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From: "Amy J. Davis" <>
Subject: Re: [CROATIA-L] writing to Croatia
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:10:23 -0800 (PST)
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hi ashley,

i wrote a letter to a relative in sunger last year. most of it was in english, but i did include some phrases in croatian to explain who i was. i also sent pictures of my family back to my great-grandfather and his brothers. i have never conversed with this person so i took a chance because he lived in the same house that my great-grandfather had and his father, etc, and he had the same last name. i did include a postal coupon.

i just got a letter back from the man's sister. it was written completely in croatian, but she included pictures and a christmas card. i have had a hard time translating it, but i look forward to continuing a correspondence with this "cousin" of mine. i hope that it will help me to learn croatian.

good luck!
amy

ashley tiwara <> wrote:
Tatjana,
For me the larger problem is to get my mother sitting down to write the letter. I believe I wrote you that she'll be 90 end of this month and has several major chronic illnesses but she doesn't want to believe she's old and refuses to do what might be considered sensible, like rest between heavier tasks so that she might stay awake in the evening. On the other hand, she never really liked TV for entertainment and a book in the living room is very like a book in the bedroom.
Perhaps if I suggest the letter that as a celebration of her birthday we could have the priest celebrate the life of our cousin with a mass.
I do like the map you sent. It's the best one I've seen of the area around Rijeka my grandparents came from, clearly showing the Caroline road but also indicating the string of villages from Fuzine to Mrkopalj, of special interest to me.

Sigh, I do wish she'd been willing to speak Croatian to me,
Ashley

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Ashley, Tom has a very good set of advises:
http://www.croatia-in-english.com/gen/lesson3.html
I would concur with his suggestion to start with one or two precise
questions. You can always include donation, also 2 postal coupons. I found
selfaddressed envelope a good incentive for the answering letter.
Book of souls for Mrkopalj- Sunger is good news but even better that Ogulin
seems also to have it. LDS has nothing from Ogulin. Some of my relatives lived
in Ogulin.
On this map you will see the road "Carolina".
http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/maps/1910/modr-fi.jpg
It was built in 1726 from Bakar to Karlovac. Fuzine- Vrata are next to
Sunger- Mrkopalj (except for Belo Selo). I think that some of my Vrata people came
from Sunger.
Tatjana


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