is absent from Mione. The next comune up the valley kept it — so 1807 is not a year the system failed, it is one lost Mione volume, and that is a question an archivist can answer.
And it points at a cheaper route than a letter. The Mione index says Osvaldo Defranceschi married Valentina Prencis on 6 August 1807. The Ovaro 1807 allegati exist and cost nothing to open.
The 400 errors that stopped the first Antenati walk were never a rate limit. The portal writes a «recently viewed» entry into the cookie for every register opened; at about 8 KB the Cookie header exceeds Apache's limit and the server answers «Size of a request header field exceeds server limit». Fetching with credentials omitted returns 200 immediately. Forty-six pages of throttling that was not throttling. What it produced on this siteAll seventy-four volumes, every one a link · What survives and what does not · The sentence this replaced · Ovaro, Antenati inventory | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Ovaro, «Matrimoni, allegati» 1815 (Archivio di Stato di Udine), ark an_ua680000 Yielded | Felice Santo de Franceschi's proof of birth, demanded by the Code before the registrar would marry him | It names his grandfather, and the archive did not have one.
«Die 2 9mbris 1792. Sanctus = Felix filius leg. ac naturalis Pauli filii Petri De Franceschi mionensis, et Annae, jugalium. Heri … est ad lucem, et hodie solemniter baptizatus fuit a me Joannem Baptistam Darium P.M. in Ecclesia Parochiali Plebana.»
Pietro De Franceschi of Mione — Paolo's father. The extract is the Pieve di Santa Maria di Gorto's own baptismal register, copied out and certified by the priest who held it at Luincis on 14 June 1815, because the Napoleonic Code would not marry a man without proof of birth and Mione had no civil register before 1806. A page of the book this archive has been trying to reach for two days has come to us inside a civil marriage file.
Godfather: «Domino Joanne quondam Floreani Micoli = Toscano» — a Micoli Toscano, the family whose Mione palace holds the 1679 weavers' contracts. Godmother: «Domina Magdalena filia quondam Joannis Prencis», both of Mione — the P-form of the surname, in a priest's Latin, in 1792.
Also in the file: Lucia Santa de Canova's own extract — born 12 May 1793 at the fourteenth hour, daughter of Osvaldo Antonio De Caneva and Lucia Colinassio, baptised at S. Vigilio; and her consent act of 14 June 1815 before her widowed mother, which calls Paolo «il vivente Paolo de Franceschi» — alive — and «possidente», where the marriage act eleven days later calls him a carpenter.
Born 12 May 1793 she was twenty-two at the wedding, not the twenty-three the act gives. Four images of the eleven belong to a different couple entirely, the Fedele–Solari wedding of Clavais. What it produced on this siteThe extract, and the grandfather · The six spellings, and the P-form · The wedding it was filed for · Ovaro, Matrimoni allegati 1815 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Ovaro, «Matrimoni, allegati» 1807 (Archivio di Stato di Udine), ark an_ua679993 Yielded | Opened on the chance that a Mione couple's 1807 papers had been filed at Ovaro, Mione's own volume being lost | No De Franceschi. But the file is not Carnian — it came up from Istria.
Seven images, one marriage. The banns were published at Capodistria and at Covedo on 17 and 24 May 1807; the groom's widowed mother notarised her consent at Capodistria on 28 May; a second consent was taken at Ovaro by «Osvaldo Machin quondam Pietro, Notaio residente nel Comune d'Osais»; and the seventh image is the letter itself, still folded, addressed «All'Ufficiale dello Stato Civile della Comune d'Ovaro» and endorsed on the diagonal «L'Ufficiale dello Stato Civile di Capodistria».
The groom is a «sarto». A tailor, marrying between Istria and the Val di Gorto, in 1807.
This archive's road, running the other way, on paper. Everything held for the Carnia-to-Istria migration until now has been Istrian-side — a 1679 list quoted in a book, a surname in a Gračišće register. Here are two civil offices in two provinces corresponding about one wedding.
And it changes what the thirteen unread Mione allegati are worth. An allegato is where out-of-town paper lands. One of them already gave this archive Pietro De Franceschi out of the Pieve di Gorto's lost register; this one proves the same series can hold Istrian documents. A Mione man who had gone down to Istria and come home to marry would leave his papers exactly here.
The surnames are not published. The hand is a fast notarial cursive on a photograph of a photograph; the groom reads plausibly as Sorj or Sorsi and the bride as Ellero, daughter of Michiel, her mother a Dolfen — and none of that is firm enough to assert. The dates, places, trades and offices are. What it produced on this siteThe file, and what it implies · The allegato that gave up a grandfather · Why 1807 was worth trying at all · Ovaro, Matrimoni allegati 1807 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Matrimoni, allegati» 1806 (Archivio di Stato di Udine), ark an_ua667526 Yielded | The first of Mione's thirteen allegati volumes, opened because two others had already given up a generation apiece | Two generations in one sheet.
«Certifico io sottoscritto Parroco della Pieve Matrice di Gorto a parte Luvincis, come Giacoma figlia legitima, e naturale di Osvaldo quondam Gio: Batta De' Franceschi di Mione, e di Cattarina sua moglie, essa è nata li 25 del mese di Maggio nell'anno 1789, come consta dal Libro dei Battezzi. In fede. Da Luvincis li 5 del mese d'Agosto 1806. D. Gio: Batta Dario R.do, manu propria sigillo munivi.» The paper seal is still on the sheet, and under it the Sindaco of Mione certifies on 30 August that the extract is in Dario's own hand.
Gio: Batta De' Franceschi, dead before 1789 · Osvaldo, his son, dead before 1806 · Giacoma, born 25 May 1789. Copied by the priest who held the book — the same Don Dario who copied Felice Santo's extract nine years later. Two pages of a register nobody can open, delivered by the Napoleonic bureaucracy.
The marriage is to Ignazio di Prato of Chialina, baptised 13 December 1777 «natus hac nocte praeterita», son of Giacomo son of the late Leonardo de Prato and of Cattarina, godparents Gio: Batta de Prato and Marianna daughter of Antonio Durigussi, signed D. Io: Bapta de Benedictis, Vicarius. His widowed mother consented before a notary at Chialina on 8 September 1806.
And the trap is flagged rather than walked into. This Osvaldo is not the Osvaldo «fa legname» this archive already holds — a carpenter aged twenty-six in 1810, alive and signing through 1815, also married to a Cattarina. Giacoma was born when he was five. Two men of one name in one village, recorded as two.
And it documents somebody the family tree already knew. A Giacoma Defranceschi (di Prato) has sat in the roster since the MyHeritage import with no source and no dates. She now has both. What it produced on this siteThe extract, and the two generations · The other grandfather, nine years later · The Ovaro file that came up from Istria · Mione, Matrimoni allegati 1806 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | FamilySearch — the whole catalogue of 3,488 historical record collections Yielded | Whether Croatian places are filmed in collections filed under other countries, and what this archive's map cannot see | They are, and the clearest case is a whole Croatian county.
«Slovenia, Prekmurje and Međimurje, Civil Registers, 1895–1918» (cc 1985107) browses under two roots — Vas and Zala, Hungarian counties. Under Zala are 33 registration districts, and nearly every one is a Croatian town: Csáktornya is Čakovec, Perlak is Prelog, Nedelicz is Nedelišće, Stridó is Štrigova, Kottori is Kotoriba, Légrád is Legrad. A Croatian county's civil registers, under Hungarian place names, in a collection named for Slovenia. None of them is on this archive's map.
«Italy, Pola and Trieste, Catholic Church Records, 1593–1941» (cc 2152685) holds seven Istrian parishes under «Pola» — Buie, Cittanova d'Istria, Portole, Verteneglio, Materada, Isola d'Istria, Pirano. Five are in Croatia today — Buje, Novigrad, Oprtalj, Brtonigla, Materada. Not our parishes, but the same mechanism.
«Croatia, Delnice Deanery Catholic Church Books, 1571–1926» (cc 1875189) is a second Croatian church-book collection this archive did not know existed — the Gorski kotar deanery inland from Crikvenica. It browses by film number, not by parish, which is why a place-based walk never found it.
Ruled out, so they need not be checked again: Trieste's two civil-registration collections (Duino, Muggia, Sgonico, Trieste, and one root called «Slovenia») and the Gorizia census, which has no browse tree at all.
Untested and most promising: «Austria, Catholic Church Records, 1565–2007» — the Austrian Littoral governed Istria and the Kvarner until 1918, and it is the likeliest hiding place for Gračišće, Gologorica and Pićan, which FamilySearch's Croatian collection does not hold at all. And «Hungary, Civil Registration, 1895–1980», for Fiume and the Hungarian littoral.
Method note: /platform/records/collections/<cc>/waypoints opens the browse tree of any collection, not just 2040054. That is how each of these was opened.What it produced on this siteThe ten collections, and what is in each · The map, and what it cannot see · FamilySearch historical record collections | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | FamilySearch — collections 2152685, 1985107 and 1875189, walked and merged into the research map Yielded | Putting Croatian places that are filed under Italy and Slovenia onto the same dots as their modern names | 58 places, 409 volumes, 32 of the places in Croatia — and a four-year hole that nobody could have seen before.
Čakovec now carries two collections on one marker: Croatia, Church Books (parish registers to 1890) and Slovenia, Prekmurje and Međimurje (Hungarian civil registration from 1895), the second filed under «Csáktornya». Put side by side, the timeline reads:
Births 1748–1906, in 2 stretches · GAP 1891–1894 · Marriages the same · Deaths the same.
Four years, in all three record types, in a county town. That is the interval between the church books closing and Hungarian civil registration opening — and it was invisible while the two collections sat in different countries' catalogues.
The exonym table is the whole trick. Csáktornya→Čakovec, Perlak→Prelog, Nedelicz→Nedelišće, Stridó→Štrigova, Kottori→Kotoriba, Légrád→Legrad, Buie→Buje, Cittanova d'Istria→Novigrad, Portole→Oprtalj, Verteneglio→Brtonigla. The catalogue's spelling stays in the marker's «also written» line, because that is the name you have to search for to find the book.
Delnice is honest about its limits: six reels, ~3,485 images, no parish structure at all, so they hang on the deanery town rather than pretending to a precision the collection does not have.
And a second language problem surfaced and was fixed. Hungarian titles — Születtek, Házasultak, Halottak — matched none of the archive's record-type patterns, so 365 volumes fell into «Other» and a whole Croatian county's coverage timeline said nothing. The matcher now reads five languages. What it produced on this siteThe collections, and what each holds · Čakovec, under both its names · FamilySearch collections 2152685, 1985107, 1875189 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | FamilySearch — all 3,488 historical record collections, walked to exhaustion Yielded | Every collection that could hold a record for this family's ground, opened through its browse tree or searched inside | Forty-four opened. Five hold our ground. Thirty-nine hold nothing, and that is now written down so nobody opens them again.
The five: Croatia, Church Books · Croatia, Delnice Deanery · Italy, Pola and Trieste · Slovenia, Prekmurje and Međimurje · Italy, Udine. All five are on the map.
What is not there at all: no Serbian, Bosnian, Montenegrin or Yugoslav collection exists — not one in 3,488 — so the Dalmatian hinterland has no coverage from that direction. And Croatia itself has exactly two collections.
Austria and Hungary both came back empty, and between them they explain why. Hungary registered civilly from 1895 and Croatia-Slavonia did not, keeping the parish books as the legal record until 1946; Austria's collection is a name index of the Alpine dioceses, not of a Littoral that stopped being Austrian in 1918. Gračišće, Gologorica and Pićan are filmed nowhere at all.
One near-miss checked and closed: Italy, Venezia, Civil Registration 1806–1817 has a root called Gorizia — but its children are Belvedere, Grado and Isola Morosini, the Friulian lagoon, not Istria.
And a warning handed over free. Defranceschi is a Veneto name: 9,626 records at Padova, 6,546 at Venice, 2,076 at Verona, 1,285 at Treviso, 289 in Tyrol. None of them is this family and none can be excluded without a document.
Method, for whoever does this next: /platform/records/collections/<cc>/waypoints opens the browse tree of any collection and f.collectionId counts names inside one — two calls per candidate. The filter was verified with a control: the same surname returns 303,320 unfiltered, 289 in Austria, 3,550 in Croatia, 0 against a made-up id.What it produced on this siteAll forty-four, one by one · The five that hold Croatian places · Why Croatia has no civil registration before 1946 · FamilySearch historical record collections | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | The rest of the ANNO queue — thirteen issues, read from Volltext Yielded | Every issue this archive had queued for a human to open, read in one sitting instead | A street, a court officer, a schoolmaster on the other side of the argument, and a date this archive may have wrong.
· «Via Carlo Defranceschi», Pola — in the classified columns of Il Giornaletto di Pola in 110 issues between 3 January 1914 and 20 May 1919. Rooms to let, a beer depot at number 3. Pola named a street after him and by 1914 it was just an address. The landmarks page had been asking «any others?» since it was written.
· Johann Defranceski of Šturje — seventeen issues of the Laibacher Zeitung, 1865–1875, always as Curator ad actum for defendants of unknown whereabouts. This archive had inferred from the three-issues-in-nine-days rhythm that somebody of the name was under repeated legal process. The rhythm was right and the reading was backwards: that is how an edict is published, and he is the court's officer inside it. Šturje is in the Vipava valley — a region this archive had never placed the name in.
· Naša Sloga, 28 May 1914 — at two Croatian electoral meetings in Istria, one of them in the yard by the Croatian school with over five hundred people present, the speakers include «domaći učitelj Defranceski», the local schoolmaster. Naša Sloga is the paper that existed to oppose Carlo De Franceschi. Sixty-six years after Carlo was denounced in the Lloyd as an Italian irredentist, a man of his name is speaking for the Croatian side in the Croatian paper. Like the Eduard-and-Valente pair of 1859, they did not need to be related for that to be true about the name.
· L'Istria, 28 January 1882 — a journalist visits Carlo, finds him ill («il male che lo tormenta»), and records that he went to school at Gorizia and Graz and finished his studies in 1832.
· L'Eco di Pola, 3 September 1887 — a de Franceschi «integerrimo deputato al Parlamento» stands godfather to a workers' society banner at Umago, beside the wife of the Podestà.
· La Fiamma, 1912 — a scholarly bibliography citing Camillo De Franceschi's «Dante a Pola» (Giornale dantesco, Florence 1906) and his work on pilgrims to the Holy Sepulchre who stopped at Pola.
· And two contemporary sources giving Carlo's birth year as 1810, against the register's 1809 — filed as an open question.
The queue is cleared. What had been written up as an errand for a human with a browser took one sitting, because every ANNO issue carries its own full text. What it produced on this siteIl Giornaletto di Pola · Carlo De Franceschi · The Register · ANNO — Austrian Newspapers Online | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Austro-Hungarian casualty lists — «Verlustliste» and «Nachrichten über Verwundete und Verletzte» Yielded | The first First World War records this archive has ever read | This archive has covered the Second World War in detail and had never once opened a First World War casualty list. Two surnames were sitting in them.
The lists are a genealogist's document by accident: to tell families apart they print rank, regiment, company, province, district, commune and year of birth, and then what happened to the man.
«Verlustliste», 6 May 1916 — Fernasar Josef, Inft., k. k. LIR. Nr. 5, 10. Komp., Istrien, Pisino, Gračišće, 1884; kriegsgef., Merw, Gebiet Transkaspien, Rußland. A man of Maria née Fernasar's own village, born 1884, a prisoner of war at Merv in Transcaspia — now Mary, in Turkmenistan. The surname of our fourth generation's mother, placed at last, in a printed record.
«Nachrichten über Verwundete und Verletzte», 14 December 1914 — Fernasar Josef, Jäg., FJB. Nr. 20, Pisino [I]strien, 1883, Hufschlag a. d. r. Ferse, Vereinshilfsspital Nr. 2 in Kassa. Same name, same district, a year out and a different unit. Same man or a cousin; not settled.
«Nachrichten über Verwundete und Verletzte», 21 December 1914 — Defranceski Josef, Jäg., TJR. Nr. 1, 2. Komp., Branzoll, 1885, Schuß i. d. r. Hand, Festungsspital Nr. 8 in Krakau. A Tyrolean rifleman shot through the right hand, in the fortress hospital at Kraków. And Branzoll is Bronzolo, in South Tyrol — so the family's own -ski spelling, in the Austrian press, is at least partly Tyrolean and not Istrian, which corrects an assumption made here yesterday. It also joins up with the Defranzeschi cluster in Der Tiroler and the Innsbruck papers, and gives the Trentino blind spot its first named person.
The method note that matters more than any of it: these were read from ANNO's own Volltext view — annoshow?text=<paper>|<date>|x — which returns the whole issue's OCR as plain text. Every ANNO issue has one. This project had spent a year treating the page images as the only way in.What it produced on this siteTrentino · The name in imperial service · Carlo De Franceschi · ANNO — Verlustliste | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | «Journal des Österreichischen Lloyd», Triest, 7 September 1848 — read in full Yielded | The best unread document this archive had: nine occurrences of the surname in one four-page issue | The prediction was wrong and the issue is better than the prediction.
This archive expected shipping and quarantine notices: the Lloyd's journal carried them, and 1848 is the year Ferencz Defranceschi was running the quarantine station at Martinšćica. Nine mentions in four pages looked like a port list.
Every one of the nine is Carlo. The issue carries a long, furious, signed-off attack on «dem Istrianer Deputirten Herrn Carl De Franceschi» — announced in the contents page, running across pages three and four.
What it gives, beyond a great deal of 1848 invective:
· A publication of Carlo's this archive did not know about — a Flugbogen, a broadsheet, answering the Lloyd's Trieste correspondents on whether Istria was a land of Slavic character, «in sehr vielen Exemplaren in Istrien verbreitet».
· His post in 1848: Rathsprotokollist des Landrechts zu Rovigno — council protocolist of the district court at Rovigno. This site had him as an Auscultans at Pazin in 1842 and expelled in 1854, and nothing between.
· His own words in Italian, quoted by an enemy: «voi non Istriano, chi diede mandato d'immischiarvi [nelle] cose nostre…»
· The bootblack. He called his opponent's Stiefelputzer as a witness against him, and the correspondent will not let it go.
· And the detail that he and Facchinetti and Madonizza, asked who had authorised their protest against joining the German Confederation, answered that they had protested as private persons and that the word Deputati had got into the title by oversight.
And one conflict this archive cannot resolve. The Lloyd says three times that he sat for Rovigno. This site says Pisino. A hostile paper is not a better source than a historian, but it is a contemporary one, printed while he was sitting. Both are now on his page and neither is preferred.
Read from the issue's own Volltext view at ANNO — which is the lesson worth keeping: every ANNO issue has one, and this archive had been treating the page images as the only way in. What it produced on this siteCarlo De Franceschi · At sea · ANNO — Journal des Österreichischen Lloyd, 7 Sept 1848 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | ANNO — every spelling, including the family's own Yielded | Seven variants of the surname against the whole Austrian press, and the one nobody had ever tried | «Defranceski» — the spelling this family actually uses — had never been searched in the Austrian press. It returns 28 issues. «De Franceski» gives 4 more, «Defranzeschi» 19, «Di Franceschi» 13, «Defrancheschi» 1. Sixty-five issues in variants, on top of the 950 and 722 for the two main forms.
And the dates give the game away. Look at when «Defranceski» appears in the official papers:
· Wiener Zeitung — 21, 24 and 29 December 1872. Three issues in nine days.
· Vereinigte Laibacher Zeitung — 3, 6 and 11 March 1875. Three issues in eight days. And again 15, 24 and 28 June 1869. And again across June and July 1872.
That is not news coverage. That is an edict. Austrian official gazettes published legal notices — summonses, estates, bankruptcies, tenders — three times at set intervals, and the Wiener Zeitung and the Laibacher Zeitung were the gazettes of record for the empire and for Carniola. Seventeen issues of the Laibach paper between 1865 and 1875 carry the name, in exactly that rhythm.
So somewhere in Carniola in those ten years, a Defranceski was the subject of repeated official legal process. Whether that is one man or several, and whether a court, an estate or a business, the issues themselves would say in a line.
Two more that open ground this archive has never been on:
· Nachrichten über Verwundete und Verletzte, 21 and 30 December 1914 — the Austro-Hungarian casualty lists. A Defranceski, twice, in the war's first winter. This archive has covered the Second World War in detail and has never once looked at a First World War casualty list.
· Lagerzeitung für Wagna, 4 February 1917 — the newspaper of the Wagna camp itself. The archive already holds the camp's intake lists from the Rovigno monograph, with two Defranceschi of Dignano in them; this is the camp's own paper, which is a different record, and it names a Defranceski.
And the Tyrolean cluster sorts itself out. «Defranzeschi» is almost entirely Der Tiroler, the Innsbrucker Nachrichten and the Allgemeiner Tiroler Anzeiger, 1899–1927, published at Bozen and Innsbruck — which is the Trentino group this site files as a blind spot. It now has a spelling and a set of dates.
None of it has been read: ANNO's page viewer is behind a Cloudflare check this archive does not answer. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · Trentino · The name in imperial service · ANNO — Austrian Newspapers Online | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | ANNO — *Il Giornaletto di Pola*, the whole run Yielded | Every issue carrying any spelling of the name, read in full text | One hundred and sixty-four issues, read end to end. Four people, and a large negative.
· Alessandro Defranceschi — enrolled in the levy at Pola, 18 June 1914, one of fifty-two taken from three hundred and eighteen. Born about 1893. Not previously in this archive.
· Luigi Defranceschi — two crowns to the Red Cross, 3 September 1914, in a list a police inspector collected door to door.
· Angelina Defranceschi — married at Pola, 21 November 1914, in a notice the couple paid to place. The groom's surname will not come off the OCR.
· Angelo Defranceschi, 63, «da Fasana» — at no. 6 via del Prato, 25 November 1914. Supplies the village of origin missing from the archive's record of an Angelo born 1851.
And the negative, which is the size of the thing: one hundred and fifty-eight of the one hundred and sixty-four issues are the street name and nothing else — via Carlo Defranceschi, in rental advertisements. Filtering the street out is most of the work; the OCR renders via as vla, wvia, ia and tia, and breaks the street name across columns.
Two further mentions give no forename: a subscription line of 2 September 1914, and «il debito Defranceschi» of two thousand crowns in a fraudulent-bankruptcy trial reported 13 January 1915.
The name stopping in March 1915 was tested before it was written about and is an artefact: ANNO's run is complete for 1914, patchy to March 1915, and then absent. The page. What it produced on this siteIl Giornaletto di Pola · Namesakes and landmarks · ANNO — Austrian Newspapers Online | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | The Wayback Machine — everything under sites.google.com/defranceski.com Yielded | Every archived URL on the family's own Google Site, before it is switched off | Checked, found nearly empty, and filled. A CDX query for every URL under that host returned two successful captures: the site root of 1 January 2022 and the home page of 11 July 2025. Family Trees, The People, The Places, The Map, The Name, The Coat of Arms, Publications, Resources and About were archived nowhere on the public net — Google Sites builds its navigation in script, so the crawler never followed it below the front page.
The same fact made the page list uncrawlable, so it was read out of the page source instead: twelve live addresses, not the nine of this archive's own reckoning table, which had folded the two sub-pages under The Story into their parent.
All twelve were submitted to Save Page Now on 14 September 2026 and all twelve captured, every job reporting success, verified by fetching the snapshots back — The People returns at 413 KB, byte for byte the live page. Two drew 429 on the first pass and were taken on a later one.
Two things learned in the doing. Save Page Now no longer accepts anonymous requests: a POST without a session returns 401 «You need to be logged in to use Save Page Now». And a Wayback capture of a Google Sites page keeps the frame around an embedded My Map, not the map — which is why the KML export of 8 September 2026 is the only thing standing between those pins and the account being closed. What it produced on this sitedefranceski.com — the reckoning, and the twelve permanent addresses · Wayback Machine — defranceski.com, 11 July 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | FamilySearch image waypoints — every Istrian and Kvarner volume, addressed Yielded | The waypoint tree of Croatia Church Books 2040054, walked to the level of the individual volume | Three hundred and nine register volumes now have their own address, and every one of them was tested. The archive had listed 263 Istrian volumes and 46 Kvarner ones as plain text since the day it walked the waypoints; there was no way to open a single one of them.
The tree is collection → 9RKB-7M9:391644801 (Roman Catholic) → parish → volume, and one call returns all 1,000 Croatian parishes. A volume's waypoint yields the arks of its images, and familysearch.org/ark:/61903/<first ark>?cc=2040054&wc=<waypoint> opens the viewer at page one of that book. 263 of 263 Istrian volumes and 46 of 46 Kvarner volumes returned a link; nothing failed. 307 calls at 2.2-second spacing drew no rate limiting at all, against the 25–40 per burst this archive had recorded.
The Kvarner links this page already carried were dead. They used FamilySearch's «owc» browse form, which now answers «Something Went Wrong» for every waypoint tried. Nine broken links, replaced by 46 working ones.
And joining the inventory to the film produced a finding. Of the 1,151 books the Pazin inventory catalogues: 142 are on film; 495 are in parishes with no film at all; 449 are twentieth-century civil registration the church film never covered; and 26 are old parish books in parishes that were filmed, which the filming skipped — eighteen of them still on a shelf in the village. Barban's births from 1629 and Ližnjan's marriages from 1680 are on that list.What it produced on this siteParish Books — 309 volumes, each one openable · The Archive — and the 26 books the film skipped · FamilySearch — Croatia, Church Books, 1516–1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | FamilySearch image waypoints — Dalmatia and Carnia, every volume addressed Yielded | The Croatian collection walked for sixty Dalmatian parishes, and the Udine collection for twenty-six Carnian comuni | Nine hundred and eighty-five more volumes now open at page one, and nothing failed.
Dalmatia — 343 volumes across 60 parishes, the Omiš, Split, Trogir–Seget, Imotski, Zadar and Dubrovnik groups with the ring each married into. Earliest volume 1569. Same collection as Istria (2040054), same method.
Carnia is a different country and took a different route. It is not in the Croatian collection, and the collections API silently ignores its own text filter — a search for «Udine» returns Alabama — so all 3,483 FamilySearch collections had to be paged to find it. There is exactly one: «Italy, Udine, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1806-1815, 1871-1911», collection 1939238, 1.26 million images. This archive had been describing it as 1806–1815 only; the 1871–1911 half has never been looked at.
642 volumes across 26 Carnian comuni are now linked. Sutrio has 64, Prato 62, Paluzza 56.
And Ovaro is not in it. The province lists 627 comuni and Ovaro is not one of them — nor Mione, Muina, Ovasta, Luint, Liariis, Chialina, Agrons or Cludinico. But Colza is, a frazione of Ovaro, holding a complete Napoleonic set for 1806–1812: births, deaths, marriages, banns and indexes, 25 volumes. Whether Mione and Muina are written inside them is a question the images can answer and the index cannot — the record API's place filter is ignored too. The volumes are linked; it is a few minutes' reading and it has not been done.
Comeglians, the Gorto canton seat, carries the marriage allegati for 1807–1815 — the documents behind this archive's Giovanni Battista de' Franceschi «already dead by 1789».
A warning with it. The Udine collection indexes 2,201 people called Franceschi. Of the first eleven hundred, the Carnian communes account for five. The rest are lowland Friulian families — Lauzzana and Colloredo (209), Udine (129), Muzzana del Turgnano (114), Bertiolo (101). Most Franceschi in the Udine registers are not this family and are not from the mountains. What it produced on this siteParish Books — Dalmatia and Carnia, every volume openable · The Atlas — the volumes hang off the places · FamilySearch — Italy, Udine, Civil Registration | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Findmypast — the record sets nobody had opened, swept before the trial ends Yielded | All 38 record sets the surname touches, paged out in full under three spellings | Findmypast was worked hard on 9 September and it was not finished. That day took Travel & Migration, the US censuses and the naturalisation files. The death, probate, obituary and parish sets had never been opened.
Two probate files at Horsham, Victoria, both with their Public Record Office references.
· Zdravko «Zdrovko» De Franceski — died 22 December 1979, probate granted 19 June 1980, file 874/188, VPRS 28/P10 unit 148. Occupation labourer, residence Horsham. The headstone already said the date; this adds his trade and a file that can be ordered.
· Ruža «Rosa» Defranceski — died 30 January 1996, probate granted 6 May 1996, file 1113076, VPRS 28/P26 unit 155. Occupation home duties, residence Horsham, buried Horsham Cemetery. The stone gave her only as «beloved husband of Rosa». She outlived him by sixteen years.
Twenty obituary notices and twenty-two Social Security death records give death dates for people this archive had only birth years for — Duilio 1921–2003 (son of Luigi De Franceschi and Libera Chimčić), Basilio 1909–1994, Tobias 1911–1972, and Connecticut deaths at Torrington and Waterbury.
Two clusters that were invisible from the passenger lists. The 1910 census puts a household of six in Tennessee — Antonio 1875, Bertha 1882, Pietro 1904, Alberts 1905, Aurora 1907, Alba 1908. The 1930 census puts six more in Michigan.
British Armed Forces banns and marriages, 1946: one at Trieste, one at Venice — British service marriages in occupied Italy, a seam this archive has never touched.
New York Roman Catholic parish marriages name the parishes: Our Lady of Pompei, Transfiguration, St Anthony of Padua, St Joseph Sixth Avenue, Ascension — which places the New York family street by street.
And a negative worth the time it saves: «defranceschi» and «de franceschi» are the same corpus. Findmypast folds the space, returning 548 and 612 for the same records. The fused «Defranceski» is the one that behaves differently — 36 results, and they are almost all this family. What it produced on this siteWhere the name went · The headstones · The errands queue · Findmypast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Findmypast — «de Franceschi» in the 1920 United States census Yielded | Why one census returns forty entries the other censuses do not | There is a Puerto Rican De Franceschi population, and it is large. Forty of the forty-two Puerto Rico hits in the whole Findmypast corpus sit in the 1920 census: Isabela (11), San Lorenzo (9), Ponce (7), San Juan (3), Yauco (3), and singles at Peñuelas, San Sebastián, Lajas, Guayama, Luquillo and Ceiba. The forenames are Spanish throughout — Carmen, Aurora, Mercedes, Dominga, Concepción, Ramona, Filomena, Josefa.
This is not the Istrian family and should never be folded into it. It is recorded here for the same reason the archive records the Tyrolean and the Corsican groups: so that a future search which turns up forty De Franceschi in Puerto Rico knows immediately that they have been seen, weighed and set aside.
One of them does reach this archive's own list: Maria, born 1888, died 1983 at San Juan — already a pin on the Atlas from the geocoding pass, and now dated. What it produced on this siteNamesakes — other families of the name · The Atlas · Findmypast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | David's Google My Map — imported whole from the KML Yielded | Every layer, pin, note, link, line and shaded area, before the map is switched off | A My Map dies with the account and no crawler saves one. The earlier JSON export kept the pins; the KML keeps everything. Imported: 10 layers, 1,289 pins, 56 lines, 10 polygons, 111 notes and 188 links.
The 56 lines are named movements David drew by hand — «Ivan moves to Senj», «Tomasso travels to Omis», «Bakar to Gologorica», «Frank and Ruza Move to Horsham». They are now the arrows on the Atlas, drawn dashed and labelled as his, because motion on a map is persuasive in a way that evidence is not.
The 10 polygons are the hot-spots he shaded — Udine, Venezia, Austrian, three in France, and three «De Franceschi Hot Spot» areas in Istria and the Veneto. They are a toggleable overlay.
And 129 of the map's own FamilySearch links are already dead, because they use the «owc» browse form that now answers «Something Went Wrong». The map was decaying before it was switched off. What it produced on this siteThe Atlas — the arrows and the hot-spots · defranceski.com — the reckoning · Google My Maps — the original | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Findmypast — the transcripts, read before the trial lapsed Yielded | The documents behind the death, marriage, parish and passport index rows | Two war brides, married in the year the Allies held both cities.
· Daphne De Franceschi married Leslie Wain at Trieste, 1946 — GRO Army Marriages, page 3654, line 102.
· Placida V De Franceschi married Reginald Onions at Venice, 1946 — page 2865, line 103.
They are consecutive lines in the same register. Two women of this name marrying British servicemen in occupied Italy, and this archive had no idea either existed.
Two United States passport applications, which are the documents that prove a man went back:
· Giovanni De Franceschi, born 1876 in Italy — applied in Connecticut in 1922, certificate 109256, NARA M1490 roll 1807. Connecticut is Torrington, where this archive already stands twelve people.
· Louis De Franceschi, born 1873 in Italy — applied 1919, certificate 148535, roll 1008.
And a Neapolitan family of the name. Ignazio Luigi Nicola De Franceschi, baptised 25 April 1842 at San Marco di Palazzo, Napoli, son of Carmine de Franceschi and Angiola Conti. Logged, not absorbed.
Blocked, and worth writing down: the New York Roman Catholic parish registers — baptisms and marriages at Our Lady of Pompei, Transfiguration, St Anthony of Padua, Ascension and St Joseph Sixth Avenue — sit behind a higher subscription tier than the trial carries. Seven records, named and located, that could not be opened. What it produced on this siteWhere the name went · Namesakes · Findmypast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | The Register's own lead pile, classified Yielded | Whether 1,153 «leads» are really 1,153 leads | Nearly half of them are another family. Sorting the 1,153 lead rows by whether the spelling is this surname at all:
· 498 — Francetich, Franchini, Franceschini, Franceskini. The archive's rule has always excluded these. Nobody had counted how much of the lead pile they were.
· 429 — indexed under the father's surname only. Real, and the way into the early parish books, but not searchable by name.
· 104 — this surname, plainly. · 122 — unclear, and each needs an eye.
One hundred and forty-five rows carry both the parents and the parish, which is everything needed to open a book. That is the worklist, and it is now published parish by parish with the number of volumes this archive can already open for each.
Forty-five of the hundred and forty-five are at Vodnjan, which has no film at all. Those forty-five are a letter to Pazin, not an afternoon at a screen — which is exactly the distinction the number 1,153 was hiding. What it produced on this siteThe worklist, parish by parish · The errands queue · The Register, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Trove — the zones and the spelling the first pass missed Yielded | Books & Libraries, and the surname written with a space | The first Trove pass ran newspapers only, and only the fused spellings. It reported «Defranceski» 2 and «Defranceschi» 13. This archive's own variant rule — that each spelling returns a different, non-overlapping set — was never applied to Trove.
«De Franceschi» with a space returns 82 newspaper articles. Six times the fused count. The samples are twentieth-century Canberra: «Carol De Franceschi, 19, of Flynn» in the Canberra Times of 7 July 1981, and a fatal accident report of 22 June 1977 naming a sister at Willyamba Place, Flynn. An ACT family of the name, which this archive had not seen.
Books & Libraries — a zone never opened — returns 19. It does not find new relatives; it hardens two namesakes the archive already carries on assertion:
· Carlo Prospero Defranceschi is confirmed as Salieri's librettist from two independent catalogue authorities. «Cäsar auf Pharmacusa» (Theater an der Wien, 3 editions 1801–1808) — «Libretto by Carlo Defranceschi — New Grove»; and «Angiolina, oder Die Heyrath durchs Getöse» (4 editions 1803–1807) — «la poesia è del Sig. Carlo Defranceschi», per the U.S. RISM Libretto Project and Stieger, Opernlexikon.
· Jean Defranceschi, «La Corse française: 30 novembre 1789 – 15 juin 1794» (1980) — the Corsican historian the archive lists, now with a book and a date.
A note on the tool. Trove's interface now loads each zone only on a click and throttles under repeated queries; its API needs a key this project does not hold. The remaining zones — Diaries, Images, Magazines, People & Organisations — were not completed and are left open. What it produced on this siteNamesakes · Where the name went · Corsica · Trove — National Library of Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — the registers, not the name index Yielded | Whether the Carnian civil registers are online anywhere at all | Mione has fifty-nine registers of its own, digitised, free, and open — and this archive has been saying for months that they were not online.
The name search was the wrong door. Antenati says so itself: «Non tutti i nomi sono ricercabili perché solo una parte dei registri disponibili è stata completamente indicizzata» — only part of the holding is name-indexed, and Tolmezzo returns nothing by surname. The other form, /search-registry/, browses the registers themselves.
Ovaro: 271 registers, all held by the Archivio di Stato di Udine, in two fonds — Stato civile napoleonico (173) and Stato civile italiano, Comuni afferenti al Tribunale di Tolmezzo (98). The series break down by village:
· Mione (oggi frazione di Ovaro) — 59 registers
· Ovaro itself — 144 · Lenzone — 9 · Chialina — 8 · Cludinico — 8 · and nine more series behind them
By type: Morti 61, Matrimoni 49, Nati 39, Matrimoni pubblicazioni ed opposizioni 31, Matrimoni allegati 28, and eighteen more. By year they run from 1806 through 1871 and beyond — so both the Napoleonic registration and the Italian civil registration after unification.
Each result carries its own shelfmark and a «Vedi il registro» link — for example Registro 1806, Nati, segnatura 12995, Agrons con Cella; 1806, Matrimoni allegati, segnatura 185, Lenzone.
Tolmezzo has 452 registers on the same portal, and the other Carnian communes are there too.
This is the same material FamilySearch holds and keeps behind «Image Restricted». The Italian state archive has published it itself, and published it open.What it produced on this siteCarnia · Parish Books · Antenati — the Ovaro registers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | MyHeritage Y-DNA, powered by FamilyTreeDNA Yielded | The paternal haplogroup of the direct male line — David's kit and his father's | Both kits return L-M27, and it is not a European lineage.
Among this test's own participants L-M27 runs at 6.5% in Sri Lanka, 4.2% in India, 3.9% in Pakistan, then through the Gulf and Mesopotamia. Italy returns five men out of 6,068 — 0.1%. Croatia does not appear in the table at all.
Against that, the autosomal estimates for both men are 100% European, with Ivan's strongest sub-cluster «Croatia (Lika-Senj and Primorje-Gorski Kotar)» — Senj and the coast under it, exactly where the paper trail puts the family. There is no South Asian and no Middle Eastern component in either man at any confidence setting.
Both readings can be true. Autosomal ancestry halves every generation and drops under the 1% reporting floor after about seven; a Y chromosome does not halve at all. One man far enough back leaves a haplogroup and no ethnicity — which is the exact pattern here.
What this is not: it is a haplogroup read off an autosomal chip, not a Y test; two kits in one account agreeing is not two platforms agreeing; and nothing in it identifies a generation. No break in the male line is claimed, named or dated here. The Time Tree, which would date the branch, is behind a Big Y-700.
Graded disputed — the observation is documented, the reading is not settled. What it produced on this siteThe Y chromosome · The DNA · MyHeritage Y-DNA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Matrimoni, allegati» 1808 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Yielded | The loose documents behind the De Franceschi × Salante marriage at Muina | Five of the file's seventy-eight pages are this family, and they correct the archive and extend it.
The correction: the notary takes the marriage consent not from the groom's father but from «Donna Maria nata Corva, vedova del fu Antonio de Franceschi». Antonio was dead. With his own written consent dated 25 October 1807, that brackets his death to the fourteen weeks before 28 January 1808.
The extension: the groom's full baptismal name was Osvaldo Antonio; his birth on 14 March 1788 is confirmed a second time, from the priest's own certified extract rather than the register's recitation of it; the baptisms sit in the Pieve Matrice di Gorto, «a parte Luincis», certified by D. Giovanni Battista Dazio on 21 January 1808 and authenticated at Mione by Valentino Lupieri; the consents were drawn by the notary Giacomo Micoli del fu Francesco at Muina before Angelo Micoli and Zuane Fabris.
And a caution about the name. The notary writes the bride's surname Galante twice, in a clear G. The priest and the file's own docket write Salante. The archive keeps Salante and records Galante beside it.
The file was reached only after correcting a count: the register browser pages ten at a time, and this archive had answered from page one. What it produced on this siteThe papers behind the wedding · The corrections · Mione, Matrimoni allegati 1808 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Matrimoni, allegati» 1809 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Yielded | Any De Franceschi in the thirty-nine pages of the 1809 marriage papers | Bundle number one is this family, and it reaches a generation further back than the village had ever given.
The priest of the Pieve di Gorto certifies at Luincis on 4 February 1809 that «Orsola figlia legittima e naturale di Pietro quondam Matteo De Franceschi di Mione e di Maddalena sua moglie» was born 11 April 1768.
«Pietro quondam Matteo». The 1806 birth act had given Pietro de Franceschi of Mione as the deepest name in the village. This gives Pietro's father, Matteo — a man whose granddaughter was born in 1768, so born himself around 1700–1720, within living memory of the Zuane De Franceschi who left this valley for Istria in 1679.
Orsola is also the earliest-born Mione De Franceschi in this archive with an exact date, and she is dated from the baptismal book rather than the Napoleonic register.
The other document in the bundle is the baptismal extract of Giovanni Pietro Antonio Cramaro, born 28 April 1758 — almost certainly the groom, though the marriage act is in another volume and the pairing is graded inferred, not documented.
The remaining five bundles of 1809 are Zanan × Colledan (published at Pola), Cole × Morocutti, one at Saurìs, Brovedan × Luchin, and Rotar × Provenzai. No other De Franceschi. What it produced on this siteThe allegati deliver what this page said they would · The 1806 households · Mione, Matrimoni allegati 1809 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Matrimoni, allegati» 1811 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Yielded | Any De Franceschi in the seventy-four pages of the 1811 marriage papers | No marriage of this family — and a priest of its name.
A bride of 1811, Anna Maria Giorgi «de Nave» of Mione, had to produce her baptism. The parish priest copied it out of the register of the Pieve di Gorto and certified the copy at Luincis on 20 June 1811. The entry is of 20 February 1785, and it says that she was baptised «hodie de mea licentia a R. D. Franc.o Ant.o Deffranceschi de Mione» — today, by my licence, by the Reverend Father Francesco Antonio Deffranceschi of Mione.
This is the first cleric of the surname this archive has found in Carnia. He is styled «de Mione» — of the village. The archive already holds Mattia Defranceschi, parish priest of Gologorica in Istria, from the visitation of 1788: two priests of one name, three years apart, at the two ends of this family's road. No link is claimed. But the Istrian encyclopedia entry already on the Carnia page lists De Franceschi clergy who went on working in Carnia — Filippo at Previs, Gian Matteo at Moncalvo and canon of Pedena — and a De Franceschi priest at Mione in 1785 is what that list predicts.
The rest of the year is Gortan, Zorzi, Bassi, Micoli, Bilbiani, Vernier, Crosilla, Sortiza, Varnier, a Gaier of Forni Avoltri and a bride from Cesclans. What it produced on this siteA priest of the name · The encyclopedia entry · Mione, Matrimoni allegati 1811 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Matrimoni, allegati» 1812 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Yielded | Any De Franceschi in the fifty-four pages of the 1812 marriage papers | No marriage — and a man standing at the font.
A certified extract of a baptism of 10 January 1789, copied out at Luincis on 28 June 1812, records that the child was «ex sacro fonte suscepta … a D. Osvaldo DeFranceschi de Nave Mionensis» — lifted from the font by Don Osvaldo DeFranceschi of Nave, of Mione.
This is probably the elder Osvaldo whom the 1806 birth act showed only as a dead father («Osvaldo de Franceschi, son of the late Osvaldo»). A godfather in 1789 is an adult; an adult in 1789 dead by 1806 fits. Inferred, not documented.
«De Nave» is new to this archive. Nave is a hamlet, and these same files give Giorgi «de Nave» in 1785 and Corva «de Nave» in 1785 and 1801 — the Corva being the surname of Maria née Corva of Muina. A cluster of households in one named place.
The file also carries the death extracts of Nicolò quondam Antonio Corva of Muina (d. 11 August 1808) and Jacoba his wife (d. 6 February 1801).
The rest is Brovedan, Zoran, Spinotti, Fadri, Pellis, Stefani, Pedri, Martin, Brugia, Manetti, De Stephano, Capedari, Drossi and Cleva. What it produced on this site1812, and a hamlet with a name · The papers behind the wedding · Mione, Matrimoni allegati 1812 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | 23andMe — David's kit (paternal haplogroup, ancestry composition, timeline) Yielded | Whether a second company confirms L-M27, and whether anything South Asian shows in the autosomes | Both, and they agree.
«David, your paternal haplogroup is L-M27» — 23andMe's own chip, own Y-tree, own algorithm, with the full path published (K-M9 → LT-P326 → L-M20 → L-M22 → L-M2481 → L-M27) and a change log recording that in April 2024 they «excluded variants that were performing poorly on our v5 chip» to make paternal assignments more accurate. (One caution stands: if the MyHeritage kit is an upload of this same 23andMe file, the two are one reading. The father's kit is a separate sample regardless.)
And the thing MyHeritage could not see. 23andMe puts David at 99.5% European with 0.5% Trace Ancestry — a category MyHeritage's model does not have: Southern Indian & Sri Lankan 0.2%, Angolan & Congolese 0.3%. Southern Indian and Sri Lankan is exactly where L-M27 peaks (6.5% Sri Lanka, 4.2% India by MyHeritage's own counts). MyHeritage's floor is about 1%; this is 0.2%; the signal was under the floor.
0.2% is 1/512 — nine generations, about 1750–1780. That is the window this archive reasoned to from the Y chromosome alone, published hours earlier, before the trace was known.
Graded with care. A 0.2% call sits at the edge of the method and could be noise; the halving arithmetic assumes one ancestor and average recombination. It is a consistency between two independent measurements, not a proof.
Still open: which parent the trace came from. 23andMe's Parental Inheritance is paywalled and was not bought — Ivan's own 23andMe kit answers it free.
Also: 23andMe names Lika-Senj County, Croatia first inside Greek & Balkan, agreeing with MyHeritage from a different reference panel. Maternal haplogroup H. Health reports were not read in and are not published. What it produced on this siteA second opinion, and the 0.2% · The Y chromosome · 23andMe — Paternal Haplogroup | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026, answered | Državni arhiv u Pazinu (DAPA) — Jasna Vlahović, Odsjek za sređivanje i obradu arhivskog gradiva Yielded | Whether the Svetvinčenat marriage registers survive for 1623–1762 | They survive, and most of them are already digitised.
«Državni arhiv u Pazinu ima knjigu vjenčanih 1581-1589, 1622-1623, a knjige vjenčanih 1588-1674 i 1674-1762 imamo u digitalnom obliku.»
So Pazin holds the marriage book of 1581–1589 and 1622–1623 as a physical volume, and the marriage books of 1588–1674 and 1674–1762 in digital form. Between them they cover the whole of the period this archive asked about — and they bracket both of the dates that matter here: the Svetvinčenat baptism of 1628 already found, and 1679, the year a Zuane De Franceschi is argued to have left Carnia for Istria.
This is the single most valuable door opened in months, because it is a marriage series, and marriage acts name fathers.
It is not free and it is not automatic. Copies are issued only against a completed request form, which must carry the applicant's personal details, a delivery address and billing details — «naziv uplatitelja, adresu i OIB». The archive answers within 30 days by law, 15 if the form is complete. The form has not been submitted: it asks for personal data, and that is David's to give. What it produced on this siteThe errands · Svetvinčenat · DAPA — what to state in a request | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026, answered | Knjižnica HAZU, Zagreb — Jelena Prekratić Yielded | A scan of Danilo Klen, «Urbar Petre Pilose iz 1425. godine», Starine 58 (1980) | Delivered, and they went further than asked. The library replies that the article «is fully available» in their digital collection — DiZbi 177355 — and, unprompted, identified and scanned the second Klen article David had a title for but no journal: «Iz prošlosti Kostela — Petre Pilose i njegovih sela», Buzetski zbornik, knj. 2 (1977), pp. 29–50, sent as a PDF.
The 1425 urbar has now been read. See the separate entry for what it says. What it produced on this siteThe sources · DiZbi.HAZU — Klen, Urbar Petre Pilose | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Trove — National Library of Australia (newspapers and government gazettes) Yielded | The surname in Australia: the arrival, the Horsham household, and anything after | An address, and a date, and the last sighting of Zdravko alive.
Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, Periodic, No. P2, Friday 16 February 1979, page 66, under the heading VICTORIA:
> Defranceski, Roza, 19 Anderson St, Horsham 3400, 21 7 78
> Defranceski, Zdravko, 19 Anderson St, Horsham 3400, 21 7 78
Page 1 of the same issue says what the list is: «a list of persons to whom the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has granted a Certificate of Australian Citizenship, during the period July 1978 to September 1978 … published pursuant to section 42 (e) of the Australian Citizenship Act 1948 … The full name and address is given in respect of each person … together with the date on which the Certificate was granted.»
So Zdravko and Rosa became Australian citizens on 21 July 1978, and the state told the world where they lived: 19 Anderson Street, Horsham 3400.
Three things follow. This archive has never had the family's Australian address; it has it now, and it is the address to give the Public Record Office with the probate request. It is also the last documented sighting of Zdravko alive — seventeen months before the 22 December 1979 on his headstone, and it sits comfortably with the 1980 probate file while sitting very badly with the 1999 death that the family file and the MyHeritage tree both carry. And «Defranceski, Roza» puts Ruža née Hreljac under her married surname in a government record, at his address, eighteen months before he died.
Also in Trove, and not this family. Giordano Defranceschi, 24, labourer, described as a «New Australian», drowned at the Wigley waterhole near Alice Springs on Sunday 24 January 1954, in front of a girl he had met the week before — The Age, 25 January 1954, p. 6, «Girl Saw Friend Drown». DeFranceschi Bros, a firm at 716 Chappie Lane, Broken Hill, in the NSW Gazette of 17 June 1966 and a lease auction of 1972. A Defranceski, M. owed a few dollars in the NSW unclaimed-moneys list of 18 April 1975. Carol DeFranceschi in a Canberra Times notice of 1982, Mick Defranceschi in 1989, and a company, Defranceschi Brister Australia Pty Ltd, wound up between 2001 and 2004.
