Corrections
An archive that never contradicts itself is not being careful; it is not checking. This is the list of claims made here and then withdrawn, kept in the open because the reasoning that failed is as useful as the reasoning that held.
Every page here carries a confidence label, and a label is only honest if it can be lowered. Most of what follows is this archive becoming less certain, not more: a house number demoted from an identifier to a kin-group, a resolved name reopened, a culprit un-named. One was caught by the reader — the search had been folding surnames and not given names, and was finding 42 of 88 Ivans. One was caught by sweeping the built site rather than the source, which is a lesson about where to look.
was From the 960-pixel copy of the 1907 marriage: that the groom's parents were Petar Vukelić, gostioničar, marked deceased
, and Vica; and that the witness Koloman was a broker at the tobacco factory
.
now At 5,812 pixels the row reads “Vukelić pl. Petar gostioničar, i † Vjekoslava Putnić”. The cross is in front of Vjekoslava, not Petar — it was the mother who had died. Her name is not Vica. And Koloman is a meštar — a master, a grade this archive already maps on the factory ladder — not a broker.
Three published details, one of them a death attributed to the wrong parent. All three came from squinting at a thumbnail, which is what question 5c was about. Her surname, Putnić or Putinić, is still not settled and is written here as unsettled.
was That the 1806 baptism of ahnentafel 24 — the entry underlining Antich Papa, on which question 5 rests — came from Vrbnik, on the island of Krk. /searched listed it under Vrbnik baptisms
for weeks.
now It is Selce. The word VRBNIK on that page is a modern pencil annotation in block capitals, not the register's own words. The Selce death register for the same year is written per me Mich: Rombol Capell: Loci, and the baptism signs itself Michael Rombol C:L: — the same man, the same office, the same year. The same page buries Helena, widow of Antonius Antich, on 20 June 1806.
The tree said Selce all along and this archive contradicted it on the strength of a pencil. A finding-aid annotation is somebody's opinion written on a photograph, and it was treated as evidence. The family never crossed from Krk — they are at Selce in 1806, 1809, 1835 and 1838 under two generations of Rombol priests.
was Published as question 13b for a few hours: that the Selce marriage of 1835, calling the bride filia Denatorum Georgii et Margarittæ, put ahnentafel 51 in her grave seven years before the tree does, and that this archive follows the register
.
now The Selce Liber Defunctorum has her exactly where the tree said: Die 8ª Maji 1842 — Margareta Jellicich, Uxor Georgii, entry 147, house 204. The tree's date is right to the day.
The reading of Denatorum was checked at 3.6× and is correct — so the conflict is real, but it is between two registers in one parish in one priest's hand, not between a register and the tree. I reached for the tree as the likely culprit because it usually is, and that is a bias, not an argument. Question 13b is rewritten to ask the question that actually exists. Question 13b →
was Six open questions each named a specific book as the next step — Zvonimir's 1915 death at Senj, Miroslava's 1907 baptism, the two sisters' baptisms of January 1895, Juraj Blažević's marriage and his own baptism at Krmpote, and the 1767 Otočac baptisms. All written as though it were a matter of going and looking.
now Not one of them can be done in this collection. Senj deaths stop at 1907 and births at 1894; Otočac births begin at 1834; Krmpote has no marriage register at all, and its birth film — catalogued 1815-1896 — actually begins in 1879: image 10 is page two and reads Godine 1879.
A day of planning that looked actionable and was not. The label on a waypoint describes the parish; the film behind it can be far narrower, and this archive had never once opened a film to check before naming its contents as the answer. The books exist — in the Croatian State Archives and in parish custody — which makes the two letters already sent the real route, not another afternoon at a viewer. The audit →
was That the way to settle the Port Pirie Žubrinići was the Otočac parish registers for the 1760s — the baptisms of Casparus (14 January 1767) and Toma (1768)
. Written as though it were a matter of going and looking.
now FamilySearch's Otočac baptisms begin in 1834. The 1760s are not in the collection at all. The step this archive has been naming as the answer was never available, and solving full-resolution access did nothing for it.
Nothing published was wrong — but a plan was wrong, which is its own kind of error, and it survived because nobody checked the holding dates before writing the sentence. Check what a repository holds before naming its books as the next step. The replacement is better: an Otočac status animarum for 1710–1846, with house numbers. Question 4 →
was Reading the 1920 marriage entry at page scale, I made Ljubomir Blažević's birth 1 August 1892 and was about to publish it as a correction to this archive's own marriage page, which said 1 March.
now Enlarged 2.7× on the cell alone, the month is three strokes under a single overline — III, no V. The date is 1 March 1892. The page was right and I was wrong.
Nothing, because it was caught before it was published — by this archive's own rule that no date, surname or house number is recorded from a whole-page view. The rule exists because a 19 reads as 1 and a flat-topped 2 reads as 7 at page scale. It earned its keep here.
was That the 1885 groom's father resolved only to a short form that looks like Papa, with no visible -ić
because the scan held here is 960 pixels, and that a full-size copy would settle it.
now The full-size copy settles it the other way. At roughly nine times the held scan the word is Papa — a clean round a, no abbreviation stroke, and room to spare before the column rule. The priest wrote the by-name.
