FRANK VINAC
FRANK VINAC was bron in Kaitaia in 1939 the son of Ante Tony (1895 1976) and Ane Despot (1911 – 2007) from Zaostrog. Tony worked in the copper mines [...]
KAYE DRAGICEVICH
KAYE DRAGICEVICH, genealogist, was born in Auckland in 1954. She married Paul Dragicevich from Kaitaia. Paul’s father George Dragicevich (1924 – 1981 ) was the second student of Croatian origin [...]
Berta Borich between Makarska and Auckland
FRANKA UMBERTA BORIĆ was born in Split on January 29, 1946, but lived in Makarska until moving to New Zealand in 1965. She trained as a hairdresser in Makarska, so [...]
Story of Mara Vitasovic
MARA VITASOVIĆ was born on February 2, 1953 in Te Kopuru, in the Northland, New Zealand, in the family of Andrija Skokandić from Žrnovo and Neda, née Šestanović from Lumbarda, [...]
Lodges early funeral customs in Tacoma, WA
An interesting tidbit about the customs of conducting funerals in the very early nineteen hundreds… When a member of the lodge died, the membership was expected to attend the [...]
The SABS cookbook
In 1908 Teresa Madoti at the age of 21 and her husband John Zatkovich at the age of 23 went to live in Tacoma, WA. They had a daughter [...]
The SABS Cookbook
In 1908 Teresa Madoti at the age of 21 and her husband John Zatkovich at the age of 23 went to live in Tacoma, WA. They had a daughter [...]
The Klapa Kartolina
“Klapa Kartolina” is a mixed klapa (group of a capella singers) of six members, which has been active since 2013, and is attached to the Croatian parish of St. [...]
Zoran Tijardović
Zoran Tijardović was born in 1966 in Varaždin and grew up in Split, where he finished school and graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering. He has been living [...]