The Blažević Archive
8 generations of Blažević men

The Spine

From Hedviga at Senj in 1926 back to a boy born about 1750 in a village barely a century old. This is the line the tree asserts — with the joint that cannot yet bear weight marked as such.

  1. g1
    Hedviga "Seka" Blažević 1926–2001
    Senj, Croatia
  2. g2
    Ljubomir "Ljubo" Blažević 1892–1966
    Rijeka, Croatia
    Mornar / fisherman
  3. g3
    Juraj / Georgius / Jure "Geōrgius George" Blazevic ?–?
    Smokvica, Krmpote, Općina Smokvica, Dubrovačko-neretvanska županija, Croatia
    Still no birth or death date — but no longer undocumented: the 1920 marriage register names him as Ljubomir's father.
  4. g4
    Toma Tomislav Blazevic 1838–1907
    Br 114, Smokvica Krmpotska, Primorsko-goranska županija, Croatia
    Nadničar
  5. g5
    Anton Blažević ?–?
    Smokvica Krmpotska
  6. g6
    Ilija Blažević 1790–?
    Smokvica Krmpotska
  7. g7
    Grgica Blažević 1770–?
    No source of any kind attached.
  8. g8
    Mateša Blažević 1750–?
    No source of any kind attached.

6 of 8 generations on this spine carry a source string in the tree; 2 carry none. And a source string here most often means another online tree. Why that matters →

Corrected, September 2026

The join at generation three

This section used to say that everything above Ljubomir hung on a man with no document at all. That was wrong. The Senj marriage register of 8 December 1920 names the groom's parents outright — Juraj Blažević and Tereza r. Žubrinić — and it had been attached in the family tree the whole time, invisible because media does not travel in a GEDCOM export.

So the link from Ljubomir to Juraj is documented, by a priest writing in 1920 with the couple in front of him. It is corroborated from below, too: Ljubomir was born at Rijeka on 1 March 1892 — the register confirms that date — while his siblings Anka (1893) and Ruža (1897) are recorded at Otočac and Smokvica Krmpotska, the mother's town and the father's village.

The wall moved up one generation; it did not fall. Juraj is now named by a record, but he is still undated and unplaced, and nothing yet connects him to Toma at generation four. The register also annotates him mrt. — deceased — which puts his death before December 1920. Open questions →
Where the depth actually is

Nine generations, seventy people

The male Blažević spine is eight deep, but the tree's real reach is on the mothers' sides — the Pilipić and Uroda lines out of Karlobag, and the Antić–Jelličić lines out of Selce, both of which run to a ninth generation and into the 1710s and 1720s.

Generation 1 — 1 person

Generation 2 — 2 people

Generation 6 — 13 people

Generation 7 — 22 people

Generation 8 — 8 people

Generation 9 — 4 people

Numbered by Ahnentafel: Hedviga is 1, her father 2, her mother 3, and every person's father is twice their number. A missing number is a missing ancestor, which is the point of using it.