The conclusion survives and its evidence improves: this is the nadimak displacing the surname, caught in a contemporary hand in 1885, one generation before every descendant is written Papić. Question 5 →
was That the Senj marriage film ran so that image 374 was page 350, which put the 1920 entry within the last few images
, and that the viewer's ?i= parameter could be used to move through it.
now Measured at four points, the film runs about page = image − 5: image 196 is page 192, 280 is 275, 299 is 294, 371 is 366 — and image 372 is END OF ITEM. The ?i= parameter is ignored even on a fresh load.
Only my own time. It also produced the better method: every filmstrip thumbnail carries alt="Image N" and its ARK in the same tag, so the whole 376-image map scrapes out of the DOM and the tiles are fetched directly, with no navigation at all.
was Recorded in the register as the by-name the tree attaches to one Blažević household
— read as a nadimak, like Papa on the Antići.
now The Šojati are a Krivi Put family of fifteen people with their own dates and their own place — Marko Šojat, 19 April 1801 to 4 February 1871, five dated children, and a valley called Sojat Dol. They married the Blaževići and Prpići nine times.
The mechanism was right and the direction was backwards. Blažević (Sojat) is almost certainly a household known by the family it married — which is how a nadimak is born, not what one is. Who they married →
was That the tree held 232 Žubrinići in 94 pieces, and that joining them was the largest single piece of work outstanding in this archive
.
now The surname fold split on ( but not on /. So Žubrinić / Xubrinich and Prpic Perpic — one surname written several ways in a single field — never matched the surname list. The real figure is 422, and fixing it brought 214 people into the archive, including Elias Ilija Žubrinić and Casparus Žubrinić, who are the subjects of two of this archive's own open questions.
Two published numbers, and the conclusion drawn from them. Counted properly there are 90 loose ends, not 94 — and 79 of them are bare names with no date and no place. So the work is not large; it is impossible from here, and the register is the only way through. The fragments, counted →
was Nothing — this had never been noticed. The tree looked more joined than it is.
now Eighteen nodes whose entire given name is a single letter — M, J, T — each with a parent called “Žubrinić Zubrinix Xubrinic Zub” and each holding as children everyone whose name starts with that letter. One has 26 children.
92 people are attached to the letter their name begins with and to nothing else. The sorting-bucket filter missed them because a bucket is normally detected by words like to be sorted, and these are named A through W. Read as parentage — which is what a naive count does — it makes the Žubrinići look like a family.
was That Smokvica Krmpotska kbr. 114 identified one family, and so placed Juraj Blažević in Toma's household — nearly naming his father.
now A control document, the 1890 baptism of Frane Blažević, puts Pavao Blažević, son of Luka, at 114 as well. Luka and Toma's father Anton are both sons of Ilija, so Pavao and Toma are first cousins and the number covers an extended-family compound — a zadruga.
Question 1b was downgraded from critical to substantive. The house places Juraj in Ilija's kin-group; it cannot name his father.
was That he should be looked for in the Austro-Hungarian Verlustlisten, reasoning from his age — thirty-two in the second year of the war.
now The tree places his death at Senj and gives his occupation as gostioničar, bankar. A man who dies at home in a settled trade is not a casualty-list entry.
The right book is the Senj death register for 1915. The reasoning was plausible and it was still wrong: an age is not a cause.
was A block on Karlobag's merchant milieu placed on the Žubrinić page.
now It arrives through Matija Pilipić, ahnentafel 13 — the Papić line. Moved.
Nothing to the evidence; everything to whether a reader can follow the line it belongs to.
was Both drafted to Državni arhiv u Gospiću, on the assumption that Lika-Senj county means Gospić.
now Gospić's remit is Lika-Senj “osim gradova Senja i Novalje” — except the towns of Senj and Novalja. And Smokvica is in Primorje-Gorski Kotar, not Lika-Senj at all. Both belong to Rijeka, Senj branch.
Had they been sent, two archives would have spent time forwarding them. Jurisdiction is now written down before anything is posted.
was That folding Žubrinić / Xubrinich / Zubrinich together was enough to make a person findable.
now It was not. Ivan found 42 of 88 Ivans, because the rest are entered Joannes, Joannis, Juan or Ive. 268 canonical given names, 34 of them under more than one spelling.
Caught by the reader, not by this archive. Both surnames and given names now fold — and the split by sex was a second correction on top, after Franjo and Franciska were wrongly merged.
was That Josephum, Joannis and Mariam were one person working through Selce and Vinodol entries and lifting the word after baptizavi.
now Three scans, two parishes, three priests, three decades apart — the priests wrote the oblique forms themselves. Michaël Kombol writes nomine + accusative for every child on the 1806 page.
The artefact is real; the culprit was invented. It also turned the ending into a useful signal — accusative means the entry is the person's own, genitive means they were only named as somebody's parent.
was That Luca “Papić or Perpic” was settled, because her siblings are recorded Papić.
now Her father is a record called “Senj — Unknown To be Sorted Papić”. Those siblings were grouped by whoever compiled the tree, not by a register.