Counts: Defranceski 2, Defranceschi 13, «De Franceschi» 128, Defranzeschi 0.
A method note worth keeping. Trove's newspapers mostly stop at 1954 for copyright, and this family arrived after the war — so the newspapers were never going to hold them. The government gazettes run to 2001 and beyond, and that is where the whole yield came from. Search the gazettes, not the papers, for anyone who arrived after 1950. What it produced on this siteThe errands · Leaving · Commonwealth Gazette, 16 Feb 1979, p. 66 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Matrimoni» 1806 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Yielded | The marriage act behind the 1806 allegato this archive read and corrected today | Act N. 1, August 1806: «Ignazio di Zuato» × «Giacoma de Franceschi».
He is a negoziante — a merchant — of Chialina, twenty-eight, born 13 December 1777, son of the late Gio: Giacomo di Zuato and Cattarina née Cneva. She is the daughter of the late Osvaldo de Franceschi and Cattarina née Gobbi — the mother's surname is new.
Osvaldo the elder now has a twelve-month death window. He consented to this marriage in writing on 7 September 1805; by the wedding in August 1806 he is «il fu Osvaldo». Add the godfather sighting of January 1789 found in the 1812 allegati, and a man who had no dates at all this morning now has three fixed points.
And Giacoma signed her own name — «Giacoma de Franceschi q.m Osualdo affermo m.p.» Three years later Orsola de Franceschi, aged forty, could not, and her husband signed for her.
The registrar is Giovanni Micoli-Toscano, of the palace family whose archive holds the 1679 Gorto contracts.
One thing is left unresolved rather than forced: the bride's stated age and the birth year read into the act differ by a year against the allegato's 1789. Both readings are recorded; neither is asserted. What it produced on this siteThe 1806 act · The 1809 act · Mione, Matrimoni 1806 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Morti» 1808 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Yielded | Antonio de Franceschi's death, and anyone else of the surname | Not Antonio — but a household this archive did not have, and a fact about how this family married.
30 April 1808, five in the afternoon, Mione. Valentino Lupieri views the body of «Francesc'Antonio de Franceschi … nell'età d'anni cinque» — a boy of five, so born about 1803, three years before any surviving register.
The witnesses declare him «nato nello stesso Villaggio da Antonio de Franceschi, e da Giovanna pure de Franceschi giugali, di professione il primo sartore, la seconda economa di casa».
«Pure de Franceschi» — also a de Franceschi. Both parents carry the surname. This archive has been tracking daughters marrying out; here is a couple where both sides are the name, and the registrar wrote pure so nobody would think he had duplicated it.
Antonio is a second tailor of the surname at Mione — Francesco × Margherita Gortan is the first, and the tailor is the cramar trade this page argues walked into Istria.
The first witness is Gio: Pietro Erman de Franceschi, «d'anni cinquantacinque in circa» — the man who marries Orsola de Franceschi ten months later, here as the widower he then was.
Antonio senior's own death is not in this volume, and the 1807 deaths do not exist: there is no Morti register for 1807 at all. He died between 25 October 1807 and 28 January 1808, which falls in that gap. Him too, only the parish book can hold. What it produced on this siteA child of five · The 1809 act · Mione, Morti 1808 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Morti» 1809, act N. 1 Yielded | Any De Franceschi in the 1809 death register | The single most useful sentence found in this series.
14 January 1809, Mione. The registrar views the body of Maria della Vecchia, thirty, wife of Giuseppe Pol. The two men who came to identify her are declared as:
> «Presenti alla ricognizione furono Francesco ed Osvaldo fratelli de Franceschi» — brothers.
Francesco, twenty-four, tailor. Osvaldo, twenty-two, carpenter. Both of Mione, no relation to the dead woman — which is precisely why the register troubled to say how they were related to each other. Both sign in their own hands: «Francesco de Franceschi» and «Osvaldo Ant.o de Franceschi».
This merges two of the four Mione households. The archive has carried «Francesco the tailor × Margherita Gortan» and «Osvaldo the carpenter × Cattarina Brencis» as separate rows in a table with nothing joining them. They are brothers.
And it points at a third sibling and a father. The 1806 birth act gives «Osvaldo de Franceschi, son of the late Osvaldo», about nineteen; the 1806 marriage act gives Giacoma de Franceschi, «q.m Osualdo», daughter of the late Osvaldo and Cattarina née Gobbi. If those are the same Osvaldo, then Francesco, Osvaldo Antonio and Giacoma are three children of the elder Osvaldo — and the four households collapse toward one family with a dead father. Inferred, not documented.
On the ages: Osvaldo is now nineteen (Oct 1806), twenty-two (Jan 1809), twenty-two (Aug 1809) and twenty-six (1810). Three against one for a birth about 1786–87. What it produced on this siteFrancesco ed Osvaldo fratelli · The 1806 act · Mione, Morti 1809 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Morti» 1810, 1811 and 1812 Yielded | The whole volume read, acts N. 1 to N. 13, looking for a Pietro De Franceschi | No Pietro. But four De Franceschi deaths in one year, a man in minor orders, and a signature that undoes a distinction this archive has been making.
Act N. 1, 25 January — «de Franceschi Anna Cecilia morta questo giorno alle ore otto pomeridiane in età di un Mese c.a», witnesses Bressan Antonio, twenty-six, and Lupieri Matteo, twenty-two, both of Luint; born at Mione to Francesco de Franceschi, sarto, and Margherita nata Gortan. She died on the 25th, not the 28th, and she was eleven days old, not a month — the birth act in the Nati of the same year has her born Sunday 14 January. Both figures were published wrong.
Act N. 10 — «de' Franceschi Sebbastiano morto il giorno di jeri … di condizione iniziato al Chiericato», born at Mione to Antonio and Giovanna nata de' Franceschi, «agricoltori, domiciliati attualmente in Mione». A De Franceschi in minor orders, dead young enough that both parents are living — and his mother a De Franceschi by birth.
Act N. 11 — «de' Franceschi Maddalena … dalli morti de' Franceschi Sebbastiano, e Lucia nata Brencis jugali». A second Sebastiano, and a fourth woman of the Prences house.
Act N. 12, 17 September — «Marianna di Franceschi … in età d'anni uno circa», witnesses Giorgis Giovanni and Brencis Biaggio, seventy.
The signature is his own, twice more. On acts N. 10 and N. 11 the clerk writes «de' Franceschi Erman Gio: Pietro, d'anni cinquantanove, di professione agricoltore» and the man signs «Erman De Franceschi Gio: Pietro».
This was first written up as a discovery — that Erman was a by-name on a De Franceschi house and the archive had been wrong to treat the two as separate families. It already had the answer and I had forgotten it. His 1809 marriage act gives him as son of the late Pietro Erman and Maddalena née de Franceschi: the compound is simply his two parents. Corrected.
Also in the volume, not ours: Mario Catterina of Entrampo, 2 March, seventy-five; Casanova Catterina of Luint, 11 May, forty-nine; Brovedan Domenica of Muina, 11 July, fifty. Countersigned «Li 13 Ottobre 1810, Rigolato. Visitato, e registrato. G. Capellari Giudice di Pace». What it produced on this siteThe four, and the signature · The birth, and the eleven days · What this replaced · Mione, Morti 1810 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Morti» 1815, act N. 23 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Yielded | Any De Franceschi in the 1815 death register, via the volume's alphabetical table | «De Franceschi Anna — Mione — 11 9bre — n. 23 — foglio 5.» The second row of the table, and it opens a house.
Saturday 11 November 1815. Matteo Lupieri goes «nel Villaggio di Mione in casa di de Franceschi Paolo» and views «il Cadavere di Anna de Franceschi … in età d'anni quarantaquattro», «maritata col suddetto Paolo de Franceschi». The witnesses — Fabris Osvaldo di Giuseppe and Fabris Giuseppe, forty-four, tailor — declare that she «è nata in quell'istesso Villaggio di Mione».
Born about 1771, at Mione. That is thirty-five years before the earliest surviving civil register here, and it is exactly what the death books were opened for.
Paolo is a fifth Mione household and a new name: he is in none of the 1806–1813 births, marriages or deaths already read.
And she carries the surname herself. Either she was born a de Franceschi — which the 1808 act's «Giovanna pure de Franceschi» shows is possible in this village — or the clerk entered a wife under her husband's name. He does not do that to the other women in this volume, but one volume is thin evidence about a clerk's habits, so this archive leaves both readings standing. What it produced on this siteAnna, wife of Paolo · «pure de Franceschi» · Mione, Morti 1815 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Morti» 1814, acts N. 12 and N. 13 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Yielded | Any De Franceschi in the 1814 death register — swept leaf by leaf, the volume having no alphabetical table | «Osvaldo de Franceschi d'anni 27 ventisette, Servitore» — twice, in his own hand, at Muina.
Act N. 12, 10 September 1814 and act N. 13, Saturday 26 November 1814, both drawn at the Agenzia Comunale di Mione for deaths in the frazione of Muina. The same two witnesses both times: Osvaldo de Franceschi, 27, servant, and Fabris Giovanni, 41, also a servant, «non parenti, ma vicini del Defunto». Both acts are signed «Osvaldo de Franceschi» in a large upright hand that is plainly not the registrar's.
The age is the prize. Twenty-seven in late 1814 means born 1786–87 — which is what the October 1806 act says (about nineteen) and what both 1809 acts say (twenty-two). The 1810 act, alone, would put him at 1784. Four against one, and the window for finding his baptism in the Pieve di Gorto books narrows to two years.
The identification is not settled. In 1809 he is a carpenter «di Mione»; in 1814 a servant and a neighbour at Muina. Mione and Muina are 784 m apart, and the signatures look to me like one hand — but that is an opinion, not a finding, and the household tables have not been merged on it.
The volume has no Tavola Alfabetica — 1813 and 1815 do. The negative for the rest of 1814 is a page-level sweep and is weaker than the 1813 one. What it produced on this siteSigned twice at Muina · Francesco ed Osvaldo fratelli · Mione, Morti 1814 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Morti» 1812 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Yielded | Any De Franceschi in the 1812 death register — swept leaf by leaf, the volume having no alphabetical table | One act, and it carries two men of the surname signing their own names.
Monday 18 August 1812, eight in the morning. Matteo Lupieri views the body of Ottaviani Valentino, twenty-five, a tailor of Mione, dead the previous day. The two men who come to identify him are:
> «Erman de' Franceschi Gio: Pietro d'anni cinquantanove, Possidente, e de' Franceschi Paolo d'anni quarantadue»
Paolo is the husband whose house Anna dies in three years later. Forty-two in 1812 → born about 1770; Anna was forty-four in November 1815 → born about 1771.
Gio: Pietro Erman de Franceschi is now a «Possidente» — a landowner — where in 1808 and 1809 he was an agricoltore. Between those acts sits his marriage to Orsola de Franceschi. Born 28 April 1752, he should be sixty here, not fifty-nine; the year's slack is recorded, not smoothed.
And he signs «Erman de' Franceschi Gio: Pietro». Byname first, in his own hand, as he did in 1809. Erman at Mione is a branch-name inside the surname, not the separate family this archive has been treating it as — which re-reads the 1679 headmen's list and makes every «Erman» entry in the Mione indexes a candidate.
Paolo signs too, smaller and less practised: «paolo de Franceschi», lower-case p. What it produced on this siteTwo men sign the same page · Anna, wife of Paolo · Mione, Morti 1812 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 Sept 2026 | ANNO — Austrian Newspapers Online, searched properly for the first time Yielded | The lesson from the Hungarian material applied to the Austrian press: the surname as two words, as one, and in the family's own spelling | This archive has been searching ANNO with one hand.
ANNO has a clean JSON endpoint behind its search page — /anno-suche/rest/search/simple?query=…&from=N — which returns, per issue, the paper, the date, the place of publication, the language and the number of hits inside that issue. Run three ways, the surname gives:
· «De Franceschi», two words — 950 issues.
· «Defranceschi», one word — 722 issues. This is the only form this archive had ever used.
· «Defranceski», the family's own spelling — 28 issues, never searched here at all. «De Franceski» gives 4 more.
The forms overlap but do not contain one another. Roughly a quarter of the Austrian press coverage of this surname was invisible to every ANNO search this project has run.
Who is in it. Proximity search — matching words standing within three of each other rather than anywhere in the same issue — sorts it out: Carlo De Franceschi, 42 issues; Camillo, 5; and Enrico, 392 — an opera singer working in Vienna and Salzburg in 1930 and 1931, who is not ours, is now named on the namesakes page, and who accounts for two fifths of everything ANNO holds under this name. Anyone who searches it will hit him first.
And a reading queue, which is the useful part. Of the 950, 185 issues are Istrian or Adriatic — Il giovine Pensiero of Pula, L'Istria, Il Popolo Istriano, Il Giornaletto di Pola, L'Eco di Pola, La Fiamma, Naša Sloga, the Pester Lloyd, and the Journal des Österreichischen Lloyd. Those are the papers that would print this family, and they are now listed by date and by how many times the name appears inside each issue.
The single best of them is the oldest. Journal des Österreichischen Lloyd, 7 September 1848 — nine occurrences in one four-page issue, published at Trieste and Vienna. The Austrian Lloyd's journal carried shipping movements, quarantine and port notices; 1848 is the year Ferencz Defranceschi was running the quarantine station at Martinšćica. That issue has not been read, because ANNO's page viewer at data.onb.ac.at sits behind a Cloudflare check which this archive does not answer.What it produced on this siteIl Giornaletto di Pola · Carlo De Franceschi · At sea · ANNO — Austrian Newspapers Online | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 Sept 2026 | Hungaricana — the spelling «De Franceschi» with a space, and the Hungarian kingdom directories Yielded | Working the same seam a second day: variant spellings, and the almanacs of the Hungarian crown | Three offices, a successor state, and a correction to one of this archive's own authorities.
The surname searched as one word gives 263 hits; searched as two words it gives another 60, and they are a different set. Most of those 60 are Hungarian scholarship citing Carlo De Franceschi's L'Istria as an authority — Fest Aladár's 1891 study of the Uskoks and the Venetians in the history of Fiume leans on him on page after page. That is worth knowing in itself: Carlo was standard reading in Hungarian historical writing within a decade of his death.
The Hungarian kingdom's own directories then gave three people:
· Valentin Defranceschi, 1835 — Passualist in the Polizey-Behörde of Fiume. The passport officer of a free port, listed among the city's patrician office-holders. The earliest office this archive can put the name in, and a civil one.
· Ferencz Defranceschi, 1848 — Főnök of the St Francis quarantine institute at Martinšćica, the lazaretto of the Kvarner, with a clerk, a surgeon-teacher, a chaplain and four guards under him. The same page records the harbour captaincy at Buccari as vacant.
· «Dr Defranceschi», 21 December 1918 — South Slav representative, addressed by the Austrian State Chancellor over the removal of the Austro-Hungarian archives to Yugoslavia. HHStA, Neues Politisches Archiv 397.
And a correction to the shelf. Vjesnik 18 (Zagreb, 1916) carries Milko Kos, publishing twenty unpublished Vienna parchments expressly to «fill out and in many places correct Franceschi's conclusions on the genealogy of the lords of Pazin». Camillo De Franceschi's Storia documentata is cited across this site; on the medieval lords of Pazin it must now be read beside Kos. Kos also quotes Camillo admitting he was «unfortunately not in a position to establish a complete and certain genealogy» — which is the best sentence anyone in this family has written about this work. What it produced on this siteRijeka and Bakar · The name in imperial service · Carlo De Franceschi · Hungaricana — Hungarian Cultural Heritage Portal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 Sept 2026 | Hungaricana — the Hungarian Cultural Heritage Portal Yielded | The surname against Hungarian state records, because Fiume and Bakar were Hungarian crown land | The Kvarner name is a family of Habsburg maritime officials, and this morning's inference is now corroborated.
Earlier today this archive read «Francisci Defranceschi Regii» on an 1849 Bakar baptism and inferred, from that one word, that the name held a royal office. It does. Hungaricana — free, unblocked, full-text — holds the Hungarian state's own paperwork for exactly these two towns, and nobody here had ever opened it.
· Anton Defranceschi, 1827, drew the «Bauriss der zu Buccari befündlichen aerarial Salz-Einnehmer und Controlors Wohnung» — the ground plan and section of the imperial salt-receiver's and comptroller's residence at Buccari, which is Bakar. Manuscript, 56 × 45 cm. National Archives of Hungary, T 62 No 1642, out of E 96 Tricesimalia 1827.
· Ferencz Defranceschi, révkapitány — harbour master — of the Fiume Maritime Authority. The parliamentary pension schedule of 1872 gives him 42 years, 10 months and 5 days of public service and a pension of 1,050 forints from 1857. Forty-three years back from 1857 puts him into state service about 1814.
· Francziska Defranceschi, «Defranceschi Ferencz révkapitány árva leánya» — the harbour master's orphan daughter — drawing a kegydíj of 80 forints, renewed in three-year terms, in the state accounts of 1888, 1892, 1894, 1898 and 1900. So her father was dead by 1888 and she was still unmarried and on the state's charity twelve years later.
· Valentin Defranceschi, K. K. Kriegs-Marine, Marine-Direktion at Pola, in the Militärschematismus of 1854, 1855 and 1856 — and Valentin is the one forename that recurs through the Rijeka households, fathering there in 1742–57 and again in 1794–1805.
· Julius Defranceschi, k. u. k. Kriegsmarine — 196 entries across the rank and distribution lists from 1894 to 1909, by then Linienschiffsleutnant. A whole naval career, free, page by page, not yet worked.
· Theodor Defranceschi, K. K. Landwehr, 1909.
And it re-reads the saints. This morning this archive noted that nine of twelve children born to Valentino and Ursula at Rijeka carried Nepomucena or Nepomuc, and read it as Habsburg dynastic piety. That is half of it. John of Nepomuk is the saint invoked against drowning, the patron of bridges and of men who work on water. In a harbour-master's town, in the Hungarian crown's free port, a family that names nine children for him is not only being loyal. It is being careful. What it produced on this siteRijeka and Bakar · The name in imperial service · Julius · Hungaricana — Hungarian Cultural Heritage Portal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Defunctorum — DGS 005497894, image 571 (book pages 172–173) Yielded | January – February 1833, entries 4–44 | Forty-one entries. One De Franceschi — Michiela fu Giuseppe, at entry 41, written up separately — and two things that only appear if you read the book in order.
House 109, in seven months. On 24 July 1832 a child of Marchio and Eufemia Bergamasco is entered as «N. nato morto» — born dead, unnamed. On 28 July his twin, Giacomo, follows him. On 10 February 1833, entry 37, the father goes: «Marchio figlio delli furono giugali Marco Benaco fu Giacomo e Giustina Cosseani fu Pietro, era ammogliato con Eufemia Bergamasco d'Antonio», dead of malattia acuta di petto, house 109 — the same house. Eufemia buries two sons and her husband inside seven months. No index would ever have put those three entries together; they share no name and no date. Only the house number and the order of the book connect them.
The regiment again. Entry 8, 10 January 1833, is a child of the «Battaglione 3.o Reggimento XXII Principe Leopoldo» — the same regiment named at entry 11 on page 164. The Prince Leopold regiment was quartered here, and its soldiers' children are buried in this parish under their fathers' units rather than a house number.
Also on these pages: «vajuolo naturale» — natural smallpox — entered as a cause for the first time in this stretch. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Defunctorum — DGS 005497894, image 571 Yielded | February 1833 | Entry 41, 20 February 1833, house 532. «Giacomo figlio del fu Dom.co Giachin q.m Giacomo e di Michiela De Franceschi fu Giusep. giugali» — dead of idrotorace, with confession, communion, extreme unction and the indulgence.
A seventh woman of the name, and she is not the Michiela already known. The one this archive holds is Michiela De Franceschi fu Pietro, wife of Andrea Palin at house 24, dead before January 1831. This is Michiela De Franceschi fu Giuseppe, wife of Domenico Giachin at house 532, and still alive in 1833 — it is her son who dies, and her husband who is already «del fu».
The father's name is the interesting part. This archive holds exactly one Giuseppe De Franceschi: 1758 – 14 February 1830, house 324, × Lucia Tromba q.m Cristoforo, dead suddenly and without a priest. He was in his grave three years when this entry was written, which is what «fu» requires. If this Michiela is his daughter, she stands beside Don Stefano the priest, Pietro the ploughman, Cristoforo the weaver and Maria Francesca as a fifth child of that household.
That is an inference and is marked as one. What the register says is that her father was called Giuseppe and was dead. It does not say which Giuseppe, and the name is not rare. The baptism register would settle it.
Her son's age is written in a column this viewer will not render legibly and is left unread rather than guessed. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The headstones · The Register · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Defunctorum — DGS 005497894, image 561 Yielded | January 1831, re-read | Re-read in full because the frame had been half-read. It confirms, independently, what this archive already published from it — «Domenica figlia di Andrea Palin q.m Pio. e della fu Michiela De Franceschi fu Pietro giugali», the sixth Vodnjan woman recovered through a child's death entry.
Two details the page did not carry: Domenica was 22, and she died of tisi polmonare — the same pulmonary consumption that took Maddalena Francin at house 456 ten weeks later. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Defunctorum — DGS 005497894, image 563 Yielded | May – June 1831 | Entry 84, 19 May 1831, house 456. «Pasqua figlia di Pietro De Franceschi q.m Pietro, e della fu Maddalena Francin di Gio. giugali», dead of tosse convulsiva — whooping cough.
«della fu Maddalena» — of the late Maddalena. The register itself confirms the March death nine weeks later, in the ordinary course of writing down her daughter. That is the check this archive wants and rarely gets: the same book, corroborating its own entry, without being asked.
Three deaths in that house in five months. Pietro, eleven, of scarlatina on 15 December 1830. Maddalena, thirty-nine, of consumption on 14 March 1831. Pasqua, of whooping cough, on 19 May 1831. Her age is not recorded here — the column is written small and sideways and could not be read with confidence at the resolution the viewer allows, so it is left unread rather than guessed. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The Register · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Defunctorum — DGS 005497894, image 562 Yielded | March 1831 | Entry 48, 14 March 1831, house 456. «Maddalena Francin di Giovanni, Moglie di Pietro De Franceschi q.m Pietro», cattolica, femmina, aged 39, dead of tisi polmonare. The sacraments column is full: Conf.e, Com.e, Extr. Unz.e, Ind. in art. mortis.
She is the mother of the eleven-year-old. House 456 is where, on 15 December 1830, «Pietro figlio di Pietro De Franceschi q.m Pietro e di Maddalena Francin di Giovanni giugali» died of scarlatina — and the two entries name the same couple in the same words. The boy dies in December; his mother dies ninety days later, in the same house, of consumption.
The sacraments columns set side by side are the whole of it. For the boy: «senza assistenza spirituale per la malattia repentina» — no priest, the illness was too sudden. For his mother, dying slowly of tuberculosis: every rite there is.
Aged 39 in March 1831 puts her birth about 1791–92, and about 27 at the boy's birth in 1819. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The Eleven of Gračišće · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Copulatorum — DGS 005497894, images 211–212 Yielded | 1832 | A third wife named in the parents' generation. 17 July 1832, house 325: Domenico De Franceschi, forty-six and a widower, «figlio delli furono giugali Pietro De Franceschi e Martina Civico q.m Domenico, Vedovo della q.m Veniera De Rocchi fu Onorato», marries a widow. Because both parties are widowed the clerk writes every name out, and it yields a couple this archive did not have. Martina Civico joins Michiela Zambaletta and Domenica Manzin as the third named wife of that generation. Whether her husband Pietro is the same man as the Pietro q.m Domenico who married Domenica Manzin is left open — this parish has produced four Pietros and two Cristoforos, and only a patronymic settles it. Don Stefano witnesses a nineteenth time, 16 November 1832. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Copulatorum — DGS 005497894, image 213 Yielded | Late 1832 into 1833 | A second son, and a correction. 1 December 1832, house 282: «Domenico figlio di Pietro De Franceschi q.m Gio: Maria e della q.m Veniera Francin q.m Domenico», aged 29 — the same parents as the 1821 bridegroom, so a younger brother of Gio: Maria, born about 1803. And on 26 January 1833 the priest's signature reads «D.n Stefano De Franceschi, De Parochi lic., li congiunse e benedisse nella Chiesa Parrocchiale» — he married them himself, which retires this archive's repeated claim that he was never the officiant. The claim was true of 1819–1832 and was stated as though it covered a book that was still sixty openings from being read. What survives is better: he acts «De Parochi lic.», by the parson's licence, the same formula as the 1816 baptism. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Copulatorum — DGS 005497894, image 214 Yielded | February 1833 | Giuseppe De Franceschi's death bracketed. The weaver is «Cristoforo De Franceschi di Giuseppe» in March 1818 and November 1828, and «fu Giuseppe» on 12 February 1833 — so the father of the priest, the ploughman and the weaver died between November 1828 and February 1833. Also Don Stefano officiates a second time, in the church of the B. V. del Carmine, and Pietro De Franceschi fu Pietro witnesses a third time. And a reading withdrawn the day after publishing it: «De Par. lic.» is the register's standard formula for any deputising priest — the next entry uses it of Don Pietro Bradamante — not the personal arrangement this archive took it for. Vodnjan is running marriages through at least four churches: the parish church, San Martino, the B. V. del Carmine and the B. V. della Trovesa. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · Where the name went · The Register · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Copulatorum — DGS 005497894, images 215–216 Yielded | 1833: the brothers' own household | The household of the priest, the ploughman and the weaver opens. 27 July 1833, house 324: «Maria Francesca, figlia del fu Giuseppe De Franceschi q.m Pietro e di Lucia Tromba q.m Cristoforo», marrying at twenty-eight. That gives Giuseppe a father (Pietro), a wife (Lucia Tromba) and a fourth child — and confirms his death inside the bracket his sons' patronymics had already set, after November 1828 and before February 1833. The mother is a Tromba: the surname of Giovanni Tromba S.T.D., the parroco who signs every page and who licensed her son Don Stefano to baptise in 1816 and to marry couples in 1833. One of the two witnesses is Andrea Tromba, Possidente Civile. A ploughman's and a weaver's family produced a priest of the chapter, and their mother came from the family that held the parish. (the kinship is inf, on a shared surname in a small town) What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Defunctorum 1815–1833 — DGS 005497894, images ~471–575 Yielded | Opening the death register | The third book on the film, and it is not indexed either. Deaths 1815–1833 run from about image 471 to 575 — thirteen entries a page, six images to the year, in a Latin ruling with a cause-of-death column. A query for De Franceschi deaths 1826–1836 across the whole of Croatia returns eight dated records and none from this parish. First entry read: 11 March 1829, house 325, «Maria, figlia di Stefano De Franceschi e di Bonetta Vellico q.m Antonio» — a child of one of the eight households reconstructed from the baptism index, which now has a burial and a house number. Images 546–548 read; the target is Giuseppe De Franceschi, bracketed by his sons' patronymics to between November 1828 and February 1833. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Defunctorum — DGS 005497894, images 546–550 Yielded | 1829, and two households given their dead | Two of the eight reconstructed households now have a burial, a house number and — in one case — a generation above them. 11 March 1829, house 325: «Maria, figlia di Stefano De Franceschi e di Bonetta Vellico q.m Antonio». 23 July 1829, house 48: «Pietro, figlio di Dom.co De Franceschi q.m Pietro e di Zacchera Cerlon di Franc.o» — which names Domenico's own dead father, a Pietro, where the baptism index had only a bare pair of names. Also caught and fixed: the reader's crops were being clipped to the viewport, losing the bottom fifth of every page, silently. Images scanned before the fix are being re-scanned. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The plates · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Defunctorum — DGS 005497894, images 553–557 Yielded | Giuseppe De Franceschi, found | The bracket closes exactly. This archive had no date for Giuseppe De Franceschi — only a range derived from how his sons were written, «di Giuseppe» in November 1828 and «fu Giuseppe» in February 1833. The death register gives 14 February 1830: «Giuseppe De Franceschi q.m Pietro era ammogliato con Lucia Tromba fu Cristoforo», house 324, aged 72 — so born about 1758 — of an organic defect of the chest, and, in the sacraments column, «senza assistenza spirituale per morte improvvisa»: suddenly, with no priest. His own son was a priest of that parish. And five months later, 13 July 1830, house 501: «Lucia De Franceschi q.m Pietro era Moglie di Alviso Birattan q.m Sabà», aged 70, of dropsy — the woman whose three daughters married out in 1821, 1824 and 1825. Both «q.m Pietro», born about 1758 and 1760, dead five months apart: almost certainly brother and sister, which joins the two households and puts a Pietro born around 1730 behind both. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Defunctorum — DGS 005497894, images 558–559 Yielded | House 325 gets its family | 11 September 1830, house 325: «Bonetta Vellico q.m Antonio, Moglie di Stefano De Franceschi di Domenico q.m Pietro», aged 57 — born about 1773 — of pulmonary consumption, eighteen months after her daughter died in the same house. The two different words matter: di Domenico means his father was alive; q.m Pietro means his grandfather was not. A third Vodnjan line stands — Pietro → Domenico → Stefano — and it gives that household three generations where the baptism index gave none. It also makes house 325 theirs, which sharpens the question raised two days ago: the same number stands against Domenico De Franceschi, 46, son of a Pietro and Martina Civico, remarrying there in 1832. The connection is now likely; which connection it is stays open, because on the stated ages that Domenico is too young to be Stefano's father. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Sept 2026 | The Register — 1,508 harvested FamilySearch personas Yielded | Vodnjan households, mined from the catch instead of the film | With the film shut, the 1,508-row catch harvested the day before was read for parent-pairs instead. It gave four households the archive did not have — Sebastiano Giachin × Domenica De Franceschi (1817–1832), Giuseppe Forlani × Lucia Michiela De Franceschi (1848–1857), Stefano De Franceschi × Maria Forlanichio (1858–1860) and Domenico De Franceschi × Mattea Delcarro (1858–1865) — plus two children for households already standing: Teresa Domenica, 1820, to Pietro and Maria Malusà, and Lucia, 25 July 1826, to Gio Maria and Lucia Bonassin.
It also gave a warning about itself. A ninth apparent household, Giovanni Moscarda × Maria Defranceschi, dissolved on inspection: Antonio 1835 and Antonio 1836, Stefano 1844 and Stefano 1844, Epifanio and Giovanni Epifano both June 1849 are the same children indexed twice, in Latin and in Italian. Nothing was added from it. That is the Register's own caveat — an entry is not a person — proving itself within a day of being published. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The Register · The parish books · FamilySearch record search | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Defunctorum — DGS 005497894, image 560 Yielded | December 1830 – January 1831 | Entry 151, 15 December 1830, house 456. «Pietro figlio di Pietro De Franceschi q.m Pietro e di Maddalena Francin di Giovanni giugali», aged 11, of scarlatina, and in the sacraments column «senza assistenza spirituale per la malattia repentina».
He is a new eldest child for a household this archive already had — three years older than its earliest baptism — so that marriage was made by 1818, not 1822. His father's father was dead by 1830; his mother's father was alive. The house is 456, a third Vodnjan house number after 324 and 325.
Entry 4, 6 January 1831, house 24. «Domenica figlia di Andrea Palin q.m Pio. e della fu Michiela De Franceschi fu Pietro giugali» — a sixth woman who left the surname, dead before 1831, recoverable only because her daughter died young enough to need her named.
Two rejected. Entry 157 reads «Nicolò Sussani q.m Francesco» and entry 16 «Antonia Palin di Francesco». Both are patronymics. At low zoom both looked like the surname; neither is. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · The marriages · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Defunctorum — DGS 005497894, image 560, entries 149–155 Yielded | Scarlatina, December 1830 | Five of seven consecutive entries — 150, 151, 152, 153, 155 — give the cause as «Scarlatina», and the dead are aged 7, 11, 6, 6 and a child. Scarlet fever went through Vodnjan in December 1830, and the eleven-year-old Pietro De Franceschi died in it. The register writes the age as «d'an. 11» in a column headed Aetas; the two entries on either side of him are other people's children of six and seven. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The Eleven of Gračišće · The Register · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Defunctorum — DGS 005497894, image 561 Yielded | A slip of paper left in the book | Image 561 is a re-shoot of the same opening as 560, with a loose slip laid across the left page — so the December 1830 entries are hidden and the slip is filmed instead.
Recto: «Cercare ne' libri de' morti — Maria Celin fu moglie del fu Marco Silla, morto da anni 25, 26 c.a» — someone's instruction to search the books of the dead.
Verso, upside down: a draft entry — «165 · Dom.ca Gasparro fu Dom.co e Cat.a Baldarin № 505, morta li 23 ottobre 1843, da male di petto», then two names, «Giorgio Cossich e Fran.co Maravo».
Neither side concerns this family. It is kept because of what it is: parish office scrap from 1843, lying in an 1831 opening, photographed because nobody moved it — and on one side of it, somebody else's unfinished search. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The plates · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Sept 2026 | The Register — 1,508 harvested FamilySearch personas Yielded | Every household in the catch, not just Vodnjan's | With the film blocked, the whole catch was mined for parent-pairs rather than only its Istrian rows. It gave 48 households the archive did not have, holding 151 children — among them Veneranda Defranceschi × Antonius Subiotto (eight children, 1858–1874), Pascha Defranceschi × Angelus Ferrarese (seven, 1849–1864), Francesco Franceschi × Maria De Caralipeo at Almissa in Dalmatia (seven, 1856–1873), and Josephi Defranceschi × Mariæ Defranceschi at Ližnjan (five, 1872–1888).
Every one is filed index, not read — the pattern is real, the spellings are the indexer's, and no page has been seen. 34 are in Istria, 11 in Dalmatia, 10 in the Kvarner and 43 could not be placed at all.
Three pairs are flagged as possibly one household each — Bellinich twice, Zanghirella twice, Lazar twice — where the surnames match once the spellings are set aside and the years all but touch. They are kept apart, because merging two households on a surname is how one family becomes a fiction.
The merge itself had to be built twice. The first pass counted 100 pairs, most of them Latin genitives of each other — Valentini and Valentino, Ursulæ and Orsola, Josephi and Giuseppe — and Francetich rows that are not this family at all. Normalising the genitives, collapsing doubled letters and requiring a De Franceschi parent brought it to 48.What it produced on this siteVodnjan · Ližnjan · Rijeka and Bakar · FamilySearch record search | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Sept 2026 | Family testimony — David Defranceski Yielded | 1948: an attempt to leave the country | Asked what «went» meant, David answered: «They went to leave the country in 1948.»
That converts a contradiction into a window. Their son was born at Senj on 17 December 1951, so they were back on the coast by about March 1951; Ivan died at Senj in 1995. They left in 1948, were home inside about two and a half years, and never got out — Hedviga reached Johannesburg only much later, and Ivan never did.
The route is not a mystery either. The family already had a household in Pfullingen, in the French occupation zone: Ivan had worked at Reutlingen from 21 October 1941, his father was on the 1947 Pfullingen list of foreigners, and his brothers Zdravko and Anton went out to Australia from there in 1949 — Anton's card stamped «Emigré Australie le 8.3.49». Ivan and Hedviga were a year behind them at a door that was closing, the IRO shutting its books at the end of February 1952.
A failed exit leaves no Yugoslav paper. The Arolsen request has been rewritten accordingly and is now the highest-value errand this project holds. What it produced on this siteSenj · Pfullingen · Where the name went · defranceski.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Sept 2026 | Archives de Corse — archives.isula.corsica Yielded | Whether the Corsican records can be searched by surname | They cannot, and finding that out is the result. The Archives of the Collectivité de Corse are free, need no account and are not FamilySearch — the platform refuses a command-line client but opens normally in a browser.
No module has a surname field. État civil, Corsica christiana, Recensements, Registres matricules all take the same three criteria — commune, date range, record type — and the platform says outright that anything else is une recherche non indexée.
So Corsica is images to be read, like Vodnjan. But the record types include TABLE DÉCENNALE — the alphabetical ten-yearly index French civil registration compiled for every commune, 1793–1902. That is roughly eleven index pages per commune instead of ten years of acts, and it is why Corsica can be finished when Vodnjan cannot: an Austrian Liber Defunctorum was never indexed by anybody.
