Places

Two Defranceschi families in 1945, and the parish where the surname still appears in Croatian records today.

The municipality Gologorica sits in today.

The family's documented seat. A De Franceschi house of 1711 still stands on the main square.

Eight household censuses across 150 years — the richest register series found anywhere in this project.

Named by the existing family research as the origin of a line that went to the United States and Germany — and never worked in an archive.

One family in 1945 — and 121 of 122 registers digitised, the most complete series in the study.

The county town. Its baptism register opens in 1582 — the oldest book in this study.

The diocese Gologorica and Gračišće belonged to — but not the custodian of their registers.

Where Camillo De Franceschi was born in 1868, and where his father published L'Istria in 1879.

An estate south of Umag, bought in 1720 by a de Franceschi family two generations out of Crete.

One De Franceschi family in 1945 — spaced, not fused — and a baptism register opening in 1568.

The hamlet of Seghetto held one De Franceschi family in 1945. Every one of Umag's 128 registers is digitised.

One family in 1945; registers from 1662.

Twelve Defranceschi families in 1945, and — since 9 September 2026 — five documented generations behind them. The best-attested cluster in southern Istria, read out of a register nobody has indexed.

One family in 1945. The youngest register series in the study — nothing before 1782.

The town that holds this archive's earliest dated Istrian record, and the church where Carlo De Franceschi was married at his own bedside.

The see and the port at the foot of Istria — and the town a De Franceschi is called «da Pola» from, in 1619.

A hilltop village under Vižinada, and the reason a wrong answer about Vodnjan looked convincing for an hour.

A walled village north of Cerovlje with twenty-five indexed records of the name — and not one of them read yet.

The last village before the cape at the bottom of Istria, and one of the southern parishes the surname holds in.

The fishing village opposite Brijuni, north of Pula, with reconstructed households of the name.

A hamlet in the Buje hinterland, north-west Istria, with a documented household of the name.

The bishop of Poreč's own port, south of the Lim channel.

Above its bay on the eastern Istrian coast, at the Kvarner end of the county of Pazin.

Named for a church: the Pauline monastery of 1412, in the deed that first records the name.

The largest documented concentration of the surname anywhere in Croatia — 447 records, once Vitipolis is recognised for what it is.

An Uskok garrison on the Habsburg Military Frontier — never Italian, unlike Istria.

The deep-water bay east of Rijeka, and one of the Kvarner parishes where the surname sits in the registers with no line yet attached to it.

A hundred and thirty people at 710 metres — and the Italian end of a documented migration into Istria.

In the Val But of Carnia, on the road to the Plöcken pass — one of the valleys the 1679 headmen's list covers.

Taken from the Ottomans in July 1717 with a De Franceschi first over the wall. The family has been here three hundred years.

A former pirate town at the Cetina mouth, and the Dalmatian family's first seat — a De Franceschi owned a warship here by 1590.

Twenty-five Franceschi — the largest single concentration of any spelling of this name anywhere in Croatia.

On the north shore of Brač, with three reconstructed households of the name.

In the Valsugana, east of Trento — the largest single concentration of the name outside Istria and Dalmatia in this archive's roster.

South of Bolzano in the Adige valley — a second Tyrolean cluster, and like Telve unattached to any Istrian line.

A Valsugana village a few kilometres from Telve, with the same surname and the same open question.

A brass town in the Naugatuck valley of Connecticut, and the largest American landing-place in this archive.

Below the Swabian Alb, near Reutlingen — where the German leg of David's own line came to rest after 1947.

In the Veneto between Padua and Venice — a mainland Venetian parish carrying the name.