The Blažević Archive
Žubrinić

Michael Miho Michaël Žubrinić

dates unknown

How this person is attached

The only parent on record here is not a person

Entered as the parentM Žubrinić Xubrinich Zubrinic

That is a sorting label — a note somebody typed into the parent's slot while working through records. No priest wrote it and nobody was called it. It is the only parent this record has, so nothing documented attaches this person to anyone. This is not a claim that the person is invented; the register entries behind them are real. It is a statement about the join. Why this matters →

LineŽubrinić · everyone of the name →
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No parent is recorded for this person

The family tree does give one. It is not a person: it is M Žubrinić Xubrinich Zubrinic — a sorting label, one of the drawers a researcher used to hold names they had not placed yet. This archive does not publish those as ancestors, so the space above is empty rather than filled with a filing system.

It is not a small thing. 144 published people here have a label where a father should be, and 286 hang off one somewhere. What the labels are →

Family

Michael Miho Michaël ŽubrinićŽubrinić
married 17 DEC 1958Maria Markovića record read
a direct ancestor a record has been read for them an image, not yet read from the family tree, unverified

The mark describes the person, not the link. Of the 29 relatives drawn here, 8 have a document of their own in this archive — but that is not the same as a document tying them to this person. This archive holds no separate proof for most parent–child links; where it does, the note above this chart says so in words.

Two children here carry one name — Josephus Žubrinić. In these parishes that is usually not an error: a child who died was very often replaced by a later child given the same name, and nine such deaths are implied across these four families by a name used twice. It is also exactly how a records-matcher makes one person out of two, which is why they are kept apart here and the reader is told.

More than one person in this chart carries the same name — Maria Žubrinić, Michael Miho Michaël Žubrinić. That is what the source says. This archive does not merge records on a name, so they are drawn separately even where one duplicated entry is the likelier explanation.

2 documents read

What the registers say about Michael / Miho / Michaël

YearDocument The citation, in the register's own words
1849 named-on-a-child-baptism Otočac, 4 November 1849 — «Graničar iz Šumećića Br. 5», Croatian entry Named on Marta Žubrinić's entry rather than their own — a register names you is not a register is about you. notes/otocac-michael-house-numbers-2026-09-15.md
1852 named-on-a-child-baptism Otočac, 26 April 1852 — «Gregarius e Sumećica N° 5»; the register gives the mother as Marković, where the index says Maković Named on Magdalena Žubrinić's entry rather than their own — a register names you is not a register is about you. notes/otocac-michael-house-numbers-2026-09-15.md

Every document this archive has read →

Where this comes from

Read

a register or certificate has been read for this person.

Every record naming Žubrinić →

Where this sits in the family

Not on the direct line. They are published because they belong to one of the eight surnames this archive follows.

The register spells this surname more than one way, and the search folds the forms together — so Xubrinich and Žubrinić, Joannis and Ivan, find each other.

Where this surname sits on the map →
What the tree says that cannot be true →

Events, as the record has them

  • death

Sources attached in the tree

  • Wilson Web Site — https://www.myheritage.com/person-1500212_OYYV62DWSTROY33Z4KZ5U4VM2HODESA_OYYV62DWSTROY33Z4KZ5U4VM2HODESA/mihovil-%C5%BEubrini%C4%87

An online family tree is a witness, not a source. Where a citation points at a parish register or a FamilySearch image, that is the thing worth going to. Sources →

Others of the same name

These parishes repeat their names relentlessly — 94 Marijas and 88 Ivans in this archive alone. These are different people, kept apart on purpose rather than merged into one. Merging on a name is exactly how this tree came to hold a man born after his own granddaughter.

Michael Miho Michaël Žubrinić ? place not recorded
Michael Miho Michaël Žubrinić ? place not recorded
Michael Miho Michaël Žubrinić ? place not recorded

Same name, and nothing here says they are related. Why the names repeat →