Six Cap Corse communes are on the platform and all are in scope: Tomino, Rogliano, Ersa, Centuri, Morsiglia, Barrettali. Available types: naissances, mariages, décès, baptêmes, sépultures, publications de mariage, table décennale. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · Corsica · The parish books · Archives de Corse | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Stjepan Antoljak, «Hrvati u prošlosti» (475 pp., supplied by David) Yielded | Full-text search of the whole book for every spelling of the surname | Two finds, and one of them is uncomfortable. Antoljak cites Carlo De Franceschi twenty-one times across his study of the Slav settlement of Istria — and corrects him twice: once for misreading a charter («netočno pročitan»), once, harder, for writing in 1885 that Istria was never occupied or ruled by any Slav people, having confused the Rječina with the Raša. Published on Carlo's Book, under the claim it complicates. And, in the Zadar chapter, a palace: «Ferro-Grisogono-Franceschi», on the corner of Široka ulica, with a footnote to an article «Famiglia Franceschi» in the Zadar almanac for 1859 that this project had never heard of. What it produced on this siteCarlo De Franceschi · The library, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | FamilySearch personas, surname De Franceschi, Croatia, births 1600–1700 Yielded | A filter this archive had never applied to a query it had run many times | Seven records nobody here had seen, and three of them read on the film. A De Franceschi household in Fiume in 1626 — Giovanni Antonio and Lucia, three children baptised 1626, 1628 and 1632 — 113 years before the Valentino whom Kobler and Carlo took for the first of the name in the city. The 1628 godfather is the imperial Captain of Fiume; the 1632 baptism was performed by the Bishop of Senj in person. Almost certainly not this family, and said so on the page. Also four unread: two at Omiš (1644, and a man born about 1581 who died in 1645) and two at Split. What it produced on this siteSenj · Omiš · Rijeka and Bakar · FamilySearch record search | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Omiš and Split parish registers — DGS 005494111 and 005494166 Yielded | Opening the films behind four index entries this page had published as unread | Three of the four read. Two index errors corrected — the Omiš child of January 1644 is indexed «Nicolaa, Female» and the register says «il figlio … Nicolò»; the 1645 death is indexed 20 March and the register reads 29. Two godparent appearances that exist in no index — Sig.ra Francesca de Franceschi stands twice on one opening of the Omiš book. A father styled Cap.n Zuane de Franceschi. An emergency baptism at Split in 1700, «l'acqua in casa, in caso di necessità», to Egidio de Franceschi and Maria. And Gioannes Maria de Franceschi, died 29 March 1645 aged 64 — born about 1581, the oldest birth year this archive holds for the surname anywhere in Croatia. The fourth, a Split burial of 1716, is still unopened and is labelled so. What it produced on this siteOmiš · The Register · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005494111 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Findmypast — Travel & Migration, surname «defranceschi» Yielded | All 328 movement records harvested from the result listings (transcripts paywalled, none bought) | Four of the Eleven found in it, and one gravestone finished. Bruno born 1907 petitions for United States citizenship at New York in 1939 and again in 1942 as «Bruno de Franceschi Or Seedorf»; Gerda born 1913 petitions in the same year — the surname the Millbrook stone cut off is SEEDORF. Antonio 1887 and Albina 1900 both cross in 1922, brother and sister in the same year. Joseph 1892 petitions at New York in 1912, 1915 and 1916. Basilio, Dario and Benito all sail in 1955–56. And the shape of the whole file: the commonest event is the same man arriving three times — circulation, not emigration. Four Vermont border crossings point at the Barre granite sheds, which is where a stonecutter's sons would go. Published on Leaving. What it produced on this siteThe Eleven of Gračišće · Where the name went · The headstones · Findmypast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Findmypast — full subscription, every category, every spelling Yielded | David took a trial and asked for everything; transcripts read, not just index rows | The American half of the family, in documents. The 1930 census puts three of the Eleven in one Brooklyn flat — Albina, her husband Frank Chinkojan, and her brothers Anthony (immigrated 1922) and «Grochina», the enumerator's Gioacchino. Albina's marriage licence of 23 April 1925 names her mother Maria Volhart; Joseph's of 1926 names Maria Valbart; Bruno's of 1931 names Mary Walhal — three children, three clerks, one woman, and the parish book's Volhardt behind all of them. Gerda's surname is Seedorf, of Hanover. Joseph's 1917 draft card gives 12 March 1892 and «Frieste»; the 1940 census gives him a wife and two children; and a Sergeant Joseph De Franceschi of the First World War lies at Long Island National Cemetery, dead 26 April 1940, twenty-five days after that census. Basilio died 15 June 1994. And the fused spelling Defranceski returns thirty-six of its own — a family of five off the Slovenija at Philadelphia in 1954, and two graves at Horsham, Victoria. What it produced on this siteThe Eleven of Gračišće · The headstones · The marriages · Findmypast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Findmypast — keyword «Gallignana», «Pedena», «Pisino» Yielded | Searching the village name instead of the surname | «Gallignana» returns ten records in the whole database and three are this family's — Joseph's naturalisation petition of 1915 and Albina's of 1928, both giving «Gallignana, Austria» as the birthplace in a United States federal record, and Albina's 1922 arrival. The other seven are the village's other emigrants: Poldrugovac, Millassich, Lanza, Silich. «Pedena» and «Pisino» then gave the crossing: Antonio and Albina De Franceschi, one index number apart, on the Conte Rosso out of Genoa in 1922 — he aged 35 living at Pićan with a wife Marta left behind, she aged 22 at Gallignana; and Albina's husband under a fourth spelling, Frank Schinkopan of Pisino, born 24 February 1896, naturalising at New York in 1920 and 1926. What it produced on this siteGologorica · Carlo De Franceschi · Findmypast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Findmypast — the images, through the IIIF image service Yielded | Opening the documents behind the transcripts: census sheet, naturalisation petitions and declarations | An address, a ship and a date. Albina's 1928 petition, in her own words: «I emigrated from Genoa on or about the 29 day of August 1922, and arrived at the port of New York on the 9 day of September 1922, on the vessel Conte Rosso» — and her residence, 2922 Ave. L, Brooklyn, which is the house the 1930 census sheet shows the family owning, valued at $16,000, with a radio. The sheet also gives the trades: Frank Chinkojan a chef, Anthony a fireman at an electric company, and «Trochina» a counter man in a restaurant, twenty-four weeks out of work in the first spring of the Depression. Gerda's 1939 declaration carries her photograph, her arrival at New York on the Dresden from Bremen on 21 October 1929, and the line «he was born at Gallignana, Italy on August 12, 1907». And a correction: the 1939 and 1942 records indexed under Bruno's name are Gerda's own papers. Two leads closed as well — Peter b.1902 was born at Basel, and the 1939 Register has no Defranceschi in England at all. What it produced on this siteGologorica · Where the name went · The plates · Findmypast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Findmypast images, second pass — Joseph's naturalisation file; BillionGraves, Horsham Yielded | The certificate of arrival, the petition, and the Australian headstone | Joseph went first, and twelve years early. His certificate of arrival, issued at Ellis Island on 2 December 1915: «Date of arrival October 11, 1910 · Name of vessel Martha Washington · Line Aus.-Amer.» — out of Trieste about 24 September 1910, aged eighteen, on the Austro-Americana line. His petition gives 148 Sackett Street, Brooklyn, on the docks, and an occupation this archive reads as oiler. And the Horsham headstone is legible: «IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF ZDRAVKO FRANK DEFRANCESKI · DIED 22ND DECEMBER 1979 AGED 58 · BELOVED HUSBAND OF ROSA», photographed 8 May 2018. The war-grave record for Sergeant Joseph De Franceschi is an index only — no image exists to open. What it produced on this siteWhere the name went · The headstones · The plates · Findmypast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Findmypast — the 1926 Martha Washington manifest, and a search for Marta Yielded | Whether Antonio ever went back to the wife he left at Pićan | He did, and he came out again. The manifest of the S.S. Martha Washington sailing from Trieste, stamped New York 31 May 1926, line 6: «DEFRANCESCHI, ANTONIO, 39, married, mason … last permanent residence N.Y., Brooklyn … nearest relative in country whence came: wife, Defranceschi Marta, Pedena 10, Istria, Italy». «Last permanent residence Brooklyn» is a returning resident on a re-entry permit — so he had gone home to Istria between 1922 and 1926 and come back. He was a mason, the trade his father is given by in the Gračišće book of souls. And it is the ship Joseph crossed on in 1910. Marta never came: her only «record» carries the identifier one digit along from Antonio's — she is the relation field of his own manifest line. After April 1930 he appears in no American source at all, and never completed naturalisation. What it produced on this siteAt sea · Findmypast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Findmypast British & Irish Newspapers — keyword «Defranceschi» Yielded | Seventy articles; the earliest sixty are shipping intelligence | A whole chapter nobody knew was there. Between 1865 and 1878 a master of this name commands Austrian ships in the Black Sea grain and Bristol Channel coal trades — the Natalia out of Constantinople and Galatz, the Rachel from Odessa to Antwerp, the Peppina Luigia Trieste to Troon, and above all the Aquilone, «Aus, 350, Defranceschi», tracked through nineteen printed sightings from Alexandria and Sulina to Belfast, Malta, Venice, Ghent, Barcelona and out of Cardiff for Guadaloupe on 11 December 1877. The masters printed beside him are Bujanovich, Lacovich, Cattarinich, Ivancich, Nicolich — the sea-captain families of Lošinj, Rijeka and Bakar, and this archive has an unplaced Dominus household at Bakar. And in 1896 the South Wales Echo writes that «Signorina Defranceschi belongs to an old Cardiff family, and has recently taken her degree at the Vienna Conservatoire of Music», playing harpsichord recitals at the Cardiff Exhibition. Published at /at-sea/. What it produced on this siteRijeka and Bakar · At sea · Findmypast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Findmypast newspapers, second pass — «de Franceschi» and «Defranceski» Yielded | 83 more articles under the particle spelling, and one under the fused | Three more Aquilone voyages (Queenstown with Alexandria wheat, 3 July 1872; Leith for Trieste, January 1874; Deal, Alexandria for Stockton, February 1875) — and a second man of the sea entirely: «George De Franceschi, A.B., an Austrian», giving evidence at the Board of Trade inquiry into the loss of the Shields steamer Aberlady Bay, June 1889. The first man of this surname anywhere in the archive who is named, dated, put on a named ship and quoted. Also Enrico de Franceschi, baritone of La Scala — recorded 1924 with Zita Fumagalli-Riva («here is very excellent singing»), listed in 1926 among Amato, Galeffi, Rouard and Stracciari, and broadcast live to Britain from La Scala in March 1938 with Gigli and Pagliughi. And the single «Defranceski» hit fills in a career: Josip Defranceski, Director of External Services, Radio Belgrade, leaving Peshawar for Kabul in December 1959. What it produced on this siteThe diaspora · Findmypast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Trove, National Library of Australia — newspapers and gazettes Yielded | The Australian press, which is not on Findmypast | «Defranceski» returns two, both government gazettes. «Defranceschi» returns thirteen, and one is a story: The Age, Melbourne, 25 January 1954, «Girl Saw Friend Drown» — «Giordano Defranceschi, laborer, swam out into the … but Defranceschi disappeared … before the eyes of a girl he met here last week.» The Australian inward passenger lists carry a Giordano de Franceschi arriving in 1950; this archive believes they are the same man and cannot prove it. Also DeFranceschi Bros, 716 Chappie Lane, Broken Hill, NSW Government Gazette, 17 June 1966. And no nineteenth-century Defranceschi in the Australian press at all — the name arrives after the Second World War, exactly as the passenger lists say. What it produced on this siteWhere the name went · At sea · Trove — National Library of Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | NSW Unassisted Passenger Lists — the 1893 Australian outlier Yielded | The one Australian record fifty-seven years before all the others | Solved, and it is not a migrant. «INWARD. A LIST of the Crew and Passengers arrived in the Ship Miowera of London, James Stott Master, of the Burthen of 1,911 Tons, from the Port of Melbourne to Sydney, New South Wales, 1893.» In the seamen's column, dittoed down from the quartermaster above him: «G. Defranceschi · ″ · 28 · Austrian». Q.M. — quartermaster, twenty-eight, Austrian, on the overnight run from Melbourne to Sydney on 6 January 1893. He was not going to Australia; he was passing through it. The surname reaches Australia in 1893 as a sailor and does not settle there for another fifty-seven years. What it produced on this siteWhere the name went · At sea · NSW State Archives — passenger lists | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Findmypast images, third pass — Frank Schinkopan's declaration; the Conte Rosso manifest Yielded | Albina's husband's own papers, and the 1922 embarkation list | Frank Schinkopan's declaration of intention, Brooklyn 1920: «aged 24, occupation Cook, complexion fair, height 5 feet 8, weight 144, hair dark brown, eyes gray; born in Pisino, Italy, on the 24 day of February 1896; residing 304 Ninth Avenue, Brooklyn; emigrated from Trieste, Austria, on the vessel Elenor; not married; renouncing particularly Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy, of whom I am now a subject; arrived at the port of New York on or about the 15 March 1920.» A cook in a Brooklyn room in 1920; a chef owning a $16,000 house on Avenue L by 1930. And the Conte Rosso manifest opened — the Italian form, «Numero dei biglietto · COGNOME E NOME · PATERNITÀ · ETÀ» — with De Franceschi Antonio 35 and De Franceschi Albina 22 on consecutive lines. The paternità column is blank but for a tick: the one document that asked directly who their father was did not write it down. A «going to join» column exists but the rows could not be aligned across the spread with certainty and were not guessed at. What it produced on this siteCarlo De Franceschi · Where the name went · At sea · Findmypast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Split, Župa Sv. Dujma — DGS 005494174, image 378 Yielded | The last of the four unread records | The best single line found all day. The index said «Nicolo De Franceschi, burial 18 May 1716, birth 1626». The register says: «Can.co Don Nicolò de Franceschi ⟨Can.co di S. Vito di Candia⟩ passò da questa alla miglior vita d'anni 90 incirca … et fù sepolto nella Chiesa del Domo in Coro nella sepoltura delli Sig.ri Can.ci.» A canon of a church in Candia — Crete — buried in the choir of Split cathedral in the canons' vault, aged about ninety. Born about 1626; Candia fell to the Turks in 1669 when he was forty-three. The Seget branch's Cretan origin has been treated on this site as the family's own tradition. It now has a document standing beside it. What it produced on this siteOmiš · Seget · The Register · FamilySearch film 005494174 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Rovinj, Župa Rovinj — DGS 005497871, images 225 and 466 Yielded | The Rovinj records, from 1619 | A new earliest. «Adì 27 Mago 1619 · morì ser Piero di Franceschi da Pola. Fu portato il suo cadavere … off. L 24» — the oldest dated appearance of this surname in Istria the archive holds, seven years before the Fiume baptisms and a hundred and forty-two before the name is first written at Gologorica. He is styled ser; he is of Pola, not of Rovinj; his body was carried there; and his offering of 24 lire is near the top of a page whose other entries run at 2, 6 and 12. And the second-oldest is also a stranger: «Ob.to di Matt.o de Franceschi da Dignano», 27 December 1728, 6 lire — Vodnjan, which this archive lists among the unplaced. The film holds fourteen more, including a Rovinj household across three generations (Giacomo → Vittorio & Domenica Moscarda → Piero Anto 1736) — and Carlo De Franceschi's own marriage to Maria Michelcich, with his parents named as «Giuseppe da Gologorizza» and «Lambertina Pesle». That image has not been opened. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · Gologorica · Rijeka and Bakar · FamilySearch film 005497871 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan (Dignano) parish registers — DGS 005497893–95, catalogue koha:963267 Yielded | Finding and opening the registers, after this archive first said they did not exist | Found, and a correction retracted. This archive said in the afternoon that the seventy-eight Vodnjan records were really Vižinada's, because the catalogue answered the film number 005497893 with «Župa Vižinada». A reel can carry two parishes. That one holds Vižinada's deaths 1754–1831 and Vodnjan's baptisms 1815–1866, catalogue item koha:963267 — «metrical books for the Roman Catholic congregation at Dignano … later Vodnjan». The marriages 1815–1884 and deaths to 1893 are on films 894 and 895. The baptismal book is headed «LIBER BAPTIZATORUM IN ECCLESIA S. BLASII DIGNANI», and entry 149 of 4 December 1816 gives house 376, «Pietro De Franceschi di Giuseppe, agricoltore», «Maria Malusà q.m Matteo di Antonio», condition civile — and the baptising priest is «D. Stefano De Franceschi, de Parocho licentia». A priest of the name at Vodnjan, and five lay households. The one death on that reel, Mathaeus De Franceschi son of Anton, house 32, 7 August 1819, is in the Liber Defunctorum of Castellier — Kaštelir, under Vižinada — which is exactly why the wrong answer looked right. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The Register · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497893 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Copulatorum 1815–1884 — DGS 005497894, images 172–182 Yielded | Reading the marriage register by eye, because nobody has indexed it | The register is not indexed. Two hundred and eighty-six marriage-query arks were resolved against film 005497894 and none of them is on it, which is why these marriages have never been seen. Read opening by opening instead. Eleven openings in, five De Franceschi appearances: 30 March 1818, house 312 — «Pietro De Franceschi q.m Gio. Maria, vedovo della q.m Veniera Franzin q.m Domenico», aged 42, marrying Lorenza Tesser q.m Ambrogio, widow of Andrea Manzin, which puts his birth about 1776 and his father's death before 1818; «+ Cristoforo De Franceschi di Giuseppe, tessitore» and «+ Pietro De Franceschi di Giuseppe, agricoltore» as witnesses in March and September 1818, both signing with a cross — brothers, and a different Pietro from the widower; «Don Stefano De Franceschi, Sacerdote» as witness on 7 June 1819, with the page signed by Giovanni Tromba S.T.D., parroco e preposito del Capitolo — so Don Stefano was a priest of the town, not the parish priest; and «la fu Domenica De Franceschi», mother of a bride aged 40 in November 1817, dead before the register begins and born about 1750. Images 183–265 still to read. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The Register · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Copulatorum — DGS 005497894, images 183–187 Yielded | Reading on: 1819 and 1820 | A priest, a ploughman and a weaver turn out to be brothers. On 17 August 1820 the clerk writes the witness in full — «D.n Stefano De Franceschi di Giuseppe — Sacerdote» — the same patronymic already recorded for «+ Pietro De Franceschi di Giuseppe, agricoltore» and «+ Cristoforo De Franceschi di Giuseppe, tessitore», both of whom sign with a cross. Don Stefano witnesses four marriages in these openings (7 June and 20 August 1819, 17 August and 13 November 1820), twice beside a canon of the chapter, never as officiant — the parroco who signs every page is Giovanni Tromba S.T.D. Also found: «la vivente Antonia Maria De Franceschi», widow of Damiano Storcovich, alive 30 June 1819 with a daughter aged 40 — a second woman of the name born about 1750, alongside the Domenica already dead in 1817. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · The marriages · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Copulatorum — DGS 005497894, image 188 Yielded | The 1821 marriage that closes a chain | Four generations off one page. From 1821 the register rules new columns — «Sponsus et Genitores» — and names both parties' parents in every entry. The first result: 9 June 1821, house 356, «Gio: Maria De Franceschi figlio di Pietro De Franceschi q.m Gio: Maria e della fu Veniera Francin q.m Dom.co de Rondel», aged 22, marrying Lucia Bonassin, aged 27. That is the household this archive had reconstructed from the baptism register — now with its father, grandfather and great-grandfather named. It also settles this morning's open question: the Gio Maria fathering children in the 1820s was flagged as probably a grandson of the Gio Maria dead by 1818, marked inf because it was not proved. It is proved. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The Register · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Copulatorum — DGS 005497894, images 189–190 Yielded | 1821–1822 | A third De Franceschi woman married out. 14 November 1821, house 54: Maria, daughter of Alvise Birattan q.m Saba and «Lucia De Franceschi q.m Pietro», marries at twenty-one — so Lucia married by 1799 and her father Pietro was dead by 1821, which makes him older than the Pietro who remarried in 1818. The witnesses are Giannandrea Dalla Zonca, Nobile and Guglielmo Conte Lombardo di Pola, and the couple needed a dispensation in the fourth degree of consanguinity. Also Don Stefano's fifth witness appearance, 3 July 1822, house 200. And one deliberate miss recorded — «Maddalena Franceschich q.m Gio, di Pinguente», a Slavic patronymic out of Buzet that is not this surname. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Copulatorum — DGS 005497894, images 191–192 Yielded | 1823–1824 | «Pietro De Franceschi di Gio., da Dignano — Tessitore», witness on 30 January 1824 at a marriage celebrated in Šišan by that village's curate. Because the wedding was outside Vodnjan the clerk records where each witness came from, and this is the same formula that labelled «Matt.o de Franceschi da Dignano» when he was buried at Rovinj in 1728 — ninety-six years apart, the name written down only from outside the town. He is a fourth distinct Pietro — son of a Giovanni, and a weaver like Cristoforo. Also Bianca Bortolan, second daughter of Lucia De Franceschi q.m Pietro, married 14 June 1824 aged 20, fixing that household's dates without a baptism surviving for any of them. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · The marriages · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Copulatorum — DGS 005497894, image 193 Yielded | 1823–1824: a second male line | A second Vodnjan line, three generations deep, unrelated to Giuseppe's. 19 November 1823, house 684: Bonetta, «figlia del fu Pietro De Franceschi q.m Dom.co e Domenica Manzin q.m Dom.co», marries at twenty-three — so born about 1800, her father dead by 1823 and his father a Domenico. Ninety days later, 28 February 1824, house 764, a «Pietro De Franceschi q.m Pietro, agricoltore» witnesses — a man whose father Pietro is newly dead, and on the dates almost certainly Bonetta's brother. Left open on purpose: whether this Pietro q.m Domenico is also the «q.m Pietro» who fathered Lucia, married out by 1799. A shared forename is not evidence. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Copulatorum — DGS 005497894, images 194–195 Yielded | 1824–1825, and a correction | A third daughter, and a misreading put right. 15 January 1825, house 667: Lucia, «figlia di Alvise Birattan q.m Saba e di Lucia De Franceschi q.m Pietro», marries at 28 — born about 1797, alongside Maria (b. c.1800) and Bianca (b. c.1804). Three weddings out of one house, none of them indexed anywhere. This entry also writes the husband's surname clearly, and it is Birattan, not the Bortolan this archive published earlier today off the 1821 hand; the earlier rows have been corrected in place with the change stated. Also Don Stefano's sixth witness appearance, 28 October 1824, house 208, again beside Canon Michiel Benedetto. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Copulatorum — DGS 005497894, images 196–198 Yielded | 1825–1826 | Pietro had a brother. 25 January 1826, house 224: Michiela, «figlia di Cristoforo De Franceschi q.m Gio: Maria e di Maria Luigia Manzin q.m Domenico», marries at 26 — the same dead father as the Pietro who remarried in 1818, so Cristoforo is his brother and the eldest Vodnjan line now carries two sons. It also means two men named Cristoforo De Franceschi are alive in the town at once — this one q.m Gio: Maria, and the weaver di Giuseppe — told apart only by the father's name. And 10 July 1826: «Ant.o De Franceschi fu Vittorio» witnesses at a wedding celebrated by the archpriest at Svetvinčenat — a Rovinj given-name in the patronymic and a Svetvinčenat venue, recorded as a coincidence of the page and not claimed as a link. One miss ruled out by eye on image 196: «Pietro Francin q.m Fran.co», not Franceschi. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Copulatorum — DGS 005497894, images 199–202 Yielded | 1826–1828 | A sister, and the eldest line becomes a family of three. 7 February 1828, house 366: Michiela Damiana, daughter of the late Domenico Pastrovicchio and «della vivente Veniera De Franceschi q.m Gio: Maria», marries at twenty — and the witness is «Cristoforo De Franceschi fu Gio: M.a, Agricoltore», her uncle. So Gio. Maria De Franceschi, dead before 1818, is now shown with three children — Pietro, Cristoforo and Veniera — none of whom has a baptism on any film this archive can reach; the register found them by naming their dead father the same way three times across ten years. Also «Pietro De Franceschi di Gio., Tessitore» witnessing again on 23 September 1828, in Vodnjan this time and without the «da Dignano», which shows he lived there. And Don Stefano's seventh and eighth appearances, 16 February and 23 September 1828. Images 199 and 200 read with no De Franceschi on them. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The Register · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Copulatorum — DGS 005497894, images 203–204 Yielded | Late 1828 into 1829 | Cristoforo the weaver, named in full at last — «Cristoforo De Franceschi di Giuseppe, Tessitore», witness 25 November 1828 — which is what safely separates him from the other Cristoforo, fu Gio: Maria, the ploughman who witnessed his own niece's wedding ten months earlier. Two men, one name, one town, one volume. Don Stefano witnesses twice more the same afternoon (entries 42 and 43, both 25 November 1828), taking him to ten. And the near-miss worth keeping: «Giuseppe figlio del fu Pietro Francin q.m Dom.co de Rondel» — not Franceschi, but the identical patronymic to Pietro De Franceschi's first wife «Veniera Francin q.m Dom.co de Rondel», so this groom is Veniera's nephew and a first cousin of the 1821 bridegroom. Francin is not Franceschi, and in this parish the two families are a household deep in each other. Image 204 read clean. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Copulatorum — DGS 005497894, images 205–206 Yielded | 1829–1830 | Don Stefano reaches fourteen witness appearances in ten years — four of them on these two openings alone (23 May, 31 August, 19 and 22 December 1829). The May wedding was held in the church of San Martino and he stood beside Ferdinando Verbits, Maestro delle Scuole Elementari, the town schoolmaster; the December one carried a dispensation from the three readings of the banns granted by the Imperial-Royal Circle Captaincy. He is never once the officiant: that is always the parroco Giovanni Tromba. Pietro De Franceschi di Gio., Tessitore witnesses a third time on 22 February 1830, on a marriage dispensed in the fourth degree of consanguinity by the Ordinariate of Pola — which is where Vodnjan's church paperwork ran, and where to write next. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · The marriages · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Copulatorum — DGS 005497894, images 207–208 Yielded | 1830, and a fifth generation | A widow's second wedding names her grandfather. 25 June 1830, house 483: Veniera De Franceschi, widow of Domenico Pastrovicchio, remarries at forty-nine — and because a widow's remarriage is written out in full, the clerk records her parents: «Gio. Maria De Franceschi fu Pietro e Michiela Zambaletta fu Cristoforo». The father who has been a bare name since March 1818 now has a father and a wife of his own, and the Vodnjan line stands five generations deep off this one unindexed book, back to a marriage of the 1770s. Michiela Zambaletta is the first woman named as a mother anywhere in the line. Don Stefano witnesses twice more, 8 June and 24 November 1830, reaching sixteen. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · The marriages · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Rovinj, marriages — DGS 005497870, image 211, entry 31 Yielded | Carlo De Franceschi's own marriage, opened at last | The historian was married lying down. 1 March 1852 at Rovinj: «Il Signor Carlo De Franceschi q.m Giuseppe e della Sig.ra Lambertina Pesle di Mattia, da Gologorizza di Pisino, Assessore presso quest'I. R. Corte di Giustizia, celibe d'anni 40» marries «Maria Michelcich di Luca e di Maria, celibe d'anni 26» — «al letto dello Sposo, per essere gravemente ammalato», at the bridegroom's bed because he was gravely ill. The banns were dispensed the same day by the Imperial-Royal District Captaincy, note № 898, urgente necessitate, and the witnesses are the deputy State Prosecutor Zaccaria Maver and Dr Barzan, physician — the law and the medicine, not the family. He did not die; he lived to 1893. The entry also fixes his office in 1852 and names both parents. Two corrections fall out: the register says d'anni 40 and he was forty-two (b. 16 Oct 1809); and this archive's marriage table carried the year as 1812 — it is 1852, now fixed with the reason stated. On the same film, a burial of «Julius, son of Carlo», born 1853, dead 13 February 1854 — very probably the first child of this marriage. What it produced on this siteJulius · Carlo De Franceschi · The headstones · FamilySearch film 005497870 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Copulatorum — DGS 005497894, images 209–210 Yielded | 1831–1832 | A fifth woman married out, and a fourth trade. 17 November 1831: «Ant.o Gio., figlio di Fran.co Gorlato q.m Biaggio e della q.m Luigetta De Franceschi», marrying at twenty-three — so she was born about 1808's mother's generation and dead by 1831, and she joins Domenica, Antonia Maria, Lucia and Veniera as women of the name recoverable only through a child's wedding. 18 February 1832: «Giovanni De Franceschi q.m Pietro, Calzolajo» witnesses — a shoemaker, and on the patronymic very likely a brother of Bonetta and of Pietro the ploughman in the line descending from a Domenico. Pietro q.m Pietro also witnesses again, 15 October 1831. Don Stefano reaches eighteen. One generation of one surname in one small town now shows a priest, a ploughman, a weaver and a shoemaker. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Stare hrvatske novine (dnc.nsk.hr) Yielded | Every spelling of the surname and six place-names, across the whole portal; the two Bakar papers searched separately with control tests | 68 hits for «franceschi», 46 for «defranceschi», 4 for «defranceski», 3 for «defrančeski», 70 for «Gologorica». Zora Defranceschi nursing at Crikvenica in March 1915; Antun and Viktor Defranceschi in the Gologorica riot trial of 1894; the «stancija Defranceschi (Zamporovica)»; Carlo's son in the dock at Pazin in 1890; a captain Defranceschi of the bark Aquilone across eighteen issues 1873–78; and the Croatian spelling in print in 1879, 1919 and 1920. The index does NOT do substring matching, so every spelling must be run separately. What it produced on this siteGologorica · Crikvenica · Rijeka and Bakar · Stare hrvatske novine — NSK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | FamilySearch — Croatian church books, Bakar country and Crikvenica Yielded | Every spelling of the surname across Bakar, Hreljin, Praputnik, Kraljevica, Kostrena and Škrljevo; and an Anton Defranceski dying 1941–46 anywhere in Croatia | CORRECTED. The first run of this search was under-powered — it scanned only the first couple of hundred records per spelling and matched places against a short extracted string — and returned one Bakar entry. Run properly, with deep paging and whole-record matching, the Bakar country gives EIGHT, and they form one household across three generations: Franciscus Defranceschi; his son Joannes Baptista, who married Catharina Akacich; their children Maria Dorothea baptised 1773 and Antonia 1776; a Nodburga married there 1794; deaths in 1775, 1785, 1818 and 1819, the last of a Catharina born 1734 and dead at eighty-five. The family's own memory of Bakar was right. What it produced on this siteCrikvenica · Rijeka and Bakar · The plates · FamilySearch record search | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Stadtarchiv Reutlingen — photograph database Yielded | The employers named in the family's own German papers: Hermann Sauer and Wilhelm Heim | Hermann Sauer identified as a motor-vehicle firm at the Südbahnhof / Eninger Landstraße 79, holding the MAN agency, with a filling station in the Marktstraße; the Sauer brothers' Autohaus photographed in the Tübinger Straße in 1935. And Wilhelm Heim identified as the Esslingen firm that took the Schickhardt works at Betzingen in 1938 and built V1 wings there with about five hundred forced labourers. The archive holds some thirty-nine units of 1944–45 portraits of that firm's workforce. What it produced on this sitePfullingen · The plates · Stadtarchiv Reutlingen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | OpenStarts, Università di Trieste Yielded | Full-text search for the surname and for «Memorie autobiografiche» | Carlo's «Memorie autobiografiche» (1926, 309 pp.), Salata's «Un precursore» (1929), and the 1928 bronze-bust volume with his letters to Kandler. Three works this project had recorded as unheld, all open access. Should have been searched months earlier. · OpenStarts — Università di Trieste | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Hrčak (hrcak.srce.hr) Yielded | Portal search for «franceschi», all pages | Fourteen distinct articles. Already held: Jelinčić's three-part Kobler correspondence, the 2024 Arhivski vjesnik inventory, Marin on the Zagreb library. New: Kero & Bobanović on the Zadar notary Tommaso de Franceschi; two reviews of the 2023 Croatian translation of Camillo's «Storia documentata della Contea di Pisino»; and a 2022 article on the Zagreb collection. What it produced on this siteCarlo De Franceschi · Hrčak — Portal of Croatian scientific journals | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | SIASP, Trieste (siasp-aps.org) Yielded | The society's published guide and archive inventories | «Archivio Camillo De Franceschi e famiglia», 26 boxes, 19th–20th century. The 2017 guide and the full 39-page inventory, both downloaded. A second complete family archive, distinct from Zagreb's. · SIASP, Trieste | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Aug–Sept 2026 | Internet Archive — full-text search Yielded | Repeated sweeps on every spelling of the surname and on the place-names | Kobler's «Memorie» entire; Cavalli 1845 on the bishops of Pola; the Atti of Rovigno; the Wagna camp intake lists; «Il Piccolo» of Trieste for 1926; the Zagreb almanacs; the Almanacco Fiumano. The single most productive source this project has. · Internet Archive full-text search | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Aug–Sept 2026 | ANNO — Austrian Newspapers Online Yielded | Surname search across the digitised Austrian press | The press notices of Carlo's death in January 1893, and other notices. Images retrievable from the IIIF endpoint even where the presentation manifest fails. What it produced on this siteAt sea · ANNO — Austrian Newspapers Online | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Aug–Sept 2026 | FamilySearch Yielded | Record search by surname and by place, and the parish register films | The bulk of this archive's individual records. Deep paging caps at about offset 1,100, which limits large sweeps. What it produced on this siteThe parish books · FamilySearch record search | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Državni arhiv u Pazinu — microfilm ZM34K-215 Yielded | The Gallignana baptism book 1667–1745, read image by image | Five occurrences of the surname in seventy-eight years, and a systematic negative for the rest. The most labour-intensive single piece of work here and the one that answered the central question. What it produced on this siteGologorica · The parish books · Državni arhiv u Pazinu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild Yielded | Post-war IRO sailings to Australia | The USAT General Stewart, Naples to Melbourne, April 1949, passengers 0180–0182. What it produced on this siteWhere the name went · At sea · Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | istrianet.org Yielded | The Kobler and Carlo De Franceschi pages, and the bibliography of his works | The complete bibliography of Carlo's published writings, which is what led to the «Memorie autobiografiche». Also a clean transcription of chapters of «L'Istria» (1879). The site's firewall refuses plain command-line requests and needs an ordinary browser. What it produced on this siteCarlo De Franceschi · istrianet.org | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Camillo de Franceschi, «Povijest Pazinske knežije» — reviews Yielded | Read | The two Croatian reviews of the 2023 translation both state that the family «se iz talijanske pokrajine Karnije doselila u Gologoricu u 16. stoljeću» — moved from the Italian province of Carnia to Gologorica in the sixteenth century. The first published source this archive has seen that names Carnia rather than Friuli, and it gives a fourth date for the migration. What it produced on this siteGologorica · Carnia · Hrčak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Kero & Bobanović on the Zadar notary Tommaso de Franceschi (2023) Yielded | Retrieved | A notary of the surname at Zadar whose ninth fascicle holds an unusually large number of unpublished Glagolitic documents from Biograd. Not yet shown to connect to this family; recorded because a notary of the name in Dalmatia is worth knowing about. · Hrčak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Istarska enciklopedija (Bertoša), «De Franceschi» Yielded | Read in full, both language columns | The Agrons castle, the investitures of 1467 and 1471, the 1502 «gismanus de Carnia», the de Franciscus at Mione in the 16th century, the 1661 first mention as «mistro Zuanne», the 1686 death of the «vecchio stipite», the 1712 imprisonment of the parish priest, and the eighteenth-century professions. The single richest page found this year. What it produced on this siteCarnia · Istarska enciklopedija | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | istrianet.org, whole-site sweep Yielded | 9,000 pages crawled for the surname and for eight place-names | 319 pages carry the name; 250-odd are bare citations of Carlo or Camillo as authors. The rest include the encyclopedia entry, Brhan's Carnic-emigration study with the Mione emigrant register, the 1945 census by place, the Umag cemetery survey, a Francesco de Franceschi bishop of Pola 1422–26, and Dionigi Defranceschi of Gallignana in the Dachau index. What it produced on this siteGologorica · Carnia · Where the name went · istrianet.org | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Ferigo, «Le cifre, le anime» — full text Yielded | Re-read for Agrons | Confirms what this archive already published from it, and supplies the join it had missed: the 1679 weavers' return lists «Agrons e Cella» and «Mione» as neighbouring entries, and the family held the castle at the one and lived in the other. What it produced on this siteCarnia · Internet Archive | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Centro di ricerche storiche, Rovigno — the full open-access corpus Yielded | All 1,303 article PDFs of the «Atti», «Quaderni», «Collana degli Atti», «Monografie» and «Documenti», downloaded for full-text search on every spelling of the surname and on Gologorica, Gallignana, Agrons, Mione, Moncalvo, Seghetto and Sanvincenti | Done. All 1,303 article PDFs downloaded, converted to text and searched on every spelling of the surname and on eleven place-names. 341 articles carry a mention; most are citations of Carlo or Camillo as authorities, which is itself a finding about how the family stands in the field. The substantive harvest: three Dean Brhan papers this archive had never seen, including his own footnote on the family — «presente in Istria dal 1650 circa, originaria di Mione» — and his judgement that their Carnian roots were «piuttosto deboli»; De Franceschi named among the Carnian households of Gallignana in the 1820 cadastre; De Franceschi tombs in the parish church of Svetvinčenat; Piero Defranceschi, garzone, aged nineteen, in Giobatta Lupieri's house; Sebastiano de Franceschi with a brother-in-law at Dignano; and Maria De Franceschi, married to the Mione weaver Giobatta Zanier. Also confirmed, independently: Bertoša's toponymic correction on Moncalvo, Matejčić on the palazzetto, and the 1679 headmen's list — all three of which this archive already had, which is a check on its own work. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · Gologorica · Carnia · Centro di ricerche storiche, Rovigno | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Kurelić, «Eagle and Lion» (CEU doctoral dissertation) Yielded | Full text of 221 pages searched on every spelling of the surname and on Gologorica, Gračišće, Moncalvo, Agrons, Mione and Carnia | Sent by David and, to this archive's discredit, filed under a placeholder name for a day. Six named Gologorica marriages from the Glagolitic Boljun register, 1585–1608 — Kovač, Kaligarić, Matijašić, Gašparić, Ilijašić, Sergović, Ančić, Križmanić, Gortan, Cinić — and no De Franceschi in the whole thesis. A controlled negative for the arrival date. Also the Gologorica–Tremaun boundary dispute of 19 February 1472 (HHStA Vienna; Kos, «Pet razvodov», 189–202), the earliest document naming the village that this archive has; and Svetvinčenat parish registers surviving from 1569 (baptisms) and 1581 (marriages). What it produced on this siteGologorica · Carnia · The parish books · CEU electronic theses | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | FamilySearch record indexes — the town sweep, rebuilt Yielded | Six spellings of the surname across five country filters, thirty jobs, each paged to the index ceiling; every record matched whole against thirty-six place patterns | 18,840 records read, 664 distinct people with a place, eighteen towns. Rijeka 206 (1620–1910), Svetvinčenat 142 (1666–1902), Ližnjan 81, Vodnjan 78, Split 40 (from 1581), Poreč 35, Rovinj 22, Labin 17, Vižinada 12, Pazin 8, Zagreb 6, Opatija 6, Trieste 3, Barban 2, Senj 2, Carnia 2, Gologorica 1, Čepić 1. Rebuilt from nothing after David caught the earlier method failing at Bakar: the old sweep matched a truncated summary field, not the whole record, and stopped after a couple of hundred results a spelling. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · Gologorica · Carnia · FamilySearch record search | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Hrvatski biografski leksikon — «Defrančeski, Ante» Yielded | The national biographical dictionary entry, chased after David pointed at it | Born Ližnjan near Pula 1 Feb 1894, died Skrad 27 Sept 1949. Kastav teachers' college 1912; volunteer on the Salonika front; Kotoriba and Čakovec 1920–24; Higher Pedagogical School Zagreb 1928; professor at the Zagreb teachers' training school; Ministry of Education Belgrade 1932–33; Metković 1941 and retired ill the same year; back to Zagreb 1946–47. Nine books, 1925–1940. Entry by Branko Pleše (1993), with sixteen items of secondary literature not yet worked through. He had stood on this site as a namesake with the note that nothing linked him beyond surname and country — Ližnjan is third of eighteen towns in the rebuilt sweep, with 81 people of the name in its registers. What it produced on this siteLižnjan · Hrvatski biografski leksikon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Constructed illustrations (image model, from this archive's briefs) Yielded | Eight scenes the archive can defend from documents, each written as a prompt with negative constraints and a list of details that must be right; the first — Imotski 1717 — generated and installed | Standing rules, so nothing here can ever be mistaken for a source: no invented face is ever captioned with a real person's name; no invented lettering on a real inscribed stone and no invented heraldry for a family whose arms are documented; every image captioned as a constructed illustration with its departures from the record named; no fabricated documentary apparatus — no title block, scale bar, dimension, survey date; the unaltered original archived in the source library beside its brief, marked with whatever was removed. Briefs at notes/image-prompts.md. ALL EIGHT NOW DONE, seven published: the house at Gologorica, with the 1711 tablet deliberately blank; Imotski 1717; the road of the Furlans 1679; the Salamon palace; the mills at Perinuša; Crikvenica in the winter of 1943; Pfullingen 1944. Plus a lapidarius of Gračišće, published as the trade and explicitly NOT as a portrait of Antonio, because the model gave it a detailed invented face. TWO WITHHELD: the first Gologorica house, which carried a fabricated pseudo-Latin inscription across the 1711 tablet; and a close detail of the arms and the Madonna relief, because the coat of arms in it does not match the blazon Carlo gave Kobler and the carving the family photographed — a cross crossed by two arrows over a pomegranate. Both kept in the library marked WITHHELD. Four failure modes, each seen more than once: a caption burned into the picture; a watermark; an invented inscription or coat of arms on a real carved stone; and an image returned dressed as a measured conservation survey of a real protected building, with title block, scale bar, dimensions and date. Every one of them was caught before publication. What it produced on this siteGologorica · Crikvenica · Pfullingen · The plates, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | defranceski.com — the family's own Google Site Yielded | All eleven pages captured as HTML; both Google MyMaps exported as KML; every external link on the site diffed against this archive's own; the linear family chart checked date by date against the Direct Line | Done ahead of decommissioning. The chart's dates all match what is published here, most of them now with a register page behind them instead of a chart. Twenty-six web hosts the old site used were absent from this archive and are now recorded. Four things were genuinely new: the byname «Franceschi dalle Rose»; a German branch route Ližnjan → Monheim with a «Grga» who died at Zagreb and a Petar at Metzingen, four kilometres from Pfullingen; a layer of forty-four Veneto emigration hotspots ending at São Paulo, which is a candidate departure region for the Brazilian cluster this archive has never had one for; and two Dalmatian names, Tomasso and a Francesca de Franceschi of the 1500s. The whole capture is in the source library under «oldsite». What it produced on this sitePfullingen · Ližnjan · Where the name went · defranceski.com — the family's Google Site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Ližnjan — the parish record indexes, targeted Yielded | Four spellings across three country filters, every record matched whole for Ližnjan; then every entry naming a Gregorius, Gregorio, Gregorii or Grga pulled out in full | 127 entries of the surname at Ližnjan, 1788 onward. Grga is real: Gregorius Defranceski, aged 22 at his marriage on 10 June 1874, so born 1851, son of Gregorio Defranceschi and Agata Skifić, husband of Maria Vojnić, father of Anastasia (1875 and 1876), Maria (1878), Justina (1879), Maria (1882) and Josephus (1887). His daughter Justina married Josephus Fedel on 22 Nov 1898 and a Stana married Jacobus Vojnić on 7 Aug 1899 — Fedel and Vojnić being two of the surnames standing beside «Defrančeski Ante» in the Ližnjan subscription list of 1920. Behind Gregorio stands a Mattio De Franceschi and a Madalena Peucovich. Index entries only; the books are at Pazin and unread. What it produced on this siteLižnjan · The Register · The marriages · Ližnjan, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | MyHeritage — David's live family tree Yielded | Read directly from his logged-in session: 459 individuals carrying the surname, harvested through the site's own lookup and person-panel endpoints, with their dates, places, relationships and source citations | The 2018 GEDCOM this project had been using holds 8,286 people; the live tree holds 15,643, and David's own verdict on the old file is «really old and really wrong». It is now retired. 211 of the 459 carry citations, 262 distinct FamilySearch arks between them. The direct line agrees wherever both hold a fact, and the tree supplies what this archive lacked: exact death dates for Antonius (4 Aug 1894) and for Giovanni Battista (14 Sep 1846), Gologorica rather than Gračišće as the 1787 birthplace, and an ark for the 1750 Giovanni that no page had ever been put in front of. The working notes behind it are not published: they quote the export row by row, and the export carries living people in full. What the reconciliation actually settled is on this page and in the corrections it produced. What it produced on this siteGologorica · The roster · MyHeritage — David's tree 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | MyHeritage — what the tree holds and this archive did not Yielded | Compared row by row against the published site | Antonius Franciscus Defranceschi, born Gologorica 31 January 1909, died at DACHAU 7 August 1945. Giuseppe de Franceschi, born Gračišće 12 March 1892, died New York City 26 April 1940, with six citations. Bruno Defranceschi, born Gologorica 20 November 1942, died 15 January 2023. Anna Maria Francisca, born Gologorica 1860, died Trieste 1941. A «SORAVITO De Franceschi» lineage at Mione running from a Francesco of 1450 to Francesco Andrea, died 1971 — one of them, Antonio Bartolomeo, going Mione to Nantes. Mione is the largest single place in the whole tree at 29 people, which this archive has treated as an origin and not as a living branch. And Marijana de Franceschi (Bitanga-Radovinović), confirming the Jagul marriage from the Imotski page. What it produced on this siteGologorica · Carnia · Imotski · MyHeritage — David's tree 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | David's Google MyMaps — the emigration layers Yielded | «High Level of Emigration from Here» (44 pins) and «Italian Lines» (90 pins), read from the archived KML | A departure region for the Brazilian cluster, which this archive has never had. Scorzè, Moniego (Noale), Cornedo Vicentino, Castelgomberto and Pederobba in the Veneto — with «DE FRANCESCHI Luigi, spouse BAROLO Caterina Luigia, from Moniego, Noale, Venezia to São Paulo» and «Giuseppe Romano De Franceschi, born Scorzè 22 May 1835, died Moniego». And a second region entirely: the Castelnuovo pin is Castelnuovo in the Valsugana, Trentino — four kilometres from Telve, where David's tree holds eighteen people of this surname. The São Paulo destinations are all coffee-belt, which is a different and later migration from the Rio Grande do Sul colonies of 1875. Brazil is two stories, not one. Also on those layers: Castelnovo del Friuli to Trostberg in Bavaria (Peter DeFranceschi b. 19 Feb 1841); Mione to Biella; Bishop Lucio Soravito de Franceschi of Adria-Rovigo; and a France cluster around Metz, Nancy, Fréjus and Propriano. What it produced on this siteCarnia · Trentino · Where the name went · Google My Maps | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Gradska groblja Zagreb — the city burial register Yielded | Every spelling searched through the cemeteries' own OData service: Mirogoj, Miroševac, Markovo polje and twenty-five other grounds, 1750 to now | Thirteen burials of the name, and the register carries parents' names on some of them. Milan Defrančeski (d. 2001, aged 78) and Dragutin (d. 2004, aged 79) are entered as children of «GRGO I MARIJA» and «MARIJA I GRGA» — two brothers naming the same father, which is the Grga of David's old map pin, now with two graves that can be visited. It also contradicts the MyHeritage tree, which gives Grgo as born 1931: a man whose sons were born about 1923 and 1925 was not. Marija Defrančeski, d. 3 June 1971 aged 87, Mirogoj 147A/II/58, with Zdenka, dead 16 March 1945 aged two and not buried until Christmas Eve 1971 — the child moved in beside her. Antun (d. 5 June 1943, aged 67) and Justina (d. 1963, aged 78) share Mirogoj 136/II/43. And an Uršula Defrančeski, born about 1892, at Miroševac. Endpoint: axiomgis.com/Zagreb/Trazilica.svc/PvWebUkopani. What it produced on this siteThe headstones · The Register · The roster · Gradska groblja Zagreb | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Francesco de' Franceschi, the painter Yielded | The fifteenth-century Venetian painter carried on the roadmap as unfinished | Active 1443–1468, birth and death unknown. Religious work on church commission; the style follows Michele Giambono and he may have worked with Antonio Vivarini. An altarpiece of 1447 in the Museo Civico at Padua; a St Mary Magdalen and a St Catherine of Alexandria in the Ashmolean at Oxford; a St Michael the Archangel and a St Mamas series. Not kin — two and a half centuries before this family reaches Istria. Roadmap item closed. · Namesakes, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | The family's own field photographs, 2026 Yielded | 491 images from six visits — Carnia (Ovaro, Mione, Muina, Agrons), Gologorica house and graves, Gračišće, Seget and Umag, Crikvenica–Klenovica–Novi–Senj, and the Pazin reading room — read as contact sheets so that the frames worth publishing can be chosen | Read as contact sheets and plated. 31 published so far. Gologorica (11): the builder's tablet, the memorial to Carlo, the arms cartouche with the Madonna aedicule beneath it, the blazon in the tomb pediment and the same arms weathered nearly smooth on an older stone, the tomb, the house from the lane, the arcaded end with the number 22, a wall niche, a carved ring, the chapel. Carnia (10): SORAVITO DE FRANCESCHI cut in stone at Ovaro with Anna Crosilla his widow; De Franceschi Ugo 1930–2020; Antonio 1877–1962 with Marta Anzola dead at twenty-five; Gio. Batta 1880–1963; Francesco 1887–1945; an 1850s stone; the war memorial carrying Vittorio and Isidoro De Franceschi; the campanile of Santa Maria di Gorto over the graves — the pieve whose parishes drew up the 1679 return. Gračišće (3): «F DE FRANCESCHI» with Marfan Virginija and Nazarijo; the Salamon grave, which turns Francisca Salamon from a surname into a family still in that ground; and a Marfan stone. Umag and Seget (7): the tomb's blue-and-gilt ironwork lunette with a lion rampant beneath a star under a coronet — the other family's arms, against Gologorica's cross, arrows and pomegranate; «FAMIGLIA DE FRANCESCHI — SEGHETTO»; «FAMIGLIA ETTORE DE FRANCESCHI»; a stone of 1848; the house at Seget; the tomb whole; the pine-cone finial. Living people appear in many frames and are excluded throughout. Klenovica and the coast (6): «OBITELJ DEFRANCESKI» with three portrait medallions — the household under the name it took on the coast — and then the Kalanj, who are everywhere in that ground: Marija 1889–1970, Josip, Franjo and Zora on one stone, Rozalija Anton Marija and Milan on another, Vinko and Paulina, Tomislav, Marijan, and the Kalanj-Perković. Anton Rudolf's mother was Ana Kalanj of Klenovica house 22, and it is her family and not his that stayed. Also a partisan star laid in white stone among the graves. 39 field plates published across six places. The Pazin reading-room set of 117 is register images rather than ground; two of them are now published on The Eleven — the Gračišće Status Animarum for house 24, which carries the midwife Maria Fernazar's household, the eleven children in one column, and Daniel's household beneath. That page also settled Josip's birth at 22 March 1863 and joined Basilio of New York to this line. What it produced on this siteThe Eleven of Gračišće · Gologorica · Carnia · The plates, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Documents and photographs supplied by the family, 8 September 2026 Yielded | Five items sent in one morning: the Zdravko plaque at Horsham, Ivan's grave at Senj, the whole opening of Anton Rudolf's 1890 baptism, a marriage register opening of 1772, and the 1951 Senj birth certificate — checked one by one against what this archive already held | Three of the five were already here and all three were held in a worse copy. The Horsham plaque was a 1000-pixel thumbnail out of the family tree package and is now the 3648-pixel camera original, with the founder's mark legible. Ivan's grave was 400 pixels wide and the dates could not be read at all; at 2368 they read 1925–1995. Anton Rudolf's 1890 baptism was a cropped strip of entry 9, and the whole page adds three things the strip cut off — a pencil note «vjenčao se na Crikvenici», a remarks column explaining that the parents were staying with the wife's people at Klenovica, and the printer's line «Tisak H. Luster u Senju». The 1951 certificate was new, and carries the word STATELESS against the father in his own country. The 1772 marriage was new as an image: this archive had the FamilySearch index row for it and had written that an index is only an index. It is now the page. What it produced on this siteSenj · The headstones · The plates · The plates, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | HR-HDA-1448 — the Croatian State Archives' supplementary register microfilms Yielded | The finding aid at arhiv.hr, searched for Crikvenica and Proložac across all seven kinds of register. This collection filmed the parish offices and the civil registry offices as well as the state archives, so it is not bound by the cut that ends FamilySearch's Croatian birth registers in the 1880s and 1890s | The single most useful thing found for this archive in weeks, and it is a catalogue rather than a record. For Crikvenica it lists births to 1948, marriages to 1947, deaths to 1928, and — this is the one — a Status animarum of the twentieth century, roll ZM-34J/251, mark M-5976, digitised, from the Župni ured Crikvenica. A Status animarum lists a house, its head, his wife and every child with a birth date; it is the form that gave this archive the whole of Gračišće house 24 in one opening. Crikvenica births 1897–1908 are absent here too and may not survive, but the household book and the marriage register of 1909–1947 between them should answer the three unaccounted names on the Crikvenica monument without the baptisms at all. Proložac, the Imotski family's own parish, runs unbroken 1853–1949 with everything from 1892 digitised. Ordered by e-mail to info@arhiv.hr quoting place, kind, period, roll signature and topographic mark; read in the HDA reading room, ten units a day. Nothing has been read yet — this is the list of what exists and where. What it produced on this siteCrikvenica · Imotski · The marriages · Hrvatski državni arhiv | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Seget and Imotski, taken back to the sources Yielded | The two non-Istrian houses of the surname, researched past the secondary accounts this site had been using: the 2016 conservation study of Stancija Seget, the Istrian encyclopaedia, and the Franciscan province of Split's own histories of its Omiš and Imotski convents | Seget: the house carries its own dates — «1724» on the courtyard portal and «1732» with the initials «MA. F.» on the cistern, Marc'Antonio's monogram on his own well-head. A generation appears that this archive had never printed: Giorgio de Franceschi, 1788–1865, who threw a staircase block along the east front in 1843–45 and put a classicist façade over it, frescoed inside by Michele Urban, the architect to be sought among those practising at Trieste. The estate's economy turns from wine to olive oil about 1840. And the Venier–Valier disagreement is settled for Venier, from 1623. Imotski: four corrections. The friars were not at Proložac village but on an islet in Prološko blato from about 1600, marked by a stone cut A.D. 1609. The party Zuane sheltered was fifteen people of whom nine were friars, with a lay brother, four schoolboys and a hermit. Skalice at Omiš was begun 13 July 1716 and blessed 29 October 1718 on ground belonging to Pavao Despotović and Jakov Mariani. And the friars did not return in 1717 — they returned in 1738, building at Imotski from 1740. Zuane's own dates are 1673–1741. And one unopened primary source: at Skalice there is a book bound in sheepskin, written in bosančica on 416 leaves, which is the friars' own chronicle of the flight. It is in a friary, not an archive. And then the thesis was read. David cleared the repository's bot check himself, and «Uloga obitelji Franceschi u mletačkom osvajanju Imotskog» — Matea Kaćunić, Split, September 2025, 77 pages, open access — turns out to be the best single source on the Dalmatian family that exists. It corrects this archive six times and adds a second estate. Full account on the Imotski page; the PDF is now in this project's library. What it produced on this siteOmiš · Imotski · Seget · Seget, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | The Imotski death register, read off the page Yielded | The first unindexed FamilySearch register image this archive has read at full resolution, rather than through the viewer's shrunken view — Imotski-Glavina, Atti di Morte, third quarter 1845 | Entry 17. «Franceschi Domenica», 48, Cattolica, «Moglie di q.m Giovanni Vucemilovich» — and in the PATRIA column, «Nata in ALMISSA, domiciliata in IMOSCHI». Almissa is Omiš. Her parents are given as «q.m Vicenzo Franceschi, q.m Antonia Cappelletti»; she died at three in the morning of 10 August 1845 in her husband's house of chronic gastritis, was seen by the district surgeon Ravlin on the 11th and buried the same day in the town cemetery of Imotski, by fra Bernardino Brajković. That is the join between the Omiš branch and the Imotski household, in a parish register. The method is the other half of the finding and it is reusable: FamilySearch serves each image as a Deep Zoom pyramid, and from a signed-in session the tiles of any chosen rectangle can be composed at true resolution — a 6180 × 4247 master read as clearly as the open book, instead of the 600-pixel view the ordinary viewer gives. Written up on the Parish Books page. Every unindexed volume this archive has listed is now actually readable. What it produced on this siteOmiš · Imotski · The parish books · Imotski, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Šišić, «An Abridged Political History of Rieka (Fiume)», Paris 1919 Yielded | A 160-page brief written for the Paris Peace Conference by a member of the Yugoslav delegation, with a documentary appendix of Fiume's nineteenth-century election papers. Read in full for the surname and for the Istrian and Kvarner place-names | One hit in a hundred and sixty pages, and it is the right one. Appendix XVIII, the protocol of the electoral committee of Fiume's second college, 20 April 1871: the assessors are «Signor Francesco Defranceschi» and Francesco Seemann under president Pietro Dabalà, and the protocol is signed at the foot «Frco Defranceschi». 