This is a series of instructional material created especially for this website to help people with the most basic of Croatian genealogy questions:
- Where is the home village?
- Where are the church records?
- How to read the church records.
Lesson 1: Finding the home village
- Collecting information
- Spelling the names
- Submitting the information to forums
- Using the Croatian on-line phone directory to find the home village
Lesson 2: Finding the church
- Using the Croatian postal code directory to find the right church
- Using the on-line phone directory to find church addresses
Lesson 3: Contacting the church
- What the church can and cannot provide
- Writing to the church
- Always send a donation
Lesson 4: Church records
- What's available
- Explanation of Matic"ne Knjige and Stanja Dus"a
- LDS microfilm
Lesson 5: Reading the records
- Examples of Matic"ne Knige and Stanja Dus"a
- Reading first names
- Reading dates and numbers
- Reading miscellaneous terms
- Glossary of terms
Lesson 6: Finding where in Croatia a village is located
- Using search engines
- Using Robert Jerin's links page
- Using Croatian genealogy forums
- Using the Croatian on-line phone directory
- Using the Croatian on-line postal code directory
- Using a map of Croatian counties and area codes
Lesson 7: Addressing letters to Croatia
- Addresses from before 1992
- The common form of Croatian addresses
- Reading addresses in the on-line phone books
- If a postal code search gives more than one result
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