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Hi,
I'm looking for any information reguarding my family's ancestry, my last name is Basic, mums maiden name is Njegovan, I know my family has lived in Gospic in what is now Croatian Lika for 300-400 years but we've moved to Australia due to the war.
What I would like to know ultimately is where my family had come from before then but i think thats unrealistic haha, I'd like to track the family history and get some sort of idea of who they were etc
Mum: Mirjana Basic (Njegovan)
Dad: Djuro Basic (died 1993?)
My paternal grandmother's maiden name was also Njegovan by coincidence apparently, she's still alive and is about 80, Jelena or Jeka and grandfathers is Dusan
Maternal grandparents are Bosijka and Dragan(died mid 80s I think)
Can anybody shed some light on family before then or where I can find a good site that would have Yugoslav or Austro-Hungarian records? I'd like to track it back to where they were before the 300-400years
Cheers!
Jelena 
Posted : 20/04/2014 3:24 pm
Please read the FAQ section, there are no online records.
Regards,
Sergej
Posted : 08/05/2014 11:57 am
Jelena,
Have you checked the records that are online via familysearch for Croatia? Records for Gospic include death records for year 1830. Finding your Basic or Njegovan surname and ancestors in them will have you document with original records 200 years old presence.
Have you tried to find more information on your direct ancestors in Privrednik database?
Do you know Victims of War 1941-1945 from your families and have all been officially identified and added to the Census of Victims 1941-1945?
We can look up information on that for you.
As for going 300 - 400 years into the past there is the census of Lika and Krbava from 1712. ( Popis Like i Krbave) ,
http://www.skdprosvjeta.com/pdf/9.pdf
and then before that there are military conscription records and historical documents. Establishing whether people in them with your surname are ancestors or not beyond doubt would probably take decades, and you could only do that if you were extremely lucky.
I know that Serbs like to do their family genealogy "the Serbian way" and everyone brags about knowing their ancestry prior to the battle of Kosovo, but what we do here is try and stick with what is beyond doubt and what can be verified in original records. There is so much real work to do if you choose to do things that way and it can be even more rewarding than indulging wild theories of earlier origin. 
If I were you I would go in detail over the original records that are available and document as far as possible your own families.
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