128 of 1,115 electors voted; 126 chose Dr Antonio Randich to replace the resigning Giovanni de Ciotta in the Croatian-Slavonian Diet. Almost certainly Kobler's Francesco Giuseppe de Franceschi, patrician councillor and royal harbourmaster, of the stock that came «da Pisino» — which is the County of Pazin, which is where this archive's own villages are. Written up on the Kobler page. It also names a source worth chasing: the Fiume electoral roll of 1871. What it produced on this siteRijeka and Bakar · Carlo De Franceschi · Namesakes and landmarks · Internet Archive | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Regan & Nadilo, «Istarski kašteli … sjeverno od Čepićkog polja», Građevinar 2012 Yielded | A civil-engineering journal's architectural survey of the fortified places north of the Čepić field, including Gologorica building by building — supplied by the family | A hard date for the lease, and a name for the relief. The Gologorica benefice was founded in 1443 by the Pazin provost Andreas Schuel; Frederick III took the right of appointment; the holders were the captains of Pazin and the bishops of Pedena, then the Marquis de Prié, then Charles Antoine Biotz, and «naposljetku od 1772. obitelj De Franceschi … do ukidanja feudalnih odnosa 1848» — the De Franceschi held it on lease from 1772 to 1848, seventy-six years. That fits Carlo's «affitto fermo» rather than contradicting it, and dates it. The house is described as «velika kamena palača obitelji De Franceschi, dvokatna građevina s balkonom i portalom iz 1711., ukrašena grbom i natpisom te reljefom s prikazom Isusa» — which settles a thing this site once got wrong: the relief over the door is a figure of Christ, and it is real. Also: Gologorica burned in 1463, 1508 and 1511; the bell tower finished 1740; an Imago pietatis of 1446 and a Glagolitic inscription of 1595 in the parish church; and Mikula Gologorički, priest of this parish, wrote the Croatian Glagolitic version of the Istrian Boundary Settlement of 1325. What it produced on this siteGologorica · Građevinar (Hrčak) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Križman, «Antička svjedočanstva o Istri» (1979) — found online and read Yielded | David asked whether the book could be found. It can: the full text is uploaded to both Scribd and idoc.pub, and it was read there | Carlo De Franceschi is cited eleven times — indexed at pages 170, 189, 192, 193, 211 and 263, with «L'Istria, note storiche» (Poreč 1879) quoted at pp. 10–11, 38ff, 45 and 67, on the topography of the Istrian war of 177 BC, the siege of Nesactium, and whether the Pontic and Adriatic Histri are one people. Križman sets him beside Kandler, Gnirs, Benussi and Zippel, and endorses his identification of Livy's Mutila with Medulin and Faveria with Mutvoran as the least likely to be wrong. And it puts Gologorica in antiquity: Gnirs's proposal that the ancient Alùon lay on the Veli potok between Pićan and Gologorica, where the Roman inscriptions CIL V 322, 323, 424 and 425 were found. What it produced on this siteGologorica · Carlo De Franceschi · Mate Križman, «Antička svjedočanstva o Istri» | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Twenty-three scans from the family, read and ranked in one pass Yielded | Every one converted to text and tested for the surname in five spellings and for fifteen place-names, then the ones that scored were read | Three worth a section, five worth a line, eleven with the places but not the family, and four that cannot be read at all. The best is «LOS FRANCESCHI, la pequeña historia de una familia» by Napoleón Franceschi González (Caracas 2002) — the Corsican branch written from inside it, from Ersa in Cap Corse, first generation Pietro Franceschi 1694–1771, out through the French Caribbean to Venezuela, with not one line touching Istria. That closes the Corsica marker on the family's map. «Atti» 39 of Rovinj yields Camillo De Franceschi's Pula bibliography, including «Testamenti polesani del secolo XV con alcuni cenni sulle antiche casate patrizie di Pola» — sixteen fifteenth-century Pula wills he transcribed, which is the obvious next reading for the southern-Istrian cluster. «Istra iz pera Nobilea» reports the ex libris «De Franceschi – Seghetto» on books in the Provincial Library — the Seget house's own library — and has Camillo buying the Nobile drawings at Koper in 1934 and 1941, and Giulio drawing monuments better than Nobile did. Four are image-only with no text layer and need OCR: the Planckenstein almanac of Trieste 1869 (327 pages), Jelenić on the sacred art of Umag and its surroundings (135 pages), the Hrvati i Karolinzi catalogue, and «Piazza Maggiore era troppo piccola». The first two are worth the trouble; an 1869 Littoral almanac is exactly where a harbourmaster or a civic assessor is listed by name. What it produced on this siteSeget · Corsica · The plates · The plates, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Jelenić, «Sakralno bogatstvo Umaga i okolice» — OCR'd and read Yielded | A 168-megabyte image-only scan with no text layer at all, put through optical character recognition on this project's machine and then searched. 135 pages, parallel Croatian and English | Four things, and one of them is a correction. A section on Seget: the villa fifteen hundred metres from Umag among the vineyards on the Novigrad road, passing to the De Franceschi in 1720, «ranije vlasništvo Katarine Bernardo Valier» — which gives the vendor a Christian name and moves the Venier–Valier question to Valier, against this site's earlier reading. The library confirmed from the parish's side — «vrlo bogatu knjižnicu» — matching the ex libris «De Franceschi – Seghetto» found in the Provincial Library. The family chapel, right of the villa entrance with its own door and a small apse outside; a wooden altar, an Assumption with St Anthony and St Catherine, an old canvas of St Lucy, a wall cupboard — restored in the 1990s, and Mass said in it once a year on Easter Monday. And in the parish church of Umag, a canvas of 1650, Our Lady of the Rosary, whose painter's name is illegible but which carries the arms of the De Franceschi of Umag — nineteen years before the flight from Candia. Either the arms were added later by a donor family, or the name was at Umag before 1669. Not resolved, and not guessed at. What it produced on this siteSeget · The plates · Hrčak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | «Guida schematica di Trieste» 1869 — OCR'd and read Yielded | 327 pages of city directory, scanned at 122 megabytes with no text layer; converted on this project's machine and searched for the surname in every spelling | Four occurrences in three hundred and twenty-seven pages, and two of them are people. «Defranceschi Corrado, controllore in pens., V. Caserma 12» — a retired controller of the imperial financial service, listed among the possidenti e privati. And «Gleyre Costante (Enrico de Franceschi), in manifatture e pece, V. S. Spiridione 7» — a merchant house in textiles and pitch, with Enrico de Franceschi named as the man behind it. The other two are Franceschinelli and Defrancesco, different formations of the same root, recorded so the next search does not stop at them. Nothing joins either man to a line on this site; what the book proves is that two households of the name were living and trading in Trieste in 1869, twenty years before Camillo De Franceschi settled there. The directories for other years would say whether they stayed. What it produced on this siteThe plates · OpenStarts, Trieste | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | The Pazin archive's own price list — the acquisitions queue, priced Yielded | «Acquisitions» has sat on this project's research log as a wish list for months. DAPA publishes a current price list; it was read, and most of what was wanted turns out to be in print and cheap | Seven titles, about a hundred and fifty-four euro, and the first three would close three questions this site currently prints as open. Jelinčić's «Knjiga ređenja u Pićnu (Prothocollum) 1632–1783», €19.91 — a hundred and fifty years of Pedena ordinations, and an ordination entry names the ordinand's father. This archive has four priests of the name it cannot place. Orbanić's edition of de Buset's spiritual visitation of 1788, €13.27, 477 pages, ISBN 978-953-7640-30-9, published in the Vatican and covering Gologorica and Gallignana parish by parish in the last year of the diocese of Pićan. Doblanović Šuran and Mogorović Crljenko, «Matična knjiga krštenih župe Umag 1483–1643», €26.54 — which is the direct test of the 1650 painting in Umag that carries the family arms nineteen years before the family is supposed to have arrived. Then Joksimović's edition of Valier's 1580 apostolic visitation of the diocese of Pula, €60, aimed straight at the unplaced southern-Istrian cluster; the 1571 urbarium of the County of Pazin, €10; Slukan Altić's «Katastar Istre», €9.29; and DAPA's own beginner's guide to genealogy in its holdings, €15. Two wanted volumes are sold out. Both the translator and the editor of the 1788 visitation — Jakov Jelinčić and Elvis Orbanić — are already on this project's list of people to write to, and both work at Pazin. What it produced on this siteGologorica · Državni arhiv u Pazinu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | IstriaNet — Camillo De Franceschi's collected bibliography Yielded | A queued item finally worked: the site's page of his selected works | Forty-five entries between 1898 and 1964, with volumes and pages, compiled from the Italian librarians' biographical database and the Trieste civic library catalogue. Three land on questions open on this site today. «Testamenti polesani del secolo XV, con alcuni cenni sulle antiche casate patrizie di Pola», AMSI 42 (1930), pp. 167–219 — now properly cited, and aimed straight at the unplaced Pula cluster. «La popolazione di Pola nel secolo XV e nei seguenti», Archeografo Triestino ser. 3 vol. 3 (1906), pp. 221–315 — the same question from the other side, ninety-four pages of it. And «Quando e da chi sia stato ideato l'apocrifo istrumento di confinazione della Contea di Pisino con la data del 1325», Archivio Veneto ser. 5, 30/31 (1942) — in which Camillo, of Gologorica, argues that the Istrian Boundary Settlement is a forgery, a document whose Glagolitic version was written by the parish priest of Gologorica. Also «I Castelli della Val d'Arsa» (1900), with unpublished documents and genealogical trees, and «Ricordi di biblioteca» (1959), seventy-four pages by the man who bought the Nobile drawings and shelved the Seget library. What it produced on this siteGologorica · Seget · Carlo De Franceschi · istrianet.org | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | «Gazzetta di Zara», 4 August 1840 (ANNO) Yielded | The oldest of the nine issues ANNO returned for «Defranceschi» + «Buccari», read page by page | One occurrence of the surname, and it is at Omiš, not Bakar. A state-property auction notice of the I.R. Pretura d'Almissa, 6 July 1840, lists a vineyard at Strane in Vrisovec «tenuto a colonia al quarto da D. Nicolò Defranceschi», fiscal value fl. 8 k. 20. «Buccari» appears in a wholly separate notice pages away — so ANNO's pairing is whole-issue co-occurrence, not a Defranceschi at Bakar, and the Bakar lead is weaker than it looked. Published on the Omiš line. PDF fetched by David; the bot check was not answered. What it produced on this siteOmiš · Rijeka and Bakar · The plates · ANNO — Gazzetta di Zara, 4 Aug 1840 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Darovec, «Migration to Istria and the North Adriatic in the Modern Age» (2021) Yielded | The queued migration paper, read in full — from the publisher's open PDF, not from academia.edu | No occurrence of the surname, and the best contextual source this archive has found. It puts both of our Istrian arrivals inside documented movements: the Carni as one of the named peoples of Istria in Petronio's list of 1681, settling exactly at Pazin, Pićan, Gradišće, Žminj and Tinjan; the Slavicisation of immigrant Friulian surnames (Furlanich, Callegarich), which is the mechanism behind Defrančeski; and twelve Venetian attempts between 1530 and 1669 to settle Greeks from Crete and the Morea in Istria, the survivors absorbed into the Italian-speaking towns. Published on the Lines page. Note for method: academia.edu is behind a bot check this archive will not answer, and the paper was open on the publisher's own site all along. What it produced on this siteThe plates · The method · Hrčak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | The Eleven of Gračišće, against the American record Yielded | United States naturalizations, censuses, death certificates and the Numident, searched for every child of Antonio the mason | Five of the eleven documented in New York, four of them in Brooklyn. The proof is a misspelling: Albina's New York death certificate of 27 April 1945 names her mother «Maria Walhart» and Bruno's naturalization names her «Mary Walhal» — both of them the Volhardt the Gračišće priest wrote in 1925. Also corrects this archive: Antonio «Tony», whom the album put in Italy, naturalised at Brooklyn in 1922 and 1929. What it produced on this siteThe Eleven of Gračišće · The Eleven, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Monheim — the German telephone directory, nationally Yielded | Every spelling of the surname searched across the whole of Germany, after the archive realised it had been searching the wrong Monheim | One private listing in the entire country, spelt «Defranceski» exactly as this family spells it, at Langenfeld (Rheinland) — five kilometres from Monheim am Rhein, in the same district. The only «Defranceschi» in Germany is a company at Mannheim, the German arm of an Italian winery-equipment firm. This archive had been reading the map pin's coordinates literally and searching Bavaria; there are two Monheims and it was looking at the wrong one. Living people, so no one is named. Published on the Ližnjan page as a correction. What it produced on this siteLižnjan · Where the name went · Where the name went | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Brhan, «Stare cum loco et foco» — the fourth paper, read in full Yielded | The Carnia–Istria emigration study hosted openly by the Amici dell'Orologeria Pesarina, searched for every occurrence of the surname | Twenty-two occurrences, and one of them closes a gap this archive has flagged as open on four pages. Brhan prints the Catasto franceschino of 1820 for Moncalvo: six De Franceschi proprietor households — Maria, Giuseppe, «Giobatta (di Gallignana)», Leonardo and Antonio — «the most influential family» in a district of ten Croatian villages. A Giobatta of Gallignana holding at Moncalvo is the first object that puts the two villages together. Also new: a Stanzia De Franceschi at Sanvincenti, lost by 1820; Defranceschi among the Carnian families in the Barban contrade; and, after Bertoša 1985, that the Moncalvo family came from Agrons with gismanial feudal rights and that the Umag family is of «un'origine completamente diversa». Academia.edu hosts it too, behind a bot check; the Carnian association's own site does not. What it produced on this siteGologorica · Carnia · Where the name went · Hrčak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | HR-DARI-254 — the family's own archive, finding aid read in full Yielded | The published register of fonds of the State Archive in Rijeka, for both De Franceschi fonds | The 1610 problem is closed. The fond's earliest item is the Glagolitic income book of the parish church at Hum, 1610–1685 — the only Croatian-language item in it, and part of the family's collection, not its papers. The collector was «most probably Carlo De Franceschi». The family's own earliest paper is 1703. Also recovered: an eighteenth-century business of money-lending and buying up debts reaching Kastav, Mošćenice, Labin and Carniola; and the fact that until 1990 this fond was physically merged with the Šeget family's fond «through ignorance of the family's history» — the same confusion this site argues against, made by the archive that holds both. What it produced on this siteRijeka and Bakar · Carlo De Franceschi · Državni arhiv u Rijeci | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Tassini, «Curiosità veneziane» (1872) — the Venetian street-name authority Yielded | The standard dictionary of Venetian toponymy, downloaded whole and searched for the surname | The street is real and the entry is a windfall. «FRANCESCHI (Rio terrà dei) a' SS. Apostoli» — and before the canal was filled in it was crossed by a Ponte dei Franceschi. Named for the cittadini family whose arms were a lion rampant, motto «Sero sapimus», and specifically for the houses of Benda Franceschi (redecima of 1514) and her nephew and heir Andrea, Grand Chancellor, who declared a casa da statio there in 1537. Four new facts about Andrea, three further Venetian vignettes, and one earlier dismissal reopened. What it produced on this siteNamesakes and landmarks · Tassini, «Curiosità veneziane» (1872) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | «Defranceschi bridge, Rijeka» Yielded | Croatian sources, the maritime-heritage register and the Rijeka chronologies | There is no bridge. There is a pier — «De Franceschijev gat», the former Mol Zichy, in the main harbour: 150 m east, 134 m west, 80 m south. The first iron-and-concrete building in the port went up on it in 1882, and the first electric light in Rijeka was lit on it, by Zipernowsky, with lamps borrowed from the Torpedo Factory. Who the De Franceschi is, no source says; the city archive would settle it. What it produced on this siteRijeka and Bakar · Namesakes and landmarks · Rijeka, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Doblanović on Svetvinčenat, «Sezonska kretanja začeća/rođenja» (2012) Yielded | The full paper, fetched from an open repository after the Croatian journal host went behind a bot check | Confirms and sharpens what this archive already quoted. The Carnian surnames — De Franceschi, Crosila, Bergamo, Moro, Fiorencis — are in the 1734 Status animarum only inside the castello of Svetvinčenat, not in the villages around it, and the Carnians «were mainly in trade», working as prekupci i preprodavači — buyers-up and resellers. The same economic type the Rijeka finding aid describes for the Gologorica house: money-lending and buying up debts. What it produced on this siteGologorica · Carnia · Rijeka and Bakar · Hrčak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | «Zbirka obitelji De Franceschi u NSK» (Libellarium 13/2, 2022) Yielded | A search for the Šeget fond's finding aid turned this up instead | The family's library is not lost. It is in Zagreb, and it has been catalogued. 2,396 items, 1503–1945, taken out of the house at Gologorica in 1948–49, boxed, and left unprocessed in the National and University Library's store for sixty years — not in the card catalogue, not in the electronic one, «nobody could know of its existence». Processing began 2009 and finished in 2021. It holds an Aldine of 1503, the signatures of five generations, letters of D'Annunzio, poems of Giuseppina Martinuzzi, and the very Metastasio, Petrarch, Tasso and Ariosto that Carlo says he found on the family shelves as a schoolboy. Published on the Library page. What it produced on this siteGologorica · Libellarium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | MyHeritage, tree 4 — the whole surname re-harvested Yielded | 386 given names × four spellings of the surname, then a person-panel fetch for every hit | 573 individuals of the name in the live tree — a hundred and fourteen more than the harvest of a year ago, which ran on a shorter name list. Merged into the roster, they take it from 577 people to 1,021, of whom 572 now carry a FamilySearch record link and 513 a link into the tree. They also open two clusters this archive had barely registered: forty-four in Trentino and South Tyrol — Telve, Strigno, Fiera di Primiero, Laives, Cles — and the Corsican family at Tomino and Mandolacce, which the Lines page already draws as its own lane. The earliest are three at Pula born 1669, 1671 and 1674. What it produced on this siteCorsica · Trentino · The roster · MyHeritage — David's tree 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | «Croazia, Austria» — resolving the unnamed parish Yielded | The three earliest people in the roster, traced from index entry to image ark to film to catalogue | A method, and a correction. FamilySearch's Croatian index often gives no parish at all — just «Croazia, Austria». But every persona carries the ark of the image it was read from, and the digital-archive service turns that ark into a DGS film number, which the catalogue names. The three earliest — born 1669, 1671 and 1674 — resolve to DGS 005497884 = «Matična knjiga 1568–1917», Župa Svetvinčenat. Which means the entries this archive has published for a year as «Pula 1667», the opening of the whole southern-Istrian line, are Svetvinčenat entries. The same film gives a continuous De Franceschi presence there from 1657 to 1737 under twelve different fathers. This is now standard practice for any «Croazia, Austria» row. What it produced on this siteThe Register · The parish books · The parish books, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | The whole Croatian index, resolved film by film Yielded | 954 indexed records of the surname traced from index entry to image ark to DGS film to catalogue | Ninety-three parishes. This archive had eighteen. The Croatian index mostly gives no parish — «Croazia, Austria» — but every persona carries the ark of the image it was read from, and that resolves to a film, and the film is named. Done for all 954 records it draws the map: Omiš 145 from 1634, Rijeka 105 from 1626, Ližnjan 100 from 1794, Svetvinčenat 85 from 1666, Pula 63 from 1659, and Bakar exactly five, 1772–1819, which is the household this archive had already reconstructed from another direction. New and unsuspected: Vižinada 53, Draguč 25, Rovinj 23 from 1619 — the earliest date on the map — Dubrovnik 38 across two parishes, and Bednja and Pregrada in the Zagorje from 1706 and 1674. Published as a chart on the Every Town page. What it produced on this siteOmiš · Ližnjan · Rijeka and Bakar · The parish books, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | The roster, attributed parish by parish Yielded | Every record id in the film map joined back onto the 1,021 people | 367 of the 1,021 now carry the name of the parish register they were actually found in, across 27 parishes — recovered from records the index labelled only «Croazia, Austria». The «no place» bucket falls from 386 people to 185, and «not placed» rises from 150 to 323, which is the honest direction: naming the parish usually tells you the family is one this archive has not attached to a line. Filterable on the People page as «Parish known». What it produced on this siteThe parish books · The roster, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat parish register, DGS 005497884 — read, not searched Yielded | Images 397, 398 and 442 opened tile by tile and read line by line | Three unindexed occurrences on the first three openings. «M.ro Nadal de Franceschi» stands godfather on 20 May 1666, five months before his own daughter is baptised; «il Sig.r Ant.o di Franceschi» stands godfather on 9 February 1674. Godparent roles are never indexed, which is the whole reason to open the page. The baptisms of Colotta (24 Oct 1666) and Fioretta (22 Nov 1666) are confirmed word for word, both fathers styled M.ro. And the company is the argument: the godparents across these openings are Spinoti, Fiorenza, Felicer, Fabri — the Canale di Gorto set, standing at each other's fonts in a Croatian village in 1666. By 1674 Anto is Sig.r and his son's compare is a Count Luciani: the same household, eight years, artisan to gentleman. What it produced on this siteThe parish books · FamilySearch film 005497884 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | «il Sig.r Conte Lucciani», Svetvinčenat 1674 — chased Yielded | The godfather at Mattio de Franceschi's baptism, traced through the index and the films | He is of the Albona house. The surname enlarges cleanly to Lucciani; the place after «da» will not settle between D and R. The index carries a Luciani family baptising at exactly these dates — Bartolomio Zuane on 12 November 1674, and five more between 1682 and 1693 — and every one of them resolves to the parish register of Labin (Albona), DGS 005494791–2. Which closes a circle: Carlo De Franceschi names «cav. Tomaso Luciani … di Albona» among his sources in 1879, Luciani's ex libris is in the family library now at Zagreb, and Hauptmann found letters of Tomaso Luciani in the wrecked house at Gologorica in 1945. Two hundred years, one surname, one town — pairing stated, descent not claimed. What it produced on this siteGologorica · Carlo De Franceschi · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497884 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat film, seven openings read band by band Yielded | DGS 005497884 images 397, 398, 402, 415, 423, 428, 437, 442 — baptisms of 1666, 1667, 1669, 1671, 1673, 1674 | Eight occurrences the index does not have, all godparent roles, plus four baptisms confirmed word for word. The best line is «Comp.ri furono M.ro Ant.o di Franceschi di Piero» (25 Oct 1667) — a patronymic, which gives Anto a father and pushes the family a generation behind the twelve the index knows. Also: Mattia of 1669 is «fig.a… nata», a daughter, not the son the name suggested; Anto stands godfather twice in eight days in October 1669; and the honorifics turn out not to be a clean ladder — M.ro, S.r and no style at all all appear in 1669–71, which corrects a tidier claim published here earlier. Carnian company in the same pages: Spinotti, Fiorencis, Felice, Fabris, Festa. Twelve openings of this film still to read. What it produced on this siteCarnia · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497884 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Wikimedia Commons — portraits for the people pages Yielded | A first pass at David's request that our people have faces, as his old site's did | Seven images found, licensed, captioned and wired in — and one of them is a discovery in its own right. Searching for Domenico de' Franceschi the printer turned up the title page of Palladio's «I quattro libri dell'architettura», Venice 1570, «Appresso Dominico de' Franceschi» — the most influential architectural book ever printed, and this archive's entry for him had never mentioned it. Also: a portrait of Carlo De Franceschi (PD, before 1893); Domenico's own woodcut of Charles V storming La Goletta from the Statens Museum for Kunst; the Vayron lithograph of Franceschi-Delonne and Philippoteaux's painting of his capture in 1809; the Dien engraving after Riesener of Jean-Marie-Antoine Defrance, 1820 — which also supplies his death year, 1835, that this archive lacked; and the National Gallery of Art's After Titian portrait of Andrea de' Franceschi (CC0). Built by a new tool, tools/commons.py, which keeps every image's Commons page, licence, author and date.What it produced on this siteCarlo De Franceschi · The plates · Wikimedia Commons | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat, DGS 005497884 — nineteen openings, the indexed run complete Yielded | Every image the index pointed at, read band by band: 1666–1707 | Twenty occurrences the index does not have, sixteen of them godparent roles. Eleven baptisms verbatim; one filiation («Ant.o di Franceschi di Piero»); one death dated (Batta, before July 1688); three people added; one sex corrected (Mattia 1669 is a daughter); one duplicate found in the register itself — a boy called Piero baptised twice, 6 and 15 October 1707, to a father written Nardo once and Lunardo once and a mother Eufemia both times, with the same two godparents in both entries; one within-family godparent link; and M.ro Mattio Lupieri standing for a De Franceschi child in 1707. It also overturned this archive's own reading of opening 578 as empty — it is not. What the film did not give is an origin — not one entry says where these people came from. And 576 of its 595 images, including all the marriages and deaths, are still unread. What it produced on this siteThe Register · The parish books · The marriages · FamilySearch film 005497884 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | Trove (Australia) Yielded | Surname search across the digitised Australian press | Australian notices for the family's later generations. What it produced on this siteWhere the name went · Trove — National Library of Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | Arolsen Archives Yielded | Displaced-persons and camp records | The 1949 sailing and the word «apatride». · Arolsen Archives | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ FLORISTÁN 2025 — Morosini decided the refugees would go to the empty Adriatic, and the evacuation was no shipwreck Partly | How the Cretan refugees actually left, and why they ended up on this coast | ⭐⭐⭐ THE HINGE THIS ARCHIVE HAS NEVER HAD. Floristán publishes the relation the Grand Master of Malta sent to the Viceroy of Sicily after the fall.
> «En total abandonaron Candía unas 12.000 personas. Algunos quisieron regresar movidos por los ofrecimientos que les hacía el gran visir, mas no pudieron hacerlo porque Morosini ya había decidido su asentamiento en lugares deshabitados del golfo Adriático.»
The refugees did not find their way to Istria and Dalmatia. Morosini chose it for them, and those who wanted to stay on the Vizier's terms were not allowed to. And he did it while surrendering the city without the Senate's authorisation (Pérez Negrete).
⚠⚠ AND IT CORRECTS THIS ARCHIVE. The Crete lane drew «Wrecked · 1669 — the fleet is wrecked in a storm» and called the lane documented. The relation describes a negotiated embarkation over twenty-two days, the Grand Vizier granting extensions while his army waited «con una quietud y una paciencia extraordinaria», and offering to forward the luggage to Suda. Four other sources read the same day are silent on any wreck. Corrected; the node is now «Taken off» and the wreck is an open question, not a fact.
Other dates fixed: capitulation 5 September 1669, Ottomans enter 27 September; Morosini told his war council on 27 August that the city must fall. What it produced on this siteSeget, and Crete · Corrections · José Manuel Floristán, «La capitulación de Candía de 1669», Archivo de la Frontera / CEDCS, ISBN 978-84-690-5859-6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | MEDULIN DEATHS 1801–1899 — frames 3–31 of 40 read, every entry column scanned; two Defranceschi found, the rest a nil Partly | Every Defranceschi in the Medulin death register, read page by page rather than searched | Twenty-nine frames read, covering deaths from 1801 to 1893. The register is ruled and columned — «Nomen, Cognomen et Conditio defuncti» is its own column — so every entry's surname was read, not sampled.
⭐⭐⭐ TWO DEFRANCESCHI, where the FamilySearch index lists none in this book:
What it produced on this siteLižnjan · The Lines · Medulin «Liber Defunctorum» 1801–1899, waypoint 9R2H-HZ7 · HDA, Matična knjiga umrlih, inv. br. 158 · title page «LIBER DEFUNCTORUM PAROECIAE MEDULINI IN DIOCESI PARENTINOPOLIEN», read on frame 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | ⚠⭐ LIŽNJAN deaths 1839 — the 1815 groom's own burial, «d.to Marulin» a second time; AND the deaths scout's crop is found to have cut the bottom off every page Partly | Why the scout had not reported the death the archive's own lead XQM3-21M6 points at | ⭐⭐⭐ THE DEATH OF THE MAN WHO MARRIED IN 1815 — and the byname is on him twice.
Ližnjan «Liber Defunctorum», page 93, 1839:
> «Addì 20 Xbre 1839» · house 17 · «Mattio Franceschi d.to Marulin, agr.» · Cattolico, Maschio, «ann. 40»
Mattio Franceschi detto Marulin, agricola, of house 17, died 20 December 1839, aged forty. House 17 is the house he married into in 1815 and the house his children were born in — Antonio 1819, Mattia 1821, Gregorio 1822.
⭐ «d.to Marulin», again. The 1815 marriage called him «Mario de Franceschi deto Marulin di Antonio». Here is the same byname at his burial, twenty-four years later, in a different book and a different hand. Two independent witnesses to the name settle it: it is a byname, not a place, and the reading that nearly made it «Madolin» is closed.
⚠ The age does not agree with the marriage. 1815 gave his Ætas as 21 (born about 1794); 1839 gives 40 (born about 1799). Five years apart. Both are the parish's own figures and neither is corrected here — register ages are frequently round numbers, and this archive records the discrepancy rather than splitting it.
⭐ And it closes a lead the archive had held and never taken up. register.json carried XQM3-21M6 — «Mattio Francesch, b. 1799, d. 20 Dec 1839, Ližnjan» — uncited by any roster row. The date matches exactly and the derived birth year matches the age. It was named as a candidate for Maddalena's «fu Matteo» yesterday and left there because a date that fits is not a match. It is now read on the page.
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⚠⚠ THE SCOUT OF THE DEATH REGISTER WAS CALLED «END TO END» AND IT WAS NOT. It read the top of every page and cut the bottom off.
The crop was y 0.09–0.46 of the frame. Measured against the book, the page itself runs from about 0.12 to 0.92. So roughly the top 44% of every page was read and the rest was never seen. Eleven people of the name were found, and they were real — but the claim that the book had been covered end to end was false.
This is the crop-drift trap this archive has now hit five times, and the previous four were all on the Pazin reels. It is the same failure: a crop that looks right on the frame you chose it with, and silently clips every frame after.
How it was caught. David asked whether «Medolino» was Medulin, and noted that Defranceschi seem to cluster there. Checking that sent this session back to a lead it had never taken up — XQM3-21M6, «Mattio Francesch, d. 20 Dec 1839, Ližnjan» — and asked why the scout had not reported that death. Because the entry sits at 0.52 of the page height, below where the crop stopped. A question about a place name exposed a systematic hole in a sweep.
The fix is one number. At the same magnification, y 0.09–0.95 renders the whole page into a single 2048×2304 canvas that reads exactly as well as the old one. The deaths book is being re-scanned with it, and the marriage and birth helpers carried the same wrong y-range and are corrected before use.What it produced on this siteLižnjan · Corrections · Ližnjan «Liber Defunctorum», waypoint 9R2Z-4WG | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ FamilySearch — LIŽNJAN MARRIAGES 1861: «nata e Medolino», the first plain ORIGIN in the scout — and the «-ski» spelling turns out to be 1861, not 1896 Partly | Origin — David asked that anything showing where the Ližnjan Defranceschi come from be watched for | ⭐⭐⭐ THE MARRIAGE OF FUSCA NÉE LAZARIć — and it gives her birthplace, which is the first plain statement of origin the scout has found.
Ližnjan «Liber Copulatorum», page 22, entry 168:
> «1 Junii 1861» · house 59 · SPONSUS «Antonius Defranceski q. Matthæi, agr.», catholic, Ætas 41, Viduus · SPONSA «Fosca nata Lazarić q. Simeonis, V[idu]a q. Antonii Mohorić agr., nata e Medolino»
⭐ «NATA E MEDOLINO» — she was born at MEDULIN, the next parish down the cape. Her burial of 1888 gave «nat. 30/4 1821» and an age of 67; this gives the place to go with the date.*
⭐ AND BOTH OF THEM WERE WIDOWED. He is «Viduus»; she is «vidua q. Antonii Mohorić» — a second marriage on both sides. That is why she appears in no earlier Defranceschi entry: before 1861 she was a Mohorić.
⭐ And he is the son of the man who married in 1815. «Antonius Defranceski q. Matthæi» — son of the late Matthæus — aged 41 in June 1861, so born about 1820. The baptism book has an Antonio born 15 September 1819 at house 17, to «Mattio De Franceschi» and «Madalena Percovich» — the couple of the 1815 marriage. The age fits to within months and the patronymic fits exactly. ⚠ It is not proved identical here — no entry says so in one breath — but three generations now stand in a row from the parish's own books: Antonio → Mattio/Mario detto Marulin (m. 1815) → Antonius (b. 1819, m. 1861).
⚠⚠ AND IT CORRECTS SOMETHING THIS ARCHIVE SAID THIS MORNING. The commit that finished the death register called the 1896 burial «the first spelled with the modern -ski». It is not. Here is «Defranceski» in the marriage register in 1861, thirty-five years earlier, in a different book and a different hand. Corrected. What it produced on this siteLižnjan · Corrections · Ližnjan «Liber Copulatorum», waypoint 9R2Z-44C | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | ⚠ FamilySearch — LIŽNJAN baptisms 1857: the Mattheus pair NOT settled, and a Defranceschi daughter with seven children found instead Partly | Whether «Mattheus Defranceschi b. 1858» (tree) and «Mathæus Defranceschi b. 1857» (index) are one child | ⚠ WHAT WAS LOOKED FOR AND NOT FOUND — the exact terms, because a nil that names no terms is an assertion about a list nobody kept.
The target was the Mattheus 1858 / Mathæus 1857 pair — the roster holds both, one from the tree and one from the index, and the register was to settle whether they are one child.
The index record that put a Defranceschi birth on this frame is «Matteo Defraceschi · Maria Primus», 1857. Both pages of the opening were read down the Parentes columns, every entry — page 68 and page 69, about eighteen entries. No birth to a Defranceschi father and a Primus mother is on this opening. The fathers on page 68 are Fedel, Giuseppe, Bucovich, Millasevich, Costip…, Bolsun, Carmin; on page 69, Voinich, Nascovich, Clinich, Mocorich, Baldessi, Legovich, Sebetich, Millosevich.
So the pair is NOT settled, and the 1857 Defranceschi birth is somewhere other than where the frame number put it — most likely the facing frames 31 or 33, which were not opened.
But the opening gave something it was not asked for. Page 69, second entry, Parentes:
> Pater «Antonio Nascovich fu Giovanni» · Mater «Maddalena Defranceschi fu Matteo»
A Defranceschi daughter married out, and a Matteo already dead by 1857. She is not the Maddalena this archive holds, who died in 1849. She is in the roster now.
⭐ And she had a household of seven. The harvested index carries seven Našković children to a «Maddalena Defranceschi» at Ližnjan — Euffemia 1852, Cattarina 1855, Cattarina 1856, Cattarina 1857, Antonius 1859, Joannes 1869, Josephus 1873 — three daughters given the same name, which usually means the first two died. None of the seven is in this roster and none has been read. Leads, not people.
⚠ Her father is not asserted. The entry says «fu Matteo». This archive's register.json holds lead XQM3-21M6 — «Mattio Francesch, b. 1799, d. 20 December 1839» — which fits, and which no roster row has ever taken up. A date that fits is not a match, so it is named as a candidate and left there.What it produced on this siteLižnjan · The search log · Ližnjan «Liber Baptizatorum», waypoint 9R2Z-44D | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | ⚠⚠ FamilySearch — LIŽNJAN deaths 1891: a tree-only child turns out to be one this archive ALREADY HELD under another id, and three more pairs look the same Partly | Mattheus Defranceschi, b. 1891 d. 1891 on the family tree and nothing else | Page 108, entry 7 of 1891, house 3:
> «mort. 18 Febr., sepul. 19 ejusdem, 1891» — «Mathæus Defranceschi, Mathæi et Annæ Skoko» — cathol., mascol., «nat. 25/1 90».
Born 25 January 1890, dead 18 February 1891. The tree said born 1891.
⚠ And this archive already held him — as math-us-defranceschi-1890, from the burial index, with the right year. Two rows, one child. Ids are frozen, so both stand and the join is written on each; nothing was deleted. Recorded as a correction.
⚠ And it is not one row. Comparing all thirteen remaining tree-only Ližnjan people against the register-sourced ones of the same name and neighbouring years turns up FOUR pairs that look like the same child entered twice — once from a document, once from the tree, a year or a spelling apart:
What it produced on this siteLižnjan · Corrections · Ližnjan «Liber Defunctorum», waypoint 9R2Z-4WG | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-215 — Gračišće BAPTISMS «1746–1840» swept for the surname: the book stops at May 1808 and the film says so Partly | Worklist 204: find the FIRST Defranceschi in the Gračišće baptism register, to date the family's arrival there. | ⭐⭐ THE BOOK DOES NOT REACH 1840 ON THIS FILM. M01070226 is the last page of register, ending «18 Maij» 1808. M01070227 is a filmed target reading «NASTAVLJA SE · TO BE CONTINUED». The last ten frames of reel 215 are a trailer — a laboratory card, then title cards for Gologorica Status Animarum 1862/1894/1921 and both Gračišće baptism books — then blank film.
⚠ This corrects the archive's own frame map, which assigned M01070131–M01070236 to the book. Corrected to M01070131–M01070226, with the trailer described as its own entry. The ink-coverage scan that built the map finds title cards; a «NASTAVLJA SE» target is not one.
⭐ THE SWEEP, AND ITS TERMS. The Pater column read across thirty-six consecutive frames, M01070190–M01070226 — 1783 to May 1808, roughly nine hundred baptisms. Not one Defranceschi father. The column is full of the surnames this family would marry — Salamon, Fernasar, Sestan — with Picot, Milotich, Miandrusich, Lanza, Brosan, Bursich, Zulle, Poldrugovaz, Vuxa, Jerbula, Dermit, Cincopan, Vlahovich, Carlin, Scubla, Marletta, Berdebich, Zruselich.
⚠ NAMED GAP, NOT A NIL: before about 1783 the book is continuous Latin prose with no column to read down, and the leaves carry the filmers' label «WATER DAMAGE · OŠTEĆENO OD VLAGE». Frames M01070132–M01070189 are unswept and raised as their own row.
⭐⭐ AND A CERTIFICATE LOOSE IN THE BOOK (M01070134) CONFIRMS THE DIOCESE FROM A SECOND PARISH. Letterhead: «Diocesi di Trieste - Capo d'Istria nel Litorale austriaco», «Distretto di Pisino». A «Fede di Nascita» for Pietro, son of the late Martino Krisman and Maria née Jerach, born at Scopliaco (parish of Gallignana) house 11 on 28 June 1836, baptised by Don Antonio Scubla; godparents Giovanni Runco and his wife Mattea; midwife Maria Trelesco. Issued at Gallignana 25 March 1867, signed Mattia Zimmermann, Parroco. This is nine years earlier than the Dobrila signature at Gologorica that established the diocese on 6 October, and from a different parish and a different kind of document. Two Gračišće parish priests newly named; «Scopliaco» raised for the gazetteer. What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Parish books · Gračišće | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-217, M01072071 — Gračišće (Gallignana) STATUS ANIMARUM, house 5, read off the 2021 supply Partly | Read the Gračišće house 5 Status Animarum this archive already holds, to find Francisca born 3 February 1819 who came from «Parochia Gallignana sub N.ᵒ 5». | ⚠ FIRST: the page was already transcribed in full on the direct-line page, all seven names. This is a verification, not a find.
⭐ What reading it adds — FRANCISCA IS NOT ON IT. The couple's children run 1823, 1825, 1829, 1830/36, 1833, 1840 and the marriage is 1819. A daughter born 3 February 1819 is not theirs. So «Gallignana house 5» points at the generation above Giovanni Battista — the one this archive holds only from the family chart, not from a register page. Work-list 202 retargeted.
⚠⚠ TWO INTERNAL CONTRADICTIONS, found by setting three files against one image: the plate caption says Joan. Bapt. died 1 September 1846 where the direct-line page transcribes 14. Sept. 1846; the direct-line page gives Regina Theresia 1830 where her roster row gives 1836. Neither is resolvable from the photocopy held — reel ZM34K-217 is not one this archive owns. Raised as its own row; the plate caption now states the doubt.
⭐ Two people move from inference to document: Raymundus de Franceschi (1823) and Regina Theresia de Franceschi (1836) both carried «tree-derived: no register has been read for this person here». This is a register page and it names them both, with father, mother and house. Both notes corrected.
⚠⚠ AND THE SERIOUS ONE. Joanna's Gračišće house 4, her marriage of 13 February 1843 and the «two brides in three years» pattern — all published here yesterday as new — were documented in this archive on 30 September on her own roster row, from the same frame. Third instance in two days. Published as a serious correction. What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Corrections · Gračišće | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 Oct 2026 | ⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica BAPTISMS 1784–1880, folios 67–69 (M01069080–M01069082): 1816–1819 read entry by entry Partly | Worklists 194 and 196: find the baptisms of «Joanna uxor nata Defranceschi, b. 25 Junii 1818» and «Francisca uxor n. Defranceschi, b. 3 Februarii 1819», which would name their fathers. | ⚠⚠ BOTH ABSENT, and the register is CONTINUOUS across both dates. Folio 67 runs 24 Dec 1816 · «Anno 1817» · 25 Feb · 6 May · «Anno 1818» · 1 March 1818 · 2 July 1818. Folio 68: 12 Sept · 30 Sept · 12 Oct · 17 Nov 1818. Folio 69: 6 March 1819 · 23 May · 15 June · 25 July · 11 Aug (twins). 25 June 1818 and 3 February 1819 both fall inside dated, unbroken runs.
The obvious objection was tested before this was written. Six baptisms a year looks far too few for a village numbering houses to 119, and the suspicion was that only half of each opening had been read. It had not been — the facing page carries the SAME entries continued («Nomen et Cognomen Patrinorum», «Status Baptizati», «Conditio Patrinorum», «Nomen et Cognomen Obstetricis», the priest), not a second set. The register is genuinely thin in the famine years.
⭐ So both Defranceschi brides married into Gologorica from OUTSIDE — for a one-name study, evidence of a second Defranceschi population within marrying distance. Raised as its own row.
⭐ «Mathea uxor Leonardi Defranceschi» stands godmother FOUR times in 1819 (23 May, 25 July, 11 Aug ×2), and the «Conditio Patrinorum» column reads «Civis» against her where it reads «Rust.» against the men beside her — «civis» doing social work twenty-nine years before it appears in the death register.
⭐ «Stanislaus Brajuha gradignensis» confirms Gradigna as a real neighbouring place, which the death book's «Extranei» list had left as an unidentified reading. Midwife throughout: «Oliva uxor Antonii Ancich ex Rizmagnifa».
Also corroborated: «Amalia Alexandra Josepha», b. 25 Feb 1818, bapt. 1 March, house 17, parents «Dⁿˢ Joseph Defranceschi et Dⁿᵃ Lambertina ejusdem uxor nata Peschle». What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · The work list · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica STATUS ANIMARUM 1826: every Defranceschi-headed page read for a daughter born 25 June 1818 Partly | Worklist 194: «Joanna uxor nata Defranceschi, b. 25 Junii 1818» should appear a second time as a daughter in her father's household, because the census demonstrably enters a married woman twice. | ⚠ NAMED NIL. Pages read in full, name column and Nativitatis columns: M01069320, M01069321, M01069323, M01069325, M01069326, M01069328, M01069329, M01069331 — every page of the census headed by a Defranceschi. Looked for a daughter born 25 June 1818, and failing that any Defranceschi birth in June 1818. Neither is there. Her confirmation date is now also known — «1 8bris 1823», dittoed down from Antonius Sestan — so two dates were available to match and neither appears.
⭐ The reason is structural, and it corrects this archive. Seven of those eight headings contain no household at all: a name, sometimes a birth date, then nothing or somebody else's family. Only the Leonardus Defranceschi page is written out (fifteen people). The claim of «eight Defranceschi households» published yesterday is corrected — they are houses, named by whoever answered for them.
⭐ A second Defranceschi-born wife, with the same gap: «Francisca uxor n. Defranceschi, b. 3 Februarii 1819» married to «Antonius Defranceschi filius Ubaldi et Apoloniæ, b. 14 Aprilis 1814» (M01069328, house 6·10) — a marriage inside the surname, raised as its own row.
Where it goes: the Gologorica baptism register 1784–1880 is on this same reel. A baptism of 25 June 1818 names Joanna's father; 3 February 1819 names Francisca's.
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⭐ 9 October — the list was two pages short. A walk down the «Nrus. Domus» column found p.14 «Jacobus Defranceschi» (M01069332) and p.15 «Franciscus Xaverius Defranceschi» (M01069333), neither of them on the eight above. Ten of the fifteen pages of the «civilitas» section are Defranceschi, not eight. The structural finding is unchanged — they are houses named by whoever answered for them — and the named nil for a daughter born 25 June 1818 stands, since neither new page carries a June 1818 birth. What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Corrections · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, the book WALKED from its cover to page 22 (M01069226–M01069238), 1784–1803 Partly | The first continuous walk of the death register — every entry of every page, not a scan for one surname. | Pages 1–22 are now WALKED — every entry, not a surname scan. About 150 entries, 1784–1803.
⚠ The Defranceschi result is a NIL, and a named one. Beyond the entries already published — the 1786 and 1789 children, Catharina Jablich and Sancta, Mathias the priest and Antonius of house 29 — no Defranceschi dies in these pages. That is now a fact about a book somebody read, not an impression.
What the walk found instead:
· ⭐ A bell-ringing ledger on the flyleaf, in Italian, five entries 1801–1805 — «un Ducato o sian L. 6 alla Chiesa per suono di tutte tre Campane». A record type this archive had not catalogued. Its people are in the Latin register; its dates are not always the same, so it counts a different event. No Defranceschi paid it.
· ⭐ Joseph Deprato dated — «ex Parochus Cerovgl[ie], Jubilatus», d. 17 Oct 1801, aged 80, house 61. The anchor of the surname this archive keeps having to separate from its own.
· The officiant changes from «Defranc[eschi] Pbr Loci» to «Felix Ant. Babich» between 1795 and Nov 1797 — two years before the Defranceschi priest dies of «Paralisia».
· Two epidemics counted: smallpox («Pustulla») Sept–Nov 1789, six deaths beyond the two Defranceschi children; dysentery («Fluxus») Aug 1790, house 102 burying three.
· ⭐ Causes of death that name poverty: «Fames» (hunger, 1803), «Egestas» (destitution, 1797 and 1803), «Ignorantia obstetricis» (1795, a boy of two hours). What it produced on this siteWritten into the line · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 23–28 walked (M01069239–M01069242), 1803–1805 Partly | Continuing the walk. Includes the discovery that page 28 is filmed twice and only the second exposure is complete. | ⚠ THE MOST USEFUL THING HERE IS A WARNING ABOUT THE FILM ITSELF.
M01069241 and M01069242 are the SAME opening, pages 27–28, shot twice — identical in their top two entries. On the first exposure a loose slip of paper lies across page 28 and blanks out SEVEN entries. On the second it has been lifted away. A session that read M01069241 and moved on would have marked page 28 read and lost seven deaths. This archive's coverage check already warned that the film shoots some openings twice and that two automated attempts to detect duplicates had failed. This is the first duplicate found by walking, and the first proof that the duplicate can be the only complete frame.
What the slip hid — house 28 in fourteen weeks: a mother dead in childbirth 20 April («Parthus», ann 34), her six-year-old 7 May, and a three-month-old 30 July, born about the week her mother died.
⚠ The slip is itself an undated record — «Fieni parochiali venduto all'ast[a]», parish hay sold at auction to Pietro Basilisco, Giovanni Marcich and «Alberto D.r Peschle», total f 91:13. It is loose, so it takes no date from the 1805 page under it, and this archive does not give it one.
⭐ Catharina Deprato, house 61, 13 Dec 1803, ann 43, Hidrope, «nata Rovisi ex Petin, uxor Joh: Baptista» — the exact collision with Catharina Defranceschi née Jablich (house 36, 1792, ann 26). Same description, different family.
1803 is a hunger year: «Cancrhrena famesque», «Egestas» ×3, one of them «inventa mortua domi» — found dead at home, aged 32.
⚠ No Defranceschi death in pages 23–28. A named nil. What it produced on this siteWritten into the line · The Peschle, who appear on the slip · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 31–36 walked (M01069244–M01069246), 1807–1812 Partly | Continuing the walk through the French-period years, to the edge of the 1812 confiscation already recorded here. | ⚠ No Defranceschi death in these six pages — a named nil. What they give is the parish around the family.
· ⭐ «gratis». p. 35, 1811: the priest writes it under his own name on three consecutive burials — houses 83, 34, 93. The burial was free. Set beside the flyleaf's bell-ringing payments and the 1803 «Fames» and «Egestas» deaths, the book records who paid for bells, who paid nothing, and who starved. No Defranceschi in any of the three.
· ⭐ «Joannes Baptista DEPRATO, Viduus», house 6, 30 March 1809, aged 56 — the widower of Catharina Deprato, who died at house 61 in 1803. ⚠ 61 old → 6 new is an INFERENCE (the 1803 entry predates the vetus/novus labelling), consistent with the 1826 census putting Deprato at house 6. Not counted as a labelled pair.
· A sixth Krbune priest, and the arrangement named: «Ant: Trinaistich … Cherbunensis, de Licentia mea Parochus» (1809). With the 1805 interregnum, the two parishes clearly lent clergy as standing practice. Worklist 168.
· A stranger: «Gertrudis Zwey, Vidua, ex Hyperlabaco» — Oberlaibach (Vrhnika), dead at house 1 in 1809, aged 46.
· A trade: «Joannes Ghersan, viduus, faber ferrarius» — blacksmith, 67.
· Four decanal visitations in eleven years — 1805, 1807, 1808, 1816 — two signed «Petrus Anicich, Cæs. Reg.us Parochus et Decanus».
· A girl «ab obstetrice baptizata ob necessitatem» (1808), and a «filius posthumus» (1812) whose father is on the same page, dead of phthisis five months earlier. What it produced on this siteWritten into the line · Krbune, and the renumbering · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 57–58 and 65 (M01069257, M01069261), 1817–1826 — a re-read that caught a stale row Partly | Walking the last pages the index flags, and testing each finding against the roster rather than assuming it had landed. | ⚠ THE ENTRY ON PAGE 58 WAS ALREADY FOUND EARLIER TODAY. Saying so is the point.
«Die 19: Xbris 1817 hora 10ma noctu · 17 · Maximilianus Joseph Defranceschi, D.ni Josephi filius · 4 anni, mens. fere 3 · Vermes et Tussis cum febri maligna» — buried the 20th «sub solis occasum ob signa putrefactionis». The line data already carried this death.
⭐ BUT THE ROSTER ROW DID NOT — and that is a real catch. His row still read «Tree-derived: no register has been read for this person here» with d: null. A finding written into one file and not the other. Exactly the failure the propagation check exists for, and it survived because nobody tested the roster against the page. Now fixed and re-declared.
⭐ And it confirms the index decoding a fourth time: the child dies at house 17, which is the number the index gives his father's block — «Defranceschi Joseph N.º 17». His father is styled «Dominus».
⚠ Birth not declared: four years three months in December 1817 implies about September 1813; an implied year is not a declared one.
⚠ Page 65 (1826): no Defranceschi — read because an earlier log line claimed «pages 65–66 walked» when only page 66 had been opened. The claim is now true.What it produced on this siteThe row that was stale · The line · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 74–75 (M01069265–M01069266), 1834–1838 — Josephus, and a second stale row Partly | Walking on through the Italian interlude into Petrus Milcetich's compressed format. | ⚠ THE DEFRANCESCHI ON PAGE 75 WAS ALREADY DOCUMENTED. Saying so, again.
> «Xbris 12° · Josephus Defranceschi · 74 · 9 · 7 · febris nervosa» — 12 December 1838.
The line data already held this death, and had already flagged that the age does not close: 74y 9m 7d before 12 Dec 1838 lands on 5 March 1764, against a written birth of 4 March 1765. This walk confirms both independently.
⭐ BUT THE ROSTER ROW WAS STALE — the second in one afternoon. It carried b. 1763 and an empty note, while the line data had the documented 1765 and the whole story. Fixed and re-declared. The first was Maximilianus. A method note is now recorded: a finding written into a topic file must be put on the person's row in the same breath, because a missing sentence matches no grep and the propagation check cannot see it.
Also on these pages: the Italian interlude — «Il di 3 Marzo», «Vecchiaja», «Tisica», «agricoltore» under Administrator Marco Marusich, 1834–35, reverting to Latin under Petrus Milcetich — consistent with the correction already published. Visitations now signed «Vidi. Petinae» — at Pićan. And from 1836 Milcetich switches to a compressed one-line format, which is why these pages carry twenty entries where earlier ones carried six. What it produced on this siteThe row that was stale · The lesson · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 81–82 walked (M01069269 AND M01069270 — a duplicate pair), 1845–1846 Partly | Walking on, and finding the second duplicate exposure of the reel. | ⭐ A SECOND DUPLICATE PAIR — and for the second time the FIRST exposure is the defective one.
M01069269 is cropped at the left edge and the month column is lost: page 82's seven deaths read «22, 4, 26, 8, 28, 12, 26» with no month attached to any of them. M01069270 is the same opening framed wider —* «Martii 22, Augusti 4, 8bris 26, 9bris 8, 9bris 28, Decembris 12, Decembris 26». A year of dates that exist only on the duplicate.
With pages 27–28, where a loose slip hid seven entries on the first exposure, that is two for two. Rule adopted: open the frame either side before accepting a page as read. Two automated attempts to detect duplicates had already failed, so this is manual and stays manual.
⚠ And the coverage figure overstates, because it counts frames cited and a duplicate pair is one opening counted twice.
⚠ No Defranceschi, pages 81–82. Two notable entries all the same: a girl of 15 «non munita sacramentis, quia continue delirabat», and another of 15 «non munita … quia ab initio morbi RENUEBAT muniri iisdem» — she refused them. And house 45 buries Josephus and Mathaeus Ancich on the same day, both aged in days — almost certainly twins. What it produced on this siteThe rule, written up · The method note · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 29 Sept 2026 | The Kalanj graves of the Vinodol, and the question they raise about Anna Partly | Kalanj and Papić gravestones — Crikvenica, Novi Vinodolski and Klenovica, photographed by David | David asked whether the Kalanj are any relation, and whether to store the pictures. Both answers are yes, with a boundary.
⚠ First, what this archive does NOT do with them. *ancestors.json already rules on it: «the Kalanj line is kept in The Blažević Archive, not here», and the same for Papić. Building twenty Kalanj records here is precisely how an estate ends up with two versions of one person — the rule this archive set for Hedviga. So: the stones are recorded, the photographs stored, and the line is not rebuilt.