The tooling now reuses the same sorting-bucket filter the rest of the build uses, so a bucket can never resolve a name. Marked open.
was Mariam Gerkacs (Gergacs), ahnentafel 55, following the tree's ordering.
now The Karlobag register of August 1789 spells it Gergacs. The tree leads with the secondary form.
Small, and worth doing: the register's spelling is the one an archivist will search on.
was That the 1918 marriage entry for Ana Papić gave her mother as Antonija r. Papić — a clerk confusing the two family names.
now Enlarged, it plainly reads Prpić. There was no clerk's error.
Nothing, because it was caught before it was published as a finding. Recorded because a correction that never reached the page is still a correction.
was Open questions rewrote href='/TheBlazevic/…' in the question body but not in the “what would settle it” block.
now Both fields go through one helper. Two of the five had been dead since the page was written.
A reader clicking the most actionable part of the page got a 404. Found by sweeping the built site rather than the source.
was That the wrong-attachment problem was contained: a real Maria Catharina Orešković of Dubrava had been married to the wrong man, and the rest of the line stood.
now Reading the 1845 Otočac baptism of Josephus gives the mother as Maria Žubrinić nata Marković, where the 1834 baptism of Nicolaus gives Maria nata Orešković. Either the first wife died and he married a second Maria, or there are two men of this name — there are 68 Žubrinić records at Otočac.
The archive had already established that Maria Catharina was the wrong woman — that reversal is set out on the Frontier page and is not new here. What is new is that the husband is now uncertain too, which is a larger problem than the one it replaces.
was Question 5c, published this morning, said four key scans had been downloaded from MyHeritage at the wrong size and should simply be re-fetched — no archive, no letter, no travel
.
now Testing it took two minutes and disproved it. The MyHeritage CDN returns exactly 960 pixels for the 1885 marriage, so the file held in the tree is itself 960 pixels. What separates the good scans is where they came from: every 4,500-pixel document carries a FamilySearch image identifier in its filename, and no 960-pixel one does.
The wrong fix. Re-fetching would have returned the same four thumbnails and the question would have looked answered. The real action is to re-source three entries from FamilySearch — and the registers and pages for all three are already known.
was Caetano Bacchi, ahnentafel 214, born 12 January 1779 — carried from the tree, whose own note reads “(Maybe)”.
now The 1779 Karlobag entry is real, but ahn 214's daughter died in 1795 and her daughter was born 11 March 1781. Two years cannot hold two generations. The right man belongs around 1730–1745.
Two more ancestors go with it: Angelo Bacchi and Catharina are in this pedigree only because that entry names them. Marked disputed, not deleted — the wrong join is the only pointer to where the right man should be sought.
was The 1777 Uroda godfather given as Pro-Colonellus Joannes Ballinich de Zirfeld.
now The same surname recurs in a February 1779 entry where the words Joës Bapta sit on the same line — giving a clean two-bowled capital B to compare against. The surname's initial is a single looped ascender with a leg, and plainly not that letter. It is Hallinich de Zirfeld.
Small in itself, and the method is the point: a contested letter was settled by finding the candidate letter elsewhere in the same hand, rather than by staring harder at the word.
was 1800-1830 Birth — Selce Papić (Papa), two more like it, and 1700 Birth — Selce Papić, all with person pages and children attached.
now They are research scaffolding, not people. The build has always excluded such records — the code comment says publishing them “would be a lie” — but the filter did not recognise a name opening with a year, nor Brothers of Casparus (It Seems).
Four people who never existed had pages, and were parents in other people's family lists. The person count fell by four. Found not by reading but by the new self-consistency check: a bucket dated 1800-1830 cannot father someone born in 1824.
was Tereza Pećanić, ahnentafel 9, carried through from the tree as died before 1850 — published without anyone checking it against the rest of her own record.
now The same record marries her to Toma on 21 November 1858 and gives her children in 1860, 1880, 1882 and 1884. Toma's death entry of 26 July 1907 calls him udovac iza pok. Tereze — widower of the late Tereza. So she was alive in 1884 and dead by July 1907.
Nothing downstream — no date was computed from it. But it sat on a direct ancestor's page for the life of this archive, and it is the kind of error that needs no register to catch: her own children postdate her death by up to thirty-four years. The lesson is that internal consistency was never checked, only external agreement.
was Five items in the media library shown as photographs of Michael Žubrinić (b. 1811), Maria Catharina Orešković (1835), Josephum Antić (1806), Maria Jelličić (1809) and Georgius Antić Papić (1838).
now They are stock question-mark placeholder graphics, uploaded to the tree for people who have no picture. One still carries a visible Adobe Stock watermark. The dates alone should have caught it: a photograph of a man born in 1806 would be remarkable.
