The Blažević Archive
8 generations of Blažević men

The Spine

From a boy born about 1750 in a village barely a century old, down to Hedviga at Senj in 1926. This is the line the tree asserts — with the joint that cannot yet bear weight marked as such.

  1. Generation8

    Mateša Blažević

    born1750

    The joint here will not bear weight. No source of any kind attached.

  2. Generation7

    Grgica Blažević

    born1770

    The joint here will not bear weight. No source of any kind attached.

    Brothers and sisters

    Šimun BlazevicLukina BlazevicMijat Blazevic

  3. Generation6

    Ilija Blažević

    born1790, Smokvica Krmpotska

    His sister or brother

    Ive Blazevic

    Geni World Family Tree · Marko Karic rodoslov

  4. Generation5

    Anton Blažević

    Brothers and sisters

    Luka Blažević1812Josip Blazevic1818–1910Ilija Mile Blazevic1828–1922

    Marko Karic rodoslov · Defranceski Family Site (23andMe)

  5. Generation4

    Toma Tomislav Blazevic and Tereza Pećanić

    born1838, Br 114, Smokvica Krmpotska, Primorsko-goranska županija, Croatiadied1907, SenjtradeNadničar

    His sister or brother

    Mate Blazevic

    Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) · Geni World Family Tree

  6. Generation3

    Juraj / Georgius / Jure "Geōrgius George" Blazevic and Tereza Žubrinić Zubrinic

    The joint here will not bear weight. Still no birth or death date — but no longer undocumented: the 1920 marriage register names him as Ljubomir's father.

    joinsŽubrinić →

    Brothers and sisters

    Anton Blazevic1860–1907Marija Blazevic1880Ivan Blazevic1882–1942Antonija "Tonka" Blažević1884–1969

    Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) · Janicic

  7. Generation2

    Ljubomir "Ljubo" Blažević and Milka Lucia Papic

    born1892, Rijeka, Croatiadied1966, Senj, Općina Senj, Lika-Senj County, CroatiatradeMornar / fisherman

    joinsPapić →

    Brothers and sisters

    Anka Blažević1893–1953Marijan Blažević1895Ruza Blazevic1897

    Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) · Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) · Grlica Web Site

  8. Generation1

    Hedviga "Seka" Blažević and Ivan Anton Defranceski

    born1926, Senj, Croatiadied2001, Johannesburg, South Africa

    joinsThe Defranceschi Archive ↗

    Brothers and sisters

    Leo Blažević1920–2008Karmela Karmen "Carmen" Blažević1922–1987Oto Blažević1923–1945Ljubomir Blažević1929–2007Mario Blažević1933–1984Anton Blažević

    Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) · Boras Web Site

6 of 8 generations on this spine carry a source string in the tree; 2 carry none. And a source string here most often means another online tree. Why that matters →

Corrected, September 2026

The join at generation three

This section used to say that everything above Ljubomir hung on a man with no document at all. That was wrong. The Senj marriage register of 8 December 1920 names the groom's parents outright — Juraj Blažević and Tereza r. Žubrinić — and it had been attached in the family tree the whole time, invisible because media does not travel in a GEDCOM export.

So the link from Ljubomir to Juraj is documented, by a priest writing in 1920 with the couple in front of him. It is corroborated from below, too: Ljubomir was born at Rijeka on 1 March 1892 — the register confirms that date — while his siblings Anka (1893) and Ruža (1897) are recorded at Otočac and Smokvica Krmpotska, the mother's town and the father's village.

The wall moved up one generation; it did not fall. Juraj is now named by a record, but he is still undated and unplaced, and nothing yet connects him to Toma at generation four. The register also annotates him mrt. — deceased — which puts his death before December 1920. Open questions →
Where the depth actually is

Nine generations, seventy people

The male Blažević spine is eight deep, but the tree's real reach is on the mothers' sides — the Pilipić and Uroda lines out of Karlobag, and the Antić–Jelličić lines out of Selce, both of which run to a ninth generation and into the 1710s and 1720s.

Added 14 September 2026 · the Karlobag films

The Karlobag side stopped being a list of names

Ahnentafel 13 has brothers and sisters. The Karlobag household census, read for the first time, puts her in a house of seven: «Pilepich Vicko, 17 Nov. 805 · Matia ux., 23 April 810 · Joso f., 14 Oct. 835 · Matia f., 18 Sept. 838 · Vice f., 16 Febr. 847 · Jure f. · Maria Jurka f., 24 lipnja 852». Three of those dates are ahnentafel 26, 27 and 13 and all three agree with the tree to the day. Four are new, and this archive had no siblings for her at all.

Ahnentafel 55 has a death and her husband a trade. The Karlobag death register, folio 52: «Maria uxor piscatoris Georgii Uroda annorum 45», 6 August 1834 — the tree's date and the tree's age, exactly. The word uxor rather than vidua proves ahnentafel 54 was alive that day, which killed two candidate deaths for him in one stroke. He is a fisherman, which nothing here knew an hour before.

And four walls on this line turned from «not known» into «go and read it». The Karlobag films were range-checked the same day: births from the 1690s, marriages from 1736, deaths from 1774. Jacob Pilipić, Georgi Uroda, Vicentius Luckinić and Josiph Smojver Vukić's own baptism of 1731 all fall inside them. Karlobag →

Generation 1 — 1 person

Generation 2 — 2 people

Generation 3 — 4 people

Generation 4 — 8 people

Generation 5 — 8 people

Generation 6 — 13 people

Generation 7 — 22 people

Generation 8 — 8 people

Generation 9 — 4 people

Numbered by Ahnentafel: Hedviga is 1, her father 2, her mother 3, and every person's father is twice their number. A missing number is a missing ancestor, which is the point of using it.