What DOES belong here is the join — and the join had no page. Anna Kalanj, born 3 January 1864 at Klenovica house 22, daughter of Josip Kalanj and Rosalia née Perković, is this archive's own great-great-grandmother and generation four of the direct line. She has appeared there as a wife and never had a record of her own. It is the Virginija failure again, this time on the spine.
The stones, stored as five plates:
What it produced on this siteAnna Kalanj — the join, given a record at last · The five Kalanj stones, stored · The Defranceski grave that no longer exists · Crikvenica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 Sept 2026 | Five Fiume baptisms, no Defranceschi godparent — and two of Valentino's children turn out to have died small Partly | Fiume film 005497925 — the 19 December 1742 baptism read, and two indexed «births» identified as burials | The fifth baptism read, and the answer has not changed. Film 005497925, 19 December 1742:
> «Franciscam Joannem Theresiam filiam legitimam et naturalem D[omi]ni Valentini et Helenæ jugalium Defranceschi, baptisavit D[omi]nus Decanus Petrus Eustachius Daus. Patrini fuerunt D[omi]nus Antonius de Campo Xenes, et Nob[ili]s D[omi]na Vidua Margaritha Salopp.»
(The two godparents' surnames are the least certain readings of this sweep and are recorded as they appear, uncorrected.)
Five baptisms now read on the plate — 1739, 1741, 1742, 1748, 1752 — and ten godparents. Not one of them is a Defranceschi. Thirteen years, both households, no thread. (doc.)
### Two children who did not live, hidden inside the index as births
Two records the archive holds as children of Valentino and Helena are not baptisms at all:
birth column for a Croatian record should be treated as an estimate until the record page says otherwise.
What the two burials do give is a household with losses. Valentino and Helena baptised Matthæus Franciscus in 1739, Nicolaus Franciscus in 1741, Francisca Joanna Theresia in 1742, Aloysius Joannes Petrus in 1752 — and buried a Mattio in July 1742 and an Antonio, an infant, in September 1753. The 1742 burial falls five months before the December baptism. (doc.)What it produced on this siteWork list item 143 · The estimated-year trap · Fiume (Rijeka) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat births 1764–1791 — the 1780 leaves, the year of Antonio's exemption Partly | Antonio Defranceschi's household, in the year the Atti says he led the castle | The 1780 leaves are open, and Antonio is on them — but as a husband, not a father.
Film 005497885, the second births volume, frames 81, 82 and 83, covering 21 April to late October 1780 — the year Atti 48 says Antonio Defranceschi led the castle households to their exemption from armed service.
__Q(0.268, 0.495, 0.060, 0.545) — puts the whole opening in one 880×720 canvas, which halves the cost of a page-by-page read from four calls a frame to two. It is safe for finding a candidate and never for confirming one. On carta 82 the words «Maria Catarina filia legitima Dominici Dassanich q. Laurentij» read, at spread scale, exactly like Dominici Defranceschi — same length, same shape, same position in the formula. It was about to be written down as a new child of the name. Magnified, it is Dassanich.
That is the third time in one day. Defranzieri on the index page, Nadal Venir four entries below D. Nadal Defraneschi, and now Dassanich. In this parish the surname has at least three near-twins, and the rule is absolute: no candidate is a finding until it has been magnified.What it produced on this siteThe rest of this volume · Svetvinčenat (San Vincenti) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | The esodo arrivals, 1947–1957 — and the transcripts go thin exactly where they are wanted Partly | The post-war American arrivals the Ellis Island database cannot reach | Fifty-five arrivals of the exact spelling between 1947 and 1957 — and this archive's plan for reading them was wrong.
This window was carved out this morning as the part of the American passenger record worth reading, because the Statue of Liberty database stops long before it and the Istrian esodo sits squarely in it. The count is real: defranceschi, United States travel and migration, event year 1952 ± 5, returns 55.
But the transcripts change shape after the war. The 1900s–1920s series gives «Residence: Ponte Alpi Italy» — an actual town. The 1947–57 series gives «Birth place: Italian», which is a nationality:
> Riccardo Defranceschi, age 60, born 1889, «Birth place Italian», arrived New York, 1949, ship Atlantico — NARA T715 roll 7738, film 002296450.
> Livio Defranceschi, «Birth place Italian», arrived New York, 1957, ship C O N S T I T U T I O N — NARA T715 roll 8833, film 002322278.
So the question these fifty-five were going to answer is not in their transcripts. The town is on the manifest itself. Each transcript does carry a FamilySearch film number, so the plate is reachable by the film-and-frame route already written down — which means the item costs fifty-five images, not fifty-five navigations, and it is blocked until the FamilySearch session is signed in again.
What can be said now. Riccardo is new to this archive — a man of sixty crossing in 1949, which is a refugee's age and a refugee's year. Livio is not: a Livio born at Pola in 1925 stands in the Arolsen IRO files, displaced in 1947. A Pola man in a displaced-persons file in 1947 and a Livio landing at New York in 1957 are the right shape for one life — and this archive is not joining them, because the manifest gives neither a birth year nor a town and the only thing the two records share is a forename. (doc for both arrivals; the identification is open.)What it produced on this siteWhere the name went · Emigration · New York | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | The Trieste trail run to its end — the original Pisino request, and a surname the two copies disagree on Partly | FamilySearch full-text — «Cincopan» run out, and the Pisino request form behind the Trieste proclamation | Following Rotilio's marriage into Trieste, because the proclamation said the bride had lived there.
What the trail gave. The Trieste banns supplements hold the original request form that the Trieste register was copying from:
> «PROVINCIA DELL'ISTRIA · CIRCONDARIO DI PISINO · COMUNE DI PISINO · UFFICIO DELLO STATO CIVILE · RICHIESTA DI PUBBLICAZIONI DI MATRIMONIO No. 46», dated 27 April 1928, stamped as presented 28.4.28.
So the marriage was Pisino's — Pazin — and Trieste appears only because «la sposa ha avuto la residenza» there. Two offices, two documents, one wedding.
And a discrepancy that matters to anyone who searches for her mother.
What it produced on this siteAlbina Cincopan · The list · Trieste · Pisino (Pazin) · Gračišće | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | One of the two Fiume households may not be ours at all — the index calls it Mancoschi Partly | Fiume film 005497925, image 150 — the household index read against the archive's own claim | Work list item 143 asks how Joannes Baptista × Magdalena of Fiume relates to Valentino × Helena. The first thing the film says is that the question may be built on a misreading.
The archive's claim. Item 143 records a household «Joannes Baptista × Magdalena — styled D.nus, baptising Josephus Aloysius on 29 May 1748 (film 005497925, image 150)», and counts it as a second Defranceschi house at Fiume beside Valentino's sixteen children.
What FamilySearch's own index of that image says. Image 150 carries nineteen households, and the thirteenth reads:
> Josephum Aloysium MANCOSCHI · Vital Records · 29 May 1748
> Parent: Joannis Bapte Mancoschi · Parent: Magdalená Mancoschi
Same date. Same two forenames for the child. Same two forenames for the parents. A different surname. This is not a near-match that might be a different family — it is the same entry, read differently.
So one of two things is true, and this archive cannot yet say which.
- The index misread de Franceschi as Mancoschi — the kind of error a cursive fr and a long s invite.
- Or the household was never ours, and item 143's premise dissolves: there would be one Defranceschi house at Fiume, Valentino's, and nothing to relate it to.
The plate has not been magnified, and that is the only thing that settles it. Several attempts were made and the geometry of this film defeated them: unlike the Svetvinčenat plates, image 150's page content does not sit where a proportional crop expects, and the entry was not isolated before this was written. It is recorded as an open doubt rather than resolved in either direction, because the choice between them changes whether a household exists.
Nothing has been altered on the strength of it. The Fiume pages still say what they said; this entry is the flag.
### A find that will pay for itself many times over
Every image in this collection carries a structured transcript panel, reachable at /ark:/61903/3:1:<ark>?view=fullText, listing every household on the page with its date and both parents — nineteen of them on this one plate. That is an index at image level, and it does not require reading the handwriting at all.
It is not a substitute for the plate — this very entry shows the index can be wrong about a surname — but it is a far better way to find which frames are worth magnifying than cropping blind. Every previous sweep in this archive has walked frames by eye. (method.)What it produced on this siteWork list item 143 · Fiume (Rijeka) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | Four Fiume baptisms read at the font, and not one Defranceschi godparent between them Partly | Fiume film 005497925 — four baptisms of the surname read on the plate for their godparent lines | The only way the two Fiume households can be joined from these registers is if one stood godparent to the other. Four baptisms have now been read off the plate, spanning thirteen years. None of them does.
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| 20 Sept 2026 | A catalogue correction: two Vinodol parishes DO have marriage films covering 1883–1889 Partly | Re-checking the shelf survey that sent this archive to Crikvenica, against the live FamilySearch waypoint tree rather than a harvested copy | The survey that opened the Crikvenica film said that across the whole Vinodol only one marriage register on film reached the 1880s. That was wrong by two parishes.
Queried parish by parish on 20 September 2026:
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| 20 Sept 2026 | The surname put straight to the index — and two children's entries read back Partly | What the FamilySearch index holds for the name in the Vinodol, checked row by row against the register images | Six hundred indexed rows for the name in Croatia; fifteen touch the Vinodol; two of them matter, and they pull in opposite directions. 1. A correction. «Marija Stjepanka Defranceschi, 22 Dec 1892, Ledenice». This archive had her as born 8 December 1892 at Crikvenica. The page — Ledenice baptisms p.166 no. 83 — says born 8 December, baptised 22 December, at Ledenice, of «Josip Defranceschi, klesar, i žena Ana Kalanj rodjena», residence «Klenovica kbroj 28, na stan» — Klenovica house 28, in lodgings. So the family were still in the Ledenice parish at the end of 1892, living in rented rooms a few doors from Ana's parents at house 22. Logged as a correction. 2. A confirmation, and the index is the one that is wrong. The index gives «Zorica De Franceski, Jul 1897, Crikvenica»; this archive has her born 14 December 1896. The page — Crikvenica baptisms p.299 no. 143 — says born 14 December 1896, baptised 17 January 1897. The archive's date is right and the index garbled it. The entry is worth having for its own sake: the father is written «Josip Defranceschi Antonov iz Gračišća, klesar u mjestu» — son of Anton, of Gračišće, stonecutter in this place. The Istrian origin and the patronymic are written into a Kvarner register in the priest's own hand. The lesson is the one this archive keeps relearning: the index is a finding aid and nothing more. Both rows had to be read on the page, and one of them was wrong. · Ledenice · Crikvenica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat index, the B page — a third child, the father's full name, and a look-alike that dissolved Partly | The B section of the 1709–1764 index, where Battista and Bortolo would sit | One more child, the father's name in full at last — and one line that looked like the name and is not.
The hit. Second from the foot of the B page:
> «Battistina fig.a di Gio Batta Defranceschi 23 Xbre 1731 — c. 76 t°»
So the father this archive has been calling «Batta» from the 1728 entry is Gio Batta — Giovanni Battista, and he has a third child: Battistina, 23 December 1731, named for himself.
The household as it now stands:
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| 20 Sept 2026 | The roster audited against itself — how much of the corpus is one person entered twice Partly | Whether the «disconnected people» are really disconnected, or duplicates of each other arriving from different sources | A good deal of it is duplication, and the rest divides into two very different problems.
Folding all 1,221 roster rows on name, birth year, canonical place and maiden name:
38 groups, 83 rows, of which 45 would collapse — same person, same place, arriving from two or three different sources. The commonest pairs are household + myheritage (17), myheritage + record (15) and burial + myheritage (9). Pietro De Franceschi b. 1734 of Vodnjan is in the roster seven times.*
21 cross-place candidates — same name and year in two places. Some are certainly one person: Anton Rudolf b. 1890 «Klenovica | Ledenice» is the man this archive re-read this morning, and Klenovica is in* Ledenice parish; Antonio b. 1897 «Middle Village | Queens» — Middle Village is in Queens; Camillo b. 1868 «Gologorica | Pazin», plus a third row at Poreč. Others — Antonius b. 1848 «Gologorica | Pula», Joannes b. 1871 «Gologorica | Ližnjan» — are either a real move or a collision, and would each take a register to settle.
* 84 roster rows have no /who/ page, 63 of them from the index. Those people cannot be linked to by anything, because there is nothing to link to. That is the cheapest unconnectedness in the archive to fix.
One thing the audit must not do is merge on its own. «Maria Defranceschi b. 1757» looks like seven duplicates and is not: the rows are Browachio, Buman, Contossich, Covaz, Dobrez — seven different women who married into the name at Rijeka, distinguished only by the maiden name in brackets. And «Camillo De Franceschi, in Croatian» is a deliberate namesake row, not a stray. The list is a worksheet, not a licence.
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| 20 Sept 2026 | The Fiume reel's volume structure, got right at the third attempt Partly | Which images on film 005497925 hold which register, after two wrong readings in one day | Each waypoint is a bound volume holding births AND marriages, and the two series do not share a date range. That is why the frame arithmetic kept failing.
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| 20 Sept 2026 | The godparents of all four of Giuseppe's children, read one by one Partly | Whether any Defranceschi relative stands at the font for Giuseppe × Francesca's children — the cheapest test of the descent | Two of the four carry a Defranceschi godparent, and one of those two is the finding of the day. The other two do not, and that is worth saying as plainly.
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| 20 Sept 2026 | The County of Pazin marriage books, scoped against the parishes Kobler's family actually lived in Partly | Where a marriage of Joannes Baptista de Franceschi could be found, and where it could not | Before reading thirty-eight frames of one parish, the shelf was counted — and it is much shorter than the question needs.
Item 143 turns on Magdalena's maiden name, and Kobler puts the man who would be her husband in the Contea di Pisino around 1740. So: which County of Pazin parishes have marriage books covering 1740–1748 in the FamilySearch Croatia collection this archive can reach?
Two.
9R26-16F:391644801,392372801,392373301, 396 frames, of which index 134 = January 1741, index 142 = 1746, index 160 = October 1747 – January 1748. The window is about frames 128–165. The arks are in scratchpad/pazin/arks.lst.
A caution for the reader: this volume binds three runs together — 1597–1635, 1656–1852 and 1812–1847 — so frame order is not simply chronological and the density varies. Anchor by reading, not by interpolating. · Pazin — Contea di Pisino | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Pazin marriages, the volume re-anchored after a misread digit sent it thirty years wrong Partly | Where 1740–1748 actually sits in the Pazin marriage volume | The frame window this archive published a few hours ago was wrong by about thirty years, and the cause was one digit.
The Pazin marriage volume was anchored by probing and reading date headings — which is the rule — and the readings were 1741 at frame 134, 1746 at 142, 1747 at 160. From those the window for 1740–1748 was published as frames 128–165.
They are 1711, 1716 and 1717. In this clerk's hand the 4 is written with a nearly closed bowl and an almost horizontal crossbar, and at page scale it is not distinguishable from his 1 with its heavy entry stroke. The mistake is invisible from a single frame, because «Die 27 Januarij 1711» and «… 1741» are equally plausible sentences.
What broke it open was frame 143, whose right-hand page carries «1717» twice in a clean hand. With 143 fixed at 1717, a frame 8 earlier could not be 1746.
The volume, re-anchored — every one of these read, and the ambiguous ones cross-checked against a neighbour:
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| 20 Sept 2026 | The Hreljac index, searched for Ruža's father at Fužine Partly | Lovre Hreljac and Dragica Vlahović of Fužine, Ruža's parents | Hreljac is a Vinodol surname, and it is not a Fužine one — which redirects this item.
The FamilySearch index was searched for Hreljac at Fužine, for Lovre Hreljac anywhere in Croatia, and for a marriage to a Vlahović. No Hreljac record at Fužine at all. What the surname does have is a tight cluster twenty kilometres away: Grižane, Tribalj, Bakar — the Vinodol, the same valley as Crikvenica, Ledenice and Klenovica, where this archive already works.
One candidate, and it is a good one. «Lovra Hreljac, born and baptised 4 September 1883 at Grižane, Modruš-Fiume», son of Stepan Hreljac and Agna Barac — 6YBK-YPMM, Croatia, Church Books, 1516–1994. Ruža was born in 1922, so a father born in 1883 is exactly right, and the forename is the one the family uses.
It is inf and must stay inf: nothing ties this Lovra to Fužine or to a Dragica Vlahović. No marriage of Lovre Hreljac to a Vlahović is indexed anywhere.
The redirect is the finding. This item said to look in Fužine marriages 1778–1857 and births 1725–1889. If the Hreljac came from the Vinodol, Fužine is the wrong parish for the household and only the right one for the wedding — and Grižane's books are the ones to read. That also puts Ruža's father's family in the same valley as her husband's, which nobody here had noticed. · Fužine · Grižane — Vinodol | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Gologorica's Glagolitic record, dated — and what it does not say about this family Partly | A Glagolitic inscription at Gologorica tied to the name | The village was writing Glagolitic a hundred and fifty years before the De Franceschi house was built, and the family is not in any of it.
Gologorica's Glagolitic inscriptions, from the Istrian encyclopaedia's own entry:
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| 17 Sept 2026 | The National Archives, Kew — Discovery, the whole catalogue Partly | The name in nine spellings, the Cardiff thread, and the ship — the first time this archive has ever asked Kew anything | Seven records of the name in Britain, 1677 to 1934, and none of them was in this archive before. Discovery is free, needs no key, and answers JSON at discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/API/search/records?sps.searchQuery= — David found it; this archive had not looked at Kew once in its life.
· SP 99/53/290, 18/28 November 1677 — «Franceschi to Gio. della Torre and reply», in the State Papers for Venice.
· HCA 45/48/2, 1805 — a prize appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Minorca; the captured ship Amabile, master Mark Franceschi.
· WO 372/7/142208–142210, 1914–1920 — three Great War medal cards, catalogued consecutively: Lorenzo (Dorsetshire Regiment, Private 20943), Ernest (Middlesex Regiment, Private G/57727), William C. (Royal Field Artillery, Driver 69431).
· HO 334/134/4102 and HO 144/19309, 1934 — Lorenzo Franceschi, from Italy, resident in London, wife Agnes Elizabeth, certificate AZ4102 issued 4 April 1934. The certificate and the Home Office file, for one man.
A Lorenzo on a 1914–18 medal card and a Lorenzo naturalising out of Italy in London in 1934 may well be one man — served first, naturalised after. (inf — two references, not yet joined.)
The sweep behind that. «Defranceschi» 0 · «Defranceski» 0 · «De Franceski» 0 · «Franceski» 0 · «De Francheschi» 0 · «De Franceschi» 3 · «Dei Franceschi» 4 · Franceschi 19 · Francesch\ 42 · Defrance\ 7. Eleven further records are Franceschin-, the diminutive and a different surname, filed as adjacent rather than as this name; three are Piero della Francesca, catalogued as «Piero dei Franceschi».
The Cardiff thread drew a blank in every direction. «Emerico De Franceschi» 0 · «De Franceschi» AND Cardiff 0 · Bujanovich 0 · Lacovich 0 · Cattarinich 0 · Lussinpiccolo 0.
And the ship is the lesson. Aquilone returns 501 records and every one is an Admiralty muster for HMS Aquilon, a Royal Navy ship of the line. The Cardiff barque of December 1877 is not among them.
The first reading of that was wrong and is retracted before it was ever published. This log was about to say that merchant shipping is catalogued by ship and year rather than by master. It is not: the crew lists in BT 99 and BT 400 are catalogued to the individual, and a title from them reads «Ship: Belgravian; Official number: 98611. William G S Nash; rank/rating, Master; age, 57; place…» — name, rank, age and place of birth. So a master of this name would be findable — and tested directly, he is not there. Franceschi rank rating 0 · Defranceschi seaman 0, against 827 for «place of birth, Italy» master, which shows the index is dense rather than thin. The person-level cataloguing reaches back well before 1915: BT 99/1302/37 is 1881 and BT 99/1718/16B is 1891, both giving name, rating, age and birthplace. The right question is therefore not whether the index reaches people but whether Kew's sample covers Cardiff in 1876–77, because most nineteenth-century crew agreements went to Newfoundland and Kew keeps a fraction. A negative here is a negative in the index, not at Kew, and the index is better than it first looked. Britain, on the map of the name. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 Sept 2026 | Findmypast — «Eveline De Franceschi», every collection Partly | Whether the Smyrna bride is anywhere else | She appears once in the whole of Findmypast, and it is the consular marriage itself — GRO MCON, volume 788, line 70, Smyrna, 1906–10. The index does not name the groom; the finder offers Helen Whittall, Frederick P Wilkinson, Reginald E Turrell from the same page, and the Whittalls are the Levantine merchant house of Smyrna. Unresolved, and left unresolved. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Morti» 1810, acts N. 1 to N. 5 (Archivio di Stato di Udine), ark an_ua667557 Partly | The first of the nine Mione death registers to be read end to end, looking for a Pietro De Franceschi | No Pietro. But the first act on the first page corrects this archive twice.
«Comune di Mione li 25 Venticinque Gennajo mille ottocento dieci … ove ha riconosciuto il cadavere di De Franceschi Anna Cecilia morta questo giorno alle ore otto pomeridiane in età di un Mese c.a» — witnesses Bressan Antonio, twenty-six, domestico, and Lupieri Matteo, twenty-two, possidente, both of Luint, who declare her born at Mione to Francesco de Franceschi and Margherita nata Gortan, «di professione sarto il primo, agricoltrice la seconda».
She died on the 25th, not the 28th — the date is written in figures and spelled out, agreeing. And she was eleven days old, not a month: the birth act four images away in the Nati of the same year has her born Sunday 14 January 1810 at three in the morning, presented by the same father before the same two witnesses.
Giacomo Micoli wrote both acts and guessed the age of a child whose birth he had himself recorded. This archive believed the guess, built a December 1809 birth on it, and then kept the wrong death date even after finding the real birth. Logged.
The rest of the volume, so far: act N. 4 is Mario Catterina of Entrampo, 2 March 1810, aged seventy-five, daughter of Mario Giacomo and Catterina nata Roder. No De Franceschi in acts 2 to 5. What it produced on this siteThe birth, and the eleven days · What this replaced · Mione, Morti 1810 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | This archive's own data files, audited against the research map Partly | Whether every place-based source the archive has used actually reaches the map | One did not, and it was the archive's own work.
sweep.json holds a sweep of the FamilySearch library catalogue — not the image collections, but the printed editions, transcriptions and microfilms — by place-authority id across 75 places, made weeks ago and never wired to anything. 189 items across 61 places, plus 14 places where somebody looked and found nothing.
It is now the map's seventh provider. Two things changed immediately:
The «in no catalogue at all» colour went from 3 places to 8, and five of the new ones — Grožnjan, Lindar, Motovun, Višnjan, Villa Santina — are checked negatives rather than blanks. A place somebody looked at and found nothing for is worth more than a place nobody opened.
Cross-checked places went from 27 to 83, which is what makes gap detection possible at all — a gap can only be seen where two catalogues describe the same place.
And a language fix fell out of it: the catalogue's titles are Croatian — «Matična knjiga krštenih» — which matched none of the record-type patterns, so Umag's baptisms were filed under «Other».
What is deliberately not on the map: the person-level indexes (FamilySearch record hits, the Austrian index), the newspapers, the DNA, the books, and the 50 diaspora cemeteries in graves.json. Those are not record-book holdings and a map of shelves is the wrong shape for them.What it produced on this siteThe map, with seven providers · The 83 sources, now driven by the register · This archive's own data files | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — the Carnia side Partly | The surname across the whole Italian state-archive portal, and then the Carnian communes | It is open again, and Carnia is in it. This archive's note said Antenati 403s both browsers; on 14 September the portal answered normally. The search is at /search-nominative/ and the parameter is cognome, not q — which is why earlier attempts looked like a block and were not one.
418 results for «de franceschi», spread across five spellings: De Franceschi (393), De' Franceschi (7), Dè Franceschi (6), De Franceschi Roncadin (2), Dé Franceschi (2). The heaviest places are Roma (63), Brescia (59), Dosolo (45), San Ferdinando (26), Genova (21) — and thirty-nine more localities behind them.
The very first result is Carnian: Maria De Franceschi, born Paluzza, 1865, married Gio Batta Della Pietra, daughter of Costantino De Franceschi and Giovanna Lazzara — a marriage record with both parents named. Paluzza is eighteen kilometres from Mione.
Then the bot protection closed. An XHR fetch to the same endpoint returned 403 and the navigations that followed returned «403 Forbidden». No attempt was made to get round it. The portal is worth a patient second visit: the Carnian communes David named — Tolmezzo, Enemonzo, Socchieve, Ampezzo — were never reached.What it produced on this siteCarnia · Portale Antenati | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Antenati — the Ovaro marriage allegati, opened one by one Partly | The twenty-eight allegati files, starting with the two for Mione and the one for Muina | The Mione allegati had already been read, and the page that says so is this archive's own.
Mione 1806 (segnatura 185, six images) is a single marriage file: Ignazio di Prato of Chialina × Giacoma de' Franceschi of Mione, September 1806. It holds the groom's Latin baptism of 13 December 1777 — Ignatius, son of Iacobus son of the late Leonardus de Prato — the bride's parish certificate of 25 May 1789, and the consent of the groom's mother Catterina, widow of the late Gio: Giacomo di Prato, who could not attend the signing. Every one of those facts is already on the Carnia page.
Mione 1808 (segnatura 12984) is catalogued as Matrimoni, allegati and is not a marriage file at all. It is one image: a covering letter of 17 February 1809 from the Municipalità of Mione to the Civil Tribunal of First Instance at Udine, transmitting the previous year's registers. No names of this family, and no marriage.
Muina 1806 (segnatura 185, ten images) is the one still worth opening. Only its cover sheet was reached: Antenati's session then returned «400 Bad Request — size of a request header field exceeds server limit», which is the cookie growing across a long sitting rather than a block. It clears with a fresh session.
And a correction made before it was published. On the first pass this reader transcribed the Mione 1806 certificate as «Giovanna, daughter of Giacomo q. Gio: Batta, born 1785». All three were wrong. Zoomed properly it reads Giacoma, daughter of Osvaldo q. Gio: Batta, born 1789. It was caught by checking the archive before writing, which turned up the same certificate already transcribed correctly — and had it not been checked, this archive would have gained a daughter, a father and a birth year that do not exist. What it produced on this siteCarnia — the allegati and the deepest name · Antenati — the Ovaro allegati | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Ovaro, Lenzone, Luint and Cludinico, «Matrimoni, allegati» 1806–1815 Partly | The village files outside Mione — any De Franceschi, and anything about the Istrian road | No De Franceschi in the files read so far — Luint 1806 (De Corte × Lupieri), Lenzone 1806 (Fiorenzi × Vidale), Lenzone 1807, Cludinico 1807, Ovaro 1807, Ovaro 1814 (Delle Corte × Agarinis) and Ovaro 1815 (Fedele × Solari).
But two of them are Istrian. The Ovaro file of 1807 carries a letter from the civil officer of Capodistria to the civil officer of Ovaro, dated 28 May 1807, certifying banns cried in that city on 17 and 24 May, with a notarial act drawn at Capodistria and authenticated there. The Lenzone file of 1807 carries a certificate from «Dipartimento d'Istria, Distretto di Capodistria, Cantone di Pirano, Comune di S. Lorenzo» — Sveti Lovreč, inland Istria, twenty kilometres from Poreč — dated 16 July 1807.
Neither is this family. Both are the route, documented: two Carnian communes and two Istrian ones exchanging marriage paperwork as routine business in a single year.
Also corrected here: «Nave» is not a hamlet of Mione. The Lenzone file gives «Fiorenzi de Nave Luincis», so the clerks attach the name to two villages, and it is a small locality shared between them. What it produced on this siteTwo Istrian marriages, filed in Carnia · The corrections · Ovaro, Matrimoni allegati 1807 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Matrimoni» 1809 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Partly | The marriage act behind the 1809 allegati — does it confirm the Orsola pairing? | It confirms the pairing and corrects the name.
Act N. 1, Monday 13 February 1809: «Erman de Franceschi Gio: Pietro», 56, farmer, widower of Cattarina née Carlevaris, son of the late Pietro Erman and Maddalena née de Franceschi, born 28 April 1752 — marries «Orsola de Franceschi», 40, villica, daughter of the late Pietro de Franceschi and Maddalena née Fedeli. Witnesses all of Luint: Valentino Lupieri 39, his brother Matteo 21, Giovanni Colledan 58 a tailor, Antonio Bressan 26 a servant. Registrar Giacomo Micoli.
He signs for both: «per me e per Orsola de Franceschi mia moglie che non sa scrivere».
The correction. This archive had published the groom as «Cramaro», born 1758, on the strength of the priest's extract — «figlio di Pietro cramaro». Cramaro was the father's trade, the Carnian pedlar, not a surname; and the birth year's last digit had been cropped out of the zoom and guessed.
The name it should have read is Erman — and «Zuane d'Erman» is one of the three men in the 1679 headmen's list who went from Mione into Istria with Zuane De Franceschi. The two families were still intermarrying in 1809, for at least the second time.
Three more sightings in the same nine pages: Osvaldo de Franceschi, 22, carpenter, witness 9 August — which settles the archive's own «nineteen in 1806 versus twenty-six in 1810» contradiction in favour of a birth about 1787. Francesco de Franceschi, 25, witness 21 September. And Pasqua née de Franceschi, named as the living mother of the bride Maddalena Luchini, born 23 January 1789 — dating a household the archive had only as a name. What it produced on this siteThe act itself, read at last · The corrections · Mione, Matrimoni 1809 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | 23andMe — DNA Relatives, and the shared profiles of both parents Partly | Which parent the 0.2% Southern Indian & Sri Lankan came from | The mother's. Which means this archive's own headline of two hours earlier was wrong.
Both parents share their 23andMe results with David, so the comparison panels answer it directly:
Central & South Asian — David 0.2% · Ivan 0.0% · Cheryl 0.5%.
Sub-Saharan African — David 0.3% · Ivan 0.0% · Cheryl 0.8%.
David has about half of his mother's in both, which is what inheritance requires, and his father contributes nothing because his father has nothing to contribute. Neither trace has any connection to L-M27.
This makes the Y finding starker rather than safer. Ivan is 99.9% European — a cleaner European result than his son's — with 0.0% of anything else, and he carries L-M27 on 23andMe as well as on MyHeritage. The haplogroup now has no autosomal corroboration at all.
Also found, and worth keeping: Ivan's maternal haplogroup is H14a. His mother was Hedviga Blažević of Senj, so H14a is the Blažević matriline — the first haplogroup this project has for that side. Cheryl's is H1.
And from the self-entered family backgrounds: Ivan gives his paternal grandmother's birthplace as Korčula — which, if it means Ursula Kovačina, is a place this archive has never associated with her. It is family testimony typed into a form, not a record, and it is recorded as such. Cheryl's entries independently confirm what the memoir said: her paternal grandmother from England, her paternal grandfather from Argentina.
DNA Relatives runs to the 1,500 cap. The father's-side matches cluster on Croatian littoral surnames — Miškulin, Vrkljan, Katalinić, Prpić-forms, Serich. No living match of the surname De Franceschi appears, which is the one that would matter for the Y question. Match names are third-party living people and are not published here. What it produced on this siteThe three kits side by side · The corrections · 23andMe — DNA Relatives | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Matrimoni» 1808 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Partly | The marriage act of Osvaldo de Franceschi and Appolonia, 28 January 1808, read whole | The register says GALANTE, and this archive has said Salante for months.
Act N. 1, 28 January 1808, before the civil officer of Mione with four farmers of Muina as witnesses — Angelo Micoli 57, Zuane Micoli, Giuseppe Clemani 40, Pietro Micoli:
> «…sono comparsi per contrarre matrimonio Osvaldo de Franceschi di professione agricoltore, dell'età d'anni venti, domiciliato nel Villaggio di Muina … figlio di Antonio de Franceschi, e di Maria nata Corva pure agricoltori, ed Appolonia Galante villica di professione, dell'età d'anni venticinque e mezzo, figlia di Antonio Galante e di Speranza nata Micoli.»
Galante twice, in the same looped G the notary used in his two consent acts. With Pietro Galante's own signature of 1813, that is four hands for Galante against two for Salante — the two being the parish priest's extract and the file docket.
And one nuance that cuts the other way. The register calls Osvaldo's parents «pure agricoltori» without ever saying fu — it does not record that Antonio was dead. The allegati do, unambiguously. On this point the loose papers are the better source and the register is the worse one, which is the reverse of the 1809 case. Neither series outranks the other; both have to be read.
The rest of the year is Bulfon × Steffani of Cella, Gotardis × Feranda, and the other bundles already listed from the allegati. What it produced on this siteThe Muina chain · The corrections · Mione, Matrimoni 1808 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 Sept 2026 | The Statue of Liberty–Ellis Island Foundation, Arrival Records Collection Partly | The whole surname against American arrivals, 1820–1958 — the first time this portal has been used here | A ship's name, and a large clean negative.
Ellis Island manifests have been used by this archive for years — but through Findmypast, FamilySearch and an aggregator, never through the Foundation's own free database. It turns out to have a plain JSON endpoint, no account and no paywall, and to cover seven arrival collections rather than one, including New York, Passenger Lists 1820–1920 — the Castle Garden decades that the Ellis Island 1892–1925 set cannot reach.
The ship. The 1882 household that this archive already had from Italians To America — Giov b. 1846 with Angiola, Romeo, Marietta and Teresa — now has a vessel against it: all five records name the St Germain. Their ages at arrival are on the record too: thirty-six, five, four, three and one. The St Germain was a Compagnie Générale Transatlantique liner on the Le Havre run, which is worth knowing about a north-Italian family in 1882, although the departure port field on these particular records is blank and this archive is not asserting it from the ship alone.
The negative, and it is the useful part. One thousand four hundred arrivals of this surname were read, of which 429 record a last residence. Exactly two of those 429 are Istrian — G. Pedena and G. Gallignana, which are Antonio and Albina on the Conte Rosso, 9 September 1922, already on this site. Everything else is Veneto and Friuli: Castelgomberto and Cornedo in Vicenza, Ponte nelle Alpi in Belluno, Pederobba in Treviso, and Sequals, Lestans and Pinzano in Pordenone, with Torrington in Connecticut as the American end of that chain.
And the spelling that is not there at all. Defranceski, De Franceski, Defrančeski and Defranzeschi each return zero records in the entire database. The -ski spelling — the family's own — never crossed to America under that form. What it produced on this siteGologorica · Where the name went · At sea · The Statue of Liberty–Ellis Island Foundation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Copulatorum — DGS 005497894, images 172–174 Partly | Testing Michiela De Franceschi fu Giuseppe against the marriage register | The test is not settled, and the reason is worth more than the answer would have been.
The plan was to find the marriage of Michiela De Franceschi × Domenico Giachin — a marriage entry names both of the bride's parents, so if her mother is Lucia Tromba she is Giuseppe's daughter. Her first child is baptised in 1817, so the marriage should fall about 1815–16.
What was established. The register opens «LIBER COPULATORUM in Ecclesia Sancti Blasii Adignani, Annus 1815», first entry 12 October 1815. The fourteen De Franceschi marriages this archive has already catalogued from it run 1817–1832, and none of them is this one. So the marriage lies either in the register's first fifteen months or before the book begins. Images 172–174 were opened; the 1815–16 entries have not been scanned surname by surname, and that is a bounded job, not an open one.
What was found instead, and it changes the reading. There are at least three different Michiela De Franceschis at Vodnjan in this period:
Michiela fu Pietro — wife of Andrea Palin, house 24, dead before January 1831.
Michiela di Cristoforo q.m Gio: Maria — mother Maria Luigia Manzin, born about 1800, married in the register.
Michiela fu Giuseppe — wife of Domenico Giachin, house 532, alive in 1833.
Michiela is not a rare name in this family; it is one of its commonest. That is exactly why the inference has to rest on the patronymic and not on the name — and it is a good argument for not having claimed the Giuseppe link outright. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The plates · The Register · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Sept 2026 | MyHeritage tree 4, person panels — 101 individuals Partly | The people known only from the tree | All 101 people this archive held as a name and nothing else were pulled from the tree, one panel at a time, from David's own logged-in session. No errors, and one flat result: the tree has no years for them either. Exactly one of the hundred and one carries a date range, and it is not a date this archive accepts — see below.
What the tree did give was place. 48 of them are now placed, and the places are the deep end of the story: Mione in the Val Degano eight times, Paluzza five, Naunina, Pasian di Prato — Carnia, where the surname is supposed to come from. Then a Trentino cluster the archive barely knew it had — Fiera di Primiero, Telve, Strigno, Grigno, Sacco — and Istrian parishes at Kaštelir (five), Poreč, Pula, Pomer, Plomin, Pazin, Gologorica, Ližnjan. Two are in South America: San Lorenzo in Santa Fe, and Colonia in Uruguay.
15 people are now filed to Carnia, 8 to Trentino, 2 abroad — lines they could not be given while they had no place. Roster people with no place at all: 209 → 161. Parishes known to this archive: 31 → 54. What it produced on this siteGologorica · Carnia · Ližnjan · MyHeritage — David's tree 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Sept 2026 | MyHeritage tree 4 Partly | Piero della Francesca is in the family tree | The one dated person among the hundred and one is «Piero di Benedetto «Piero della Francesca» Defranceschi, 1415–1492, Sansepolcro» — the painter — together with his father Benedetto Defranceschi and his mother Romana di Perino.
The surname is not the error. Piero's father genuinely was a de' Franceschi of Sansepolcro; that much is ordinary art history. The error, if it is one, is the join — nothing whatever connects a Tuscan tanner's family to the Carnian and Istrian Defranceschi except the word itself.
All three are kept in the roster, marked notable, filed under other, and each carries the same sentence: the connection to this family is not accepted. A Tuscan graft on a Friulian surname is exactly the kind of join this archive exists to catch — and it is the third time this project has had to say so, after Francesco de' Franceschi the Venetian printer and Francesco de' Franceschi the painter. What it produced on this siteCarnia · The plates · The roster · MyHeritage — David's tree 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | British & Irish newspapers — the archive's own place-names Partly | Gallignana, Pisino, Buccari as keywords | «Gallignana»: zero articles in the entire archive. «Pisino»: 915, every one of them OCR noise — «early rising» mis-set, and a brand of stove polish called Pisino Sun. «Buccari»: 1,377, and all of them shipping — Bakar had its own standing heading in the London shipping press from at least 1850, between Cagliari and Carloforte in the alphabetical run of ports. The town where this archive has twelve unplaced Dominus people was tracked daily by the London insurance market for a century. And no Defranceschi ever appears under that heading. What it produced on this siteGologorica · Rijeka and Bakar · Carlo De Franceschi · Findmypast — British & Irish Newspapers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Family photograph collection — the hand-tinted portrait pair Partly | Whose face is on the Crikvenica page | The face was wrong, and it was on the direct line's own page. A hand-tinted portrait of a bearded man in a bow tie had been published here as Josip Defranceschi, born at Gračišće 22 March 1863 — David's great-grandfather, and the only likeness the direct line had. David identified it: the photograph is from the Imotski branch, and the sitter is a Josip of that family. Two branches' pictures sit in one collection; a card carried the name, this line has a man of that name, and this archive matched face to name without asking which Josip. The register plates on that page were checked against Gračišće and Ledenice — the portrait was never checked against anything. Withdrawn from the head card and from the 1906 entry in the story, recaptioned in the gallery, and a correction section added to the page where it stood. The companion portrait published as his wife Ana is also withdrawn: its only identification was that it matched the man beside it. No likeness of the Crikvenica Josip is known to this archive. Note the pattern — the retired 2018 GEDCOM spliced Imotski onto this line too. The same seam has now caught this archive twice, once in a pedigree and once in a photograph. What it produced on this siteCrikvenica · Imotski · The plates · The plates, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | fiumemondo.com Partly | «Brief history of Rijeka» | One sentence naming the Benzoni and the De Franceschi among Fiume's immigrant merchants. Checked against Kobler and found to be a compression: right on the Cremonese Benzoni, loose on the Bono, and it reverses the direction of travel for the De Franceschi. Cited as a lead, not as authority. What it produced on this siteRijeka and Bakar · fiumemondo.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Corsican records — RHFC register index, 226 communes Partly | Every commune, births, marriages and deaths, letter D | Four Defranceschi baptisms at Tomino in Cap Corse 1843–56, and a second cluster at Levie and Sartène in the far south. 132 Defranceschi births in the whole of France 1891–1990. Nothing whatever connects them to this family, and the honest position is that these are unrelated houses sharing a patronymic. What it produced on this siteCorsica · The marriages · Corsica généalogie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | «Libri žminjski, libar drugi» (Žminj 2008) Partly | Full text searched on every spelling and on Gologorica, Gračišće, Carnia, Agrons and Mione | Sent by David. Every De Franceschi mention is a citation of Camillo's «Storia documentata della Contea di Pisino» as an authority — including, importantly, a Croatian edition cited as «De Franceschi 2003, Pazinska knežija» with page references, which is an acquisition target this archive did not have. The real find is elsewhere: Paolo Roseano's unpublished research on the Carnian families of Žminj, quoted there — recorded in Istria from the mid-seventeenth century, originally weavers and tailors, and «sve do 18. stoljeća mnogi od njih redovito boravili dijelom godine i u starom kraju, tj. Argonisu blizu Ovara u Karniji», many of them still spending part of each year back at Agrons near Ovaro; and marrying only girls from there, who stayed at home in Carnia while the men wintered in Istria. What it produced on this siteGologorica · Carnia · Carlo De Franceschi · Općina Žminj | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Andrea de' Franceschi and Titian Partly | The Grand Chancellor's portraits — Detroit, Hampton Court, Washington — and the 2016 Artibus et Historiae paper | Closed as far as it can be from here, after a year on the roadmap. Grand Chancellor of Venice 1529 to his death in 1551; Titian's friend; painted into the «Presentation of the Virgin» in the Accademia; owned two portraits of himself by Titian, the head in both taken from Titian's own picture now in Detroit. The Hampton Court double portrait was cleaned in 1958 and gave up a third figure painted out earlier. The National Gallery of Art in Washington holds a further portrait it declines to call Titian. Not kin, and never claimed as such. Still unread: Charles Hope's «Titian's portraits of Grand Chancellor Andrea de' Franceschi», Artibus et Historiae 74 (2016), 139–151 — the academia.edu copy sits behind Cloudflare. The National Gallery of Art site requires JavaScript and the National Trust site served a CAPTCHA; neither was circumvented, and the facts above come from those institutions' own catalogue text as quoted elsewhere. What it produced on this siteThe plates · Namesakes, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | FamilySearch full-text search — the unindexed-image corpus Partly | Tested for the first time from a signed-in session: the full-text service reads handwriting off images that were never indexed, and reports its own coverage collection by collection | 3,965 hits for «Defranceschi» across 172 collections, and not one of them is Croatian. The corpus is Italian civil registration, the Americas, and a Dalmatian births series that turns out to be Zadar only. That is the negative this archive needed before writing letters. It is also a lead: «Italy, Trieste, Trieste, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1924–1939» carries 53 Defranceschi, with Padova 143, Bologna 501 and Treviso 7 beside it. Trieste 1924–1939 is the right city and the right years for the Istrians who left through it, and this archive has never read a line of it. · FamilySearch full-text search | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Four more PDFs from the family, September 2026 Partly | Šišić's Fiume brief of 1919; Regan and Nadilo's architectural survey of the Istrian castles; a Croatian historiography syllabus; Belaj on sacred triangular structures; and Orbanić in Acta Histriae 32 (2024) | Three yields, one modest, one nothing. Šišić gives a Francesco Defranceschi signing a Fiume election protocol in 1871. Regan and Nadilo date the Gologorica benefice lease to 1772–1848 and name the relief over the door as a figure of Christ. Orbanić is the most valuable of the four, and not for its subject. Its source list cites «Župni arhiv Gologorice, Matična knjiga krštenih 1691–1763» and «Matična knjiga umrlih 1646–1777» — the Gologorica parish registers, in the parish, being read by a historian in 2024. This archive has been saying they are the great absence in every collection it has searched. They exist, and the deaths start in 1646. It also gives Petar Kruzila, parish priest there 1722–31, deaf from a fall for doubting a miracle. The historiography notes add Carlo De Franceschi's full bibliography and his offices — secretary of the Istrian provincial committee at Poreč 1861–76, president of the Istrian archaeological society 1866–69 — with the flat Croatian verdict «potpuno prožet talijanskim duhom Istre». Belaj on «Crkvina i svete trokutne strukture» has nothing: zero occurrences of the surname in 670 lines. It is a study of pre-Christian sacred landscape geometry and is not relevant to this family. What it produced on this siteGologorica · Rijeka and Bakar · Carlo De Franceschi · The plates, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Scribd, swept from a signed-in session Partly | The surname in every spelling crossed with the towns and the events — Gologorica, Gallignana, Pisino, Pazin, Fiume, Buccari, Crikvenica, Ližnjan, Fažana, Medulin, Mione, Seghetto, Omiš, Imotski, Perinuša, and the 1945 census and cadastre | Scribd is a library of uploaded scans, so it behaves like a bad index over good books. Most name-plus-town queries return nothing (Gologorica, Gallignana, Pisino, Ližnjan, Medulin, Seghetto all zero) and the broad ones return noise — «Defranceschi» alone gives 517 documents, of which the top hit is a lute suite. But four real things came out of it, and one is important. «ISTRA — Popis stanovništva 1945. / Cadastre National de l'Istrie», 664 pages, printed by Nakladni zavod Hrvatske at Zagreb in July 1946 — the ethnic cadastre the Yugoslav side took to the peace negotiations, and the source behind this archive's «twenty-five Defranceschi families left in Istria on 1 October 1945». The whole book is there. S. Bertoša, «Puljska prezimena prema popisima krizmanika iz 1825. g.» — Pula surnames from the confirmation lists of 1825, which bears directly on the Pula–Fažana–Ližnjan cluster this archive has just opened. «Dalmacija — prezimena 1725», twice uploaded, for the Omiš and Imotski side. And G. Radossi's historical and comparative toponymy, 439 pages, which returns hits for both Fiume and Fažana. What Scribd will not do is give the text. Its reader loads page by page behind the subscription, in-document search is not offered on these files, and downloads are blocked from this browser. So the sweep's product is a shelf list rather than a reading: four titles worth having, all of them published books that should be looked for in a library or an open repository as well. What it produced on this siteGologorica · Carnia · Crikvenica · Scribd | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | «Rassegna di storia istriana» and «Čemu» 28 — two more scans from the family Partly | Both read in full for the surname | The Rassegna is Carlo, seen from the Slovene and Croatian side. Fourteen mentions, all of him as a historian: «L'Istria — note storiche» (Parenzo 1879), «Sulle varie popolazioni dell'Istria» (1852), and a «Studio critico sull'istrumento della pretesa reambulazione di confini» that this archive's bibliography of him did not have. He appears again in the 1848 group with Michele Facchinetti and Francesco Vidulich. «Čemu» 28 has nothing at all — zero occurrences of the surname in eighty-three lines. It is a philosophy faculty's journal presentation and has no bearing on this family. Recorded so it is not searched again. What it produced on this siteThe plates · The plates, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | HDA HR-HDA-1448 — is Gologorica in it? The place list says yes; the search would not run Not yet | Item 160 needs the Gologorica baptisms of about 1909 and has only one route to them — a letter to Poreč. Whether the HDA microfilm collection offers a second was tested. | A lead, and deliberately not more than that.
This archive records Gologorica, Gračišće and Pićan as absent from FamilySearch's Croatian collection, walked in September — which is why item 160 has only one route to the 1909 baptism, a letter to the Poreč diocesan archive. It had never asked the other collection.
What is established: the places are in HR-HDA-1448's index. The register search offers GOLOGORICA as a selectable parish, and GRAČIŠĆE under four separate name forms — GRAČIŠĆE, GRAČIŠĆE TRVIŽ KAŠĆERGA SV. PETAR U ŠUMI, GRAČIŠĆE-ŠKOPLJACI and GRAČIŠĆE-ŠKOPLJAK — plus PIĆAN. That list is the page's own data, read directly, not a search result. (doc for the list; it proves the names are known to the collection, and nothing yet about what it holds for them.)
What is NOT established: what any of them holds. The search would not run. The place and confession were set and Pretraži clicked, and no results table rendered at all — the same behaviour that the Brinje search recorded, where exactly one query succeeded and nothing after it did. No holding, and no nil, is claimed here, because this tool's empty state is indistinguishable from a real absence and its failures are not announced.
It was not hammered. Whether the obstruction is session state, a rate limit or a flaky application is not known, and a rate limit is not something to push against. One query, on a cooperating day, would settle whether Gologorica's registers reach 1909 — and if they do, item 160's question 2 has a second road that needs no letter. That is the whole value of this row: a named, cheap thing to retry.
And a warning for whoever retries it. Gračišće's four name forms are the trap the site itself warns about: «u padajućem izborniku nude se različite inačice naziva, pa valja pregledati zapise za sve ponuđene». Checking one and calling the parish absent would be wrong. What it produced on this siteItem 160 · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — two Maria Defranceschi of Gologorica, tested and NOT joined Not yet | Whether the Maria who died in 1826 and the Maria born 20 July are the same woman. | Two entries, one birthday, and this archive is not joining them on that.
· Page 3 (M01069321): Maria Defranceschi, civilitas, died 30 September 1826, aged 37 years 2 months 10 days — which computes to a birth of 20 July 1789.
· Page 11 (M01069329): Maria Defranceschi, civis, born 20 July 1780, house 22, struck through.
The day and month are identical. The years differ by nine. At fourteen times magnification the written year reads 1780; the final digit is a closed round form and 1789 cannot be wholly excluded.
