The Blažević Archive
Coverage, including the books that have never been opened

What Has Been Searched

27 register pages read across eight books and five parishes, yielding 184 named people. This page exists so that a null is not lost: knowing a volume has been read, or has not, is worth as much as knowing what it held.

Why record the negatives

An archive that publishes only its finds is unreadable as evidence. If you cannot tell a gap from an absence, every silence looks the same — and this archive has already mistaken one for the other. The name-reuse table shows the Papići with zero infant deaths implied by a reused name and the village families with nine, and reads that as meaning the Papići's losses were written down. That is only true because somebody opened the Senj death register and nobody has opened the Krmpote one. The table is a map of where the reading went, not of where children died.

So: 27 pages, and the books they came out of — beside what has never been touched.

Senj marriages 11 pages

Years opened1909 – 1919
Pagesp.303, 307, 315, 322, 324, 326, 333, 348, 350, 355, 359
What it gaveEleven marriages of this family, and every other bride on each page. The tobacco factory counted across a decade — 3 of 5 brides in 1909, rising to 7 of 8 in 1919.
Not openedNo Blažević marriage before 1909 has been opened, and the 1920 entry that answers question 1 was read from a thumbnail.

Senj deaths 2 pages

Years opened1903, 1907
Pagesp.162, p.225
What it gaveToma Blažević's death — tuberculosis, aged 69 — and Stanko Papić's, of scarlatina at twenty months in an outbreak that killed four in eight days.
Not openedTwo pages of one register. Everything else in the Senj death books is unread.

Senj baptisms 1 page

Years opened1886
Pagesstr.122
What it gaveMilka's own baptism, and a registrar's margin of 1971 citing her death entry at page 280, line 37.
Not openedHer eight siblings' baptisms are attached as images and unread.

Krmpote — sv. Jakov, baptisms 2 pages

Years opened1888, 1895
Pagesp.104, p.168
ShelfmarkHDA 111, HDA 176
What it gaveTwo children born at Smokvica kbr. 114 seven years apart, and two different men called Ivo Blažević standing godfather — one son of Mate, one son of Toma.
Not openedThis is the book that should hold every Blažević above Toma. Two pages of it have been opened.

Krivi Put baptisms 1 page

Years opened1859
Pagesp.110
ShelfmarkHDA 407
What it gaveAntonija Perpić at Krivi Put N° 136, her household entered Confiniarii — a Frontier family. Seven Perpić children on the one page.
Not openedOnly the page her entry sits on.

Otočac baptisms 2 pages

Years opened1834, 1845
Pages1834, 1845
What it gaveNicolaus at Šumećica 24, Confiniarius; Josephus in 1845 to a mother née Marković where the 1834 mother is née Orešković. Five Žubrinić Frontier offices out of the godparent columns.
Not openedThe marriage and death registers — the two books that would settle whether there are one or two men called Michaël Žubrinić.

Karlobag baptisms 7 pages

Years opened1754 – 1838
Pages1754, 1768, 1777, 1779 (×2), 1781, 1838
What it gaveEvery Karlobag ancestor. The Dominus honorific, a Giustiniani godfather, a Pro-Colonel, a Captain, a Baron von Holstein — and one book kept in Croatian rather than Latin.
Not openedNothing outstanding on this line. This is the best-read parish in the archive.

Vrbnik baptisms 1 page

Years opened1806
Pageshouse 244
What it gaveJosephum Antić — and the underlined nadimci that answered question 5: Antich Papa, Loncsarich Franich, Antich Dudin.
Not openedThe Selce registers 1765–1838, which would show the surname change generation by generation.

What to ask for first, and why it changed

Until 13 September 2026 the priority here was to confirm — to find the register entry behind a date the tree already gives. That was the wrong order, and one measurement changed it.

Strip the sorting labels out of the tree and only 32% of the published people are still connected to Hedviga at all. For the Žubrinići it is 5% — 21 people out of 414. Confirming a date this archive already holds adds nothing to that number. Joining one fragment to the line adds a branch.

So the first ask is no longer a birth entry. It is a marriage, for one of the 34 Žubrinić fragments that carry enough detail to be searched for — a marriage names both parents and is the cheapest way to attach a whole household.

WhoBornWhereChildrenSpouse named
Josephus Josip Žubrinić Zubrinic Xubrinich1782 prozor 46 8 Catharina
Toma Žubrinić1768 sumecica 2 5 Marija Findrić
Gregorius Gregory Žubrinić Zubrinic Xubrinich1785 otocac 5 Lucia
Antonius Žubrinić Zubrinic Xubrinich1796 otocac 4 Anna
Magdalena Žubrinić1812 otocac 3 Wolfgangus Volfgangus Adamic Adamich
Georgius Žubrinić1818 bosca? 1 Dorothea
Martinus Georgius Žubrinić1838 otocac Maria
Phillipus Žubrinić1809 8 Maria
Marcus Žubrinić Xubrinich1789 7 Anna
Paulus Žubrinić Xubrinich1802 7 Martha Franczetich
Petrus Žubrinić Xubrinich1791 6 Lucia Gercsevich
Lucas Žubrinić Xubrinich1793 6 Maria [Baptised Margarita]

Ordered by how much there is to search on. All 34, and the 81 that cannot be searched for at all →

The books nobody has opened at all

Named because an unasked archive is not a finding, and because each of these would answer something this site currently marks unknown.

BookWhat it would settle
Krmpote / Smokvica death registers Whether the Blaževići really lost fewer children than the Papići, or whether nobody has looked. The reuse table depends on this.
Otočac marriages, before 1834 and c. 1855–70 Whether there are one or two men called Michaël Žubrinić — which decides four generations. Question 4d.
Otočac deaths, 1834–1845 A Maria Žubrinić née Orešković, which would explain a second wife.
Selce registers, 1765–1838 The surname changing from Antić to Papić generation by generation — three of the four steps are documented and the middle one is not.
Sv. Jakov Krmpote, 1855–1892 Jurko Blažević's baptism or marriage. Either names his father and ends question 1b.
Senj deaths, 1915 How Milka came to be widowed at twenty-eight.
Senj baptisms, Jan–Feb 1895 Two sisters recorded eighteen days apart. Both entries fall in the same book within three weeks. Question 5b.
Southern Rhodesian immigration, 1953–65 Twenty-two years of Hedviga's life, and an entire country known from two words on a later record. Question 1f.

What that leaves

39 of the 70 people on the direct line have no document of their own — they are named in somebody else's record, or the tree asserts them and nothing else does. Read the evidence column down the generations and it stops at the sixth.

What rests on a document → Open questions → The register →