David Defranceski

…numbers in the wrong order. That is what oral history is for. It does not settle anything. It tells you where to look, and it tells you what the paper never will — that somebody, at some point, was frightened enough to leave. Told by David Defranceski, 10 September 2026, and recorded the same day. Held against: the certified extract of the Senj birth register 152/1954; the Crikvenica register entries and family file on <a href= /crikvenica-house/ the Crikvenica house</a; the Senj and Karlobag…

…Normalising the genitives, collapsing doubled letters and requiring a De Franceschi parent brought it to 48. /searched/ 10 Sept 2026 hit 1948: an attempt to leave the country Family testimony — David Defranceski 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;…

…Smells dank and musty Tastes of sand Sounds like a trumpet Looks like an anaconda who just ate his prey GREED no work prose Acknowledgement of debt We, Mama and Papa, the said parents of, David Defranceski Hereby pledge to pay the said child the sum of u.k. pound sterling 1500.00. The said amount being redeemable in London, providing bearer has adequate identification and a local bank account into which funds may be transferred. The above being our…

…last field is what turns a list of arrivals into families, and this archive has never had it for Brazil. Nothing is harvested yet, and the 184 sweep in Franceschini and other names the stem catches, which are a different surname. David Defranceski's Google MyMaps «Defranceski Family», layer «High Level of Emigration from Here» and «Italian Lines», exported as KML and archived September 2026. Context on the Trentino emigration from the Museo Storico del Trentino's «Emigrazione trentina» and Altmayer…

…inside it only as the note «Generation 7 of the direct line — David's father … born at Senj on 17 December 1951». Two men and one dossier: relatives pulled from this page cannot be attributed to generation 7 without checking each one. n David Defranceski Johannesburg → Brisbane living Living — named only, by the archive's rule. Keeper of this archive. The line does not stop here. Generation 9 is Alessio David Defranceski and Mateo Cristian…

…each one. n David Defranceski Johannesburg → Brisbane living Living — named only, by the archive's rule. Keeper of this archive. The line does not stop here. Generation 9 is Alessio David Defranceski and Mateo Cristian Defranceski, David's sons by Cristina Adele D'Arcy. They are named and nothing else about them is published. david-defranceski The town the line came from, and a palace called…

…Australia, Victoria, Index to Probate Registers, ark 1:1:JVKL-2T1, for «Zdrovko De Franceski». Probate the year after a December 1979 death is what the record ought to look like. The 1999 was the error and this closes it. David Defranceski's live MyHeritage tree, «My Family Tree (Defranceski, Lerena, Taylor, Barry, Blazevic, Booyzen)», read from his own logged-in session on 7 September 2026. 459 individuals of the surname harvested with their facts and citations; the working notes are in this…

…De Franceschi uopće u dubrovačkim maticama ili u spisima Republike prije 1808.? Riječ je o privatnom obiteljskom istraživanju bez komercijalne svrhe. Rado ću platiti naknadu za preslike prema Vašem cjeniku. Unaprijed zahvaljujem. S poštovanjem, David Defranceski SENT 14 September 2026 to dad@dad.hr — Gmail thread 1a09cf406b8c46ff. err/dr-avni-arhiv-u-dubrovniku-975de9 ANSWERED 28 September 2026 — and the answer is that the archive no longer holds the books. Kornelija…

…cijeni i načinu plaćanja za sve navedeno, te o tome je li potrebno ispuniti kakav obrazac. Riječ je o obiteljskom, nekomercijalnom istraživanju; građa se neće objavljivati u komercijalne svrhe. Unaprijed zahvaljujem na trudu. S poštovanjem, David Defranceski err/dapa-the-letter-three-requests When one of these comes back, it goes on the page it belongs to and a row goes into the Search Register — including if it comes back empty, because a negative answer from a named archive is a…

