The Blažević Archive
A hundred kilometres of coast, and then two other continents

Places

With one exception, every place in this archive before 1884 lies within a day's walk of the Velebit — and the exception is the whole point. One of the places below has never been searched at all, and it is where a whole family came from.

Senj

The port town. Birthplace of Hedviga, Milka and Josip Papić; deathplace of Toma Blažević, Ljubomir, Milka and Antonija. Everything converges here.

Smokvica Krmpotska

The Blažević village in the Vinodol hills, settled by Bunjevci in the 17th century. House 114 is Toma's.

Krivi Put

The Prpić village on the Senj mountain. House 136 produced 35 people in this tree.

Otočac

The Žubrinić town, in the Gacka valley in Lika, inland across the Velebit.

Selce

On the Vinodol coast — the Antić–Papić and Jelličić lines.

Karlobag

South down the coast under the Velebit — the Pilipić, Uroda, Smojver and Gerkacs lines, and the archive's deepest generation.

Klenovica & Povile

The Kalanj villages, on the coast between Novi Vinodolski and Senj — and, it turns out, not where the Kalanji are from. House 22 is one house under two village names, and holds 67 people.

Brinje

Inland, over the Kapela, and the only place on this list nobody has ever searched. The Kalanj baptism of 1864 calls the parents Brinjensis parochiae ruricolae — country people of the parish of Brinje. Kalanj, Perković and Borić all appear there.

Prozor & Šumećica

The two Otočac villages the oldest Žubrinić entries name — Prozor 46 and 50, Šumećica 2 and 24. Six people left Prozor for New York between 1907 and 1912.

Port Pirie

South Australia. The Žubrinić emigration of about 1884, and the Zubrinich spelling.

Every place, counted

Every place is a link: it opens the register filtered to the people recorded there. Births and deaths of published people carrying one of the eight surnames. Spelling variants are collapsed where they are literally the same place; nothing distinct is merged. House numbers are kept, because in Frontier registers the house number is the family.

60 places · everything is listed; the filters only narrow it

60 places holding 955 people between them. The atlas draws where the family was; this says how much of it each place actually holds.

PlacePeople
Senj, Lika-Senj County, Croatia129
Otočac, Croatia117
Senj, Croatia74
Selce, Croatia51
Klenovica 22, Klenovica, Croatia43
Klenovica40
Krivi Put, Lika-Senj County, Croatia39
Krivi Put 136, Senj, Lika-Senj County, Croatia39
Mrzli Dol, Lika-Senj, Croatia34
Gologorica, Istra, Croatia30
Klenovica, Croatia27
Povile 22, Croatia26
Mrzli Dol, Senj, Croatia21
Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia21
Otocac Croatia19
Selce16
Karlobag, Općina Karlobag, Lika-Senj County, Croatia15
Mrzli Dol, Lika-Senj County, Croatia12
Prozor 509
Novi Vinodolski, Croatia9
Krmpote, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia9
Otočac, Općina Otočac, Lika-Senj County, Croatia9
Smokvica Krmpotska8
Mrzli Dol #30, Lika-Senj, Croatia8
Krivi Put8
Klenovica 23, Klenovica, Croatia7
Novi Vinodolski7
Krmpote6
Mrzli Dol, Lika-Senj, Jugoslavija6
Croatia6
Krivi Put, Lika-Senj, Croatia6
Mrzli Dol #30, Lika-Senj County, Croatia5
Port Pirie, South Australia5
Karlobag, Lika-Senj County, Croatia5
Ledenice, Croatia5
Ledenice, 74, Croatia5
Klenovica 36, Klenovica, Croatia5
Krivi Put, Croatia5
Senj4
Smokvica Krmpotska / Krmpote4
Krmpotske Vodice, Grad Novi Vinodolski, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia4
Ledenice, Modrus-Fiume, Hungary4
#23 Mrzli Dol, Lika-Senj, Croatia4
Karlobag4
Sv. Jelena3
Rijeka3
#6 Mrzli dol3
Mrzli Dol 6, Lika-Senj County, Croatia3
Sv. Jakov, Krmpote, Croatia3
Zagreb3
3
Fuzine, Croatia3
Zagreb, City of Zagreb, Croatia3
Ledenice3
Senj, Lika-Senj County, Croatia`, Croatia3
Ledenice, Modrus-Fiume, Magyarország3
Povile 23, Croatia3
Otocac, Croatia2
Otocac/Smokvica Krmpotska, Općina Novi Vinodolski, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia2
Smokvica Krmpotska, Općina Novi Vinodolski, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia2
Data quality

Four places in this archive are geocoded wrong

Not misread, and not disputed — machine-matched to the wrong town. A geocoder given a village name picks a candidate, and twice here it picked one hundreds of kilometres away. They are corrected on the people concerned rather than left standing, because unlike a contested reading there is nothing here to reproduce: no human ever claimed it.

Where the tree puts itWhere it isHow far wrong
Smokvica, Općina Smokvica,
Dubrovačko-neretvanska
Smokvica Krmpotska, Novi Vinodolski,
Primorje-Gorski Kotar
400 km — the wrong Smokvica is on Korčula. The tree's own string says Krmpote in the same breath.
Senj, Split-Dalmatia Senj, Lika-Senj County 200 km — Senj was the seat of its own county and has never been in Split-Dalmatia.
Prozor, Herzegovina-Neretva
Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Prozor, near Otočac,
Lika-Senj
200 km, and across a border. Every other Prozor record here reads Prozor 46 or Prozor 50, Otočac. Found 13 September 2026 — and it matters beyond the one record, because it shows this tree moving Lika villages into Bosnia.
Osekovo, Belovár-Körös Megye,
Hungary
Otočac, Lika-Senj This one is FamilySearch's, not the tree's — a christening at Otočac catalogued under a different county entirely. Noted wherever the citation is reused.

The first matters most. Juraj Blažević is the man question 1b is about, and Smokvica kbr. 114 and the parish of sv. Jakov Krmpote are the whole of the argument. An archivist sent to Korčula would find nothing and conclude the family was not there.

Every place with a page of its own

One page per place the atlas can put a person in, listing who was born, married or buried there and what the archive read to know it. These were reachable only by clicking a marker on the map, which meant a reader without JavaScript — and a search engine — could not get to any of them.

#6 Mrzli dol · Brinje · Croatia · Gologorica · Karlobag · Karlobag · Karlobag · Klenovica · Klenovica · Klenovica 22 · Klenovica 23 · Klenovica 36 · Krivi Put · Krivi Put · Krivi Put · Krivi Put · Krivi Put 136 · Krmpote · Krmpote · Krmpotske Vodice · Ledenice · Ledenice · Ledenice · Ledenice · Ledenice · Mrzli Dol · Mrzli Dol · Mrzli Dol · Mrzli Dol · Mrzli Dol 6 · Nova Oselica · Novi Vinodolski · Novi Vinodolski · Otocac · Otočac · Otočac · Otocac Croatia · Otocac/Smokvica Krmpotska · Port Pirie · Port Pirie · Povile 22 · Povile 23 · Prozor 50 · Rijeka · Selce · Selce · Senj · Senj · Senj · Senj · Smokvica Krmpotska · Smokvica Krmpotska · Smokvica Krmpotska / Krmpote · Sv. Jakov · Zagreb · Zagreb · Zgornje Bitnje