Introducing Croatia Church Books 1516-1949

FamilySearch has had the "Croatia, Church Books, 1516-1949" online for about a year now and it is a wealth of information! It reportedly has 1,421,560 images from various church books. As far as I can tell it hasn't been indexed yet and can be rather tedious work to sort out. I hope to put a few posts here to help organize my research which may in turn help you.

Under the "Religion" subheading these Croatian Church Book records are organized under the following categories:

Civil (Građanski)

Evangelical (Evangelička crkva)

Greek Catholic (Grkokatolička crkva)

Jewish (Židovska)

Military (Vojni)

Orthodox (Pravoslavna crkva)

Reformed Christian (Reformska crkva)

Roman Catholic (Rimokatolička crkva)

Under the religion subheading of Roman Catholic (Rimokatolička crkva), one will find a huge list (1,026 different place names under this heading to be precise) of different towns and/or parishes that have had some of their church books microfilmed and now digitized online for free perusal!

In this blog I will be researching various death, birth, and marriage records in the following towns and/or parishes:

Lipovljani

Novi Vinodolski

Sunja

I will also be trying to determine which "Stari Grad in Dalmatia" our ancestor Blasius Jelovica was from by sorting through the following places so named in this collection of online records:

Split-Stari Grad

Stara Gradiška

Stari Grad (Hvar)

Starigrad

Starigrad (Zadar)