Milos,

Are you living in the region? It will make things easier if you do.

Sergej,

I live (and was born) in Australia, but most of my fathers family is still in Srbac. The information I provided above is from them, and they don't know of earlier relatives.

Would it be possible that there would be information on my family in the Kljuc district (local councils/churches/archives?). Also, how far back would there be recorded information?

As far as I know, Kljuc use to be populated with Serbs, but after the recent wars, it is now part of the Croat-Muslim Federation and so there is a strong Muslim presence their. I would have thought that the local authorities might not be as helpful to people tracing back Serbian families.

Thanks for the acknowledgement.

Milos.

Milos,

The trouble in that Bosnia is that it has been heavily hit by the war as was the Krajina region in Croatia. This means a lot of churches and archives were hit and a lot of information has been lost for ever. So that is the first thing I tell people not to get their hopes up too much but also not to give up that easily. We simply cant account for the information of the churches and archives, in other words we cant verify if they were destroyed or taken.

Your family can act on your behalf and the best way to go about this is to do the following.

1. Check with the Orthodox and Catholic churches to see what they have,
2. Go to city hall and request the information untill most likely 1912 all data is stored there,
3. Info before 1912 most likely will be stored in archives.

Now according to the UN people must get fair treatment, this does not mean that people get treated bad sometimes on the ground. They can also try with the UN representative there and see what they say and what they can do.

As far as I know the Islamic community never stored its own archives so there is no need to go to them.

I hope this helps, Bosnia is somewhat of a black hole when it comes to genealogy and history due to poor record keeping and wars and conflicts.

Moj profesor na Gradjevinskom fakultetu u Beogradu i mentor na diplomskom radu iz betonskih konstrukcija zove se Mirko Aćić i jedan je od najvećih stručnjaka u oblasti betonskih konstrukcija na Balkanu , da nepretjerujem dalje . Porijeklom je iz vjerovatno okoline Drvara , a sada živi u Beogradu ili okolini Beograda neznam tačno uglavnom u penziji je odnedavno . Njegov sin Vladimir je takoč‘e grač‘evinski inženjer i radi u BGD .
Pa evo ko je vičan neka prevede na engleski , dakle Aćić , porodica sa područja Drvara , Srbi ,pravoslavne vjeroispovjesti .