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From: Brenda Evanetich <>
Subject: Re: [CROATIA-L] Kovacic
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 08:32:56 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <20040401045635.32546.qmail@web12502.mail.yahoo.com>


Thanks Robert. Next time you are headed to Colorado
(where I am from) or New Mexico (where I am now)
please let me know. I would love to meet you and go
to one of your seminars.

Thanks!
Brenda

--- Robert Jerin <> wrote:
> Brenda,
>
> The place to begin is with recent history and work
> back. Begin in the places he lived in the US, find
> Naturalization records in the county where he lived
> (if he applied for US Citizenship), marriage
> records, SS application... in other words begin with
> the closest (in time and geography) and work back.
>
> KOVAC is the root, which means smith! The IC ending
> means son of. Both are very, very common surnames
> and come from most all geographic parts of Croatia
> as well as Slovenia.
>
> Doing this with Ellis Island records from 1892 to
> 1912 (age 0 to 25) finds only a few
> Mato/Matej/Mathias/Matija/Mate/Matyas which all mean
> Mathew or Matt Approximately 20 listings are found
> for first names mentioned above last name KOVAC,
> KOVACS
>
> http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB/ellis.html
>
> Only when you know the place he came from can you
> begin searching.
>
> Having conducted a Croatian genealogy seminar a few
> Saturdays ago in Denver, I can tell you that many
> people who settled in Colorado came from the Gorski
> Kotar region of Croatia.
>
> Robert Jerin
>
>
> Brenda Evanetich <> wrote:
> I am researching 'Kovac'. It makes sense to me that
> this is a form of Kovacic. Am I correct in this
> assumption? If so, I would love some pointers on how
> to proceed with 1- the surname being so common, 2-
> the
> surname being changed at some point, and 3- the
> first
> names being so common. The only info I have at this
> point is my G-GF is Matthew Kovac (Americanized).
> Born abt 1889. Married Mary Grubesic in Denver, CO
> around 1910. Had 3 daughters, Celia, Mary and Helen.
>
> There are so many Matthew Kovac's I'm just lost.
>
> Thank you!
> Brenda
>
>
>
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