The test was run and did not settle it. The Gologorica baptism book for 1764–1788 is on the same reel; its opening for the summer of 1780 (M01068940) runs «Die 2 Julij» straight to «Die 3 Augusti» — no baptism on 20 July 1780 on that page. That is one opening, not the year, so it is evidence and not proof.
Both rows stay on the roster, separately, and the reason is written on each. Joining two women on a shared forename and a shared birthday, across a nine-year gap in a parish that produced thirty Marias, is the error this archive has caught in its own work three times this week.
Next step, named: walk July 1780 in MKR 1764–1788 (M01068915–M01068952) and July 1789 in MKR 1784–1880 (M01069008–M01069181). Both are on this reel. Whichever year holds a Maria Defranceschi baptised on the 20th decides it. What it produced on this siteWhy the two rows are kept apart · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | Museu da Imigração / Hospedaria de Imigrantes, São Paulo Not yet | The route to the São Paulo arrival registers, 1882–1925 | Opened on 21 September 2026. The search is not empty — it is broken.
The museum's own enrolment-register search now lives at /acervo/registro-de-matricula, a plain GET form taking nome, sobrenome, nacionalidade, vapor, ano. Every query it is given returns HTTP 500. That is not this surname failing to appear: Rossi and Silva — the commonest names in Brazilian immigration — return 500 as well. The service is down site-wide, and a nil here would have been a lie.
The museum's own e-book says where the records actually are. «Acervo Digital no MI» (updated 31 August 2026) states that the whole historic collection of the old Hospedaria was transferred in 2011 to the Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo, and that what the museum publishes is «somente uma parte». So the São Paulo door is APESP, not the museum — and APESP's public site sits behind a bot-protection layer this archive does not go around.
Stays pending, deliberately. A 500 is a reason to come back, not a reason to close. The practical route in the meantime is unchanged: FamilySearch's «Brasil, São Paulo, Registros da Hospedaria de Imigrantes», which indexes the same registers.What it produced on this siteWhere the name went · Museu da Imigração, São Paulo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Anzoletta — whose wife? The 1728 entry against the archive's own 1733 line Not yet | Whether Anzoletta is the wife of Gio Batta or of Giacomo Defranceschi, because this archive now says both | Two readings, both in this archive, and they do not agree. The families page has long carried, from the index, «1733 Maria, of Giacomo and Anzoletta» among the twelve fathers of the name at Svetvinčenat. The carta 66 entry read on 20 September says «Catta fig.a leg.ma di S.r Batta de Fran.chi et di Anzoletta sua Consorte, nata li 10 d.to» — 1728. So Anzoletta is given to two different husbands five years apart. Three readings are possible and the archive will not pick one from a forename: 1. Two women of the name. Anzoletta is the Venetian diminutive of Angela and common; two households of one surname in one small town could easily hold two. 2. A misreading on carta 66. «Batta» and «Giacomo» do not look alike, but the entry is abbreviated and the archive has been wrong on a forename before. 3. A remarriage. Gio Batta's last known child is Battistina, 23 December 1731; Giacomo's first is Domenico Gasparo, 9 August 1732. That is seven and a half months — too short for a widow to remarry and bear a child, so if it is a remarriage the 1732 child is not hers, and the 1733 Maria might be. Thin, but not impossible. What settles it is carta 80 for the 1732 baptism and the 1733 entry behind the families page's line: both name the mother. Neither has been opened. Until they are, this archive holds two Anzolettas and says so rather than quietly merging them. pending — and flagged because a silent merge here would invent a household. · Svetvinčenat (San Vincenti) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026, answered | Državni arhiv u Pazinu (DAPA) — Pićan parish registers Not yet | Copies of De Franceschi / Defranceschi entries in the Pićan baptisms and deaths, c. 1880–1915 | Not refused — processed. Two acknowledgements from the archive's general address confirm the request was received and forwarded, and Jasna Vlahović then asks for the same completed request form as for Svetvinčenat, with the applicant's details, a delivery address and billing details including an OIB.
The form has not been submitted. It carries personal data and that is not this archive's to enter on David's behalf. What it produced on this siteThe errands · Pićan · DAPA — what to state in a request | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026, answered | Državni arhiv u Zadru (DAZD) — Prijamni ured Not yet | The 1867 Namjesništvo file on Valente Defranceschi, signature 501 IX 2/2 1097 | Not refused — form required, like the others. «Molimo Vas da popunite zahtjev za traženu dokumentaciju. Već poslani mail ćemo priložiti zajedno s popunjenim zahtjevom.» They will attach the original enquiry to the completed form, so the description of the file does not have to be rewritten.
That is now three Croatian state archives asking for the same thing — Pazin twice, Zadar once. The pattern is worth naming for anyone following this method: a Croatian državni arhiv will answer an email, but it will not act on one. The email establishes that the record exists and where it sits; the form is what starts the clock.
Not submitted. It carries personal data and that is David's to give. What it produced on this siteThe errands · Državni arhiv u Zadru | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Sept 2026 | FamilySearch full-text search — untested Not yet | Whether the Croatian church books are machine-readable yet | A maybe, recorded so it is not lost. FamilySearch has been extending an AI handwriting-recognition search that makes the text inside register images searchable rather than only the catalogue around them. Whether the Croatian church books are in it is not known — it has not been tested, and FamilySearch is refusing this session at the time of writing.
It matters more than anything else on the list. Reading Vodnjan's death register 1815–1833 by eye is about 105 images and four and a half thousand entries; if the text is already searchable, that work is a query instead of a campaign. Test this before committing to any exhaustive read, because a positive answer makes the plan obsolete and a negative one costs a single request.
If it is not available: the fallback is handwritten-text recognition trained on this clerk's hand — twenty pages transcribed by hand to train on, then the rest by machine. That costs money and setup and is David's decision, not this archive's. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · FamilySearch full-text search | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | «Atti e memorie della Società istriana», n.s. 2 (1952) — Camillo on the Cretan refugees Not yet | Camillo De Franceschi, «Il Consiglio nobile di Parenzo e i profughi di Creta», AMSI n.s. 2 (1952). Found cited in Milena Joksimović, Tabula 17 (2020) | Not digitised. Archive.org holds AMSI only to 1933. This is the paper most likely to settle whether the Umag–Seget family really came out of Crete after 1669 — written by a man of the Gologorica family who was a professional archivist. First item on the acquisition list. What it produced on this siteGologorica · Seget · Atti e memorie della Società istriana (istrianet) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| — | Orbanić (ed.), «Visita Spirituale del 1788 in Istria» Not yet | Not yet obtained | De Buset's parish-by-parish visitation of the Pićan diocese, 31 March – 31 August 1788, 178 sheets, published Vatican City 2016. Covers Gologorica and Gallignana. The manuscripts are in the Diocesan Archives of TRIESTE, not Pazin. What it produced on this siteGologorica · Hrčak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| — | «Stemmi della nobiltà di Buccari», Bakarski zbornik 2 (1996) Not yet | Not yet obtained | Fifty-seven pages on the arms of Bakar's patrician houses. What it produced on this siteRijeka and Bakar · Grad Bakar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| — | Bertoša, «Pisma Carla De Franceschija Šimi Ljubiću», VHARP 13 (1968) Not yet | Not yet obtained | Carlo's letters to Šime Ljubić, printed. The archive knew of five in the Zadar state archive and did not know they were in print. · Vjesnik istarskog arhiva (Hrčak) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| — | Jelinčić, Jadranski zbornik XI (1979–81), pp. 293–307 Not yet | Not yet obtained | A summary of the whole published Kobler correspondence. · Hrčak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| — | Gentileo, «Bibliografia degli scritti di Camillo De Franceschi», AMSI 55 (1954) Not yet | Not yet obtained | Camillo's full published bibliography. · Atti e memorie della Società istriana (istrianet) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| — | Camillo de Franceschi, «Povijest Pazinske knežije na temelju isprava» (Pazin 2023) Not yet | Not yet obtained | The 2023 Croatian translation of «Storia documentata della Contea di Pisino», 574 pp., translated by Klara Buršić Matijašić and Robert Matijašić. In print and purchasable. What it produced on this siteCarlo De Franceschi · Državni arhiv u Pazinu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| — | Archivio di Stato di Udine, Notarile antico B. 2979 Not yet | Not yet requested | Franceschi Gio. Batta, notary at Mione, protocols 1737–1783. Needs a letter, not a search box. What it produced on this siteCarnia · Archivio di Stato di Udine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| — | Državni arhiv u Rijeci, HR-DARI-382 kut. 1 Not yet | Not yet requested | The 1896 «Albero genealogico della Famiglia de Franceschi», said to reach back into the fifteenth century. · Državni arhiv u Rijeci | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| — | Bakar parish registers Not yet | Not yet touched | A series this project has never opened, and the family's own recollection points at it. What it produced on this siteRijeka and Bakar · The parish books · Državni arhiv u Rijeci | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| — | Vergé-Franceschi, «Le cap Corse: généalogies et destins» (2006) Not yet | Not yet obtained | The reference work for Cap Corse families; would settle whether the Tomino Defranceschi are in it. What it produced on this siteCorsica · WorldCat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| — | Camillo De Franceschi, «Storia documentata della Contea di Pisino», AMSI 1963 vols 10–12 Not yet | Not yet obtained | The authority the Istarska enciklopedija cites for the Agrons charters. 516 pages. Republished in Croatian translation at Pazin in 2023. The highest-value unheld book after the Memorie. What it produced on this siteCarlo De Franceschi · Atti e memorie della Società istriana (istrianet) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| — | Carlo De Franceschi, «Uspomene», Pula–Rijeka 1989 Not yet | Not yet obtained | A Croatian translation of the Memorie autobiografiche, made by Istrian scholars; will carry an apparatus the 1926 edition does not. What it produced on this siteRijeka and Bakar · Carlo De Franceschi · Carlo's book, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| — | Bertoša, «Etos i etnos zavičaja», Pula–Rijeka 1985 Not yet | Not yet obtained | Contains «Gologorički De Franceschi: između etosa i etnosa», the footnoted scholarly version of the encyclopedia entry. What it produced on this siteRijeka and Bakar · WorldCat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| — | Matični ured Crikvenica — death register 1943 Not yet | Not yet requested | Closed under the hundred-year rule and not public until the 2040s, but open to a direct descendant on request. A prijepis (full transcript) must be asked for by name; the ordinary izvadak gives only date and place. Letter drafted. The parish death book and the 1964 census of war victims at the Croatian State Archives are two further routes to the same fact. What it produced on this siteCrikvenica · Matični ured Crikvenica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | ⚠ BLOCKED — academia.edu «Venetian possessions in the Eastern Mediterranean» returns 403 Blocked | Whether any paper in that topic bears on the 1669 Cretan refugees | HTTP 403 Forbidden. The listing is behind an access gate. This archive does not work around bot checks, and did not try. Recorded here with the exact URL so the next person knows it was attempted and why it stopped.
The same ground was covered from open sources instead — Joksimović, Tabula 17, Pomara in Diasporas 43, Ortalli & Schmitt, and Jackson 1887 — which is the permitted route. What it produced on this siteSeget, and Crete · academia.edu topic listing, Venetian possessions in the Eastern Mediterranean | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 29 Sept 2026 | The Gologorica baptisms of 1909 are not online, and the book that holds them has an address Blocked | Where a Gologorica baptism of about 1909 actually is — FamilySearch, DAPA, BA Poreč, Hrčak (item 160, question 2) | Asked to read the Gologorica baptisms of about 1909. They cannot be read from here, and establishing that corrected this archive's own claim of a few hours earlier.
⚠ First, the correction. Item 160 said the baptisms were «on film and readable the same way the Svetvinčenat marriages were». They are not. This archive's own waypoints.json records a walk of FamilySearch's «Croatia, Church Books 1516–1994» in September 2026 and lists Gologorica, Gračišće and Pićan among the absent parishes. The route was named without opening a file already held here. Recorded on /corrections/.
Where the book actually is. From the DAPA register inventory this archive already holds:
> DAPA no. 1166 — Gologorica — MKR (rođeni, baptisms) — 1880–1948 — held at BA Poreč — digitised: yes
So a 1909 baptism sits in a volume at the Biskupijski arhiv, the archive of the Poreč-Pula diocese — not at Pazin, not at the parish. The 1880–1948 span means one book covers it.
What DAPA itself says, read from its own page today: it will not undertake «opsežna genealoška istraživanja» or searches where the requester lacks name, approximate period and place — but this request has all three — and it notes that «neke matične knjige su digitalizirane i dostupne su na stranici www.familysearch.org». For this parish that last sentence does not help, which is the whole finding.
The contact, so the errand is actionable: Biskupijski arhiv, Dobrilina 3, 52440 Poreč; archivist Branka Poropat, ppbarhiv@gmail.com, +385 52 635 418; ordinariate biskupija@ppb.hr. The diocesan archive's own description gives it registers from 1827 onwards plus an Istrian parish collection 1663–1825.
⚠ Two routes closed today and both are named rather than summarised.
· Hrčak — blocked by a bot check. The Trogrlić article «Gologorica u Kronici Župe (1892.–1918.)» covers exactly these years and is open access. curl gets HTTP 418; the browser reaches the PDF link and is served «Confirm you're not a robot». This archive does not work around bot checks. It is David's to fetch, and it is a click for a person.
· The FamilySearch catalogue returned «Something Went Wrong» on every query today — a service fault, recorded as neither confirmation nor contradiction of the September walk.
⚠ And a small integrity fault found on the way. sources.json claims the Trogrlić PDF is held at articles/Trogrlic - Gologorica u Kronici Zupe 1892-1918, VIA 32.pdf. There is no such file, and no articles/ directory. The claim is corrected to «not held».
So question 2 of item 160 — is Anton ours — cannot be answered from a desk. It needs one letter to one archive for one named person in one book. (blocked, on David.)What it produced on this siteAnton Defrančeški — the man this would place · The «on film» claim, withdrawn · Item 160 · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — access, retested Blocked | Eight reading jobs stand on Antenati — the Mione and Ovaro allegati, the Morti, the pubblicazioni, the indices, Ovaro's matrimoni, and the walk of the rest of the Val di Gorto. Retested before starting them. | 403 Forbidden, on the whole site, in the browser that has been reading it all year. Not one ark and not after forty-six requests — the root page, on the first request.
This is a different failure from the one this archive already diagnosed. The HTTP 400 after about forty-six pages was an eight-kilobyte «recently viewed» cookie exceeding Apache's header limit, and credentials: "omit" fixed it. A 403 on the root is a block on the connection.
Antenati has always refused this archive's own browser and its shell; David's Chrome was the way in, and today it is not. Eight reading jobs are paused on it. Worth retrying later, or from another network.What it produced on this siteAntenati registers · Carnia · Mione · Ovaro · Mieli | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 Sept 2026 | FamilySearch — full-text search, and a signed-out session Blocked | Test whether FamilySearch's full-text search — which reads the handwriting of unindexed images — works on Istrian parish hands. It would change the shape of this archive: 5,489 catalogued volumes, not one of them name-indexed. | Not tested: the session is signed out. The full-text search redirects to the sign-in page, and the persona search API stopped answering at the same time. This archive does not enter credentials — David signs in and the work drives his session.
Everything FamilySearch-side is paused until then. The ark harvest finished first, so nothing is lost: 5,489 of 5,489 volumes are linkable and the catalogue is complete. What it produced on this siteThe Map · FamilySearch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 Sept 2026 | The British Newspaper Archive, and Findmypast's own newspaper search Blocked | «Cosulich» — the Cardiff bride's family, in the shipping columns | Not searched: both doors are shut. The British Newspaper Archive puts a security challenge in front of results, and Findmypast's newspaper form carries a reCAPTCHA field. This archive does not work round bot checks. The search itself is a good one and is on the work list for David: Cosulich alone, with Cardiff, and with Aquilone. The 153 articles already read under this family's own name were reached before the check appeared. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Sept 2026 | FamilySearch — both the persona API and the Deep Zoom image service Blocked | Automated reading, stopped | 403 — «This request was blocked by our security service.» After two days of reading register images tile by tile, FamilySearch's bot protection has blocked this session: the persona search endpoint and the deepzoomcloud image service both now return a 403 with a NOINDEX/NOFOLLOW block page rather than data.
No attempt has been made or will be made to get around it. This archive does not bypass bot checks or CAPTCHAs, and a block is a legitimate answer from a service that has given it a very great deal already — five generations at Vodnjan came off these films in two days.
What this stops, for now: the rest of the Vodnjan marriage register (images 217–470), the death registers (546–575 on film 894 and all of 895), the Vodnjan baptism re-read, Svetvinčenat's marriage register, and the Rijeka and Bakar films. Those six items are paused, not abandoned.
What it does not stop: everything already read and published, and the work that does not touch FamilySearch — the itineraries, the portraits, the archive letters, and the reconciliation of David's own GEDCOM when it arrives.What it produced on this siteVodnjan · Rijeka and Bakar · The plates · FamilySearch record search | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Defunctorum — DGS 005497894, images 560–575 Blocked | Deaths, late 1830 – Feb 1833 | The tile server refused. image.xml still answered 200, but every image tile came back 403 from the Incapsula security service, at every zoom level, on the first request of the session — no CAPTCHA offered, no rate warning, nothing to wait out.
No attempt was made to get round it. The reading stops here until the block lifts. The targets it was going to answer — Luigetta De Franceschi, dead by November 1831; Martina Civico and Veniera De Rocchi, both dead by 1832 — stay open on <a href="/gaps/">What we cannot close</a>.What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · The method · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Defunctorum — DGS 005497894, image 562 onward Blocked | February 1831 onward | Blocked mid-page. After roughly four hundred tile requests the Incapsula service began returning 403 on image.xml itself, which had answered 200 all session. The reading stopped there. No pacing was tried, no route was looked for, no request was repeated. The film is open at image 562, second half, and that is where it resumes.What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · The method · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Cairn.info, Filae, Geopatronyme Blocked | French scholarship and surname distribution | HTTP 403 to direct requests; figures obtained by other means where possible. What it produced on this siteThe method · Cairn.info | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Mémoire des Hommes, Grand Mémorial, Base Léonore Blocked | French service and honours records | JavaScript applications with no reachable interface. Not searched. · Mémoire des Hommes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Regional heritage catalogue of Friuli Venezia Giulia (patrimonioculturale.regione.fvg.it) Blocked | «De Franceschi Giulio» — the drawings of Carlo's son in the Civico Museo Sartorio, Trieste | The portal refuses connections from this project's network at the transport level (no DNS from one route, connection refused from another). Not a bot check and nothing was circumvented. The holdings are known from public catalogue summaries: thirty-one initials for Caprin's «Il Trecento a Trieste» (1897), illustrations for «L'Istria nobilissima», and a headpiece drawn for Camillo's Arcadia essay of 1929–30. The individual sheet records remain unread. What it produced on this siteThe plates · The method · Patrimonio culturale FVG | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Nati in Trentino (1815–1923) Blocked | The Trentino provincial birth register, for Defranceschi at Castelnuovo, Telve and Strigno in the Valsugana | The database exists and covers exactly the parishes wanted, but the register search is behind «Ricerca ad uso dell'operatore» — an operator login. The public site search returns «Nessun risultato». Not circumvented. A written request to the Servizio coesione territoriale at Trento is the route. What it produced on this siteTrentino · The Register · Nati in Trentino | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | CISEI — Centro Internazionale Studi Emigrazione Italiana Blocked | The emigration database the literature still cites for Argentina, Brazil, USA, Canada and Australia | cisei.it is now a parked domain serving an ad redirect. The database is gone from the open web; the literature citing it is stale. What it produced on this siteWhere the name went · CISEI | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Geni — the Obitelj Franceschi noble-family project Blocked | The Croatian nobiliary project David's old site linked | Behind Incapsula bot protection; not circumvented. · Geni | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | ANNO — «Defranceschi» + «Buccari» Blocked | The Austrian National Library's historical newspapers, for the Bakar question David asked months ago | Nine issues, named and dated — and the reader is behind a bot check. The search itself runs: Gazzetta di Zara, 4 August 1840 (3 hits in the text); Agramer Zeitung, 27 December 1845 and 6 July 1898; Vereinigte Laibacher Zeitung, 8 June 1876, and Laibacher Tagblatt, 23 June 1876 — the same story from two papers a fortnight apart; Il giovine Pensiero of Pula, 21 December 1894 and 1 August 1896; the Pharmaceutischer Almanach of 1904 (4 hits); and the Allgemeine Sport-Zeitung of 1886. The page viewer at data.onb.ac.at is behind a Cloudflare check, and this archive does not answer those. The nine citations are exact and any reader can open them; what cannot be done from here is read them. The Zadar paper of 1840 is the one to open first. What it produced on this siteRijeka and Bakar · The method · ANNO — Austrian Newspapers Online | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | hrcak.srce.hr, and the Croatian «Dabar» repositories Blocked | Four queued Croatian journal and thesis PDFs | Both are now behind bot checks that this archive will not answer. hrcak.srce.hr returns «Confirm you're not a robot», and so does the Dabar repository network that carries the Pula and Koper university theses. This archive has used hrcak successfully before, so this is a change rather than a rule. Where a paper exists elsewhere — a university's own site, CORE, an author's page — it can still be read; the Doblanović paper above was got that way. Recorded so the same doors are not knocked on twice. What it produced on this siteThe plates · The method · Hrčak — Portal of Croatian scientific journals | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | Geneanet Blocked | Surname and place searches | HTTP 403 on every URL, including the public surname pages. Not circumvented. What it produced on this siteThe method · Geneanet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | Antenati (Italian state archives) Blocked | Civil registration for Carnia and the Veneto | Bot check. Not circumvented. This is the route to the Ovaro civil registers and it remains closed to automated access. What it produced on this siteCarnia · The method · Antenati — Italian state archives | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | ResearchGate Blocked | Article retrieval | Refused. The wanted article was found open access elsewhere. · ResearchGate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | CEMLA (Argentine immigration) Blocked | Passenger records | Bot check. Not circumvented. What it produced on this siteWhere the name went · At sea · The method · CEMLA — Argentine immigration | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | WikiTree Blocked | Profile search | Bot check. Not circumvented. What it produced on this siteThe method · WikiTree | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | ⚠ Balkan Academia on Albanian and Morlach settlers — it is Carlo's own account retold, and this archive holds the original Nothing | Whether it adds to the Seget estate's settlement history | ⚠ CHECKED FIRST, AND IT IS SUBSTANTIALLY ALREADY HERE — in better form. The article's spine is an English retelling of Carlo De Franceschi's own published account, which this archive carries in the original Italian:
> «Il capitanio di Raspo Alessandro Zorzi in data 15 Febbraro 1604 investiva il capitano Vincenzo Cuchich da Sebenico d'un corpo di terreni incolti della circonferenza di circa quattro miglia nel territorio di Umago, sul quale furono da lui trasportate trenta famiglie da paesi turcheschi. Il Cuchich vendette nel 1623 la tenuta, che ora chiamasi di Seghetto e Giuba, ai N. U. Valier di Venezia, dai quali più tardi l'acquistò la nobile famiglia de Franceschi, attuale posseditrice, emigrata dall'isola di Candia dopo conquistata dai turchi nel 1669.»
The archive also holds the 1764 roll of colonists entire — twenty-eight households, a hundred and eleven people counted by name with their home cities: Coron, Napoli di Malvasia, Napoli di Romania, Corinth, Arta. The article mentions six. And it holds the chain by which that roll survives: Giambattista de Franceschi, Deputy of the Imperial Council, sent it to Carlo, who printed it. The article's own cited source is the same — Kandler's La Provincia of 1873, with documents from Giambattista.
⭐ One useful confirmation: it reads the 1623 vendee as Valier, which is the reading this archive moved to in September after carrying Venier. That is now a fourth independent witness for Valier.
⚠ THREE THINGS IN IT ARE NOT IN THIS ARCHIVE, and all are weakly sourced: (1) «47 Morlach families from Zeta» transported after 1571; (2) «Other Morlach families were transported from Dalmatia to Istria, Orcevano near Medulin» in 1612; (3) eighteen Albanian families from Scutari at Monghebbo in 1611 with 1,239 fields — which is the same event Pomara documents properly from the Venetian records.
⚠⚠ (2) IS WORTH CHASING AND IS NOT TAKEN AS FACT. Morlachs settled beside Medulin in 1612 would help explain why the Medulin registers read this morning are a solid wall of Croatian patronymics with no Italian-surnamed household at all. But the article gives no archival reference for it, its onomastic argument is explicitly speculative, and it places Zeta «in Albania», which is wrong. Recorded as a lead to verify in the Provincial Archive of Istria, not as a finding. What it produced on this siteSeget, and Crete · The Lines · Petrit Latifi, «Albanian and Morlach settlers in Istria in the 17th–18th century», Balkan Academia, 20 November 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | NIL — the Weinberger rare-books catalogue and the Alfieri–Di Nepi volume hold nothing for this family Nothing | Whether either bears on Candia, Crete or the De Franceschi | The exact terms searched, so this nil is an assertion about a list somebody kept: Candia, Creta, Crete, Franceschi, Istria, Parenzo, Capodistria, Zante, Morosini, Venier, Valier, Seget, Umago.
The catalogue (3 Candia, 13 Creta, 1 Franceschi): its Cretan items are a 1419 manuscript letter from Candia about Alvise Michiel's cotton estate (\$4,500) and a «Cretan Sibyl» prophecy. ⚠ The single «Franceschi» is Francesco de' Franceschi, the Venice printer of 1587 — a press, not a relative. Nothing on the 1669 fall or the refugees.
Alfieri & Di Nepi (15 Candia, 11 Creta): the volume is on sexuality and power in early modern Italy; its Candia material concerns a Jewish slave woman abandoned at Candia by the corsair Giuliano Regolino during the war. Its «Franceschi» are a Livornese Franceschini and a modern French historian. Not this family, and not this subject.What it produced on this siteSeget, and Crete · Adam Weinberger & Konstantinopel, Cat. 17 (April 2025), 217 pp · Alfieri & Di Nepi (eds.), «Relazioni dispari», Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica 2/2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | Hunting Camillo De Franceschi, «Il Consiglio nobile di Parenzo e i profughi di Creta», AMSI n.s. 2 (1952) — a downloadable copy Nothing | David asked for deep research to find Camillo's paper downloadable. It is the archive's first acquisition item. | Not digitised — confirmed three ways, with the terms named. (1) Internet Archive advancedsearch, title:("Atti e memorie" AND istriana) — seventeen items, every one old series, latest 1933. (2) Openstarts, Università di Trieste — dc.relation.ispartofseries:"Atti e memorie della Società istriana" returns 112 items spanning 1886–1940, and a facet walk of 1950, 1951, 1952 and 1953 returns zero; "Consiglio nobile di Parenzo" as an exact phrase returns zero. (3) HathiTrust record 008687002 — full view to 1921. Searched also as «nuova serie», «n.s.» and as «vol. 54 della Raccolta», the continuous numbering the 1952 volume also carries — nil in every one. ⚠ The paper stays on the acquisition list. What the search found instead was the way round it — the Senate deliberations Camillo worked from, printed in the same journal's free old series. See the Seget page.What it produced on this siteWhat was happening when Candia fell · Seget | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | The surname in AMSI vols. XX (1904) and XVI (1900) — the Senate regesti covering the Cretan settlement Nothing | Whether a De Franceschi is named among the Cretan refugees granted houses at Parenzo. | Nil, and the terms are named: Franceschi, Francesch, Franzeschi, de Franc, and the regex Fran?eschi to allow for OCR damage. Zero in all five, in both volumes.
⚠ This is weak evidence and is published as weak evidence. A regest is a one-paragraph abstract written by the Society's editors; it names a private family only where the Senate ruled on that family by name. The rolls themselves were asked for and received by the Senate — «i nomi delle famiglie, che andranno ad abitare le dieci case terminate» (3 Mar 1672) and «la nota delle venticinque famiglie Cretensi» (1674) — and they are in the Senate filze at the Archivio di Stato di Venezia, not in print. That is now the cheapest place left to look for a name, and it is cheaper than the 1952 offprint.What it produced on this siteWhat was happening when Candia fell · Seget | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | Libellarium 13/2 (2022), «Zbirka obitelji De Franceschi u NSK» — re-opened at David's prompt Nothing | David sent the Zadar link asking whether there was anything in it. | Already held and already read in full. Recorded as source nsk2022 in September 2026, with a whole page built on it at /the-library/, and the author's later paper — Marin 2024, Libellarium 15(2) — held as a PDF. Checked before claiming anything, per the archive's own rule. This is a re-find, not a discovery. The one thing worth carrying forward from re-reading it: the collection holds 58 serial publications alongside 2,338 monographs, so Camillo's own set of the Atti e memorie — plausibly including the 1952 volume with his own article in it — may be among the serials now catalogued at the NSK in Zagreb. That is a new and cheap line of enquiry for the acquisition.What it produced on this siteThe library · The library | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 Oct 2026 | Is Gračišće 1808–1840 free anywhere? — asked again, and the archive had answered it four ways already Nothing | David asked whether the Gračišće baptisms of 1808–1840 — the stretch the film breaks before — can be reached free online instead of by letter. | ⚠ VERIFICATION, NOT A SEARCH. The answer was on file and no new query was run.
What it produced on this siteErrands · Corrections · Gračišće | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | Is Gračišće on FamilySearch? Asked again — and the archive had already answered it on 15 September Nothing | David asked for Gračišće on DAPA reel ZM34K-216. Before writing to Pazin, this session re-tested whether FamilySearch could supply the same pages — and found the question closed three weeks ago. | ⚠ THIS IS A VERIFICATION, NOT A FIND — and the honest part is saying so.
The answer was already written down. 15 September 2026, the walk of all 3,488 FamilySearch collections: «Gračišće, Gologorica and Pićan are filmed nowhere at all.» That row is stronger than anything this session did: it opened 44 collections, tested the two likeliest hiding places — «Austria, Catholic Church Records» and «Hungary, Civil Registration» — by name, and verified its own filter against a control. The rule here is to grep the archive before claiming a discovery. Three weeks of work sat in the file; this session went looking anyway.
What the re-test is actually worth, stated narrowly.
1. It is an independent confirmation from a different dataset. [The Record Atlas's](../Record Atlas) own harvest of FamilySearch's open browse endpoint, taken 22 September — a week after the September walk — 1,733 collections, 4.25 million volumes: 0 hits for Gračišće, Gallignana or Gracisce. Two methods, a week apart, same answer.
2. It extends the absent list by two. September named Gračišće, Gologorica, Pićan. «Croatia, Church Books, 1516–1994» (collection 2040054 — 5,392 volumes, 1,229 places, marked fully harvested) is also missing Cerovlje and Lindar. ⭐ That is now the whole DAPA ZM34K parish set, and it is the useful shape: the collection covers Istria well — Pazin, Krbune, Tinjan, Svetvinčenat, Barban, Vodnjan, Ližnjan, Poreč, Rovinj, Labin, Buzet are all in it. The parishes it omits are precisely the ones on these two reels. FamilySearch did not film the ZM34K series.
3. ⚠ The catalogue search is now behind a sign-in, which the September row does not mention. familysearch.org/search/catalog redirects to ident.familysearch.org. This session did not sign in and will not — David signs in; sessions drive. The browse endpoint the September walk used is still open; the human-facing catalogue is not.
So, for David's question: ZM34K-216 cannot be short-circuited. The letter to Pazin is the only route to Francisca's baptism of 3 February 1819 and to every Gračišće birth of the direct line after 1807. ⚠ One re-test is still worth a minute, and it is David's: a signed-in catalogue search could show what the open endpoint does not, and FamilySearch publishes continuously.What it produced on this siteThe letter to Pazin, which this confirms is the only route · ZM34K-216, the reel this archive does not hold · Gračišće | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 76–80 walked (M01069266–M01069268), 1839–1844 Nothing | Continuing the walk through Petrus Milcetich's compressed format. | ⚠ A NAMED NIL — about sixty entries, no Defranceschi.
From 1836 Petrus Milcetich writes one line per death instead of a ruled block, so these five pages carry roughly as many entries as the previous twenty.
What is on them anyway:
· A dysentery outbreak, October–December 1839.
· Three deaths recorded as «infortunium» — accident: a man of 26 whose house is given as «ignoratur» (unknown), a child of 4, a boy of 13, a man of 50.
· «Effusio sanguinis tempore partus» — haemorrhage in childbirth, a woman of 26, 1844.
· ⭐ An entry struck out and rewritten: Georgius Zabran, 34, phthisis, cancelled under 1840 with heavy scribbles and entered again under 5 January 1841 — a scribal correction visible on the page.
· Repeated notes on whether the last rites were given — «non refecta SS Sacramentis ob repentinam mortem», and once «munitus SS Sacramentis, excepto Eucharistiae causa vomitus».
· Visitations now signed «Vidi. Petinae» — at Pićan — F. Coverlizza, Decanus, annually 1840–45. A monk, «P. Placidus Adamichs, Professus», buries one. What it produced on this siteThe walk · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, the INDEX walked for the married-in surnames (M01069299–M01069305) Nothing | Reading the book's own household index through the alphabet, for the twelve surnames that married into this family. | ⚠ A NAMED NIL, and the naming is the whole value.
The index is a household *directory: surname, byname, house number, members, page each died on. So its gaps are evidence.
Four of the twelve married-in surnames have no block in it:
What it produced on this siteWritten into the line · Worklist 168, now redirected · The twelve surnames · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-215 — Gračišće baptisms 1746–1840, tested for Francisca's 1819 entry Nothing | Whether the Gračišće baptism of Francisca, born 3 February 1819 of house 5, is readable from the films the family holds. | ❌ Not in the house, and the film says so itself. The title card calls this book Matična knjiga rođenih 1746–1840, but reel 215 does not carry all of it: the last written page, M01070226, is headed «Annus 1807», and the very next frame, M01070227, is a printed card reading «NASTAVLJA SE» — to be continued.
So the Gračišće baptisms the family holds run 1746–1807 and stop. The continuation is ZM34K-216, which this archive does not have. Francisca's baptism of 3 February 1819 is on that reel, and so is every Gračišće birth of the direct line's own generations after 1807. This is the single most valuable reel not in the house.
✅ But the sampling paid for itself twice.
First, the register gives every mother's maiden surname, systematically. The Matres column is written «Lucia olim Novina», «Maria olim Zelich», «Maria olim Juran», «Maria Milotich olim Tirol», «Maria Bicol olim Iuxa» — olim, formerly, and what follows is the name she was born under. David asked for the wives' families. This book answers that question for every mother in the parish, and no session here had noticed the construction.
Second, a Salamon is standing at the font. At the baptism of 26 November 1807, house 203, the godparents are «Franciscus Jurich» and «Maria vidua Salamon» — Maria, the widow Salamon. That is a Salamon at Gračišće ten years after Francisca Salomon was born there (17 March 1797), in the parish with the sixteenth-century Salamon palace this archive has already documented. No kinship is claimed. It is the first Salamon this archive has found in a Gračišće register. (doc for the entry; nothing inferred from it.) What it produced on this siteThe Salomon line — a Salamon at Gračišće in 1807 · The frame map — where this book stops · What has to be ordered to finish it · Gračišće | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | INTERNAL AUDIT — how much of the two Pazin reels has actually been read Nothing | David, 30 September 2026: «have you finished all the other files before moving to other registers?» | The answer is no, and the number is 4.0%.
Counted by taking every frame number cited anywhere in this archive's data and testing it against the frame map:
What it produced on this siteHow this archive works, and where it slipped · The frame map the count is measured against · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | Volosco (Opatija) parish books — asked whether this archive had ever opened them Nothing | David: «Have we ever gone through the volosca books?» | Never. And the archive already had the waypoints.
kvarner-books.json holds Volosko (Opatija) with five films — Births 1791–1831 (9R28-3YD), Births 1831–1886 (9R28-3Y7), Deaths 1792–1831 (9R28-PY8), Deaths 1831–1902 (9R28-PY7), Marriages 1792–1906 (9R28-3T1) — with its books array empty and its why blank. Nothing read, and no reason recorded for not reading it. Across 474 searches Volosca appears in two, one of them written the same morning.
⚠ And the obvious target is out of range. Lambertina Peschle, entered «Ex Volosca» in the 1826 household book, was born 17 September 1786; the births film starts in 1791. Her baptism is five years before the film begins — recorded here so the next person does not spend a sitting looking for it.
The marriage of 3 February 1807 is the target that IS covered, on 9R28-3T1, and it would name her father. Raised on the work list; held until the 1826 census is finished.What it produced on this siteThe item raised from it · The Peschle · Volosko (Opatija) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 29 Sept 2026 | A near-perfect match at Arolsen, disproved by four documents Nothing | Arolsen Archives — is Anton Defrančeški of Gologorica, died Dachau 15 July 1944, in the camp records? (item 160) | The answer is no, and getting to it meant taking apart a match that looked perfect.
What Arolsen shows first: «DEFRANCESCHI, ANTONIO — 31 January 1909 — prisoner 8165», personal file at Natzweiler. Same surname, same birth year, the camp system, and this archive looking for a man who died at Dachau. Written up at that point it would have been wrong.
⚠ That record is an ITS cross-reference card, not a document about a person. Ref 01012902 008.453 — an Ersatzkarte reading «DEFRANCESCHI, Antonio 31.1.1909 — see: DEFRANCESCO», recto only, verso blank.
The real file is under DEFRANCESCO, and it disproves the match four times over:
Defranceschi → 38 people, 9 archival units; Defranceski → 79; Defrancesco Antonio → 8. None is born in 1909 at an Istrian place. The 79 under Defranceski were catalogued on 17 September as one family, the Pfullingen household.
So the Belgrade victims' census remains the only record of Anton Defrančeški this archive has found. Question 2 of item 160 — whether he descends from the Gologorica household — is untouched and stays open; it needs the Gračišće and Gologorica baptisms of about 1909.
⚠ And the search turned up something for a different item. The IRO «CM/1 files originating in Italy» hold a Dignano — Vodnjan — household of the name: GIUSEPPE b. 1 Sept 1904 at Dignano, GIOVANNA née BORTOLUSSI b. 26 July 1911 at Dignano, GIORDANA b. 1937, MARIA b. 1939, and STEFANO; with LIVIO b. 4 Aug 1925 at Pola and a Trieste group beside them. The two Vodnjan men found yesterday are not these people, but they are the same town in the same decade, and this is where a Vodnjan line would be worked.What it produced on this siteAnton Defrančeški of Gologorica — the disproof on his page · Item 160 · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 Sept 2026 | Neither Fiume marriage is in any index — the route that would settle item 143 is not a search, it is a register Nothing | FamilySearch record search — Franceschi marriages in Croatia 1715–1775, and again filtered to Fiume | After five baptisms gave no Defranceschi godparent, the better instrument is a marriage: it names both sets of parents and could join the two Fiume households in one line. The index does not hold either marriage.
What was searched. Exact surname Franceschi across Croatia, marriages 1715–1775, then again filtered to Fiume: 120 results, then 62. Neither Valentino × Helena nor Joannes Baptista × Magdalena is among them.
What the 62 actually are, and why the count flatters:
- Most are Omiš — Dalmatia, a different one of this archive's six families, whose marriages the index covers densely.
- Several are nineteenth-century and not ours at all. Two that looked promising — «Maddalena Franceschi, spouse Gio Batta Franceschi» — resolve to the marriages of Giovanni Masatto in 1846 and Pietro Masatto in 1852. «Franceschi» there is a mother's maiden name, which the index has hung on the household as though it were the family's own. A search on the surname surfaces them; a century and a different family separate them from anything here.
- One sits in the right window: Antonio Franceschi × Margaritta Cambi, 17 November 1738, father «Znne Franceschi», parent-in-law Gio Marujich. But it is on film 005494172, not Fiume's 005497925, and the index gives it no place at all. It cannot be called a Fiume marriage without opening the film, and it has not been opened.
### What this means for item 143
The question is not answerable from an index, and that is now demonstrated rather than assumed. Five baptisms read, ten godparents, no Defranceschi; both marriages absent from the index. The route left is the Fiume marriage register itself, read on the plate — the same treatment that has worked all week, applied to a volume this archive has not yet opened.
And the honest possibility should be stated. Five consecutive negatives is itself evidence. If these two households were close kin, thirteen years of baptisms would ordinarily show it — a brother at the font, a nephew named for a grandfather. They may simply be two unrelated houses of a common Venetian-Istrian surname that reached the same port in the same generation. That would be a real answer to item 143, not a failure to find one. (inf; nothing here proves non-kinship either.) What it produced on this siteWork list item 143 · Fiume (Rijeka) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat 1780–1782 — seven spreads, and the shape of the silence Nothing | Whether Antonio's and Dominicus's children are in the exemption years | Seven spreads read, and in all of them the name appears only in the witness line.
Images 81, 82, 83 (April–October 1780) and 93, 94, 95 (31 December 1781 – February 1782), plus image 84, which turned out to be 1763 and not 1781. Every Defranceschi on them is a godparent:
- Matthea uxor Antonij Defranceschi, godmother, 1 May 1780
- Dominico Defranceschi, godfather, 17 8bris 1780
- Jusca uxor Dominici Defranceschi, godmother, 31 December 1781
Not one baptism of the name in any of them.
That absence has a shape, and it redirects the search. A man who stands godfather is an established adult; a wife who stands godmother is a matron. If Antonio and Dominicus were heading households in the castle in 1780 and none of their children is being baptised in 1780–82, their children were born earlier. The generation to look for is 1750–1775, which is the end of the first volume and the opening of the second — not the years around the exemption at all. (inf, but it is the kind of inference a register is built to support.)
Two names stopped being suspicious along the way. Jusca appears on image 94 as a child's given name (Jusca filia legitima Joannis Budesich) and again on image 95 (Jusca filia Matthei Prohia); Fosca appears on image 95 as another man's wife. Both are ordinary names in this parish, which is why the register can write one woman both ways without anyone at the time being confused — and why a reader three centuries later should not take either spelling as a slip. What it produced on this siteThe 1780 leaves · Svetvinčenat (San Vincenti) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2026 | Ruža's parents are not reachable through FamilySearch — Fužine is not in the index for this surname Nothing | FamilySearch record search — Hreljac at Fužine, and the 1918–1926 window, tested three ways | Worklist item 71. Ruža Hreljac was born at Fužine on 13 February 1922; her parents Lovre Hreljac and Dragica Vlahović are in David's live tree, both deceased, and neither is in this archive. The question was whether FamilySearch could supply them. It cannot, and the reason is coverage rather than bad luck.
What it produced on this siteWork list item 71 · Fužine, Primorje-Gorski Kotar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | JUSP Jasenovac — the named victims list, on the surname and on both her married names Nothing | Whether Anka Nera, or anyone of the name, is among the named victims of the Jasenovac camps | Nobody of this name is in it, in any spelling — and Anka is not in it under either married name. The Jasenovac Memorial Site publishes its Poimenični popis žrtava, the named list of victims of the Jasenovac and Stara Gradiška camps, searchable free by surname. Defranceschi: 0. Defranceski: 0. Franceschi: 0. The control was run first, because a nil from a search box proves nothing until the box is known to answer: Horvat returns pages of results, with father's name, birth year, birthplace and nationality on each row. So the zeros are evidence. Her married name returns four people and none of them is her. Oreščanin gives Đuro (b. 1894, Karlovac), Jelena (b. 1878, Inđija), Ljubomir (b. 1906, Zagreb) and Ranko (b. 1894, Inđija) — all recorded as Serbs, none a woman born at Crikvenica in 1915. Geiger gives two, Đeno-Jeno (b. 1884, Subotica) and Julio (b. 1913, Zagreb), both recorded as Jews and neither her first husband — who died in 1936, before any of this. What the second negative is worth. Arolsen already said she died outside the German system. Jasenovac now says she died outside the Ustaša camp system too. A Croatian woman of twenty-nine dead in Belgrade in 1944 is therefore not a camp death that the family softened into a city name — she died in the city, and the records that would say how are Serbian, not Croatian and not German. And the nil has a second use: it is the first time the whole surname has been put to a victims list. For a study of the name rather than of one family, «nobody of this name is in Jasenovac» is a finding in its own right. · Jasenovac · Belgrade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 Sept 2026 | Arolsen Archives online — Anka Nera, and the 79 Defranceski records Nothing | Anka Nera Defranceski died at Belgrade in 1944, aged twenty-nine. Arolsen holds the Nazi-era persecution and displaced-persons records. Is she in them? | She is not. A person search on Defranceski Anka returns nothing at all, and the Oreščanin and Geiger searches return no match for her either — seventeen Oreščanin records, none of them hers; fifty-five Geiger records, all Josef or Gaiger.
That is worth knowing rather than nothing. Arolsen is the record of people who went through the German system. Her three brothers are all over it — the surname returns 79 person records, including four Antons and a Lujza, which is Luise Salzer. She is not, which means she died at Belgrade outside it.
The remaining routes are the Belgrade city registry and the Yugoslav victims' census at the Museum of Genocide Victims, neither of which this archive has opened.
And the 79 is itself a finding. This archive has read one Arolsen file — the family's own, ITS D-1.505 — and there are seventy-nine person records under the surname. What it produced on this siteSix Names at Pfullingen · Open Questions · Belgrade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 Sept 2026 | MyHeritage live tree — every misspelling of the surname Nothing | Lisa T was «Defraneski», one letter short, and no search of the family name would ever have returned her. Who else is behind a typo? | Nobody. One typo, one person. Queried on Defraneski, De Francesci, Defrancheski, Defranceshi, Defrancesky, Defranchesci, Defrancesci and Franzeschini: Defraneski returns Lisa and nothing else; every other variant returns zero.
One thing came up sideways: Franceschini returns a group with Brazilian forenames — Aurelio 1892, Turno 1894, Aristeu 1901, Tosca «Tita» 1907 — which belongs with the Trentino and Brazil material rather than with this family. What it produced on this siteTrentino · tree 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 Sept 2026 | National Archives of Australia — are any of the eight items digitised? Nothing | Before paying for copies: RecordSearch marks an item «Open» whether or not it has been scanned. Which of these can simply be read? | None of them. All eight have to be ordered.
· A11534, 58–60 — the household with all three dates of birth: not digitised.
· B44, V1978/151 and V1978/152 — Zdravko and Ruža's naturalisations: not digitised, and still «not yet examined», so access has to be applied for before a copy can be.
· A2571 — the three alien registrations, Zdrafko 76418, Ruza 76419, Anton: not digitised.
· B78 — the two Victorian aliens cards, Roza and Zorafko: not digitised.
«Open» in RecordSearch means readable, not scanned, and that is the distinction this check existed to draw. It turns the whole Australian side of this family from a search into an order, and the orders should go in one request rather than eight. What it produced on this siteSix Names at Pfullingen · Errands · Canberra · Melbourne · Adelaide | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 Sept 2026 | Findmypast — «defraneski» Nothing | A spelling the roster carries, tried against the whole of Findmypast | Zero results. A checked negative: the spelling exists in this family's own records and Findmypast indexes nobody under it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 Sept 2026 | Findmypast — Italy Births & Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths & Burials 1806–1900 Nothing | Three Italian parish sets, opened for the first time, and their transcripts read | Ten records of the name, and every transcript puts them at Napoli or Vicenza — two brothers baptised at San Marco di Palazzo, Napoli in 1842 and 1844 to Carmine de Franceschi and Angiola Conti; a Valentino Mario and a Lucia Caterina born at Vicenza in 1900; a Domenico of Vicenza, 1829–1900. Not Istria, not Carnia, not the Kvarner. Written down so the three sets are not opened again expecting this family. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 Sept 2026 | Findmypast — the 1920 census at San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, read in full Nothing | Whether the Puerto Rican Franceschi are Corsican immigrants or an island family | An island family, and not ours. Cármen Colón de Franceschi, 23, and Aurora Cruz de Franceschi, 25, are both born in Puerto Rico to parents born in Puerto Rico, both entered as esposa, and both recorded by the enumerator as Black. Two generations on the island by 1920 and married into the name rather than born to it. The surname reached Puerto Rico with the nineteenth-century Corsican settlement, which is well documented — but by 1920 it is a Puerto Rican surname. The thread is closed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 Sept 2026 | Findmypast — the 1921 Census of England & Wales and the 1939 Register Nothing | Two collections nobody else holds, against four spellings of the surname | Nobody of this name is in either. The 16 September sweep paged out every result for defranceschi, de franceschi, defranceski and de franceski — 644 records in 44 record sets — and neither the 1921 Census nor the 1939 Register is among them. Which is a finding, not an absence. The South Wales Echo called them «an old Cardiff family» in 1896, and a De Franceschi married a Cosulich there in 1876. By 1921 there is no one of the name left in England or Wales at all. They anglicised, married out, or went back to sea. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 Sept 2026 | Findmypast — the Irish, Scottish and English parish collections Nothing | Every British and Irish parish register set, against four spellings | One hit in the whole of them, and it is the Cardiff marriage. Of the 44 record sets the surname touches, the British ones are the civil indexes, the electoral registers, the armed-forces overseas registers, the outward passenger lists — and Wales Roman Catholic Marriages, with a single entry. No Irish, Scottish or English parish register holds anybody of this name. For a Catholic family of the Adriatic that is what one would expect; it is written down so that nobody opens them again. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 Sept 2026 | Findmypast — four naturalisation and passport transcripts, read for the birthplace Nothing | Whether an American index names the town an emigrant left | It does not. Giovanni of Chicago, naturalised 1937; Giovanni of Connecticut, passport 1922; Louis, passport 1919; Tobias de Franceski, passport 1922. Every transcript says «Birth place: Italy» and stops. Tobias is the only one with a town and only because he was born in the District of Columbia. The town is on the image. Findmypast holds them, and the transcripts carry the NARA rolls that would fetch the same page from Washington — M1490 rolls 1807, 1008 and 1842, and M1285 roll 41. Written down so that nobody harvests eighteen index rows again expecting eighteen birthplaces. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | FamilySearch — Fužine and Crikvenica film coverage, read off the catalogue Nothing | Where are the baptisms of the Crikvenica generation and of Ruža Hreljac? Checked what the free films actually cover. | Both fall past the end of the film, and for the same reason. The Croatian films were cut at the hundred-year line as it stood when they were made.
