Josip Defranceski
Josip Defranceski, 1947–1970. Buenos Aires · Washington. Every mention of this name in the archive — 10 across 9 pages.
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- Josip Defranceski — 1947 – 1970, Buenos Aires · Washington
Diplomacy
This name sits in more than one household. 2 households of his or her own survive the date check. The first is drawn. Joining them on a name alone is the mistake this site keeps having to correct.
| Gen | Father before | This name | Child after |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4/8 | Antonio Defranceschi | Josip Defranceschi1863 · 1951 · Gračišće → Crikvenica | Anton Rudolf Defranceski |
0 of the 3 relationships drawn above are written in a register this archive has read with its own eyes. 3 come from a FamilySearch index entry — a transcription, not the page.
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This archive holds 10 other pages under what Say Your Name reconciles as the same given name in another language — a Latin register, a Venetian clerk, a Croatian village, a Hungarian office. They are not merged and none of them is claimed to be this person: a shared name is not a shared identity, and the archive will not join one to the other by machine. It is here so that a reader looking for a man the records called Josephus can see where they wrote him Josip.
Giuseppe De Franceschi · Giuseppe Defranceschi · Joseph De Franceschi · Joseph Defranceschi · Josephi Defranceschi · Josephus Defranceschi · Josephus Defranceschi (Kaštelir, 1870) · Josephus Defranceski · Josip Defranceschi · Joso Defranceski
Appears on: The Eleven · Changes · The Defranceschi Archive · The House at Crikvenica · The Other Franceschi · The Plate Room · Lives on one scale · About · Worklist
The Eleven
…— fused, no particle, the way this family writes it — returns thirty-six records of its own. They are not Italian. They are Croatian, and they are post-war. Philadelphia, 1954: five of them off one ship Josip Defranceski, 39, born 1915, arrives at Philadelphia in 1954 aboard the Slovenija — a Jugolinija liner out of Rijeka. On the same lists: Bosiljka, born 1918, and three children born 1942, 1946 and 1947, not named here because they may be living. A…
Changes
…and withdrawn inside the same hour. Generalising it — any person whose recorded birth is less than twelve years before a household they parent — «corrected» 113 rows, including an Antonio Defranceschi born 1897 attached to an 1825 household and a Josip Defranceski born 1947 attached to one from 1890. Those are not bad birth years; they are name collisions, which this archive proved the same morning when «Maria Defranceschi» turned out to be thirteen women in thirteen parishes. The rule assumed the match was right…
…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. /searched/ 9 Sept 2026 miss The Aquilone's port of registry Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1875 and 1877–78…
The Defranceschi Archive
…and withdrawn inside the same hour. Generalising it — any person whose recorded birth is less than twelve years before a household they parent — «corrected» 113 rows, including an Antonio Defranceschi born 1897 attached to an 1825 household and a Josip Defranceski born 1947 attached to one from 1890. Those are not bad birth years; they are name collisions, which this archive proved the same morning when «Maria Defranceschi» turned out to be thirteen women in thirteen parishes. The rule assumed the match was right…
The House at Crikvenica
…cemetery photographs were supplied by the family in September 2026. The certificate is a sworn English translation of the Yugoslav extract; the Croatian original has not been seen here. Klenovica house 22, then Crikvenica Josip Defranceski the stonecutter's son, down from Gračišće to the coast between 1892 and 1894 Wife Ana Kalaj-Kučarica Where Klenovica house 22 → Crikvenica Ana Kalaj-Kučarica her full style comes…
…once in a pedigree file, and once in a photograph. (family identification — David holds the originals) How it happened, stated plainly Two branches' pictures sit in one family collection. A card carried the name Josip Defranceski, this line has a Josip Defranceschi, and this archive matched the face to the name without asking which Josip. The register plates on this page were checked against Gračišće and Ledenice; the portrait was never checked against anything at all. It…
The Other Franceschi
…detail is worth a second look rather than a claim. This archive's own line was living at Crikvenica from about 1890, and a man of the same rare fused surname was running a course there in 1932. It is a lead, not a link. josipdf Josip Defranceski fl. 1947–1970 Buenos Aires· Washington Diplomacy A Yugoslav press official through the Cold War. A declassified American intelligence report on the Slav press in Argentina, dated 12 August 1947, names a…
…report on the Slav press in Argentina, dated 12 August 1947, names a Defranceski as director and editor of a Slav paper in Buenos Aires, «formerly connected with the Yugoslav Legation in Buenos Aires and considered pro-Tito». From 1954 to 1957 a Josip Defranceski appears in the United States State Department's Diplomatic List as Press Counselor of the Yugoslav embassy in Washington, with his addresses on 12th Street, Hamilton Street and Military Road. And the middle of the career is now filled in. The Civil &…
…Street and Military Road. And the middle of the career is now filled in. The Civil & Military Gazette of Lahore, 5 December 1959, under the heading «Yugoslav Pressmen»: a delegation leaving Peshawar for Kabul on 14 December, consisting of «Mr. Josip Defranceski, Director of External Services, Radio Belgrade» and a correspondent of Borba. Buenos Aires in 1947, Washington from 1954 to 1957, Radio Belgrade by 1959, and still publishing in the Review of International Affairs in 1970. Almost…
Worklist
…own grandmother instead of being told how many there are. The 220 withheld are still withheld — electoral registers, Social Security index, obituary notices, divorce indexes. Two names in the unplaced list are worth somebody's eye. Bosiljka and Josip Defranceski, born 1918 and 1915, crossing in 1954 — Croatian given names under this family's own fused spelling, and a post-war date. And a Marta Defranceschi, 1922, which is the given name the Pićan errand has been trying to settle for a…
A dossier is every mention of a name anywhere in this archive's data, gathered automatically and linked back to the page it appears on, with what the archive knows about the person set out at the top. Identity here is by NAME, not by resolved individual: where two people share a name they share a dossier, and the archive says so rather than guessing. Rebuilt from the roster, so every person the archive can name has a page — including the ones read straight off a register that no index anywhere contains.