Australia and New Zealand

  MICHAEL JURLINA was born in Kaitaia in 1962, son of Ivan (1933 – 2022) and Mary Vinac (1941). His grandfather Loni (1898 – 1979) was a gum digger on [...]

  DRAGO YELAVICH was born in Kaitaia in 1931, son of Stipan and Perina nee Juretich. Stipan was from Ravča (1894 – 1985) and worked on the gumfields at Ahipara, [...]

  GREGORY YURETICH is the President of Kaitaia Dalmatian Cultural Club and Indoor Bowls Club. He was born in Kaitaia in 1962, son of Ivan (1933 -2019) and grandson of [...]

  BRIAN MISA, was born in Auckland in 1945, son of Toma Misic (1896 – 1966) and Antica Radonich (1908 – 2000) from Podgora. Antica’s father Jure came out to [...]

  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, 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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

  It was always nice to receive a postcard from the other side of the world, a custom that is slowly being lost with the development of technology. Nowadays, everyone [...]