The Blažević Archive
5 lines followed

The trees

Every family this archive follows — and most of them are webs rather than lines, which is what the evidence is.

A tree with invented joins in it is worse than no tree, so none of these has any. Each line is drawn in the form its own evidence supports. On this archive that matters more than on any of its siblings: 96% of the people here are recorded with no proved join to anyone else, so most of these are webs, and saying so is the honest position.

Our line, drawnThe line this archive is about, as a chart — every generation it can name, and every place it stops.Open the chart →
Blaževićours
220 people, 1750–1958
Drawn as a line

The name this archive carries, out of Smokvica Krmpotska — a village built on purpose in the 1600s for families fleeing an invading army. Toma was born in house 114; the line comes down off the mountain into Senj and stays there.

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Žubrinić
414 people, 1765–1924
Drawn as a web

Tereza's people of Otočac, written Xubrinich before anyone wrote it with a Ž. The largest family in the archive after the Blaževićs, and the least joined up.

Recorded as households rather than as a descent, because the joins between them are not proved.

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Papić
116 people, 1742–1903
Drawn as a web

Milka's people of Senj and Selce — porters and innkeepers. Josip Papić was a trhonoša, one of the men who took goods over the Vratnik pass on packhorses, and kept an inn on the same road when he was too old to walk it.

Drawn as a web. The trade is documented better than the descent is.

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Prpić
155 people, 1820–1919
Drawn as a web

The Krivi Put families, up on the crooked road behind Senj. Tonka was born at house 136.

Households, not a line.

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Vukelić
15 people, 1823–1913
Drawn as a web

Milka's first marriage brought these in — Miroslava and Josip Vukelić are half-siblings to the whole of the rest of this archive.

Households, not a line.

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The form is checked, not asserted: a line counts as drawn only where this archive actually publishes a chart of it. Five rows across the seven archives claimed to be drawn on the strength of a page title alone, and were demoted when the check went in. Twenty different men in this archive are called Ivan Blažević, seven of them with no dates at all — which is the same problem seen from the other end.