They were on the pictures page and on two person pages, captioned as those people. The media build now honours an excluded classification and drops them. A sixth was reclassified rather than dropped — a picture captioned “Ljubomir Blazevic” is the family gravestone, not a portrait.
was Otočac shown with 60 Žubrinić records; four Mrzli Dol records filed under a place called “#6 Mrzli Dol”.
now Otocac Croatia is Otočac — 68 records. The house-number pattern missed # and kbr., hiding houses 9 and 30 entirely.
Every count on the map page was low. Fixed when the tool was widened from one surname to four.
Nothing at that level.
And the record-level corrections
These are narrower — a date, a spelling, a single person — and each is attached to the person it concerns, so a reader who never opens this page still meets it.
| What | The tree | The record | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corrected Baptism date | 19 October 1886 | 17 October 1886 | → |
| Noted Birth date | 1 March 1892 — correct | The gravestone at Senj says 1891 | → |
| Disputed Attachment to this family | Wife of Michael Žubrinić; mother of Nicolaus (b. 24 January 1834) | Born 8 September 1835 — twenty months after her supposed son | → |
| upgraded Parentage of his son Ljubomir | Asserted, with no document — this archive called it Disputed | Documented: Senj marriages, 8 December 1920, page 366 entry 41 | → |
| Confirmed Birth date | 14 March 1806 | 14 March 1806 — confirmed | → |
| Noted The name Josephum | Josephum | Josephus — and the priest wrote the accusative himself | → |
| Corrected Surname | Gerkacs (Gergacs) | Gergacs | → |
| Noted Birth date | 11 August 1789 | August 1789, born the day before baptism — consistent | → |
| Noted Baptism entry | Born 22 April 1777, Karlobag | April 1777, Karlobag, born the day before — consistent | → |
| Corrected She is not this child's mother | Mother of Nicolaus Žubrinić, b. 24 January 1834 | Born 8 September 1835 — nineteen months after him | → |
| Confirmed Baptism | 24 January 1834, Otočac | 24 January 1834, Otočac — confirmed | → |
| Noted Two wives, or two men | Married to Maria Catharina Orešković | 1834: Maria nata Oreskovich · 1845: Maria nata Marković | → |
| Corrected Birth date | 17 May 1884 | 12 May 1884 | → |
| Confirmed Birth date, and her parents' house | 25 October 1884 | 25 October 1884 — confirmed | → |
| Disputed His parents | Michael “Mate” Žubrinić and Maria Catharina Orešković — the same couple as Nicolaus, b. 1834 | Mate Žubrinić and Marija r. Orešković, both dead by 1910 — but a different couple | → |
| Confirmed Birth date | 19 October 1885 | 19 October 1885 — confirmed | → |
| Confirmed Birth date | 23 October 1888 | 23 October 1888 — confirmed | → |
| Confirmed Death, cause and burial | 26 July 1907, Senj — no cause, no burial detail | 26 July 1907, Senj — tuberculosis, aged 69, buried sv. Vid on 28 July | → |
| Corrected Death date | Before 1850 | After 1884, and before 26 July 1907 | → |
| Confirmed Baptism, and her father's occupation | Born 1838, Karlobag | Baptised 18 September 1838, Karlobag — confirmed | → |
| Noted Burial | Not recorded | Senj — the stone reads BLAŽEVIĆ TEREZA ✻1867 †1931 | → |
| Disputed This baptism is not his | Born 12 January 1779 — the tree's own note adds “(Maybe)” | A real Karlobag baptism of that date, but of a different man | → |
| Disputed Attached on a baptism that is not his son's | Father of Caetano Bacchi | Named only in the 1779 entry, which cannot be ahn 214's | → |
| Confirmed Birth | March 1781, Karlobag | Born 11 March 1781 — confirmed | → |
| Confirmed Baptism | 11 March 1768, Karlobag | Baptised 11 March 1768, born 10 March — confirmed | → |
| Confirmed Birth and baptism | Born 12 May 1859, baptised 15 May 1859, Krivi Put 136 | Confirmed exactly — and the household is entered Confiniarii | → |
| Confirmed Marriage and trade | Married Antonija Prpić; trhonoša, bremenar, gostioničar | Married 3 May 1885 at Senj, aged 27, entered bremenar | → |
| Noted Still no surname, after two documents | Lucia “Luca”, no surname | Two registers name her and neither gives one | → |
| Disputed A child born after his death | Died 20 March 1954; Vladimira Boras born 1960 | Not reconciled | → |
| Disputed A child born 74 years after his death | Died 1888; Georgius Prpić born 1962 | Not reconciled | → |
| Disputed A child born after his death | Died 1926; Blazenka Boras born 1930 | Not reconciled | → |
| Disputed A child born after his death | Died 1845; Magdalena Žubrinić born 1847 | Not reconciled | → |
| Disputed Died before she was born | Born 11 February 1847, died 4 August 1846 | Not reconciled | → |
| Disputed A mother at ten | Born 21 June 1812; Lucas Ugrin Adamich born 1822 | Not reconciled | → |
| Noted A father in the same year as his son | Born before 1769; Stephanus Žubrinić born 1769 | An artefact of the hedge, not a contradiction | → |
| Corrected Birthplace — the county is wrong | Smokvica, Krmpote, Općina Smokvica, Dubrovačko-neretvanska županija | Smokvica Krmpotska, Općina Novi Vinodolski, Primorje-Gorski Kotar | → |
