The Defranceschi Archive
Lisignano

Ližnjan

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.

The received account gives Ližnjan as one of four directions the family dispersed in, onward to the United States and Germany. No register work has been done on it, and the 1945 census records no Defranceschi household here — which does not disprove the line, but does mean it had already gone by then.

Twenty-four registers survive, baptisms from 1683. Only fourteen are digitised, the lowest proportion of any parish in this study.

Names
Croatian / local
Ližnjan
Italian
Lisignano
Parish
Ližnjan
Diocese
Poreč-Pula

The registers

What survives, where it is kept, and whether you can see it without going there.

Baptisms1683–1993
Marriages1680–1952
Burials1682–1993
Books catalogued24 — 14 digitised
Held atBA Poreč · DAPA · MU Pula · ŽU Ližnjan