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From: "Patty Milich" <>
Subject: Re: [CROATIA] BIANCHI/BJELE/BIELE/BEAL FROM CAVTAT, CROATIA
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:42:56 -0700
In-Reply-To: <20060820152735.78269.qmail@web52712.mail.yahoo.com>


I have done a fair amount of researching the films available for Cavtat and
have seen this surname several times (though it doesn't relate to my lines).
I understood that Ragusavecchia is the old name for Dubrovnik.

Patty

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Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 8:28 AM
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Subject: Re: [CROATIA] BIANCHI/BJELE/BIELE/BEAL FROM CAVTAT, CROATIA

Denise,

His ability to speak Italian should be no surprise, have you not reviewed
the parish records which are available from the LDS Family History Center
near you? Those church records are in Italian, Latin and Croatian for the
Cavtat Roman Catholic Church.

The old Italian name for Cavtat was Ragusavecchia, which appears on the
1910 Austrian miltary maps which are found online (also the Croatian name
Cavtat appears next to the Italian name.

Robert

wrote:
The more I am interviewing family here in California about my great
grandfather from Cavtat, Croatia, the more I am hearing about him speaking
fluent Italian. He was born in Cavtat October 5, 1875 and came to America at
about age 16. His original Croatian name was Bjele, later changed to the
Italalianicized Bianchi while still living in Croatia. When he came to the
US, he changed it to Biele and later his Portuguese wife from the Azores
Americanized it to Beal! Can someone please comment on the fact that he
spoke fluent Italian?
Thank you, Denise Jackson
(off to visit my roots for the month of September in Cavtat!)

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