| Corrected Birthplace — the county is wrong | Senj, Split-Dalmatia, Croatia | Senj, Lika-Senj County, Croatia | → |
| Confirmed Death, cause and age | Born 1902, died 1903 | Died 3 June 1903 aged 1 year 8 months — scarlatina with diphtheria | → |
| Corrected Her father | Mother Katarina “Kate” Matijavic; no father recorded | Franjo Papić, nadničar | → |
| Noted Where her death is registered | Died 7 September 1971 | Confirmed — and the civil entry is cited in her baptism margin | → |
| Confirmed Baptism, house and death | Born 23 October 1888 | Born 23 October, baptised 25 October 1888, at Smokvica kbr. 114 — and died 30 June 1954 at Senj | → |
| Noted What she did | No occupation recorded — her whole event list is born, immigrated, died | Family lore: a singer at the Hotel Therapia, Crikvenica | → |
| Disputed When she left Croatia | Immigration to South Africa, April 1975, from Zimbabwe | Family lore says 1948 — which the record will not allow | → |
| Confirmed Death date | 1953 | 6 September 1953 — from the stone | → |
| Noted His wife's dates | Married Katica — no surname, no dates | Katica, 1924–2007, from the family grave | → |
| Confirmed Baptism and house | Year only | Born 17 February, baptised 22 February 1894, at Smokvica 114 | → |
| Confirmed Baptism and house | Year only | Born 6 August, baptised 9 August 1896, at Smokvica kbr. 114 | → |
| Disputed A child born after his death | Died 1845; Helena Žubrinić born 1847 | Not reconciled | → |
| Disputed A child born after his death | Died 1832; Catharina born 1847 | Not reconciled | → |
| Disputed A child born after his death | Died 1825; Joannes born 1844 | Not reconciled | → |
| Disputed Lived to a hundred and eleven | Born 12 March 1785, died 1896 | Not reconciled | → |
| Corrected The 1845 baptism is not his | The Otočac baptism of Josephus, 16 March 1845, is attached to him — and gives the mother as Maria née Marković | It belongs to a different Michael Žubrinić, whom the tree also holds | → |
| Confirmed Baptism | Born 11 August 1885 | Born 11 August, baptised 12 August 1885 — confirmed | → |
| Confirmed Baptism, and where her death is registered | Born 9 December 1891; died 30 January 1963 | Born 9 December, baptised 13 December 1891 — and the death entry is cited in the margin | → |
| Confirmed Baptism, and the grandfather confirmed by patronymic | Born 5 November 1894, Novi Vinodolski, to Martin Kalanj and Marija Peričić | Born 5 November, baptised 11 November 1894 — and the father is entered as Martin Kalanj Josipov | → |
| Confirmed Baptism | Born 29 July 1896, Novi Vinodolski | Register scan held, 2,953 px | → |
| Confirmed Baptism | Born 4 March 1898, Novi Vinodolski | Register scan held, 2,953 px | → |
| Confirmed Baptism | Born 3 January 1900, Novi Vinodolski | Register scan held, 2,953 px | → |
| Disputed A blank house-number column does not mean the household had no number | This archive concluded on 13 September 2026 that “the house number is a village device and it does not reach the town” | Novi Vinodolski is a town, and its registers do give house numbers — just not to this family, and not on every page | → |
| Disputed Her gravestone gives the wrong birth date | Born 3 January 1864, Klenovica 22; died 28 May 1936, Crikvenica | The Crikvenica stone reads ✻ 19 IX 1863 — the baptismal register reads 3 January 1864 | → |
| Confirmed She is Martin Kalanj's sister, which explains the godparents | Ana Kalanj and Martin Kalanj both children of Josip Kalanj and Rozalija Perković, Klenovica 22 | Both baptisms name the same parents; and Ana's husband stands godfather to Martin's daughter | → |
| Disputed “Trebinje” is not evidence, and I treated it as though it were | Martin Kalanj, born 8 November 1861 at Klenovica 22; died 5 August 1900 at Trebinje | The death has no document behind it at all — its only source is “Geni World Family Tree”, and the place is the bare word “Trebinje” with no country | → |
| Corrected The Krivi Put status animarum is family material after all | Recorded this morning as “not this family's household — no Pavelić is published here” | There are 114 Pavelići in the tree, and Lovro Kalanj married Ana Pavelić | → |
| Corrected His son's birth year is a typo, and the place proves it | Domianus Perpić died 1888, and his wife Maria Sojath in 1891 — yet their son Georgius Prpić is entered as born 26 March 1962 | Georgius's own birthplace is given as “Krivi Put 136, Senj, Lika, Austria-Hungary” | → |
| Disputed Vladimira Baricević cannot be the mother of his children | Joannes Ivan Boras, born 1855, is married to Vladimira Baricević, born 12 December 1907 — a gap of 52 years — and fourteen children hang off her | Nine of the fourteen were born before she was, between 1888 and 1906 | → |
| Noted Aged 111, and fathered by a label | Gregorius Žubrinić, born 12 March 1785 at Otočac, died 1896 — age 111 | His children are born 1812–1825, which fits the birth; his recorded father is “Brothers [of Josephus] Žubrinić” | → |
