CROATIAN ROOTS provide you with the following services:

  • Finding to which parish had your family belonged to based on your surname and the name of the place of origin.
  • If necessary preliminary research to find your families parish’s records.
  • Methodical search of the birth, wedding and deaths records in the Croatian State Archives in Zagreb and in local and regional archives throughout Croatia.
  • Ordering records necessary for research (which are still not available for nonprofessional users) from the Croatian State Archives in Zagreb or any other local and regional archives.
  • Taking and sending photos of documents related to your ancestors.
  • Contacting local offices.
  • Contacting local churches and perishes
  • Obtaining original birth, marriage and death certificates of your family members.
  • Sending letters to people in Croatia who might be related to you based on the same surname.
  • Visiting your place of origin in Croatia (contacting distant relatives, priests, local offices, photographing old houses, villages, churches, cemeteries).
  • For those interested in visiting Croatia, I am available to be your intermediary in locating and contacting long-lost relatives and to serve as a guide, translator or driver to your place of origin which often lead to many happy reunions.