…ours and a sixth, Buenos Aires, on a reunion album alone, six belonging to the other families, and three who simply share the commonest patronymic in Italy. Assembled September 2026 from this archive's own pages, restructured after David Defranceski pointed out that it had been adding three different kinds of thing together and calling the total «lines» — and reconciled against the drawing on 12 October 2026, when he asked why the page said five families over a picture of seven.…

…named children instead of two. Svetvinčenat parish register, «Matična knjiga 1568–1917», Hrvatski državni arhiv u Zagrebu, filmed as DGS 005497884; images 397, 398 and 442 read tile by tile from the FamilySearch Deep Zoom service in David Defranceski's own signed-in session, September 2026. Transcriptions and translations are this archive's own; readings marked with a query are uncertain. The 1628 entry was read from the same Deep Zoom service, image 58 of «Births (Rođeni) 1589-1646», tile by tile at…

…September 1802. Cattarina, born 1756, died 21 May 1792. Gian Battista, born 1753, died 23 January 1813. Set beside the 1711 tablet and Carlo's «il vecchio stipite» dead in November 1686, that is most of a century of the house filled in. David Defranceski's live MyHeritage tree, read 7 September 2026. Dates as the tree gives them; the citations behind them, where they exist, are FamilySearch record links entered by the family. The house and the ground, photographed…

…copy from MKR Gračišće 1841–1899, folio 108, entry 23, issued by the Državni arhiv u Pazinu to David Defranceski, 26 April 2021 (KLASA 053-02/21-02/195), signed by the director Mirela Mrak. Baptised 23 March 1863 Gračišće Born 22 March 1863 the register says «n. heri» — born yesterday Name Josephus Josip Sex, status…

…spelling: «De-franceschi» here, broken across the line; «Defranceschi» on the bride's own line four inches away; «Defrancesco» when her daughter dies in 1896. Three forms, one parish, one family, twenty-two years. David Defranceski's MyHeritage tree, node «PULA & Liznjan, Fasana, Istra, Medulin Defranceschi / Defranceski» (individual 4507345), read from his logged-in session on 8 September 2026: thirty-one individuals with their stored facts and the FamilySearch citations he had…

…the audit read only what follows the first heading. No tag may stand between the name and the year — without that it flagged a households row where the year belonged to the next person in the next span. And no sentence may end between them, because «David Defranceski. The 1584 plaque…» is prose about a plaque. The one hit left is the search index, where the page title «1948» sits beside a name in a lowercased string. A rule that is only ever enforced at the door should be checked at the window once a…

…stablo obitelji Franceschi Family chart held by David Defranceski, «Rodoslovno stablo obitelji Franceschi» — the Omiš line. Twenty generations, 1318 to 1992. A made family tree, not a register. The medieval generations carry offices and dates that no document has been checked for here, and should be read as…

…coincidence rather than a household. «Gazzetta di Zara», anno IX, 4 August 1840, eight pages — the official gazette of the Kingdom of Dalmatia, printed at Zadar. Retrieved from ANNO (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) by David Defranceski on 8 September 2026 and filed in this project's library; the text layer read here is the library's own. The Venice line, told straight through This is the second of the five families, and the only one that arrives with a…

…for Toma, Gracin ibid. for Giovanni of «La Dalmazia», Dujšin's «Zbornik plemstva» (1938), Heyer von Rosenfeld's «Der Adel des Königreichs Dalmatien» (Nuremberg 1873) and Laszowski (1925). The family chart «Rodoslovno stablo obitelji Franceschi», held by David Defranceski. The 1584 plaque and the 1840 gazette are read here directly. The Omiš branch, photographed Six things out of the branch's own keeping — five photographs and the descent chart the top of this page is built…

…so neither has to be OCR'd again. The remaining two — the «Hrvati i Karolinzi» catalogue and «Piazza Maggiore era troppo piccola» — are still unread, and neither looks likely to repay the effort. All twenty-three scans supplied by David Defranceski, September 2026, and now in this project's library. Each was converted to text and tested for the surname in five spellings and for fifteen place-names before being…