| Noted The same generation is skipped twice in this household | Ten children to Budimir Boras (1894–1954) and Marica Milković (b. 1904), and fourteen to Joannes Ivan Boras (b. 1855) and Vladimira Baricević (b. 1907) | Eight of the ten are born 1923–1933; the other two in 1946 and 1960 — the second six years after the father died | → |
| Corrected Her family is from Brinje, not Klenovica — and her own baptism says so | This archive has treated the Kalanji as a Klenovica family throughout — 119 of them are recorded there | Her 1864 baptism enters her parents as Brinjensis parochiae ruricolae — country people of the parish of Brinje | → |
| upgraded He emigrated to New York in 1911 — the tree simply stopped | Matthaus (Mate) Žubrinić, born 29 December 1867 at Prozor 50, son of Michael Žubrinić and Marija Rogić. No death, no emigration, nothing after his birth | New York passenger list, 1911: Mate Zubrinic, aged 43, residence “Prozon”, sailed on the Saint Louis from Southampton | → |
| Noted He is entered as a father at sixteen, and the mother at fifteen | Anton Kljapo Blažević, born 2 May 1824; his son Anton Martin “Tone” Blažević born 1840 | The mother, Marija Šojat, is born 13 March 1825 — so she is fifteen and he is sixteen at the birth | → |
| Noted A parent at sixteen | Stane Blažević, born 1860; the child Luce born 1876 | Sixteen years between them | → |
| Disputed Attachment to this family | Wife of Joannes «Ivan» Boras (1855–1926); mother of all fourteen of his children, born 1888–1930 | Born 12 December 1907 — nineteen years after the eldest of those children | → |
| Disputed Attachment to this family | Wife of George Untersinger; mother of Rosalia (1802), Ana (1807), Michael (1810), Lucia (1827) and Eva (1839) | Born 25 June 1788, died 1828 — fourteen at the first birth and eleven years dead at the last | → |
| Disputed Attachment to this family | Husband of Marija Žabkar; father of five children born 1938–1968 | Born 11 April 1894 and died 27 March 1896, aged twenty-three months | → |
| Disputed Attachment to this family | Father of Antonija Butkovic (1880–1891) | Born 1872 — eight years old at her birth | → |
| Disputed Attachment to this family | Father of Margaretha Jankovic (1757) and Magdalena (1768) | Died 10 December 1755 — nineteen months before the first birth | → |
| Disputed Attachment to this family | Mother of ante Boras (1931–1967) | Born 11 June 1922 — nine years old at his birth | → |
| Disputed Attachment to this family | Father of Lucas Ugrin Adamich (1822), Catharina (1834) and Antonia (1836) | Born 30 August 1813 — nine years old at the first birth | → |
| Disputed Attachment to this family | Father of Mattheus «Matolin» di Franceschi (1794) and Lucia (1820) | Born 13 April 1785, married 1812 at Gračišće — nine years old at Mattheus's birth | → |
| Disputed Attachment to this family | Mother of Giuseppe Defranceschi (4 March 1765), Franciscus (1785) and Giovanni Battista (1787) | Born 1753 — twelve years old at Giuseppe's birth | → |
| Noted The same fact, seen from the father | Father of Giuseppe Defranceschi at fifteen | One outlying child, not two bad joins | → |
| Disputed Georgius Prpić's birth year | Georgius Prpic born 26 March 1962, son of Maria Šojat | She died in 1891 at Krivi Put 136, aged 67–68 | → |
| Disputed Marriage date | Married 16 February 1835 | Born 22 January 1896 | → |
| Disputed Marriage date | Married 1868 at Senj | Born 1868 | → |
| Disputed Attachment to this family | Mother of Ivana Jovanovic (1881–1943) | Born 1868 — thirteen years old at the birth | → |
| Noted Age at her eldest son's birth | Josip Petar Defranceski born 3 December 1911; she was born 28 February 1895 | Sixteen, and six months before the marriage of 21 June 1912 | → |
| Noted Age at Rosalia's birth | Rosalia Untersinger born 1802; he was born 25 March 1787 | Fifteen — improbable, not impossible | → |
| Disputed Attachment to this family | Mother of Vladimira Boras (born 2 January 1960) | Born 1904 — fifty-six at the birth, thirty-seven years after her first child | → |
| Noted Not a contradiction | Died after 1926; son Bruno born 5 August 1939 | «AFT 1926» is an open bound, not a date | → |
| Noted Not a contradiction, and a bucket in the tree | Born before 1750; son Johanes born 22 July 1762 | «BEF 1750» is an open bound in the other direction | → |
| Disputed Attachment to this family | Wife of Michael Žubrinić; mother of six children, 1822 to 1844 | Born 14 March 1793, died 1831 — the last three children arrive after her death | → |
| Disputed Attachment to this family | Wife of Phillipus Žubrinić; mother of eight children, 1828 to 1847 | Born 13 January 1809, died 1845 — and Phillipus died in 1845 too | → |
| Disputed Attachment to this family | Mother of eight, the last Joannes in 1844 | Born 5 August 1784 at Prozor 50; her husband Josephus died in 1825 | → |
| Disputed Her own birth year | Born 1809; mother of four Kraljić children, 1807 to 1820 | The eldest is born 29 September 1807, two years before she is | → |
