Searching For Your Croatian Roots
With Robert Jerin
Robert Jurin has been researching Croatian family histories since 1986 and for the past 16 years he has been conducting Croatian genealogy workshops across the United States and Croatia. As a result of this research, Robert has self-published the handbook, “Searching for Your Croatian Roots” which includes the only known database of Croatian given names and their English equivalents.
Since 2005 Robert and his wife Sue have been leading heritage and genealogy tours to Croatia and have helped connect dozens of families around the world to their ancestral roots. Robert also hosts the very popular “Croatian Heritage and Genealogy” Facebook group which has over 20,000 members. Robert enjoys seeing people learn about their roots and the history of Croatia. “The most interesting is when people, thanks to the group, find family members,” Robert says. “Sometimes people who are members of the group find that they are cousins.” Robert’s presentation will focus on how to determine your ancestor’s place of origin and how and where to locate records of your ancestors. We are honored to have such an expert genealogist as part of our Virtual CroatiaFest Speaker series.
12:00 PM
