Hello all,
I am trying to help a friend of mind locate his great-grandparents birth & marriage records (between 1867-1903) from the Karlovac area. I know they were born in the Ribnik area, and married there as well.
Would the Karlovac State Archives be the place to look? Or the Catholic Church?
Thanks!
Hello all,
I’m helping a friend with record-gathering for a potential Croatian Article 11 citizenship case through his paternal great-grandparent(s), and I would appreciate a sanity check on whether we are gathering the right documents.
Full disclosure: I am not Croatian myself, but German-American. I DIY’d my own German citizenship-by-descent case through a great-grandparent last year, so I have some experience finding and requesting legal/certified copies of records from this era. I’m trying to help him if I can, but I want to make sure I’m not applying the wrong assumptions from the German process to the Croatian one.
For context: All four of his paternal great-grandparents appear to have been Croatian. They immigrated to the United States around the turn of the 20th century and settled in the same American city. Thankfully, the family appears to have stayed in the same area for several generations, so the U.S. document search may be fairly contained.
Here is what we are trying to locate:
- Croatian baptismal/birth records for the relevant paternal great-grandparent(s)
- Ship manifests or immigration records showing arrival in the U.S., ideally indicating Croatian origin, ethnicity, nationality, or place of birth
- Civil or church marriage record of the great-grandparent(s)
- Civil or church birth/baptism record of the paternal grandparent
- Any naturalization records, or negative search results if no naturalization record is found
- Civil marriage record of the paternal grandparents
- Civil birth record of the applicant’s father
- Civil marriage record of the applicant’s parents
- Applicant’s long-form civil birth certificate
- FBI background check
- Apostilles and certified Croatian translations where required
A specific issue we may run into is that the paternal grandfather appears to have been born around 1906, before reliable statewide birth registration began. If no civil birth certificate exists, we are hoping that a county negative-search letter plus a certified Catholic baptismal record, supported by later civil records, might be acceptable.
Does this look like the right general document strategy for an Article 11 case? Are there any documents we should add, remove, or prioritize differently?
Any feedback would be appreciated. I’m decent at finding documents, but I want to make sure I’m helping track down the right things for the Croatian process.
Thanks!
Hey all,
My tuition employer’s reimbursement benefit kicks in next year, and was looking at both the MBA and MSOL programs.
Full context: i’m 47. If this was me 15-20 years ago, I would have went for the MBA, no question. But I’ve already had several years of management experience at this point, so the MSOL seems a bit more interesting, because I’m not prepping for management, I just want to get better at what I’ve already done.
Does that make sense? Would the MSOL be more useful at this point? Or is an MBA still the best path in general?
Thanks.