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Selo Konjevic, Igalo, Yugoslavia is where my grandmother's family is from. Mara Konjević was born 18 Nov 1892 and immigrated to New York about 1912. Her parents are Jura Konjević and Sacieta Marich. I am having trouble finding this village on a map. I'd appreciate any help or directions to find out more about this family.
Igalo is in Montenegro.
Can you scan in the records from Ellis ISland?
Regards,
Sergej
Smaller village (in Serbian: zaselak) KONJEVIĆI
part of village PRIJEVOR
in XIX century part of parish & municipality SUTORINA
near HERCEG NOVI, Montenegro. Also listed in many period records as part of IGALO.
http://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prijevor_%28Herceg_Novi,_Crna_Gora%29
I just replied to someone looking into that same family and place of origin, but for an ancestorn born much earlier.
See here:
http://www.rodoslovlje.com/en/forum/general-forum/looking-anything-name-cognevich
The records of children sent to be saved from starvation during the WWI ( 1914-1918) through Serbian Orthodox Church to Vojvodina that I did not post in that answer would probably be of interest for your research, as well as other XX century mentions of KONJEVIĆ family in that parish diary. These records list names of parents, village of origin, age of the child.
KONJEVIĆI, HERCEG NOVI village of origin is confirmed in Privrednik database :
ID | YEAR | BIRTH YEAR (+/- 5 years) | SURNAME | FIRST NAME | CARETAKER | RESIDENCE |
28031 | 1934 |
1924
|
Konjević | Marko | Anđa | 48 Konjevići, Hercegnovi |
About Privrednik database:
http://www.rodoslovlje.com/en/documentation/serbian-trade-association-privrednik-merchant-database
First names of parents you listed are incorrect ( Jura and Sacieta).
Look through the listings in the period parish records (XIX and XX century) to establish what the original names were :
http://www.rastko.rs/rastko-bo/istorija/ljetopis-lucica_l.html
Based on given names of people from that parish, first names of your ancestors were
ĐURO ( *Juro, *Gjuro, *Djuro, *Duro, *Guro possible misspellings in US records after immigrating)
and
SAVETA. ( SAVJETA, * Savieta, * Saveita)
For *JURO - also consider misinterpretation/misreading of the records/documents you have - according to the parish priest, in 1894. a man named JOKO KONJEVIĆ was one of the heads of households in PRIJEVOR village.
Yes, I was the one looking for the Konjevic family. I have been to Igalo and meet the family there many times. My name is Mark Cognevich. My ggg-granfather came from Sutorina in the 1830 and settled in Buras Louisiana. It is south of New Orleans. Igalo is just south of Croatia on the sea. I wish I would have seen your message sooner I was in New York last month.