Australian girl seeks Italian/Jugoslavian heritage info

[wldspirit]

Glad to be of some help.......
considering that I'm usually the one with all the questions.

There is another site which offers an interactive form letter,
I didn't bookmark the site, perhaps Peter could provide the link.

wldspirit

[VaDeb]

Here is the interactive form letter.

http://www.circolocalabrese.org/resourc ... /index.asp

Debbie

[ptimber]

Also go to www.mangeruca.com/letters.htm Peter

[Auburn0508]

Thanks for the help, guys and gals.

It's all one big waiting game now. Have sent letters to the Consolato d'Italia and a couple of other places, so there doesn't seem to be much more I can do.

O/T - Have also sent away for some information from BD&M (Dept. of Births, Deaths & Marriages) and the National Archives of Australia (NAA) ... am going to use the documents in about 3-4 weeks, in regards to my application for my European passport! My father was actually born in De Bilt, Holland... which (almost) guarantees I'm eligible for the EU passport.

So hopefully, in about 8-10 weeks, I can fly out of Australia and head to Britain to start on my archaeological field work.

[wldspirit]

Best of luck to you Auburn

Archaeological field work? Sounds exciting!!

Have patience with the letter responses, I am still waiting after 2 months.
I'm giving it about 3 months, as I don't want to come across like a
typical pushy American!!

wldspirit

[ptimber]

After 6 weeks you can send a follow up letter and it is appropriate since that is the usual waiting time. If you wait much longer it can languish. Send a dollar along with the fiollow up letter for stamps asking them to help the request along. At least they wil know your on top of it. Be nice but let them know your there. Peter

[wldspirit]

Thanks Peter, will do.

wldspirit

[Auburn0508]

I'm glad I've been basing my research on the paper evidence, and not on my mother's recollection...

Was talking to her last night, and we got onto the topic of the research. I mentioned trying to get info on her grandmother (father's mother), Catherine Beric. She claimed that Beric was a Dutch name, and was not on her side of the family... yet she still doesn't accept that Catherine Beric is listed as her father's mother. 8O

I do recall, about a year ago, she told me that she was named after her mother's mother in the Italian tradition - her middle name being Rosalia. She was always upset that her name was Susanne instead of Catherine, which it should have been - had she been named fully in the Italian manner (of sorts). She always said that was why she named my sister Katherine.

Very strange that she denies it now...

[Auburn0508]

Hiya guys.

Just a quick update. FINALLY have the documents from the National Archives - the full file (kinda). There were are few documents that were concealed for political reasons, but I'll argue for those if possible. Will review the file tonight and decide on the next course of action... in other words, what I'm gonna do with the data!!

Have also submitted a third request to the NAA, after a phone conversation with one of the researchers revealed my first 2 requests for my father's Naturalisation Papers had not been entered into the database. However, I have managed to review the rest of his parents' NAA file online through the new digital service.

Will keep you all posted.

[fortunata]

Hello,
I have 2 Guglielminis in my heritage.
Agata(born 12/10/1782) who married into the Sardo family and her father Martin. They were from Palermo and Catania, Sicily. any chance they may be related???
I would love any info also.
Thank you!
B.

I am seeking information relating to my maternal ancestors. My grandmother and grandfather moved to Australia in the early 1950s from Trieste, Italy. My mother was born here in Australia, as was I.

The only names I have to go on are as follows:

* Lucilla Guglielmini (nee Stefanovich)(grandmother)
* Guiseppe Guglielmini (great/grandfather)
* Rosalia Stefanovich (great-grandmother)
* Joseph Stefanovich (great-grandfather)

My mother's father was born in Spoletto, in the province of Dalmatia, Jugoslavia. Although I'm not too sure what the region is called now...

[dabo]

Is there nothing new??

Dabo

[Zara]

My grandfather on my father's side was Guglielmini (Domenico), and he married my grandmother Renata Domic. They were married in Zagreb (Zagabria) Croatia, and lived there till he dissapeared in 1945. She was born in 1922. and I don't know his birth date, I only know that he was approximatelly 12 years older than her. So the year of his brith can be 1911. or later.

Spoletto that you mentioned is city of Split (Croatian pronunciation), Italian pronunciation is Spalato, and that's the city in provence of Dalmatia (Dalmacija).

[PeterTimber]

Dear Zara just what are you seeking?? documents or trying to locate the whereabouts of your grandfather?? Please adivse. =Peter=

[Zara]

Dear Peter, I'm just anxious to get any information about that side of my family. Whole life my father doesn't know anything about his father, my grandfather, and I'm trying to see is he alive, is he dead, missing or what, do I have any relatives and so on. Whereabouts are not my interest at all. Just people, dead or living because I want to know where I'm from.

[suanj]

Zara, you know if Domenico Guglielmini marriage was registered also in Firenze?
suanj