David Defranceski

…numbers in the wrong order. That is what oral history is for. It does not settle anything. It tells you where to look, and it tells you what the paper never will — that somebody, at some point, was frightened enough to leave. Told by David Defranceski, 10 September 2026, and recorded the same day. Held against: the certified extract of the Senj birth register 152/1954; the Crikvenica register entries and family file on <a href= /crikvenica-house/ the Crikvenica house</a; the Senj and Karlobag…

…Normalising the genitives, collapsing doubled letters and requiring a De Franceschi parent brought it to 48. /research-log/ 10 Sept 2026 hit 1948: an attempt to leave the country Family testimony — David Defranceski Asked what «went» meant, David answered: «They went to leave the country in 1948.» That converts a contradiction into a window. Their son was born at Senj on 17 December 1951, so they were back on the coast by about March 1951;…

…Smells dank and musty Tastes of sand Sounds like a trumpet Looks like an anaconda who just ate his prey GREED no work prose Acknowledgement of debt We, Mama and Papa, the said parents of, David Defranceski Hereby pledge to pay the said child the sum of u.k. pound sterling 1500.00. The said amount being redeemable in London, providing bearer has adequate identification and a local bank account into which funds may be transferred. The above being our…

…birth register for 1815–1923 exists and covers exactly the Valsugana parishes, but its search is behind an operator login and was not circumvented; and CISEI, the emigration database the literature still cites, is now a parked domain. David Defranceski's Google MyMaps «Defranceski Family», layer «High Level of Emigration from Here» and «Italian Lines», exported as KML and archived September 2026. Context on the Trentino emigration from the Museo Storico del Trentino's «Emigrazione trentina» and Altmayer…

…Australia, Victoria, Index to Probate Registers, ark 1:1:JVKL-2T1, for «Zdrovko De Franceski». Probate the year after a December 1979 death is what the record ought to look like. The 1999 was the error and this closes it. David Defranceski's live MyHeritage tree, «My Family Tree (Defranceski, Lerena, Taylor, Barry, Blazevic, Booyzen)», read from his own logged-in session on 7 September 2026. 459 individuals of the surname harvested with their facts and citations; the working notes are in this…

…in which five destinations are demonstrably ours, four belong to the other families, and the rest are people who share the commonest patronymic in Italy. Assembled September 2026 from this archive's own pages, and restructured after David Defranceski pointed out that it had been adding three different kinds of thing together and calling the total «lines». Svetvinčenat, 1657–1737 — and the «Pula 1667» that was never Pula David asked for the people in the roster to be…

…at. It has not read the book. Svetvinčenat parish register, «Matična knjiga 1568–1917», Hrvatski državni arhiv u Zagrebu, filmed as DGS 005497884; images 397, 398 and 442 read tile by tile from the FamilySearch Deep Zoom service in David Defranceski's own signed-in session, September 2026. Transcriptions and translations are this archive's own; readings marked with a query are…

…September 1802. Cattarina, born 1756, died 21 May 1792. Gian Battista, born 1753, died 23 January 1813. Set beside the 1711 tablet and Carlo's «il vecchio stipite» dead in November 1686, that is most of a century of the house filled in. David Defranceski's live MyHeritage tree, read 7 September 2026. Dates as the tree gives them; the citations behind them, where they exist, are FamilySearch record links entered by the family. The house and the ground, photographed…

…copy from MKR Gračišće 1841–1899, folio 108, entry 23, issued by the Državni arhiv u Pazinu to David Defranceski, 26 April 2021 (KLASA 053-02/21-02/195), signed by the director Mirela Mrak. Baptised 23 March 1863 Gračišće Born 22 March 1863 the register says «n. heri» — born yesterday Name Josephus Josip Sex, status…

…north, a different parish, and a town whose De Franceschi are called Carnian by everyone who has studied them. The 1667 date stands. The place does not. <a href= /TheDefranceski/lines/svetjoin The whole finding →</a David Defranceski's MyHeritage tree, node «PULA & Liznjan, Fasana, Istra, Medulin Defranceschi / Defranceski» (individual 4507345), read from his logged-in session on 8 September 2026: thirty-one individuals with their stored facts and the FamilySearch citations he had…

…stablo obitelji Franceschi Family chart held by David Defranceski, «Rodoslovno stablo obitelji Franceschi» — the Omiš line. Twenty generations, 1318 to 1992. A made family tree, not a register. The medieval generations carry offices and dates that no document has been checked for here, and should be read as…

…coincidence rather than a household. «Gazzetta di Zara», anno IX, 4 August 1840, eight pages — the official gazette of the Kingdom of Dalmatia, printed at Zadar. Retrieved from ANNO (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) by David Defranceski on 8 September 2026 and filed in this project's library; the text layer read here is the library's own. The Venice line, told straight through This is the second of the five families, and the only one that arrives with a…

…for Toma, Gracin ibid. for Giovanni of «La Dalmazia», Dujšin's «Zbornik plemstva» (1938), Heyer von Rosenfeld's «Der Adel des Königreichs Dalmatien» (Nuremberg 1873) and Laszowski (1925). The family chart «Rodoslovno stablo obitelji Franceschi», held by David Defranceski. The 1584 plaque and the 1840 gazette are read here directly. The Omiš branch, photographed Six things out of the branch's own keeping — five photographs and the descent chart the top of this page is built…

…so neither has to be OCR'd again. The remaining two — the «Hrvati i Karolinzi» catalogue and «Piazza Maggiore era troppo piccola» — are still unread, and neither looks likely to repay the effort. All twenty-three scans supplied by David Defranceski, September 2026, and now in this project's library. Each was converted to text and tested for the surname in five spellings and for fifteen place-names before being…