| Disputed Attachment to this family | Mother of five, the last Martha in 1861 | Born 1810 — fifty-one at Martha's birth, and eleven years older than her husband | → |
| Noted Not a contradiction — an estimate against a firm date | Mother of Anton Martin «Tone» Blažević, born about 1840; she was born 13 March 1825 | She married Anton Kljapo Blažević on 28 August 1842 at Krivi Put | → |
| Disputed Recorded a woman, under a Latin man's name | Petrus Kalanj, born 19 January 1861 at Klenovica 22 — sex recorded F, son or daughter of Petrus Kalanj and Magdalena Butković | Petrus is a Latin nominative, and all 17 other people in this archive whose name is a form of Petar are men | → |
| Disputed Recorded a woman, under a Latin man's name | Franciscus Grandic, born 1870 at Senj — sex recorded F, child of Jure Grandić and Joanna Bašić | Franciscus is a Latin nominative, and 41 of the 45 other people here whose name is a form of Franjo are men | → |
| Disputed Recorded a woman, under a Latin man's name | Franciscus Prpic, born 24 July 1863 — sex recorded F, child of Simon Perpić and Ana | Franciscus is a Latin nominative, and 41 of the 44 other people here whose name is a form of Franjo are men | → |
| Disputed Recorded a woman, under a Latin man's name | Franciscus Xubrinich, born 1847 — sex recorded F, child of Mathæus Xubrinich and Catharina Raslich | Franciscus is a Latin nominative, and 41 of the 44 other people here whose name is a form of Franjo are men | → |
| Disputed Recorded a woman, under a man's name in the accusative | Franciscum Papić, born 1838 at Selce — sex recorded F | Franciscum is the accusative of Franciscus, a man; 41 of the 44 other people here whose name is a form of Franjo are men | → |
| Disputed Recorded a man, under a woman's name in the accusative | Joannam Papić, born 1845 at Selce — sex recorded M, child of Josephi Papić and Catharinæ | Joannam is the accusative of Joanna, a woman. The accusative of the man's name Joannes is Joannem, with an e | → |
| Disputed Recorded a man, under two forms of a woman's name | Maria / Marija Kalanj, born May 1870 at Ledenice 74 — sex recorded M, child of Joso Kalanj and Manda Komadina | All 108 other people here whose name is a form of Marija are women — the commonest woman's name in this archive | → |
| Disputed Recorded a man, under a woman's name | Anna Grgurić, born 1 February 1871 at Ledenice 27 — sex recorded M, child of Andreas Grgurić and Maria Kalanj | Anna is borne by 51 people in this archive and every one of the 51 is a woman | → |
| Disputed Recorded a man, under a woman's diminutive | Tonka Miletic, born 1880 at Povile 19 — sex recorded M, child of Toma Miletić and Marija Kalanj | Tonka is the Croatian diminutive of Antonija, and all 18 other people here bearing a form of that name are women | → |
| Disputed Recorded a woman, under a man's name | Nikola Kalanj, born 1888 and died 1890 at Klenovica 22 — sex recorded F, child of Jandre Joso Kalanj and Manda Komadina | 28 of the 29 other people here whose name is a form of Nikola are men | → |
| Disputed Recorded a woman, under a man's name | Nikula Zubrinic, born 1886 at Senj — sex recorded F, child of Andre Zubrinić and Franciska Brajković | Nikula is a Croatian form of Nikola, and 28 of the 29 other people here bearing that name are men | → |
| Disputed Named as a man, recorded and married as a woman | Ante Blažević, sex F, entered as the wife of Antona Blažević and the mother of Tereza | Every one of the 47 other people in this archive whose name is a form of Ante is a man | → |
| Disputed Named as a man, recorded and married as a woman | Ante Pavelic, sex F, entered as the wife of Meijat Blažević and the mother of Lucia, born 1861 | 47 of the 48 other people here whose name is a form of Ante are men — and the one exception is another woman this same check reports | → |
| Disputed Named as a man, recorded and married as a woman | Ante Tomljanovic, sex F, entered as the wife of Dujo Pavelić and the mother of Mile, born 1 February 1862 | 47 of the 48 other people here whose name is a form of Ante are men — and the one exception is another woman this same check reports | → |
| Disputed Named as a man, recorded and married as a woman | Frane Prpic, sex F, entered as a wife and as the mother of Julius Prpic, born 1883 | Frane is a masculine short form of Franjo, and 41 of the 44 other people here bearing a form of the name are men | → |
| Disputed A husband and wife recorded as each other's sex | Lucija Lončarić Papić, born 1806 at Selce and died 1879 — sex recorded M, entered as the husband of Ivan | 25 of the 27 other people here whose name is a form of Lucija are women; all 103 people here named Ivan are men | → |
| Disputed A husband and wife recorded as each other's sex | Ivan, sex F, entered as the wife of Lucija Lončarić Papić — who is himself recorded M | All 103 people in this archive named Ivan are men; 25 of the 27 bearing a form of Lucija are women | → |