· Crikvenica births stop at 1896. All five children of Anton Rudolf and Ursula — Josip Petar 1911, Petar Vid 1913, Anka Nera 1915, Zdravko 1921, Ivan Anton 1925 — were born after it. All five are on one reel of HR-HDA-1448: R 1909–1926, ZM-34J/362, mark M-6957, digitised, held by the Matični ured. Written up as an errand.
· Fužine births stop at 1889 and Ruža was born on 13 February 1922. Its five volumes are clickable from the map and not one of them reaches her. Belnica, the second place on her Neuhausen entry, is on no catalogue this archive holds.
The negative is worth as much as a hit: it says the remaining work is a letter, not a search. What it produced on this siteSix Names at Pfullingen · Errands · The Map · Fužine · Crikvenica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | Trove — Australian newspapers, 1940–1959 Nothing | The Wimmera papers for the family's arrival window — Defranceski, De Franceski and Defranceschi across the 1940s and 1950s. | No results in either decade. That is a weak negative and should be read as one: Trove's newspaper digitisation mostly stops in 1954, and whether the Wimmera Mail-Times is digitised for 1949–54 at all has not been established. Trove's own result list would not render in this archive's browser for the unfiltered searches, so only the decade-filtered ones could be read.
What this does rule out is the easy version — a displaced family reaching a country town in 1949 and being written up in a paper Trove already holds. What it produced on this siteSix Names at Pfullingen · Horsham, Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Pubblicazioni di matrimonio» 1811 and 1814 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Nothing | Any De Franceschi in the 1811 and 1814 banns — both volumes swept leaf by leaf | Twenty pages, no De Franceschi in any role — not as a party, not as a parent.
1811 (ark an_ua667548, thirteen images) and 1814 (ark an_ua667551, seven images) were swept page by page at a magnification that shows a name of that length clearly. The surnames that do appear are Rupil, Rugo, Gortani, Steffani, Bulfon, Fiorenzi, Zanelli, Colledan, Nino, Della Pietra, Vernier, Marcuzzi, Barazzutti, Sivilotti, Roder and Zorzi.
Recorded because a negative in this series is worth more than a negative elsewhere: a banns notice names four parents, so a year with no De Franceschi in the banns is a year in which no child of this family married and no De Franceschi daughter's child married either.
Still to sweep: the banns for 1806, 1808, 1809, 1810 and 1813 — fifty-five images. What it produced on this siteWhat the banns give · The series · Mione, Pubblicazioni 1811 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Pubblicazioni di matrimonio» 1806, 1810 and 1813 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Nothing | The last three unswept banns volumes — completing the series 1806–1815 | Thirty-one more images, no De Franceschi — and with that the series is finished.
1806 (an_ua667544, 3 images) opens thin: a title leaf, a blank, and one notice. 1810 (an_ua667547, 13 images): Steffani, Lungo, Nassivera, Micoli, Fabris, Screm, Gortani, Trifoni, Colledan. 1813 (an_ua667550, 15 images): nothing, and the marriage volume's own alphabetical table agrees — five marriages that year, none of them ours.
The whole run now stands read: nine volumes, ninety-one images, 1806 to 1815, four De Franceschi notices. 1808 (Osvaldo × Appolonia Galante), 1809 (Erman de' Franceschi × Orsola), 1812 (Ottavia and her parents), 1815 (Felice Santo and his).
The five negative volumes were swept page by page rather than transcribed. The 1813 one is confirmed independently by the alphabetical table; the other four rest on the sweep alone, and a name buried mid-sentence as a grandparent could have escaped it. What it produced on this siteThe whole series · What it gave · Mione, Pubblicazioni 1810 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Matrimoni» 1812 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Nothing | The Zanelli × Roder marriage act, which should name Batta de' Franceschi and Maria Brenis a second time | Six marriages, the register closed on 31 December 1812, and the Zanelli–Roder promise is not among them.
Eleven images. Act N. 5, Thursday 17 September: Steffani, a shoemaker of Luincis, thirty, with Osvalda Corva of Muina. Act N. 6, Monday 28 December: Steffani Lorenzo, twenty-nine, villico of Ovasta. Act N. 4, 22 July. Acts 1–3 read at page level only — Bressan, Poli, Nino, Vidoni, Fabris, Roder, Gortan, Della Pietra, Micoli.
Then: «Li 31 trent'uno del mese di Decembre anno mille ottocento dodeci — Il sottoscritto Ufficiale dello Stato Civile della Comune di Mione dichiara chiuso il presente Registro.»
Nor is the couple in the 1813 or 1814 alphabetical tables.
This matters because of what the series is called. The 1806 title leaf reads «Registro per l'esposizione delle pubblicazioni matrimoniali, e per le opposizioni» — publications and oppositions. A banns notice invites the world to object. Most are followed by a wedding; some are not.
It does not touch the Ottavia finding, which rests on the notices themselves: she and her parents are named there by a public official whose job was to get the filiation right.
Three of the six acts are still untranscribed, and the 1814 table's left column is partly lost in the binding shadow. Probably not married at Mione in 1812–14; not certainly. What it produced on this siteA promise published twice · Ottavia and her parents · Mione, Matrimoni 1812 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Matricula Online — the Senj and Karlobag side Nothing | Whether it holds Croatian parish registers at all | Matricula does not hold Croatia. Its fonds are Germany 9,123 · Austria 2,857 · Slovenia 723 · Switzerland 292 · Luxembourg 277 · Italy 106 · Poland 5 · Serbia 5 · Bosnia 2. There is no Croatian section, so Senj and Karlobag are not there and cannot be.
Nor is Carnia. Italy on Matricula is Bozen-Brixen only — South Tyrol. Friuli, Udine and the Val Degano are absent.
And it cannot be searched by name at all. The search page is headed «Search for Places» and its fields are place, diocese and date_filter. There is no surname index. Matricula is a shelf you browse, not an index you query — which is worth knowing before anyone spends an evening trying.
One thing it does have. The Koper diocese carries 198 parishes including the whole Vipava valley — Ajdovščina, Vipava, Podnanos, Col, Budanje, Vrhpolje and Šturje itself. Šturje is the parish of the Johann Defranceski this archive found acting as court-appointed curator ad actum at Laibach between 1865 and 1875, and whose village it had never placed in a register. That is a door, and it is open.What it produced on this siteThe name in imperial service · Matricula — Šturje parish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Antenati — the Muina marriage allegati, 1806–07, read in a fresh session Nothing | The ten-image file for Muina, the second village Carlo De Franceschi named | No De Franceschi in it. The file holds two marriages, and both belong to other Muina families:
· Giovanni Battista Corva × Cattarina Fabris, November 1806. The groom's Latin baptism of 16 October 1782 — Joannes Bapta, son of Paolo son of the late Giacomo, formerly of Giovanni Corva of Muina, and Maria Maddalena his wife. The bride's certificate gives Cattarina, daughter of Giovanni q. Pietro Fabris of Muina, born 12 May 1780, and her father's own signed consent is in the file.
· Giovanni Battista Micoli × the daughter of Tomaso, June 1807, with the groom's certificate: son of Giovanni q. Pietro Micoli of Muina and Marta his wife, born December 1777.
Corva, Fabris and Micoli are all names this archive already knows from Muina — Osvaldo Corva of Agrons and Teresa Corva of Muina are in the 1807 death index, and Micoli is on Ferigo's list of the families that walked the road of the Furlans. They are the neighbours, not the family.
Eight of the ten images were read; two are blank versos. This is the negative the errand asked for: the second village Carlo named has a surviving marriage file from the right decade and the surname is not in it. What it produced on this siteCarnia · Antenati — Muina, Matrimoni allegati 1806 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Matrimoni, allegati» 1810 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Nothing | Any De Franceschi in the forty-five pages of the 1810 marriage papers | A clean negative, and worth publishing as one. Five marriages, read from their baptismal extracts and notarial consents: Lorenzin × Urai, Larese × Zanier, Fachin × Stefani, Masin × Brovedan, and the Colledan and Desanutti papers. Consents taken by the notary Giacomo Micoli at Muina, Luint and Mione.
The individuals named are Desanutti, Urai, Larese of Auronzo, Bassi, Micoli, Fachin, Brovedan, Colledan, Stefani, Zanier, Masin, Solaro and Fedele. No De Franceschi anywhere in the file.
The dockets for 1810 carry only a bundle number — no names — so this year had to be read from the documents themselves rather than the wrappers. What it produced on this siteThe 1806 households · Mione, Matrimoni allegati 1810 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Matrimoni, allegati» 1813, 1814 and 1815 Nothing | Any De Franceschi in the last three years of the Mione marriage papers | All three are clean, and with them the whole Mione run of twelve volumes is finished.
1813: Della Vedova de Caneva, Clevo, Crisilla, Erman, Micoli Toscano, Jacotti, Sortan, Gortan, Nigris, Plozzi de Prato, Machin. 1814: Goin de Muina, Odorico Micoli, Della Pietra, Marcuzzi, Urban, Rubin, and the Paludi of Verona resident at Mione. 1815: Novis of Agrons, Lupieri of Liariis, Brenci, Toriano de Nave, Disopra, Gusset, De Quas, Miudaris.
Three things worth keeping from the negatives. A witness signs himself «pietro galante» in his own hand at Mione in 1813, which shows Galante is a real surname here and that the 1808 notary was not simply slipping when he wrote the bride's name that way. A godfather of 1794 is «Dominus Joannes Micoli-Toscano de Nave Mionensis» — putting the palace family whose archive holds the 1679 Gorto contracts in the same hamlet as the De Franceschi of Nave. And in 1815 the parish priest swears that Valentino Disopra of his parish died in Upper Istria in December 1797 — the Carnia-to-Istria road, certified, in a document that has nothing to do with this family.
By 1814 the acts are headed «In Nome di Sua Maestà Francesco Primo, Imperator d'Austria». Napoleon has gone and the paperwork has not changed. What it produced on this siteAll twelve Mione files · 1812, and a hamlet with a name · Mione, Matrimoni allegati 1815 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Ovaro, Lenzone, Luint, Cludinico and Entrampo, «Matrimoni, allegati» 1806–1815, complete Nothing | Every remaining village file of the Ovaro district — fourteen volumes, 296 images | No De Franceschi in any of the fourteen. With the twelve Mione volumes that closes the whole Ovaro run of twenty-six files and 716 images, and it bounds the question: between 1806 and 1815 this family married once in the entire district, and it married at Muina.
The families that do appear are the same two dozen names over and over — De Corte, Lupieri, Fiorenzi, Vidale, Del Fabro, Conan, Caneva, Berton, Cavallari, Missana, Mazzolini, Del Missier, Biliani, Schivas, Dell'Ost, Novis, Colledan, Calderani, Del Osol, Lenna, Cavarnis, Vidal, Cortidas, Delle Corte, Agarinis, Fedele, Solari, Micoli and Micoli-Toscano.
Three of the fourteen are Istrian, which is the real yield: Cittanova and Verteneglio in 1806, Capodistria in 1807, San Lorenzo near Pirano in 1807.
A note on coverage, because it matters. Every short certificate and every baptismal or death extract was read in full. The long notarial consents were read from their opening lines, which name the parties and the village. The largest files were not transcribed line by line — so a surname buried mid-act as a neighbour or a boundary could still be there. This is a negative for the parties to these marriages, not a guarantee about every word on every page. What it produced on this siteThe other fourteen files · All twelve Mione files · Antenati — Ovaro, Matrimoni allegati | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Danilo Klen, «Urbar Petre Pilose iz 1425. godine», Starine 58 (1980), pp. 85–124 Nothing | Whether the 1425 tax roll of the Petrapilosa fief reaches this family at Šterna or Sovinjak | It does not, and the reason is worth recording so nobody chases it twice.
The urbar is a household-by-household survey taken in 1421–25, after Venice seized Petra Pilosa, Buzet and Oprtalj from the Patriarch of Aquileia. The villages it covers are Zrenj (Sdregna), Čepić, Šalež, Nugla, Grimalda, Crnica, Sočerga and Kodolje, with Vrh and Draguć appearing at the edges.
Neither Šterna nor Sovinjak is in it — and those are the two places where this family is actually documented in Istria in the eighteenth century, with Zuane Franceschi buried at Sovinjak in 1759 and Sebastiano De Franceschi born and buried there on 6 August 1783. The fief was a smaller and more northerly thing than its later district name suggests.
The surname appears three times in the article and never in the roll. All three are citations of Carlo de Franceschi and his son Camillo De Franceschi, the Istrian historians — and they are quoted disagreeing. Klen notes that Benussi relied on Carlo's 1852 identification of «castrum Rivin» with a castle on the upper Mirna, without noticing that Carlo himself abandoned it in his Note storiche of 1879, allowing that «Druine» might be old forms of Draguć. Camillo then asserted that «Ruvin» was Rovinj, «whatever has been written to the contrary» — contradicting his own father in print, fifty years on.
This archive holds Carlo's letter to Kobler and cites Camillo's family archive at Trieste. It had not seen the two of them argue. What it produced on this siteIstria · Carlo's letter · The article, read in full | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Morti» 1806 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Nothing | The death of Osvaldo de Franceschi the elder, bracketed to September 1805 – August 1806 | Not there, and now we know why.
The entire 1806 death register for the Comune di Mione contains one act: Gio: Batta Antonio Giovanni Brenci, aged three years and nine months, died 18 November at half past eight, registered on 20 November 1806 by Giovanni Micoli-Toscano, who went to the house of the heirs of the late Zuanne Brenci to view the body.
Civil death registration at Mione begins in November 1806. Osvaldo consented to his daughter's marriage on 7 September 1805 and was dead by August 1806 — before the series starts. No amount of reading Antenati will produce his death.
It can only be in the parish book of the Pieve di Gorto. That promotes the Pieve registers from a good idea to the only route. What it produced on this siteThe 1806 act · The corrections · Mione, Morti 1806 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — the nominative name index Nothing | Whether the Mione and Ovaro registers are name-indexed, which would make page-by-page reading unnecessary | They are not, and this is why nobody has found these people before.
The index returns 418 records for the surname de franceschi across Italy. Its own locality facet lists Roma (63), Brescia (59), Dosolo (45), San Ferdinando (26), Genova (21) and thirty-nine more. Ovaro, Mione, Tolmezzo, Comeglians and Rigolato appear nowhere in it — not in the facet, not in the results.
Paluzza does appear, which shows Carnia is not excluded as a region; this particular commune simply has not been indexed.
So there is no shortcut. The twenty-seven Mione volumes have to be read image by image, which is exactly what this archive has been doing, and exactly why the four sightings of 14 September were not already known to anyone. What it produced on this siteAll twelve Mione allegati · Method · Antenati — nominative search | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Matrimoni» 1810 and 1811 Nothing | Any De Franceschi marriage in the two years after Orsola's | Clean. 1810 runs Steffani × Micoli, Brenci × Steffani and three more; 1811 runs Steffani, Bulfon, Gortan and the rest. The witnesses are the same Lupieri, Micoli, Brovedan and Bressan of Luint and Muina.
No De Franceschi in either year, in any role. The family's marriages cluster in 1806, 1808 and 1809 and then stop, which is what redirected this archive to the death registers — where a stated age reaches back before the series begins.
Scanned page by page rather than transcribed; the later pages of the 1811 volume are badly faded. What it produced on this siteThe death registers · Mione, Matrimoni 1810 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Morti» 1813 (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Nothing | Any De Franceschi in the 1813 death register — read act by act, then checked against the volume's own alphabetical table | Seventeen deaths, and not one of them ours.
The comune buried seventeen people in 1813 across Mione, Muina, Luint, Luincis, Ovasta, Agrons, Liariis and Entrampo. The surnames are Bulfon, Della Pietra, Senni, Pol, Rossi, Raffael, Tolson, Steffani, Nino, Fortin, Duminj, Urban, Vernier and one «infante maschio non battezzato» at Agrons.
No De Franceschi as the dead, as a parent, or as a witness.
The volume taught the method that made 1815 cheap. Its last leaf is a «Tavola Alfabetica» — surname, village, day, month, act number, folio, in a ruled table. Every Mione register from 1813 onward has one. Reading the table takes three screenfuls; reading the acts took seventeen.
One near miss worth recording: the witness at act 14 signs as «Osvald'Antonio», which is our carpenter's name exactly. He is a Tolson. What it produced on this siteThe table that found her · Mione, Morti 1813 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 Sept 2026 | Portale Antenati — Mione, «Matrimoni» 1813 and 1814, alphabetical tables (Archivio di Stato di Udine) Nothing | Any De Franceschi marriage in 1813 or 1814, read off each volume's own «Tavola Alfabetica» | Nine marriages in two years, and none of them ours.
The method that broke open the death registers works on the marriage registers too: from 1813 each volume ends with a ruled table giving surname and forename of both parties, the frazione, the date, the act number and the folio. Two pages answered what would otherwise have been twenty.
1813 — five marriages (ark an_ua667522, image 11): Del Fabro Gio: Giacomo × Maria de' Prato, Agrons, 26 Feb · Erman Mar.o × Maria Fran.ca de' Prato, Agrons, 29 Aug · Fabris Ant.o × Gortan Maddalena, Ovasta, 28 Sept · Gortan Ant.o × Rupil Maddalena, Luincis, 7 Oct · Corpo Micoli Daniele × Micoli Toscano Maria, Muina, 22 Sept.
1814 — four marriages (ark an_ua667523, image 9): one at Chialina 6 June · one at Muina 16 Aug · one at Entrampo 29 Sept · one × Lupieri Giovanna at Luint 21 Oct.
One row to come back to. The 1813 Erman marriage is at Agrons, not Mione — but this archive established today that at Mione «Erman de' Franceschi» is one signed name, so Erman rows can no longer be passed over as a neighbouring family without looking.
Matrimoni 1812 (11 images) and 1815 (5 images) have no tables and are still to be swept. What it produced on this site«Erman de' Franceschi» · The tables · Mione, Matrimoni 1813 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 Sept 2026 | Queensland Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages — historical index Nothing | Every spelling of the surname this archive carries — DEFRANCESKI, DEFRANCESCHI, DE FRANCESCHI, FRANCESCHI — across births to 1926, marriages to 1951 and deaths to 1996 | Nothing, under any spelling, in 167 years of the Queensland register.
DEFRANCESKI returns zero. DEFRANCESCHI returns zero. FRANCESCHI returns two, and neither is ours — Joseph Franceschi, who married Menichina Amedei in 1877, and Jacques Ange Franceschi, a Corsican-French name, who died in 1989 to Albert Franceschi and Marcelle. (The two-word «DE FRANCESCHI» appears to return a hundred rows, but the space defeats the index's exact-match flag and it falls back to fuzzy matching — the results are «de Ruyter de Wildt» and «de Jong de Silva». It is not a holding.)
And the null is the expected one, which is why it is worth writing down rather than worrying about. This family's only two Queensland deaths are Mario De Franceschi in 2013 and Antony De Franceski in 1999. The index closes deaths at 1996. Both fall outside it by design, not by absence — so this search could not have found them, and finding nothing else means there was no earlier Queensland branch.
The arrival in Brisbane is as recent as this archive says. Nobody of this name registered a birth, a marriage or a death in Queensland before 1996. What it produced on this siteCorsica · Where the name went · The marriages · Queensland BDM historical index | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Defunctorum — DGS 005497894, image 572 (book pages 174–175) Nothing | February – June 1833, entries 45–81 | Thirty-seven entries, no De Franceschi. But this stretch is where the parish register stops being only about the parish.
Entry 73, 24 April 1833, «Caserma Militare» — not a house number but the barracks. «Giorgio Carl… soldato della Compagnia XXI, Battaglione III, Reggimento XXII Principe Leopoldo, entrò nel 1808» — dead of an inflammation of the bone «in parte per caduta accidentale», in part from an accidental fall. Enlisted in 1808 and still serving in 1833: twenty-five years a soldier.
That is the third appearance of the XXII Prince Leopold regiment on this film — page 164 entry 11, page 172 entry 8, and now this. The regiment was quartered at Vodnjan, and the parish buried its men and its men's children.
Entry 71, 22 April, house 280. «La Sig.ra Elisabetta nata Klettner fu Ignazio, Vedova del Sig.r Francesco Kneipf, nata … in Moravia» — a Moravian gentlewoman, dead of apoplexy and buried on the 24th.
Taken with the gunner Giorgio Sabotz and the man from a district in the Friulian provinces, that is four outsiders in about a year, each given more biography by this register than most of the town's own children get. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Defunctorum — DGS 005497894, images 569–570 (book pages 168–171) Nothing | August 1832 – January 1833, entries 84–157 and 1833/1–3 | Seventy-seven entries, no De Franceschi. The year 1832 is now closed — entries 1 to 157, read end to end — and 1833 has opened.
A fifth pair of twins. Entries 124 and 125, both 18 October 1832, both house 149: «Dom.co figlio gemello» and «Antonio figlio gemello», dead the same day. That is five sets of twins buried together in about eighteen months of one parish's register.
Two outsiders who died here and are not of the town. Entry 98, 5 September, has no house number at all — a man of a commune in another province, dead of febbre perniciosa with no priest. Entry 121, 15 October, is «Giorgio Sabotz, canoniere» — a gunner of a foreign regiment, also without the sacraments. The register takes them in and says where they came from, which is more than it does for most of the town's own children.
One entry still unseen: number 83, which sits at the foot of page 167 below the rows already read. Written down here rather than glossed over, because the entry numbers are the only checksum this reading has. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The Register · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Defunctorum — DGS 005497894, images 566–568 (book pages 164–167) Nothing | January – July 1832, entries 7–82 | Seventy-six entries, no De Franceschi. The 1832 sequence now runs unbroken from entry 1 to 82.
One candidate, examined and given up. Entry 21, 14 January 1832, house 238: «Domenico figlio del fu Ant.o De Ribecchi fu Dom.co e della fu Bonetta da Francesche giugali». At scanning zoom that last phrase is indistinguishable from De Franceschi. At full magnification it is not: the preposition is da, not de, and the ending is -esche, not -eschi. That makes three such candidates given up on this film — the other two were «q.m Francesco» and «di Francesco» on image 560.
A fourth pair of twins, and the hardest entry of the stretch: 24 July 1832, house 109, «N. nato morto» — a child born dead and not named — and four days later, same house, same parents, «Giacomo figlio gemello». One twin stillborn, the other dead within the week. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The plates · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Defunctorum — DGS 005497894, images 561–564, left-hand pages (book pages 156, 158, 160) Nothing | The gap: entries 20–37, 57–77, 95–119 of 1831 | The hole closed. The left-hand page of every frame had been going unread; three of them are now read, and the 1831 sequence runs continuously from entry 20 to entry 167 with no frame unaccounted for.
Sixty-five further entries, no De Franceschi beyond the two already published. Two more pairs of twins dead together — Giovanni and Giovanna Baratich, both 20 August 1831, house 471; Domenica and Maria Manzin, both 1 January 1832, house 422. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Defunctorum — DGS 005497894, images 564–565 (book pages 161, 162, 163) Nothing | August 1831 – January 1832, entries 120–167 and 1832/1–6 | Forty-eight consecutive entries, no De Franceschi. Recorded because a family archive that only writes down its hits cannot tell you how thoroughly it has looked.
Two things on these pages are worth keeping anyway. Page 161 carries a bishop's visitation note in a different hand: «Vidi die 5.ta 9mbris 1832 — Antonius, Ep.us Parent.» — I saw this on 5 November 1832, Antonio, Bishop of Parenzo. The diocesan inspection, signed in the book itself. And every page closes with the parroco's own signature, «Joannes Tromba Sac. Th. D.r Parochus» — the priest this archive already knows from the marriage register.
1832 opens with twin girls. Entries 2 and 3, both 1 January 1832, both house 422: Domenica and Maria, «figlia gemella di Gio. Batta Manzin q.m Lorenzo e di Bonetta Manzin di Venier giugali» — twin sisters, dead the same day. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · The marriages · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Sept 2026, answered | Hotel Kvarner Palace, Crikvenica — the former Hotel Therapia Nothing | Whether anything survives from the years Hedviga Blažević is said to have sung there | A full and generous answer, and the answer is that the paper is gone. Martina Riedl of the Kvarner Palace replies that the hotel has been owned by the Austrian Holleis family since 2004, and that almost nothing survives from the period asked about: «we do not have guest books, personnel records, seasonal or entertainment programmes, posters or similar documents from the immediate post-war years… we assume that a large part of the original documentation and historical material was unfortunately lost over the decades.»
They had already tried themselves. «When we took over the hotel approximately twelve years ago, we ourselves made considerable efforts to research the history of the property and the former Hotel Therapia… From the immediate post-war period that you are particularly interested in, we were unable to find practically anything.» They do not know where, or whether, any of it was transferred.
One lead came with it. They suggest Theodor de Canziani Jakšić, whose family's historical collection is at Villa Ružić, Rijeka, as a man with exceptional knowledge of the region and contacts among its historians, archives, museums and private collectors.
And a standing offer, which is worth honouring: if this research turns up anything on the Therapia — documents, photographs, programmes — they would be glad of it for the hotel's own history.
So the family memory that Hedviga sang at the Therapia and met Ivan Defranceski there stands where it stood: as testimony, uncorroborated, and now with the hotel's own archive formally eliminated as a route to it. What it produced on this siteCrikvenica · The errands · Villa Ružić, Rijeka — the de Canziani Jakšić collection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1875 and 1877–78 (Internet Archive full text) Nothing | The Aquilone's port of registry | She is not in it. Both volumes downloaded and searched in full; the only near match is the French Aquilon of Jersey, 48 tons. That is informative rather than disappointing: Lloyd's classed British ships and foreign ships whose owners paid London. An Austrian barque of 350 tons belongs on the register of the Austro-Hungarian Veritas, whose books are at Trieste and Rijeka. The port of registry — the fact that would say whether she was a Bakar, Rijeka or Lošinj ship — has to be asked there. What London gives instead is her Cardiff agent, G. Montaldo & Co. What it produced on this siteRijeka and Bakar · The Register · At sea · Internet Archive full-text search | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2026 | Findmypast — deaths of Bruno and Gerda de Franceschi Nothing | A death record for either of them | Nothing. Bruno died at Millbrook, New York, on 6 July 2000 by his gravestone, and the Social Security Death Index and obituary collections on Findmypast carry neither him nor Gerda. Their dates come from the stone and from the naturalisation papers, and that is where they stay. What it produced on this siteThe headstones · Findmypast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | «Galeb» and «Kvarner», the two Bakar newspapers Nothing | The surname in all five spellings, with control searches to prove the OCR layer works | Zero, in every spelling, across both complete runs — and the controls pass («Galeb» returns 107 for «Bakar»; «Kvarner» 102 for «narod»). A genuine absence, not a scanning failure. The one apparent hit is Istrian election news reported from Bakar. It does not disprove a Bakar family, but the local press never once had cause to print the name, which for a numerous local family would be odd. The parish registers remain the real test. What it produced on this siteRijeka and Bakar · The plates · The parish books · Stare hrvatske novine — NSK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | isidore.co «Res pro Deo» journal collection Nothing | The complete text layer of the Catholic Historical Review, Nova et Vetera and The Thomist — 496 issues, 236 MB | Zero occurrences of any spelling of the surname connected to this family, and zero for all twenty place-names. Every «De Franceschi» in five gigabytes of theology is a French historian of Jansenism, a Sienese printer, or a Venetian chancery secretary. The one thing worth keeping was a pointer to Orbanić's 1788 Pićan visitation. What it produced on this siteOmiš · Isidore | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | «Nova et Vetera» 21:2 (2023) Nothing | Read cover to cover | One footnote citing Sylvio Hermann De Franceschi, a living French historian. Nothing else. · Nova et Vetera (Project MUSE) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Zelda Alice Franceschi, curriculum vitae Nothing | Read in full | A Bologna anthropologist of the Argentine Gran Chaco. The surname is the author's own and there is no connection to this family. What it produced on this siteWhere the name went · Università di Bologna — staff page | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Benedetti, «From Venice to Cairo» (2022) Nothing | Read in full | Concerns Andrea de' Franceschi, Venetian grand chancellor, of Cividale di Belluno — a different family. Useful only as a caution about how many unrelated houses carry this name. · Scholar — Benedetti (2022) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Bruni, «Peace at the Lily» (2018) Nothing | Read in full | Concerns Francesco De Franceschi, printer, «born in Siena around 1530». A third unrelated family. · Scholar — Bruni (2018) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Kurelić, «Eagle and Lion» (CEU thesis, 2013) Nothing | Read in full | Excellent background on the sixteenth-century Pazin frontier and a useful Istrian place-name gazetteer, but every «De Franceschi» in it is a citation of Carlo or Camillo as authors. Six Gologorica marriages in the Boljun register 1585–1608, none of this surname — consistent with a later arrival. What it produced on this siteGologorica · The marriages · CEU electronic theses | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Centro di ricerche storiche, Rovigno (crsrv.org) — site search Nothing | «franceschi», «de franceschi», «defranceschi», «gologorica», «gallignana», «sanvincenti», «carnia», «pisino» against the site's own search, then all 345 publication pages crawled and grepped | The site index reaches only volume tables of contents. Every «franceschi» match is «catasto franceschino» — the Franciscan cadastre, not the surname. Nothing at title level. One title worth noting for the other family: Niki Fakin, «Il catasto franceschino di Umago», Atti XXIX. What it produced on this siteGologorica · Carnia · Carlo De Franceschi · Centro di ricerche storiche, Rovigno | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Hrčak (hrcak.srce.hr) — the háček spellings Nothing | «Defrančeski» and «Defrančeschi» run separately against the Croatian open-access journal portal | No article-level hits under either form. The háček spelling survives in the newspapers and in living use, not in the scholarship, which uses the Italian orthography throughout. · Hrčak — Portal of Croatian scientific journals | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Monheim (Bavaria) and Zagreb — the rest of the map pin Nothing | German record indexes, Croatian digitised newspapers, and burial indexes searched for a Defranceschi at Monheim and for a death of Grga at Zagreb | Nothing for either. The Monheim pin is Monheim in the Donau-Ries, not Monheim am Rhein — about a hundred kilometres from Metzingen, and Metzingen is four from Pfullingen. Both the Monheim line and «Grga dies in Zagreb» carry no note, no date and no document on the map they came from, and neither could be confirmed here. The nearest thing is a Zagreb grave for Marija Defrančeski, 1884–1971, two years off Grga's daughter Maria of 1882 — suggestive, not proof, and left as such. What it produced on this sitePfullingen · Where the name went · The headstones · Where the name went | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | «Franceschi dalle Rose» Nothing | The byname on David's old map, pinned Ravenna → Venice 1040 → Giudecca | No such family in the literature. The byname «dalle Rose» belongs to the Donà — the Donà dalle Rose, a Venetian noble house with origins in Romagna and Altinum, two Doges, and a surviving main branch whose archive is at the Museo Correr. The pin's Ravenna-to-Venice sequence is the Donà origin story. Recorded as a probable conflation so that it is not repeated. · Namesakes, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Crikvenica baptisms, 1901–1903 Nothing | The three names the Crikvenica monument adds — a ZO… born 1894, a POLD… born 1901 and RUŽA JARMACKI née DEFRANCESCHI 1903–1939, none of them on this archive's list of Josip and Ana's children. Searched signed in to FamilySearch across the indexed records, the catalogue film notes, the full-text corpus, and the Croatian State Archives portal | Settled, and the answer is that they are not online. FamilySearch's Crikvenica holding, catalogue item 522842, gives its own coverage in the film notes: Rođeni 1859–1896, Vjenčani 1859–1908, Umrli 1859–1892 and 1893–1908. The births stop in 1896 and the other two series run twelve years further. The same cut is on every parish along that coast — Senj births end 1894 with marriages to 1920, Bribir births end 1886, Grižane 1886. It is the hundred-year rule as it stood when the films were made. The family's own photographs stop at 1896 because they were taken from the film. FamilySearch full-text search — which does read unindexed images — holds no Croatian church-book collection; its nearest are Italian civil registration and a Zadar-only Dalmatian births series. ARHiNET is gone: NAIS was retired in June 2020 for HAIS, and hais.arhiv.hr resolves but times out from here. The next step is a letter to the Župni ured at Crikvenica or to the Rijeka archdiocese, not another search. What it produced on this siteCrikvenica · Senj · Rijeka and Bakar · Crikvenica, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Donji Proložac, deaths 1837–1859 — swept page by page Nothing | The whole register read for the surname, to test the Frančeski gravestone the family photographed in that churchyard. FamilySearch film 005494056, item 2, images 61–111, unindexed; read by composing the Deep Zoom tiles of each page's name column at full resolution | No Franceschi and no Frančeski in twenty-two years of that parish's dead. The surnames are Šegarić, Prlina, Ćurić, Grizinić, Zorko, Martinis, Vlašanović, Smoljan, Dujmović, Babajko, Točina, Fazinić, Kosulić, Šimac, Marinović, Rosulić, Šinožić — a Croatian peasant parish with no Italian household in it, and the names do not change even when the register itself switches from Italian to Croatian in the 1850s. One near miss checked and discarded: «Maria Martinna Franinacich», image 74. A complete negative is worth more here than a hit would have been: it says the family were not parishioners of Proložac, so the stone is either later than 1859 or belongs to someone brought there — and there is a reason they would be brought there, because their own church at Opačac is in the immediate vicinity of the village. Next: Imotski deaths after 1851, and the Proložac deaths from 1859 on, which are not on FamilySearch but are digitised on HDA rolls ZM-34F/1118 and ZM-34F/1119. What it produced on this siteImotski · The headstones · The plates · Imotski, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | The Zoppola thread — tested and cut Nothing | The one clue that pointed the Pula–Fažana–Ližnjan cluster at Friuli: a Giambattista De Franceschi with children registered at Zoppola in Udine in 1779, 1811 and 1813 | Not evidence. A Smart Match. Four things kill it. The tree gives the same father a daughter Lucia born 1779 and dead 1813 and a second daughter Lucia born 19 January 1811 — a second living daughter given her sister's name, which does not happen; so these are two men. The 1813 citation names him «Giambattista De Franceschi o Samassa», and Samassa is a Zoppola surname in its own right — Samassa Rachele and Samassa Giovanni are both in Zoppola's own civil registers. A full-text sweep returns De Franceschi all across that plain: Azzano Decimo 1897, Cordenons, Pordenone 1888 and 1898, Zoppola. And Zoppola is the Friulian plain twenty-five kilometres west of Pordenone; Carnia is sixty kilometres north, in the mountains — so even a real link would not have been a Carnian one. The cluster is back to having no origin, which is the honest position. What it produced on this siteCarnia · Ližnjan · The corrections, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | «Piazza Maggiore era troppo piccola» — OCR'd Nothing | The third of the four image-only scans, converted and searched | Nothing, and it is not even the right century. One hundred and thirty-one pages converted; a single occurrence of the name, and it is Lydia Franceschi, in a report of an Italian workers' and students' meeting of the late 1970s. The book is about the Bologna student movement. No Istrian place-name in it worth the count. Recorded so it is never opened for this purpose again. What it produced on this siteThe plates · The plates, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | «Hrvati i Karolinzi» — the 2000 exhibition catalogue, OCR'd Nothing | Two hundred pages of the fourth image-only scan converted and searched | No person of the name, and none expected — the catalogue is about the ninth century. But the surname is in it three times, and every one of them is Camillo De Franceschi in the bibliography, cited for his 1932 and 1933 work on the early-medieval church sculpture of Pula and Sv. Ivan od Nimfeja, alongside Gnirs, Marušić, Šonje and Rapanić. Sixty-seven years after he published, the standard national catalogue of Croatia's Carolingian-period art still cites him by name. Recorded as a nil return for people and a footnote for Camillo. What it produced on this siteThe plates · Muzej hrvatskih arheoloških spomenika | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Rotilio Defranceschi, in Argentina and in America Nothing | «Rotilio» as a given name across the Argentine record; the surname in Argentina 1900–1910; and the whole United States index | Nothing, and the lore loses its one prop. A dozen Argentine Rotilios — Voltolini, Cichini, Moreira, Jurado, Ballesteros — and not one of the surname; a dozen Argentine Defranceschi, all of them an Italian-mainland stock with Piergiacomi and Rosso in-laws, and not one Rotilio. Meanwhile the album's detail that «he married Albina Chinkopan» turns out to be his sister's marriage: Albina De Franceschi, born 14 April 1900, married Frank Chinkopan of the same village and died at Brooklyn in 1945. Published on the Eleven. What it produced on this siteThe Eleven of Gračišće · Where the name went · The marriages · Where the name went | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Raymundus Defranceschi, b. 9 October 1823 Nothing | The Status Animarum page re-read at full magnification, and every index searched in every spelling of both names | Alive at home and unmarried in about 1848, and then nothing at all. The house 5 page gives him all four sacramental ticks and leaves both the marriage and the death column empty — as it does for all four sons. The indexes have no Raymundus, Raimondo, Rajmund or Raymond of this surname anywhere on earth, in any century. The eldest son of the house vanishes and the second son inherits, which is why this archive's whole spine runs through Antonio. Three bounded things would break it: the Gallignana death register 1848–1880, the marriage register for the same years, and the Austrian conscription lists for the County of Pazin. What it produced on this siteGologorica · The marriages · The Register, on this site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Pomara, «An Attempted Albanian Settlement in Istria (1610–1612)», Diasporas 43 (2025) Nothing | An open-access article on Venetian-organised settlement in Istria | No person of the name. Carlo De Franceschi is cited as an authority — on the depopulation of Istria and on Poreč falling to some three hundred souls by 1601 — which is one more instance of the historian still being quoted, this time in 2025. Nothing for the family. What it produced on this siteCarlo De Franceschi · Where the name went · Diasporas (OpenEdition) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Pomorski i povijesni muzej Hrvatskog primorja, Rijeka Nothing | The museum's digital collection searched for the surname | The public search returns nothing for any spelling, and the interface is script-driven rather than searchable from here. Not a negative worth trusting — 75,000 objects in 48 collections, and the digital fundus is a fraction of it. The museum should be written to, along with the Rijeka city archive about the De Franceschi pier. What it produced on this siteRijeka and Bakar · Pomorski i povijesni muzej HP, Rijeka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 2026 | Count Damian de Franceschis (Gallignana, 1720) — searched again Nothing | Carlo De Franceschi's «L'Istria: note storiche» (1879) downloaded whole and searched | Not there. The full text of Carlo's own history of Istria contains no Damiano de Franceschi and no count of the surname — nine occurrences of «Franceschi» in the whole book, none of them him. So the only man ever recorded as Comes Damianus de Franceschis is still known from exactly one line of one baptism register, and the family's own historian, writing a hundred and sixty years later about his own county, had never heard of him. What it produced on this siteGologorica · Carlo De Franceschi · FamilySearch record search | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐ MEDULIN, the 1648–1704 book SCOUTED END TO END — all 24 frames, and the surname is not in it Other | Whether the Defranceschi are at Medulin before Ližnjan's books open in 1815 — the question «nata e Medolino» raised | ⭐⭐ THE WHOLE BOOK IS READ AND THE NAME IS NOT IN IT. Twenty-four frames, every one rendered at native resolution and looked at. The register runs baptisms 1677–1705 and marriages 1666–1704, bound out of order. Not one Defranceschi, De Franceschi, Franceschi or Defranceski appears anywhere in it.
⭐ AND THE NEGATIVE IS THE FINDING, because of WHAT is there instead. Medulin in these years is a village of Croatian patronymics and nothing else: Radonovich (dominant — dozens of entries), Micaglievich, Gracalich, Grubisich, Golemovich, Stefanelich, Marinovich, Surionich, Braicovich, Galavich, Loggenae, Camevich, Giuras, Sain, Godina, Lorenzin, Tanuda, Boglich, Radosevich, Lazarich, Voinich, Pribinovich, Micolich, Franulich, Boiach, Bosiscovich, Pettinovich, Goncalich, Sule, Guerilla, Sfarich, Miscich, Craneich, Garbin, Mucich, Baioch, Carlich. The only Italian names in the book are the clergy — D. Pietro Binussi the long-serving pievano, D. Ant.o Zuanich, Pre Bortolo Chrulich the chaplain, P. Bernardino Corniani, Mattio Juliani — and one gentleman godfather, «il sig.r Toscavin Filiaretto». There is no Italian-surnamed household at Medulin in this book at all.
⭐⭐ THE PLACE-NAME QUESTION IS SETTLED, in the parish's own hand. The archive had to take on trust that «nata e Medolino» in the 1861 Ližnjan marriage meant this village. The book says so itself, four times over: «D. Pietro Binussi Piev.o di MEDULINO» (frame 12, the incumbent styling his own cure), «Gerol.mo Gracalich da MEDOLIN» (frame 11, a witness), «Io Piero, Pre di MEDOLIN» (frame 19, 23 November 1666) and again at 12 February 1674. Medolino is Medulin, on the evidence of the parish that wrote it.
⭐⭐ AND LIŽNJAN IS ALL OVER THIS BOOK, from 1666. At least ten instances: godparents «da Lisigna» and «da Lisignan» (frames 5, 7 ×2, 12, 16, 17, 22 ×3, 23), a bride «Perca … Medosich da Lisignan» married at Medulin on 26 December 1671, and the one that matters most — «Io Pre Ant.o de Lorenzin, PIEV. DI LISIGNAN» officiating a marriage recorded in the MEDULIN book, 9 October 1666. The two parishes' clergy served each other's altars. That is a hundred and fifty years before the 1815 Ližnjan marriage this archive has been trying to explain, and it means traffic between the two villages is not a hypothesis but a documented habit.
⭐ LAZARICH IS A MEDULIN FAMILY. The 1861 Ližnjan bride is «Fosca nata Lazarić … nata e Medolino». Lazarich stands in this book twice as a Medulin name — a godmother in February 1701 and a godfather in April 1705. Her surname belongs here, independently of her own entry.
⚠⚠ TWO OPENINGS OF THIS BOOK ARE IN GLAGOLITIC AND WERE NOT READ. Frame 21's right page and frame 22's left page are written in the Croatian liturgical script, not the Italian hand of the rest — four or five entries each, with ruled rubric lines. This session cannot read Glagolitic and does not pretend to. They are recorded as unread, not as nil. A name could be in them, rendered in Glagolitic letters, and nothing here would have caught it.
⚠ And frame 14's left page is not faint but GONE — the iron-gall has washed out completely, leaving two date headers (15 9bre 1693, one struck through) and about four lines of ghost. A contrast stretch over the 2nd–70th percentile recovered nothing further. What it produced on this siteLižnjan · The Lines · Medulin «Matična knjiga rođenih 1648-1649, vjenčanih 1666-1704», waypoint 9R29-T3D · Arhiv JAZU Sign. VIII-158 · film Arhiv Hrvatske Zagreb, emulsion 27390105, project YU 00003, roll 24, item 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2026 | ✔✔ DAPA ZM34K-214 — NIL: the parish buried no Defranceschi man in 1782, nine deaths named — and two Josephus rows are adjudicated as one Other | Worklist 223: two roster rows for a Josephus Defranceschi of Gologorica, one carrying a pedigree's 1722–1782 with all the archive's documents on it, one carrying MyHeritage's 1723–1787 with none — and a death register that buries the documented man at the end of 1787, aged sixty-four. The way to settle it is to read the year the first row claims. | ✔✔ NIL, AND EVERY NAME IS GIVEN. Nine men and boys died at Gologorica in 1782 and the register names them all:
guiseppe-josephus-josip-defranceschi-1723 is marked sameAs: josephus-defranceschi-1722. Neither id moves.
⚠ And a note against the archive rather than the registers. The identity question was real and needed this nil. The mechanism was not a question — thirty rows already carry sameAs, *and this archive wrote that lesson down on 5 October after a session escalated a settled shape. This one was escalated to a worklist item for half a day.
⚠ Left open, and only this: the birth year — 1722 declared, c. 1723 implied by the age, 1723 on the joined row. A baptism entry would end it; nothing else will.What it produced on this siteThe nil, the adjudication and what it leaves open · The row that keeps the documented man · The row marked «sameAs» · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-214 — the Gologorica death INDEX, letter G and the Extranei, read for GRAH: no household, and the one Krbune incomer is a Bortlich Other | Worklist 218, written an hour earlier, set this as the cheapest first step after the Krbune film came back a nil: the Gologorica death index is alphabetical by household and would hand over a Grah block with page numbers in one sitting. | ⚠ THERE IS NO GRAH BLOCK. THE SITTING TOOK FIVE FRAMES AND THE ANSWER IS A SECOND NIL.
The complete «G» run of the index, in order, M01069302–M01069303:
> Gasparich alias Millos N.º 37 et 38 · Gaspetich N.º 5 · Gherbaz alias Juranis N.º 22 · Gherfan Martinus N.º 108 · Gherfan Matth. N.º 98 · Giurando Jo. N.º 115 · Giuratich (cross-referenced to Crossmaich and Zabran Giuratich) · Gregorovich Bortoni N.º 86
Then the «I» column, blank, and «L». Gr— begins and ends with Gregorovich. No Grah. No Grach.
⚠ And that nil has a known hole, which is why the second half of this search was done. This index is a HOUSEHOLD directory and a married woman is entered under her husband's surname. So a Grah daughter who married into Gologorica is invisible in it — Theresia is under «Defranceschi Joanes Bapta detti Leonardi N.º 12» and nowhere else. Only a Grah heading a house would show.
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⭐ SO THE EXTRANEI LIST WAS READ, WHICH IS THE ONE PLACE A KRBUNE PERSON WOULD BE FILED. The index closes with a column of people who died in the parish and did not belong to it, each with the place they came from. It is six names for the whole of 1784–1880, so it is short enough to be complete:
What it produced on this siteThe Grach · The work list · The Gologorica line · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ NIL, CONTROLLED — there is NO GRAH or GRACH in the Krbune register 1803–1870. Worklist 168's walk is answered without walking it Other | Worklist 168 has said since 1 October that the Krbune surname walk — 124 images, births ~2–60, deaths ~70–115, marriages ~115–124 — is the job. Before spending a session on it, the question was asked whether the volume is indexed. | ⭐ IT IS INDEXED, COMPLETELY, AND NOBODY HERE HAD CHECKED. The row that opened this volume on 9 October recorded «no indexes are available for this image» from the film's header card — which is true of the header card and false of the register. Image 70 carries a full Image Index panel:* «Fusca Valcovich · Female · 0 · 1821», «Josephus Fonevich · Male · 65 · 1756».
THE CONTROL, RUN FIRST, because a nil without one is worthless and this archive manufactured false nils from hand-built FamilySearch URLs twice today:
Gra* wildcard was run precisely so that a misspelling would still surface. If the Grah are in this book they are under a first letter other than G.
⭐ And the family did not vanish — it moved, and the archive already holds the evidence. The 1826 Gologorica census has Marianna Grah, daughter of Mathias and Justina, in the Bubich household. They are at Gologorica, whose books are on the family's own hard drive, which is the third time today that the answer to a Krbune question has turned out to be in a Gologorica book.What it produced on this siteThe work list · The Grach · Theresia Defranceschi, née Grach · Krbune | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐⭐ NIL — Catharina née Jablich's marriage is NOT in the Gologorica register 1779–1788; and the entry that is probably hers has been on the Bakar page for a week Other | The whole object of this week's walk: the marriage of Catharina née Jablich of Buccari to the Joannes Baptista of house 36. She was born about 1766 and her first known child died at eleven days in March 1786, so the marriage falls in roughly 1779–1785 — inside this volume. | ⚠ NOT THERE, AND HERE IS EXACTLY WHAT WAS TRIED.
walked: false accordingly.
⚠ The six unread frames cannot hold her: M01068996–98 and M01069000–01 are 1770–1779, when she is a child; M01069006 is 1788–89, long after her first baby.
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⭐⭐⭐ AND THE NIL POINTS SOMEWHERE — AT THIS ARCHIVE'S OWN BAKAR PAGE.
A bride marries in her own parish. Hers is Bakar. Worklist 166 said so on 30 September: «look for Jablich, not only for the surname — a marriage of a Jablich daughter to a Joannes Baptista Defranceschi, before 1786, is a specific entry in a specific decade».
It is already published, on the page about the Bakar household:
> «A separate entry has a «Joannem Defranceschi» marrying «Catharinam SABLICH» — either the same man remarried, or a brother.» — the Bakar household
«Sablich» · «Jablich». One letter, in two indexes, read for two different questions, and never set side by side.
⭐ The age arithmetic clears the way: the Bakar household's Catharina was born 1734, died 1819, children baptised 1773 and 1776. Ours was seven in 1773. So she is not the Akačić wife, and the Sablich marriage is unclaimed.
⚠ NOT CLAIMED. The index says «Joannem» where the entry above it says «Joanem Bap.» — so the indexer does distinguish them. No date is quoted for the Sablich entry anywhere in this archive, so it cannot yet be placed in the window at all. No register has been read.
