Josip Defranceski

…— fused, no particle, the way this family writes it — returns thirty-six records of its own. They are not Italian. They are Croatian, and they are post-war. Philadelphia, 1954: five of them off one ship Josip Defranceski, 39, born 1915, arrives at Philadelphia in 1954 aboard the Slovenija — a Jugolinija liner out of Rijeka. On the same lists: Bosiljka, born 1918, and three children born 1942, 1946 and 1947, not named here because they may be living. A…

…Zita Fumagalli-Riva («here is very excellent singing»), listed in 1926 among Amato, Galeffi, Rouard and Stracciari, and broadcast live to Britain from La Scala in March 1938 with Gigli and Pagliughi. And the single «Defranceski» hit fills in a career: Josip Defranceski, Director of External Services, Radio Belgrade, leaving Peshawar for Kabul in December 1959. /research-log/ 9 Sept 2026 miss The Aquilone's port of registry Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1875 and…

…cemetery photographs were supplied by the family in September 2026. The certificate is a sworn English translation of the Yugoslav extract; the Croatian original has not been seen here. Klenovica house 22, then Crikvenica Josip Defranceski the stonecutter's son, down from Gračišće to the coast between 1892 and 1894 Wife Ana Kalaj-Kučarica Where Klenovica house 22 → Crikvenica Ana Kalaj-Kučarica her full style comes…

…once in a pedigree file, and once in a photograph. (family identification — David holds the originals) How it happened, stated plainly Two branches' pictures sit in one family collection. A card carried the name Josip Defranceski, this line has a Josip Defranceschi, and this archive matched the face to the name without asking which Josip. The register plates on this page were checked against Gračišće and Ledenice; the portrait was never checked against anything at all. It…

…detail is worth a second look rather than a claim. This archive's own line was living at Crikvenica from about 1890, and a man of the same rare fused surname was running a course there in 1932. It is a lead, not a link. josipdf Josip Defranceski fl. 1947–1970 Buenos Aires· Washington Diplomacy A Yugoslav press official through the Cold War. A declassified American intelligence report on the Slav press in Argentina, dated 12 August 1947, names a…

…report on the Slav press in Argentina, dated 12 August 1947, names a Defranceski as director and editor of a Slav paper in Buenos Aires, «formerly connected with the Yugoslav Legation in Buenos Aires and considered pro-Tito». From 1954 to 1957 a Josip Defranceski appears in the United States State Department's Diplomatic List as Press Counselor of the Yugoslav embassy in Washington, with his addresses on 12th Street, Hamilton Street and Military Road. And the middle of the career is now filled in. The Civil &…

…Street and Military Road. And the middle of the career is now filled in. The Civil & Military Gazette of Lahore, 5 December 1959, under the heading «Yugoslav Pressmen»: a delegation leaving Peshawar for Kabul on 14 December, consisting of «Mr. Josip Defranceski, Director of External Services, Radio Belgrade» and a correspondent of Borba. Buenos Aires in 1947, Washington from 1954 to 1957, Radio Belgrade by 1959, and still publishing in the Review of International Affairs in 1970. Almost…