| Disputed A husband and wife recorded as each other's sex | Lucia Žubrinić, sex M, entered as the husband of Michaël Kostelacz and the father of Maria Magdalena, born 31 July 1845 | 25 of the 27 other people here whose name is a form of Lucija are women; all 39 bearing a form of Mihovil are men | → |
| Disputed A husband and wife recorded as each other's sex | Michaël Kostelacz, sex F, entered as the wife of Lucia Žubrinić — who is recorded M | All 39 people here whose name is a form of Mihovil are men; 25 of the 27 bearing a form of Lucija are women | → |
| Disputed Recorded a man, under what may be a man's name in the genitive | Ivana Blažević, sex M, entered as a husband and as the father of Joso (1894) and Vladamir (1901) | 21 of the 23 other people here whose name is a form of Ivana are women | → |
| Disputed Recorded a man, under what may be a man's name in the genitive | Ivana Papić, sex M, entered as the husband of Viero Lončarić and the father of Miho, born 1873 | 21 of the 23 other people here whose name is a form of Ivana are women | → |
| Disputed A woman's record filed under a man's form of her name | Paolo Paula Eriavaz, sex F, born 19 July 1905 at Gallignana, wife of Daniele de Franceschi and mother of seven children between 1927 and 1946 | Paolo is the Italian man's name; the woman's is Paula, which the same field also carries. All 21 other people here bearing a form of Pavao are men | → |
| Disputed Death before birth | born 2024, died 2009 | No record has been opened for this person | → |
| Disputed Married after death | died 1870, married 15 SEP 1902 | No record has been opened for this person | → |
| Noted A hedged birth read as a date | born BEF 1815 | No record has been opened for this person | → |
| Disputed A parent too young for the child | born 1830, Maria Defranceschi born 1833 — age 3 | No record has been opened for this person | → |
| Noted A hedged birth read as a date | born BEF 1830 | No record has been opened for this person | → |
| Disputed Recorded sex against the given name | recorded M | No record has been opened for this person | → |
| Disputed Recorded sex against the given name | recorded F | No record has been opened for this person | → |
| Disputed Recorded sex against the given name | recorded F | No record has been opened for this person | → |
| Disputed Recorded sex against the given name | recorded F | No record has been opened for this person | → |
| Noted A hedged birth read as a date | born BEF 1815 | No record has been opened for this person | → |
| Noted A hedged birth read as a date | born BEF 1745 | No record has been opened for this person | → |
| Noted A hedged birth read as a date | born BEF 1855 | No record has been opened for this person | → |
| Noted A hedged birth read as a date | born BEF 1765 | No record has been opened for this person | → |
| Noted A hedged birth read as a date | born BEF 1845 | No record has been opened for this person | → |
| Noted A hedged birth read as a date | born BEF 1795 | No record has been opened for this person | → |
| Noted A hedged birth read as a date | born BEF 1690 | No record has been opened for this person | → |
| Noted A hedged birth read as a date | born BEF 1800 | No record has been opened for this person | → |
| Noted A hedged birth read as a date | born BEF 1760 | No record has been opened for this person | → |
| Noted A hedged birth read as a date | born BEF 1720 | No record has been opened for this person | → |
| Noted A hedged birth read as a date | born BEF 1795 | No record has been opened for this person | → |
| Corrected Place of death | Beunos Aires, Argentina | Buenos Aires, Argentina | → |
| open Date of death | 1954 | 15 January 1954 | → |
| open Date of birth | 4 September 1922 | 4 April 1922 | → |
| Corrected A marriage that is not one | Petra Papić, born 1900 and died 1902, has a husband | No marriage. The family record is empty | → |
| open Died six months before she was born | Antonia Sestan, born 11 February 1847, died 4 August 1846 | The death belongs to her sister, not to her | → |
What is deliberately still wrong
Two things on this site are known to be inconsistent and have been left that way on purpose, because tidying them would destroy the evidence that they conflict.
- An ancestral branch attached to the wrong woman. Now that the 1834 register has been read, Maria Catharina Orešković is known not to be Nicolaus's mother — but the archive cannot say who the right Maria Orešković was, so the branch is left attached and marked rather than severed into a dead end. Cutting it would destroy the only pointer anyone has to where the real woman should be looked for.
- Two sisters born eighteen days apart. Franjka Papić, 20 January 1895, and Šulka Papić, 7 February 1895, of the same parents — each date written in that woman's own marriage register. The tree reproduces both faithfully, so the disagreement is between the records. Question 5b →
The rule is the same in both cases: reproduce the contradiction, attribute it, and say what would settle it. An archive that resolves a conflict it cannot actually resolve has replaced a record with an opinion. Method →