THE TEST, AND IT NEEDS NO LETTER. The Kvarner parish-book table already holds the film: Bakar Marriages (Vjenčani) 1739–1857, FamilySearch waypoint 9R28-82Z. Which also answers worklist 166's step one — «establish whether the Bakar registers are filmed at all» — from a file this archive wrote itself.What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Catharina Defranceschi, née Jablich · The work list · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-215 — Gračišće BAPTISMS 1784–May 1808, the PARENTES block (Pater AND Mater) swept row by row: a clean nil Other | Close the SECOND half of the limit this archive flagged itself. Its warning named two hiding places — «a mother's maiden name or a godparent». The Patrini column was swept and gave twenty-one. This reads the Parentes block, Pater and Mater together, at four times the magnification of the original Pater pass. | CLEAN NIL, and it is the useful kind. All thirty-seven frames, 1784 to May 1808, roughly nine hundred baptisms, Pater and Mater read row by row at 1500px per page-half.
> Not one Defranceschi father. Not one Defranceschi mother. Not one mother entered «olim Defranceschi».
⭐ The third clause is new and does real work. This register writes maiden names as routine — «Maria Salamon olim Milotich», «Lucia Milotich olim Bergliaffa», «Mathia olim Pedignan», «Joanna Bitina olim Berbetich» — so a Defranceschi daughter married to a Gračišće man would be legible in that column. None is. That rules out «the daughters married in» as the explanation for this window.
⭐⭐ Set against the twenty-one godparent appearances, the shape is unambiguous: across twenty-four years the family is at this font twenty-one times and in the parents' columns not once, in any of the three ways the register could have recorded them.
⭐⭐⭐ AND THE SAME HOLE IS IN THE OTHER PARISH. ⚠ This row first said the children must have been baptised at Gologorica; the archive's own folio-by-folio read of that book says otherwise — «No Defranceschi child is baptised between 1788 and 1799», «No Defranceschi baptism between 1799 and 1806», «but the family is on almost every page as godparents». Corrected.
> For roughly fifteen years the Defranceschi baptise no children in EITHER parish, while standing at both fonts constantly, styled cives in both. Told on the line page.
✔ It also confirms the original Pater pass, which was read «at contact-sheet magnification» and said so. At four times that it agrees entirely. A stated limit that turns out not to have mattered is still worth having stated.
⭐ Two decanal visitation marks not previously held, both in the Gračišće book: «Revisus in Visitatione Decanali die 10ma Julii 1804» (M01070221) and «…die 5.ta [Julii] 1805» (M01070222). With the Anicich mark of 7 October 1807 and the Gologorica marks of 1804 and 1808, the dean signed these parishes off annually, and a deanery protocol is implied for every one of those years.
⚠ Also seen and not pursued: a «Pater Ignotus», a foundling «exposita ex Territorio Petinensi», and the noble Servulus Martinich / Francisca nata de Rapicio household recurring at least five times with Pazin godparents. What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · Corrections · Gračišće | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 Oct 2026 | ⭐⭐ DAPA ZM34K-215 — Gračišće (Gallignana) BAPTISMS 1746–1840, frames M01070190–M01070201: 1783–1792 read for the surname Other | Get at the generation above Joannes Baptista Defranceschi (b. 13 Aug 1787, «Gallignana house 5») without an errand: a baptism names a father, and the Gračišće baptism book is on reel 215, which this archive holds. | ⚠⚠ HIS BAPTISM IS NOT IN THE REGISTER. M01070195, headed «Annus 1787», runs 27 July → 2 September unbroken. Between 30 July and 23 August it holds three entries: 30 July h.196 Josephus, father «Josephus Fernasar»; an entry of ⟨—⟩ August h.179 Francisca, father «Georgius Limatich», struck through and annotated «rescissa»; and 23 August h.96 Josephus, father «Mathæus Vojscovich». No 13 August, and no Defranceschi.
⭐⭐ AND NO DEFRANCESCHI FATHER IN THE DECADE. Father column read across twelve consecutive frames, M01070190–M01070201 — roughly 300 baptisms, 1783–1792. Recurring surnames: Salamon (Joannes, Maria, Josephus, Barbara), Fernasar (Josephus, Georgius, Maria, Appolonia), Sestan (Joannes, Antonius, Joanna), Picot, Milotich, Miandrusich, Lanza, Brosan, Bursich, Zulle, Poldrugovaz, Vuxa, Jerbula. Not one Defranceschi.
⭐⭐⭐ Against this archive's own count of FIVE occurrences in the whole 1667–1745 Gračišće book, that makes the family not established at Gračišće in the eighteenth century. «Gallignana house 5» is somewhere the line ARRIVED, between 1792 and 1819. Raised as its own row.
⚠ Limits of the nil, stated: the father column was read, at contact-sheet magnification; a Defranceschi could stand as a mother's maiden name or a godparent, and one pair does in 1808. ~25 entries per page in a small hand. «None seen in twelve frames» is the claim; «none exists» is not. And the 13 August 1787 date is itself from a Status Animarum, not a register.
Also seen: the original certificate at the foot of M01070195 — «Exhib. In Visitatione Spirituali Gallignianæ die 24 Aprilis», signed «M. Bruñus Francovich … Cancel. Epis.» and «P. Petr. Martinus Hocovich … Cancell. Visit.» — the parish's own copy of the 1788 spiritual visitation this archive knows only through Orbanić's printed edition. What it produced on this siteThe Gologorica line · The direct line · Gračišće | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — Gologorica DEATHS, pages 7–8 (M01069231), 1788–1789 — and a re-check of two entries published the day before Other | Continuing down the death book's index — and applying, on the next page opened, the rule published hours earlier about «De—» surnames broken across a line. | No Defranceschi death on these pages — and that is the finding, because at page scale there appears to be one.
⭐ «Defrances[chi] · domus 84 · 10 Augusti 1788 · ANTONIO DE-FRANICH · annorum 70 · febris putrida». At page scale it reads as one of ours: an Antonio of seventy, in the family's own parish, surname broken after «De». Cut past the line break and the second syllable is «franich» — a third family. No row minted, nothing entered.
⚠ SO THERE ARE AT LEAST THREE «De—» FAMILIES IN THIS VILLAGE, and the officiant column of the same page shows two of them working side by side: «DEFRANCES[CHI], Presbyter Loci» and «D. JOSEPH: DEPRATO, ex Parochus» — alternating down the column, with the Defranich in the entries beneath. The rule goes from two surnames to three: at Gologorica a «De—» surname may be Defranceschi, Deprato or Defranich.
✔ AND THE BACKLOG WAS STARTED RATHER THAN DECLARED. Two entries published yesterday had been read at the first syllable only. Both re-cropped past the break; both hold: «Maria Anton: Defranceschi» (p. 11, written out in full on one line) and «D.na Hellena, Vid. q. Joseph: Defran-ceschi ex Loco» (p. 25). Neither needed a correction. The point of checking is that this archive could not have known that without looking, and it had already been wrong once this week.
NIL, in the exact terms tried. Pages 7–8 read entry by entry and officiant by officiant for Defranceschi · De Franceschi · Defrancesco · Franceschi, every column. The surname appears on the page only as the officiating priest, never as a decedent. What it produced on this siteThree «De—» surnames on one page · Worklist 183 — now three surnames, and the backlog · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Oct 2026 | DAPA ZM34K-214 — the margins of every Defranceschi baptism in folios 1–109, re-read Other | Re-reading entries this archive had already found, for the one thing it had been passing over: the death dates a later keeper wrote into the margins decades afterwards. | No new deaths, and that is the finding.
What it produced on this siteWorklist 176 — re-read the margins · Where the margins were first noticed · Gologorica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat marriages, film 005497886 — frames 99–100, carte 56–57 (1785–1786) Other | The seam continued after frame 98. Fourteen marriages read entry by entry, for the name as party, parent or witness. | Nil for the name across both frames — and the entries are named, because a nil is only worth the list behind it.
Frame 99, carta 56 — 1785 closing, 1786 opening:
What it produced on this siteItem 136 — the Svetvinčenat seam · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat marriages, film 005497886 — frame 101, carta 58 (1786–1787) Other | The seam continued. Six marriages read entry by entry — and the book's own year-total let the 1786 walk be checked for completeness. | Nil for the name. Six marriages, all named.
What it produced on this siteItem 136 — the Svetvinčenat seam · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat marriages, film 005497886 — frame 102, carta 59 (1787) Other | The seam continued. Seven marriages read entry by entry — and the hand changes mid-page, which in this volume has once already changed how the name is spelled. | Nil for the name. Seven marriages, all named — and a change of hand worth more than the nil.
What it produced on this siteItem 136 — the Svetvinčenat seam · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat marriages, film 005497886 — frame 104, carta 61 (1788–1790) Other | The seam continued to 1790. Eleven marriages read entry by entry. | Nil for the name. Eleven marriages, October 1788 to June 1790, all named.
1788 — Michiel Mattias di Michiel × Maria di Mat[tio] Palesca · Antonio Drandich q. Matte, della Parochia di Valle × Maria di Tome Vidulin · Zuane Petrovich q. Stefano × Vittoria r. q. Martin Dobrenovich, dispensed from the third degree of affinity · 24 November, Ive Stocovich q. Giacomo × Maria di Vido Bilich.
1789 — 17 May, Antonio Prossen × Elena r. q. Ive Puh · 15 June, Mattio di Padre Ban × Maria di Vido Mattias · 5 July, Mattio q. Bortolo Zubanich × Agata di Adamo Paivovich · 7 August, Matte q. Giacomo Stocovich × Maria q. Martin Bilich · October, Antonio Grisanaz × Biasia r. q. Nadal Ucmir.
1790 — 10 January, Gregorio Marzan q. Giacomo × Vittoria di Domenico Doblanovich · 14 June, Matte di Vido Bulesich × Agata q. Iure Dobrio.
Italicised surnames are read with less confidence. The date of the first entry would not resolve — it reads as «16» with a month abbreviation that could be 8bris, and it sits before an August entry, so either the reading or the book's order is out. It is left as read rather than tidied.
Three things worth keeping.
· The officiant now signs «D. Gio: Venica Can.co ed Arcip.» — canon and archpriest, where on frame 103 he was simply parroco.
· «Sig. Can.co Agostin Decaneva» stands as a WITNESS at the wedding of 7 August 1789 — written as one word. That is a sixth instance of the name and it confirms the correction made on frame 103: Caneva, not Ceneda.
· The bell-rope has moved twice more. Antonio Gionello is campanaro through 1785–86; Antonio Civitico from 1787 to 1790. Written into the readings, because this archive has followed that rope since it was in the family's own hands in 1773. What it produced on this siteThe Svetvinčenat readings — the bell-rope · Item 136 · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat marriages, film 005497886 — frame 105, carta 62 (1790–1791) Other | The seam continued into 1791. Eleven marriages read entry by entry. | Nil for the name. Eleven marriages, October 1790 to March 1791, all named.
1790 — 23 Oct, Mattio di Ive Petrovich × Maria r. q. Pietro Marzan · 4 Nov, Gregorio q. Adamo Doblanovich × Fosca di Stefano Missan · 4 Nov, Simon q. Matte Stocovich × Maria di Matte Perich · Nov, Vicenzo Cherzan q. Paulo × Maria di Vido Paterich di Pedrianez · 21 Nov, Gregorio di Zorzi Stenta × Catterina di Zorzi Bolisanaz · 24 Nov, Gasparo Ferlin × Cattarina r. q. Gregorio Trebanich · 24 Nov, Biasio Sustianaz q. Martin × Agata r. q. Matte Zubanich, dispensed from the third degree of consanguinity · 14 Nov, Martin q. Iure Xivolich × Oliva r. q. Zuanne Smoglian.
1791 — 25 Jan, Gregorio Billich q. Pietro × Maria di Matte Ruscovich · 26 Jan, Marco di Vido Bulesich × Eufemia di Ive Buicu · 7 Mar, Domenico Basanich q. Marin × Maria q. Mattio Sussich.
⚠ And that last bride comes from across the border. «della Parochia di Carbune Austriaca» — Krbune, in the county of Pazin, which was Austrian Istria, while Svetvinčenat was Venetian. Magnified before being written down. It is the first marriage in this stretch to reach into the Austrian half of the peninsula — and Krbune sits in the same small cluster of villages as Gologorica and Gračišće, roughly ten kilometres off. (doc for the entry. No connection to this family is claimed; it is recorded because this archive tracks the Venice–Austria line, and because it shows this parish's marriage catchment crossing it.)
Her father's surname is written with the register correcting itself — one form struck through and another written above, with «di Martino» inserted. Both readings are given as they stand rather than silently resolved.
Two officiants on one page. D. Giovanni Venica signs «Arcip. registrai», and the entry of 7 March 1791 records the couple interrogated by «D. Agostino Decaneva Can.co» — inserted above the line. A seventh instance of Caneva. And Antonio Civitico is campanaro at eight of these eleven. What it produced on this siteItem 136 — the Svetvinčenat seam · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat marriages, film 005497886 — frame 111, the slips 1794–1795 Other | The loose slips continue to October 1795. Fifteen marriages read entry by entry. | Nil for the name. Fifteen marriages, July 1794 to October 1795, all named.
1794 — Serecovi × Iurcar d. Panella · Vidolin q. Tome × Millovan · Boch q. Antonio × Sava («esso Boch è della Pieve di Barbana») · Smoglian × (bride's father Ive Mattias d. Tinklin).
1795 — Zupich d. Iuraza × Vorich detto Barbanaz di S. Bricio · Criosich × Marzan d.to Pecaas · Sosich of Canfanaro × Vidulin · Mazzan d. Pizetta × Sandrich · Calisca × Carij della Pieve di Pisino · Millovan × Stocovich d. Culle · Iursich q. Padre × Obrozan · Preden d. Soldat × Millovan · Vidolin × Afnich di Carnè, Par. di Valle · Doblanovich × Collich of Valle · Xivolich × Maria figlia del q. Giacomo Godichia.
⚠ That last one was checked rather than assumed. «Maria figlia del q. Giacomo…» is exactly the shape of the Pasqua entry on frame 110, so the surname was magnified before the frame was called nil. It reads Godichia, not Defranceschi — and the bride's parish is struck through and rewritten in the slip itself.
The parish's reach keeps widening. Barbana, Canfanaro, Valle twice, Carnè — and Pisino, which is the district town of Austrian Istria and the district Gologorica and Gračišće sit in. With Carbune on frame 105 that is a second marriage in this stretch reaching across the Venice–Austria line. No connection to this family is claimed from either.
⚠ Re-filed walked: false on 30 September 2026. Frame 115 showed the slips are a layered pile: a smaller sheet lies across a larger one and was moved between exposures, so one photograph does not show every entry. This row recorded what could be seen; it cannot claim every entry was read. The entries listed were read; what may lie beneath them was not.What it produced on this siteItem 136 — the Svetvinčenat seam · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat marriages, film 005497886 — frame 112, the slips 1795–1797 Other | The loose slips continue to April 1797. Sixteen marriages read entry by entry. | Nil for the name. Sixteen marriages, October 1795 to April 1797, all named.
1795–96 — Bullesich × Bullesich · Sigliar × Paicovich · Doblanovich × Millovan · Crossan × Mazzan d. Bendech · Smoglian × Drosina (dispensed) · Iugovaz × Bullesich · Salambat × Licovich.
1797 — Lanchich × Benussio da Dorigno · Doblanovich × Hoglan of Lupoglavo · Percovich × Beran · Millovan × Vidolin · Vidolin × Millovan · Xivolich d. Dolso × Bercan · Zabronich × Balcich · Xivolich × Dursich and Dursich × Xivolich, both on 24 April.
⚠ And the scribe hedges a surname in the register itself. The entry of 5 February 1797 names the groom «Gherso Doblanovich, ò forsi Bullesich» — «or perhaps Bullesich». A parish clerk writing down that he is not sure which of two houses a man belongs to. That is worth more than its own entry: it is the register conceding, in its own hand, that a surname in this parish could be uncertain to the man recording it — which is exactly the condition this archive keeps meeting from the other end, two centuries later. (Recorded, not resolved. Neither name is ours.)
Two houses exchange on one day. 24 April 1797: Martin, son of Matte Xivolich detto Dolso, marries Eufemia daughter of Pere Dursich — and Sime, son of Pere Dursich, marries Cattarina daughter of Matte Xivolich detto Dolso. Two weddings, four people, two households, one afternoon. Not our family, and recorded because a parish of this size shows its shape in arrangements like that.
Lupoglav is a fourth parish of Austrian Istria to appear in this stretch, after Carbune (frame 105) and Pisino (frame 111).
⚠ Re-filed walked: false on 30 September 2026. Frame 115 showed the slips are a layered pile: a smaller sheet lies across a larger one and was moved between exposures, so one photograph does not show every entry. This row recorded what could be seen; it cannot claim every entry was read. The entries listed were read; what may lie beneath them was not.What it produced on this siteItem 136 — the Svetvinčenat seam · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat marriages, film 005497886 — frame 113, the slips 1797–1798 Other | The loose slips continue to November 1798. Sixteen marriages read entry by entry. | Nil for the name. Sixteen marriages, June 1797 to November 1798, all named.
1797 — Matica × Vitolovich of the Pieve di Pisino · Mazzar × Preden d. Tonca · Angelich d. Orese × Bullesich d.to Suvin · Sigliar × Bilich · Bercan × Sguera.
1798 — Mazzan d. Lust × Sigliar · Spelich × Iurlanich d. Bucar · Salambat × Salambat · Petercich × Paicovich · Mazzan d. Bosco × Lerich · Rulian × Castaner da Rovigno · Preden × Angelich · Ledizza dai Sain × Xivolich d. Dolso · Affrich × Bulcich · Missan × Ledizza dai Lodolichi.
⚠ One entry is of a different order, and the archive should have it.
> Addì 12 Gen.o 1798 — Il Sig.r Giuseppe Fackinetti incontrò matrimonio con la Sig.ra Giuseppina Lagadopoli da Spalatro, ed esso da Montagnana.
Two «Signori», and neither is from here. The bride is of Split, and her surname — Lagadopoli — is Greek, of the kind the Dalmatian cities carried. The groom is «da Montagnana». Facchinetti is a name this sweep already knows: a Sig. Antonio Facchinetti witnessed weddings on these pages for years, married the Nob. D.na Elisabetta née Rizzamano on frame 102 in February 1787, and was dead by March 1788. (Not this family, and no connection is claimed. Recorded because this archive follows the Adriatic gentry across Istria and Dalmatia, and because a Greek-surnamed bride of Split marrying into a Svetvinčenat house is exactly the kind of movement the spines exist to show.)
Pisino appears again, and Rovigno for the first time in this stretch.
⚠ Re-filed walked: false on 30 September 2026. Frame 115 showed the slips are a layered pile: a smaller sheet lies across a larger one and was moved between exposures, so one photograph does not show every entry. This row recorded what could be seen; it cannot claim every entry was read. The entries listed were read; what may lie beneath them was not.What it produced on this siteItem 136 — the Svetvinčenat seam · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 Sept 2026 | Svetvinčenat marriages, film 005497886 — frame 114, the slips 1799–1802 Other | The loose slips continue to May 1802. Sixteen marriages read entry by entry. | Nil for the name. Sixteen marriages, January 1799 to May 1802, all named.
1799–1800 — Paicovich × Vidolin · Gelsich of Canfanaro × Percovich detto Corduch · Bortolini da Rovigno × Giuritico · Spelich × Preden · Busaz × Obrozan di S. Bricio · Pelosa di Mune × Stocovich d. Bacus · Drandich of Valle × Vidulin · Lacapich × Stenta of Valle.
1801–02 — Crisman × Rocada (dispensed) · Crisman × Ruvarich · Lasperia of Canfanaro × Percovich (dispensed) · Percovich d. Pagna × Bercan of Valle · Petrovich d. Dromizar × Ban d. Dogna · Bullesich × Bullesich d. Suvin · Vorich d. Barbanaz × Crisman of Valle, detto Vidolin.
One entry of a different rank, and it dates the slip. A header «Addì 24 Xbre 1800» is struck through and the entry beneath it reads 23 February 1801 — «Il Sig.r Marcello Manari, figlio dell'Ill.mo Sig. D.r Girolamo, medico fisico, incontrò matrimonio con la Sig.ra Cattarina figlia di Sebastiano Dedracich di Lindaro». A physician's son marrying a lady of Lindar — which is another parish of Austrian Istria, near Pazin. (Not this family. Recorded because the slip's struck-through date shows the keeper writing these up out of order and correcting himself, which is worth knowing before anyone treats the slips as a chronological series.)
Mune — in the far north of Istria — is a fifth Austrian-side parish in this stretch, after Carbune, Pisino, Lupoglav and Lindar.
⚠ Re-filed walked: false on 30 September 2026. Frame 115 showed the slips are a layered pile: a smaller sheet lies across a larger one and was moved between exposures, so one photograph does not show every entry. This row recorded what could be seen; it cannot claim every entry was read. The entries listed were read; what may lie beneath them was not.What it produced on this siteItem 136 — the Svetvinčenat seam · Svetvinčenat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 28 Sept 2026 | The port authority's own chronology names no pier of that era Other | Lučka uprava Rijeka — «Luka kroz povijest», the full chronology 1717–2025 (item 157, retried) | Retried at David's word, and it is a nil — but a clean, exhausting one.
The page returns HTTP 520 to a fetcher, twice. It loads normally in a browser, which is how it was read: the whole chronology, 1717 to 2025, is on one page.
⚠ It names no pier of the Hungarian era at all. Searched the full text for gat, pristani, Zichy, Franceschi, Francheschi, Hajnal, Visinov, molo, lukobran, obal. The first quay the chronology names is «Orlandov gat», in 2013. So the port authority's own public history does not carry the pier's name, and this route is now exhausted rather than untried.
What it gives instead is a frame, and one date that matters.
What it produced on this siteThe pier, and what the chronology does and does not give · Rijeka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 Sept 2026 | The front of the Fiume marriage volume read to its title page, and Valentino's wedding witness corrected Other | Fiume film 005497925, frames 160–167 — marriages 1 Jan 1734 to Nov 1736, both pages | Eight frames, sixteen pages, thirty-five months of Fiume weddings, and not one Defranceschi.
The volume's beginning is now fixed. Frame 160 left is a blank leaf; frame 160 right is the title page — «Liber Matrimoniorum Anni 1734. Sit Laus Deo, ac B. Virgini Mariæ», book page 150 — and the first entry is 1 January 1734. Frames 155–159 are still the baptism register, in 1749. The two books are bound back to back, so the film's dates run forward to 1749, drop to 1734 at frame 160, and start forward again.
What the nil buys. Valentino's marriage of 28 February 1737 is the first Defranceschi marriage in the book, with nothing of the name before it. Set beside the 20 September sweep of frames 168–191, the surname appears exactly once in fourteen years of Fiume weddings, 1734–1748.
One correction came out of it. Valentino's second witness, published here as Antonio Moretti, is Antonio MONALDI — see the correction.
And the parish's own upheaval is on frame 167: a marginal note records the death of the archpriest Petrus Maria Monaldi in the autumn of 1736, the cure held by the chapter «usque ad electionem novi Parochi», a vacancy to 4 March 1737 and the new parish priest installed on 29 September 1737. That is why a canon, and not the archpriest, marries Valentino in February 1737.
Read frame by frame at full plate resolution. Decoys logged and dismissed: Franchouich (Franković) at frame 163, and a witness «Antonius Franch» at frame 164 — neither is this name. What it produced on this siteWork list item 143 · The Moretti correction · Fiume (Rijeka) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 Sept 2026 | The Fiume marriage volume read end to end, and the join between two sweeps tested Other | Fiume film 005497925, frames 192–204 — marriages June 1748 to February 1753, both pages | The last thirteen frames of the volume, and the surname is not in them.
With the front and the 20 September sweep of 168–191, the whole marriage register is now read: frames 160–204, 1 January 1734 to 7 February 1753. Frame 204 right is a blank leaf, frame 205 is the «END OF ITEM» card. Nineteen years, one Defranceschi marriage — Valentino's.
These thirteen frames are the years after Joannes Baptista's son was born, and he is not in them. He does not marry at Fiume before May 1748 and he does not marry at Fiume after it. The question of Magdalena's maiden name leaves this book for good.
The join was tested rather than assumed. Frame 191 ends 25 February 1748; frame 192 opens 2 June 1748. Three months missing, exactly where this session's work meets an earlier one — so the foliation was read: 181 → 182, unbroken. Ash Wednesday 1748 fell on 28 February. The gap is Lent, and the book is whole.
Decoys logged: Franchovich and «Joanne Franch» (frame 203), Descovich and Benefich (193), and the noble de Franchi of Fiume, who appear repeatedly as witnesses and once as a bride's father — a different family, already retired here as a near-miss. What it produced on this siteWork list item 143 · The Lent rule · Fiume (Rijeka) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 Sept 2026 | The Austrian catalogue's last two spellings, and the near-duplicate households resolved Other | ÖStA under Franzeski and the đ form; households.json near-duplicates read one by one | The Vienna spelling sweep is finished and the last two stems are empty. Franzeski — no entries found. ranđesk, for the Croatian đ form — no entries found. With Franceschi (99), Franceski (1) and Franzeschi (2), five stems now cover every spelling this archive uses, and the catalogue holds nothing else.
And the near-duplicate households were read rather than left flagged. Three pairs had carried a nearDup marker for days with nothing said about them:
· h088 / h091 are not duplicates at all. Gulielmus Lazzer × Andrina Defranceschi against Matheus Lazaro × Lucia Defranceschi — different husband, different wife, eleven years apart, and an in-law surname the index spells two ways. Two men of one family married two women of this one. The link is withdrawn.
· h078 / h080 — one husband, Paschalis Zanghirella, a son Petrus in both, and a wife who is Michaela in one record and Theresia Dominica in the other.
· h064 / h069 — a Defranceschi married to a Bellinich at Fiume in 1836 and again in 1849, the wife Catharina then Carolina. Two sisters or one woman read twice; the entries do not say.
A fourth swapped household fell out of it — «Theresia Dominica De Franceschi × Paschalis Zanghirella», the wife in the father's slot, missed that morning because the forename list had Paulus and not Paschalis.What it produced on this siteThe households · What was wrong · Vienna | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Novi Vinodolski — the parish that serves Klenovica, checked at the source Other | Whether the marriage of Josip Defranceschi and Anna Kalanj can be found at Novi Vinodolski, the parish named as the next place to look when the Crikvenica film came up empty | It cannot, and the reason is worth writing down rather than repeating the guess. Novi Vinodolski has no marriage register on film after 1859. Queried directly against the FamilySearch waypoint tree rather than against this archive's own harvested copy: the parish has seven filmed volumes, and its only marriage books are Vjenčani 1674–1786 and Vjenčani 1787–1859. The rest are baptisms (1650–1784, 1784–1804, 1804–1852, 1852–1874, 1875–1900) and deaths (1784–1823, 1823–1859, 1859–1888, 1888–1899). There is no volume in which this marriage could be. And Anton Rudolf is not in Novi's baptism book either — which is the part that actually teaches something. He was born at Klenovica house 22 on 20 January 1890, baptised 9 February, and Klenovica sits in the Novi Vinodolski municipality, so the 1875–1900 baptism volume was the obvious place. It was opened and the entries around that date were read: image 249 closes 1889 and opens 1890 at entries 1–4 (1, 4, 12 and 4 January); image 250 runs entries 5–11, 14 January to 6 April; image 251 runs 12–19, to late June. No Defranceschi anywhere in them. Because Klenovica had its own church. This archive's own plate of the baptism says so in the priest's words — «u ovoj župnoj crkvi», in this parish church — and the register it comes from is catalogued not under Novi but as «Matične knjige, Ledenice / Klenovica». Klenovica does not exist as a parish in the FamilySearch tree at all, so its books are not filmed and cannot be read this way. One line of that entry redirects the whole search. The remarks column explains why the birth happened at Klenovica at all: «Roditelji djeteta nahodeć se kod svojih u Klenovici, t.j. kod roditelja žene Ane, dobiše ovo djete» — the parents, being with their own people at Klenovica, that is with the parents of the wife Ana, had this child. So in January 1890 the couple did not live at Klenovica. They were visiting. Klenovica is Ana's parents' house, not theirs — which is consistent with the godfather being Jakov Kalanj of that same house 22. nil — the register that would answer the question is not on film; the register that was on film has been read and does not contain them. · Novi Vinodolski | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Sv. Jakov-Šiljevica marriages 1882–1891 — read end to end Other | Whether Josip Defranceschi and Anna Kalanj married in the small Vinodol parish next to Klenovica, whose marriage film — contrary to this archive's earlier survey — does cover the years wanted | Ten years read, both surnames visible on every line, and the name is not there. The volume is Vjenčani 1859–1910, eighty-three images for fifty-one years — a parish of six to ten marriages a year. Its left page carries both spouses with their condition, the origin and domicile of each, religion, age and status, so a single crop of the left page shows every surname and every place in the entry. Images 35 to 46 were read: 1882 from entry 5, then 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890 and 1891 complete. That covers the whole window in which this marriage can fall — Ana Kalanj was born in January 1864 and her first known child in January 1890. Year totals, off the priest's own numbering: 1882 closes at 10, 1883 at 5, 1884 at 8, 1885 at 6, 1886 at 10, 1887 at 7, 1888 at 7, 1889 at 4, 1890 at 6 or more, 1891 at 5 or more. About seventy marriages, and not one Defranceschi. It is a closed parish of eight surnames. Grbić/Grbčić, Abel, Crhak, Šegulja, Turčić, Pavlić, Damian, Šepac, Malčić, Perhat, Knez, Blažić, Mlanfar — marrying each other between Klošter, Šiljevica, Smokovo, Katun, Sv. Jakov and Mlanfari. Klenovica never appears in the origin column at all, which is itself an answer: this parish did not serve it. Two outsiders in ten years, and the register named both in full — Mate Piškulić, kr. financijski čuvar, a royal finance guard of Novi marrying a Trsat woman domiciled at Kraljevica (1882 no. 10), and a miller with an Italian surname from «Piran — Istrija» marrying a Turčić (1890 no. 6). The same test as at Crikvenica: when a stranger married here the clerk wrote down his trade and his birthplace. Ours never had to be written. nil — ten complete years, left page of every spread, both surname columns. · Sv. Jakov-Šiljevica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Bribir marriages 1882–1890 — the last filmed Vinodol marriage register, read end to end Other | The final filmed candidate for the marriage of Josip Defranceschi and Anna Kalanj — nine consecutive years covering the whole window in which it must fall | Nine years, close to four hundred marriages, both surnames legible on every line, and the name is not there.
First, a trap in the catalogue worth recording. The waypoint for Vjenčani 1858–1900 returns 597 images, because Bribir's births, marriages and deaths share one reel and the catalogue gives them the same film ark. Probing found deaths at images 300, 420, 480 and 540 and the marriages around image 120. The marriage section runs roughly images 108–150; everything from about 250 onward is the death register.
Year by year, off the priest's own numbering:
x 0.085 w 0.300, y 0.055 h 0.855. An early crop at h 0.64 clipped the last two or three entries of each page — the gaps that created (p.104 nos 35–36 and p.105 no. 48) were gone back for and filled, so the run is continuous. The reel also carries duplicate frames (images 114 and 115 are the same page), so pages, not images, are the unit that matters.
nil — 1882 in part, then 1883 to 1890 complete, left page of every spread, no gaps. · Bribir | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | The index, asked straight out for a Defranceschi married to a Kalanj Other | Whether the marriage of Josip Defranceschi and Anna Kalanj is anywhere in the FamilySearch index, in any parish in Croatia | It is not, and the question had never been put this way.
Two queries against the Croatia Church Books index, on the fields that actually work: q.spouseSurname=Kalanj across Croatia, and q.surname=Defranceschi / Defranceski / Franceschi across Croatia. Six hundred rows came back for the surname and a hundred for the Kalanj spouse.
Every «Franc-» name among the Kalanj marriages is a forename or a different surname — Franciscus, Francisca, Franković, Frković. There is no marriage of a Defranceschi to a Kalanj in the index at all.
That is the expected answer and it is worth having explicitly. The index only knows what has been filmed, and the register this marriage should be in — Klenovica, or Ledenice after 1882 — is not filmed. A negative from the index is not a negative from the record. · Croatia, all parishes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Crikvenica births 1896, read entry by entry — and the reason 1897 cannot be read at all Other | Uršula Kovačina, daughter of Petar Kovačina the joiner and Marija Car of house 119 — the baptism that would prove Anton Rudolf's wife is the guard's granddaughter | She is not there, and the years she is most likely to be in are not filmed. This closes the FamilySearch route and hands the question to Rijeka.
What was read. Crikvenica Births (Rođeni) 1859–1896, waypoint 9R28-RMH:…391676801, images 673 to 697 — the whole of 1896, about a hundred and fifty births, six to a spread. Every parents' surname and every house number was read. The surnames are Car, Katnić, Matejčić, Župan, Lovrić, Brozičević, Grbičić, Škiljan, Veljacić, Jurinčić, over and over. There is no Kovačina birth in Crikvenica in 1896 at all.
Two Uršulas turned up and neither is ours — «Urša Marija» of Martin Car at house 102, and «Urša» of Gergo Zanković at house 125. The name was common in the parish, which is worth knowing before anyone reads a later book hopefully.
And now the wall. The parish's filmed birth volumes are 1815–1823, 1855–1858, 1822–1855 and 1859–1896, and that is all. Crikvenica births from 1897 onward are not on film. Uršula's parents married on 28 November 1895, so a first child before the autumn of 1896 is barely possible and none was registered; her sister Josipa died at eighteen months in September 1898, which puts Josipa's birth at about March 1897. The whole plausible window for Uršula falls in the unfilmed years.
So the link stays inference, and the way to settle it is now named. Neither the index (four hundred Kovačina rows, no Uršula) nor the film can reach her. The Crikvenica register for 1897–1902 is with the Državni arhiv u Rijeci, which is exactly what work-list 141's letter asks for. nil — and the negative is worth as much as a hit, because it stops anyone reading 1896 again. · Crikvenica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Johann Defranceschi of Gallignana, born 1833 — tried in the index and tried on the shelf Other | The Gračišće baptism of 1833 that would give parents to the sailor in the three Kriegsarchiv files | Neither route exists, and one of them this archive had told itself did.
The index first. Every Defranceschi and De Franceschi birth in the Croatia collection with a year between 1825 and 1842 was pulled — forty-five rows. They sit at Kaštelir, Tar, Pola, Fiume, Tarsatica and a scatter of «Croazia, Austria». There is no Gračišće entry among them, and no Johann or Giovanni born 1833 anywhere in the set.
Then the film — and here the archive was wrong about itself. Work-list 135 said «the Gračišće baptisms of 1833 are on film and readable from here». They are not. Gračišće is not a parish in the FamilySearch Croatia collection at all: a search of all thousand parish nodes returns only Pazin, Stari Pazin and Lupoglav (Pazin) for that corner of Istria, and none of their volume lists contains a Gračišće book. This archive's own atlas already said so — the Gračišće place record carries nfilms: 0 — so the work-list note contradicted the map for days.
Gračišće is one of the unfilmed parishes, which is exactly the class this archive counted in September: 495 of the 1,151 books in the Pazin inventory are in parishes with no film at all. Its registers are at DAPA Pazin and on the parish shelf, which is where everything this site holds from Gračišće — the 1863 baptism, the Status Animarum — already came from.
So the route is the one that has already worked once. DAPA Pazin refuses open-ended research but will search a named register for a named person over a stated period — they did exactly that on the Gračišće birth register, certified the copy and posted it to Queensland for 117 kuna. «Johann/Giovanni Defranceschi, Gračišće, 1833» is precisely that shape of request. nil on both searchable routes — and the correction is worth more than the search was. · Gračišće (Gallignana) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Fiume marriages 1769 to August 1772, read out — Giuseppe did not marry here Other | The marriage of Giuseppe Defranceschi × Francesca, which would name his father and settle the Rijeka descent | He is not in the book, and that is itself the finding: he married somewhere else.
What was read. Volume 9R2X-C62, marriage series, both pages of images 286, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295 — March–May 1769, November 1769 to February 1770, February to October 1770, November 1770 to January 1771, January to July 1771, August to December 1771, December 1771 to February 1772, and February to August 1772. Images 287–288, roughly June to November 1769, were not reached.
There is no Giuseppe Defranceschi marriage in any of it. The only marriage of the name is the one already recorded — Joannes Baptista, widower, to Catharina de Benzoni, 9 December 1771.
Why the absence means something. Giuseppe and Francesca baptise their first child at Fiume on 23 November 1772, and three more there to 1778. A couple baptising at Fiume from late 1772 who did not marry at Fiume in the three years before it almost certainly married in the bride's own parish and came back. So the entry that would name Giuseppe's father exists — it is just not in this town, and finding it means finding Francesca first.
A caution about the Benzoni thread. On image 289 the Benzoni also witness a marriage between two families of no relation to this one — «D.nus Canonicus Simon Benzoni» and «Ill.mo D.no Josepho L.B. Baro de Benzoni» standing for a Milord de Middenberg. They are pervasive Fiume gentry, not a family marker, which weakens how much the 1754 and 1755 Benzoni appearances around Valentino's children can be made to carry. Recorded because it cuts against the reading this archive found attractive an hour ago.
nil for Giuseppe; the negative is worth keeping because it redirects the search out of Fiume. · Fiume — Rijeka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | The FamilySearch index, hunting a death entry for Giuseppe Defranceschi of Fiume Other | Giuseppe's own burial, which would give his age and so his birth year | Nil, and the nil is worth recording because a death entry is the one document that would end this item outright.
A Fiume burial for Giuseppe would give his age — and Croatian death entries of the period routinely give the father — so it would date his birth and name his parent in one line. The index was swept for every Joseph / Giuseppe of the surname: 36 rows. Exactly one is death-typed, and it is not him:
> «Giuseppe Defranceschi — 1784;1819 — Birth, Burial, Death — Regnum Croatiæ» 3:1:3QS7-899X-KWTB
Born 1784. Our Giuseppe was fathering children from 1772. A different man, probably a grandson.
So the index holds no death for Giuseppe × Francesca's Giuseppe, which is this film's normal state for this family rather than evidence of anything. The route stays open but has to be browsed: Fiume Deaths 1702–1765 (9R26-YWG) and Deaths 1766–1815 (9R26-YWL). He is not in the first; the second is where he would be, and it is unread. · Fiume — Rijeka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Fiume marriages 1736-1748, film 005497925 images 168-191, read end to end Other | The marriage of Joannes Baptista × Magdalena, which would name his father and his birthplace | Twenty-four frames, forty-eight pages, twelve years — and exactly one Defranceschi marriage in all of it.
The question was how Joannes Baptista de Franceschi relates to Valentino the Carnian, and the plan was to put their two marriage entries side by side. Only one of the two is there.
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| 20 Sept 2026 | Tinjan marriages 1741-1749, read frame by frame for a de Franceschi groom Other | A marriage of Joannes Baptista de Franceschi to a Magdalena, in the county Kobler names | Nine years of a County of Pazin parish, and the surname is not in it — nor is any surname like it.
Tinjan was read first because the archive's own material pointed here: Darovec places the Friulian-Carnian stratum in «Pazin, Pićan, Gradišće, Žminj and Tinjan», and Tinjan is the only one of those five whose registers are in this collection.
Marriages (Vjenčani) 1703–1896, waypoint 9R2D-928:391644801,392408601,392409001, 167 frames. Anchored by probing: frame 4 = 1703–1709, frame 9 = 1733–1735, frame 13 = 1749, frame 17 = 1757–1760, frame 34 = 1780. The volume is not linear — the first fifty years occupy nine frames and the 1780s occupy one apiece — so every date here was read, not interpolated.
Frames 9–13 read, both pages: 1733–1735 and 1741–1749. No Defranceschi, De Franceschi or Franceschi appears as groom, bride, father or witness.
What is there instead is the answer to a different question. The grooms are Červar, Milinarić, Brajećvić, Antolović, Dobrić, Šubić, Brencšev, Smokovac, Milohanić, Jurčović, Dobrila, Vitović, Grabsić, Žadanović — a Croatian village parish, marrying its own, for a solid decade. The only Italian names in these pages belong to the clerical and notarial class who witness everything: Antonio Floriani, Francisco Lasari, Georgius Ant. Florianis, Nicolaus Bottegaro. That is a useful negative in itself: it says an incoming Carnian family is not quietly marrying into Tinjan in these years, which is what the Darovec quotation might have led this archive to assume.
One honest gap. 1736–1740 was not found. Frame 9 ends in 1735 and frame 10 opens «Conjuncti sub Par.o Joanne… 1741» — a new priest's section. Either the register has a gap there or those years sit elsewhere in a volume that is already known to run out of order. Since Josephus Aloysius was born 24 May 1748, a marriage as late as 1747 is covered and a marriage in 1736–1740 is not — so this read narrows the question rather than closing it.
And it cannot close it in any case. A nil at Tinjan is not evidence against Kobler, because Gologorica, Gračišće, Pićan and Žminj — the parishes his family actually lived in — are not in this collection at all.
Arks saved to scratchpad/pazin/tinjan.lst. Pazin's own marriage volume, 396 frames with the window at 128–165, remains unread. · Tinjan — Contea di Pisino | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Sept 2026 | Pazin marriages 1740-1748, read end to end across the item break Other | A marriage of Joannes Baptista de Franceschi to a Magdalena, in the seat of the county Kobler names | Nine years of the County of Pazin's own seat, and the surname is not in them either.
Marriages (Vjenčani), waypoint 9R26-16F:391644801,392372801,392373301, 396 frames. Read: frames 194–199 and 208–216, both pages each.
scratchpad/pazin/arks.lst (0–179) and arks175.lst (175–234). · Pazin — Contea di Pisino | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | Matricula Online (data.matricula-online.eu) — the whole portal Other | Whether Senj and Karlobag, and any Croatian parish at all, are on Matricula — the plan said they were | Croatia is not on Matricula. Not Senj, not Karlobag, not one parish.
The portal's own fonds index lists exactly twelve countries — Germany, Austria, Poland, Serbia, Luxembourg, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland and three private collections. There is no Croatian section. Its place search returns nothing for Senj, Karlobag, Rijeka or Fiume.
This archive's own plan said otherwise. Matricula was written down as a fifth provider «(Senj, Karlobag)« and scheduled for building into the research map. That was an assumption never checked, and it was wrong. It is struck from the plan rather than quietly dropped.
One thing there is worth keeping: searching Trieste returns two Austrian Protestant congregations — Triest AB and Triest HB — under the Evangelical section. Not Croatian, not Catholic, and no De Franceschi is known in either; but Trieste Evangelical registers are a shelf this archive has never looked at, and the family was in the Littoral. What it produced on this siteThe research map, which now has four providers and not five · Matricula Online — fonds index and place search | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | ARHiNET (arhinet.arhiv.hr), the Croatian state archives' own network Other | Retried as a possible provider for the research map | Still does not resolve. Neither https://arhinet.arhiv.hr/ nor the plain-HTTP form answers at all — not a 403, not a redirect, no connection. ara.arhiv.hr is the same.
This is the second time this archive has tried ARHiNET and the second time it has recorded nothing. Pazin's own list stays the only Croatian archive catalogue in the research map, and it is the only source in it that admits which volumes are not digitised anywhere.What it produced on this sitePazin, which does answer · ARHiNET | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | FamilySearch — «Austria, Catholic Church Records, 1565–2007» (collection 5000002) Other | Whether the Austrian Littoral is in it — the most promising place Gračišće, Gologorica and Pićan could be hiding | It is not. The Littoral is not in this collection, and the hole stays open.
The collection holds 6.85 million records and 17.4 million persons and has no browse tree at all — /platform/records/collections/5000002/waypoints returns 404, because it is a name index rather than a filmed set. So it was searched instead.
289 Defranceschi records inside it, pulled in full. Every named place among the 393 fact-rows is Tyrolean or Upper Austrian: Bozen, Salorno (Tirolo), Tyrol, St. Florian bei Linz. Not one in Istria, Gorizia, Trieste or Fiume. Three Istrian surnames tested beside it fall the same way — Sestan at Zwettl, Longomosso and Feldkirch; Kostesich at Bozen; Miškulin at Bozen.
The filter was verified rather than trusted. Defranceschi returns 303,320 with no collection filter, 289 with f.collectionId=5000002, 3,550 with the Croatian collection, and 0 with a made-up collection id. The control says the filter bites.
Two things worth keeping.
There is a Tyrolean Defranceschi population — 289 records clustered on Bozen and Salorno, South Tyrol. A separate family of the same surname, several hundred kilometres from Carnia, and a standing argument against ever reasoning from the name alone.
And Slavonia does appear: one record reads «Vukovar, Sriem, Croatia, Austria». So the collection reaches into Croatia-Slavonia even though it does not reach the coast.What it produced on this siteThe ten collections, and what each holds · The three parishes still filmed nowhere · FamilySearch collection 5000002 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2026 | FamilySearch — «Hungary, Civil Registration, 1895–1980» (collection 1452460) Other | Whether Fiume, the Croatian littoral or Međimurje are in it — the last of the promising candidates | No. And the reason is constitutional, which makes this a better answer than a hit would have been.
The collection browses by 33 Hungarian counties — Abaúj-Torna, Arad, Bács-Bodrog, Baranya, Bars, Békés … Vas, Veszprém, Zala. Not one Croatian-Slavonian county — no Zagreb, no Varaždin, no Modruš-Rijeka, no Lika-Krbava, no Srijem — and no Fiume, despite Fiume being a Hungarian corpus separatum.
Hungary introduced civil registration in 1895. Croatia-Slavonia did not. Under the Nagodba it ran its own administration and kept the parish registers as the legal civil record until 1946. That single fact explains why FamilySearch's Croatian collection is church books and why there is no Croatian civil registration to find anywhere — it was never created.
And it explains Međimurje. Međimurje's civil registers exist from 1895 because Međimurje was administered as part of Zala county — as Hungary proper, not as Croatia. The anomaly was never an archival quirk; it was a border.
Checked rather than assumed. Zala in this collection holds 235 districts and not one of Csáktornya, Perlak, Nedelicz, Stridó, Kottori or Légrád — those sit in the Slovenia-titled collection, so the two do not overlap and nothing is duplicated. The 16 Defranceschi records inside are Budapest, Esztergom and Sopron.
Both promising candidates are now closed. Gračišće, Gologorica and Pićan are not in Austria and not in Hungary, and on present evidence they are filmed nowhere. What it produced on this siteThe collections, and what each holds · What Pazin holds on paper instead · FamilySearch collection 1452460 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Defunctorum — DGS 005497894, image 567 Other | Two cut strips laid on a blank leaf | Frame 567 is the same opening as 566, photographed a second time with two cut strips of a register page laid on the facing leaf. The strips are not new material: their house numbers — 592, 600, 159, 75, 78, 102 — are page 164's entries 11 to 17, which frame 566 already shows in place.
This changes how the film has to be counted. Consecutive frames share a page, and some frames are re-shoots of a page already filmed. 581 frames is not 581 pages, and any estimate of how long this book takes to read that is built on the frame count is wrong. The reliable unit is the book's own page number, written at the top outer corner, with the entry numbers as the check that nothing has been skipped between them. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The plates · The parish books · FamilySearch film 005497894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Sept 2026 | Vodnjan, Liber Defunctorum — DGS 005497894, image 562 Other | February 1831, first half | Twelve entries, 1–11 February 1831, read in full: Portolato, Manzin, Toffetti, Vidich, Rotta, Muscovich, Del Carro, Ciritico, Cattarin, Gasparo Toffetti. No De Franceschi. The second half of the page was not reached — the security service blocked the film mid-page. What it produced on this siteVodnjan · The parish books · The method · FamilySearch film 005497894 |
Nothing matches that.
How to read this
Every row now carries a way out of the table. The source name is a link to where the search was actually done — a portal's search page, a newspaper's run at ANNO, a film at FamilySearch, a journal's issue. Where the material came from the family, or from a book that is not online, the link points instead at the page of this site where the scans and extracts live, and says «on this site» rather than naming a host.
«What it produced on this site» is the other direction: from a search to the pages its findings ended up on. That is where the extracts, the transcriptions and the images are — a register row here is the receipt, not the evidence.
Three of the five outcomes are the useful ones. Nothing is the heading that saves work: five gigabytes of theology journals searched end to end for twenty place-names and every spelling of the surname, and not one hit — that is worth recording so it is never done again. Three of the entries under it are entirely different families who happen to share the name, and naming them is the only defence against quietly absorbing them.
Blocked means a bot check, a login wall or a paywall that this project has chosen not to get round. Those are recorded rather than worked around, and where a blocked route matters — Antenati for the Carnian civil registers is the sharpest case — it is named as a gap rather than filled with a guess. The link still goes to the front door, so anyone with an account can walk through it.
Not yet is a shopping list. Most of it is printed and purchasable or is one letter away. Anyone who wants to move this archive forward should start there rather than at the beginning.
Sources that did yield are described properly in the bibliography, with what each gave and where it is weak. Open questions are on the open questions page.
What this page rests on
OpenStarts — Università degli Studi di Trieste Digital repository · openstarts.units.it openstarts.units.it ↗
Hrčak — the portal of Croatian scientific and professional journals Portal · hrcak.srce.hr hrcak.srce.hr ↗
Società Istriana di Archeologia e Storia Patria — «Archivio Camillo De Franceschi e famiglia» Archive, Trieste · SIASP, Trieste. Consistenza: bb. 26, sec. XIX–XX siasp-aps.org ↗
The full bibliography, with what each source gave and where it is weak →