Hi, thanks for the welcome

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My grandfather, who lived with us growing up, had immigrated to the US from Croatia. Over 25 years ago, I had found his Ellis Island Ship Manifest arrival record and was thrilled to see that piece of my family history.

It took me years and years, periodically returning to the record, to decipher the name of the village listed on the record of where he last lived. Once known, I could look it up on a map (it wasn't anywhere near where my mother told us he was from). I thought that the Ellis Island record was as far back as I could go, that I would have no hope of ever finding out about anybody else in Croatia ("the old country", as he used to call it), unless I traveled to Croatia myself.

So that's the way it was, until a nephew renewed my interest in our family history and I found the FamilySearch website and the wealth of Croatian church records available here.

So now, over the past few months, I've been tracing my grandfathers family back through the generations by searching the church records, both the translated/indexed ones, and translating myself using translate.google.com those that have not been translated.

I'm now in the process of researching my 4th great-grandfather, born back around 1766.

I'm stuck on translating the Latin marriage record of this great-grandfather because it isn't written in the "typical" manner of the day, so I joined this group to see if I can get some help translating it to continue my search further back in time.

Also, hope I can help others with their searches from what I've learned along the way.

Thank you for moderating the group.