Walk the line
One itinerary follows the descent in the order it happened, across four countries. The other five go deep on a single region. Not a map of dots — an order to do things in, with the drive between them, what is publicly visible, what needs a key, and what this archive still has no photograph of.
Every other page here was written at a distance: a register read through a screen, a surname in an index, a book quoted in a footnote. These pages are for going. They assume a car, a week, and a willingness to knock on a door in a language you half speak.
Start with «The Line, end to end». The five regional itineraries were built one valley and one coast at a time, which is the right shape for research and the wrong shape for a descent — it put Gračišće in one walk and Senj in another, when they are the same family. The line walk puts them back in order and the regional ones become the deep-dives off it.
Each one ends with the same two lists — what to ask for, and what to photograph that we do not have. The second list is the honest one. It is where this archive is thin.
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The Line, end to end
Your own descent in the order it happened — Mione, Gologorica, Gračišće, Klenovica, Crikvenica, Senj, Pfullingen. Twelve days, four countries, nine stops. The five below go deeper; this one goes forward.
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The Carnia line
Val Degano, Friuli — three days on foot and one in an archive. The valley the weavers came out of.
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The Gologorica line
Central Istria: the house of 1711, Carlo's grave, Gračišće, Pićan, and four archives. Chapters two and three of our own line.
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The Kvarner line
Klenovica, Crikvenica, Senj, Bribir. The coast the family moved down to.
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The Venice and Dalmatia line
Venice, Zadar, Omiš, Imotski.
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The German leg
Pfullingen, Reutlingen, Metzingen, Neuhausen, Bad Urach, 1941–45.