Do you have some more info like dates and places?

Hello! Family Stojanovich (Stojanovich) lived in Serbia in the late 1800’s. My grandfather, Svetozar Sava Stojanovich was born June 29, 1888 in Uzice. His father was Sava Stojanovic(h). He had brothers: Radomir, born about 1886 and died about 1957; Ranislav, birth unknown but died in December, 1915 in Albania; Yovan, birthdate unknown but died October 7, 1915 in Serbia; and Vojislav, born 3/30/1874 in mackat, Serbia and died 1/3/1955 in Belgrade, Serbia.

My great grandmother may have been named Cevata Marech, or otherwise had the first name Yelena.

Vojislav is the most unusual in that at some time in adulthood or during the war, he took the surname Bumbasirevic which he claims to have “invented” according to a loosely translated article about him. He and his progeny went on to become very prominent in the medical field during wartimes and still today, in Belgrade.

Mackat is still a very small village between Uzice and Zlatibor. I don’t know how to find records for that region. They were orthodox.

Hello,

I know Mačkat, I was there 3 weeks ago 😉
Vojislav Bumbaširević was a colonel in the Serbian army and quite famous.
Mačkat is in Čajetina municipality.
What is this article you are referring to?
The archives are not available online, you could contact them via email/mail or have someone go there and check things out for you.
http://www.cajetina.org.rs/sr is only availible in Serbian.

How did you obtain the names thus far, via immigration records? I am asking because of the spelling of Cevata.

The name of Cevata Marech appears on the marriage license records of my grandparents in Detroit, see below. Perhaps it is incorrectly translated/read/written.
There is a relative I speak to who has records of the name being “Yelena”. We can’t account for the discrepancy.

As for the article, the link is
https://www.srpskadijaspora.info/priznanje-srpskom-hirurgu/
...but I had to rely on GoogleTranslate one paragraph at a time, as I don’t speak or read Serbian!

Hopefully the photo and link come through properly?

Interestingly, in Mackat there is a sausage company owned by the Stojanovic family, and I wonder if they are related. I am sure, because the village is very small to this day. I sent the company an email (in English) but did not get a response.

https://zlatiborac.com/welcome/

Let me go through this. I have another question for you. Does you family have a Slava / Family Saint or did you hear them about it? Usually they would have a specific icon of this particular saint in a room with a candle and would celebrate it once per year.

Ill get back to you as soon possible with regard to the article and such.

I have no memories of hearing about the family Slava. The one relative (I located through old letters and dna testing) who I talk to has the slava of St. Nicholas. We think that must be mine, too, because he is related through the Bumbasirevic (male) branch of the family.

Well, what you can do and what I believe is the shortest way to find out if you are related to the same Bumbasirevic is contact the branch that is still out there. Stojanovic is a common surname so randomly contacting them wouldn't really be the best option.
There are two of them who have an online profile you could contact.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marko_Bumbasirevic
https://www.facebook.com/urosbu

I would just send them a message and see if you can get a response.

As for the rest you should use the template we have and write to the archives in Uzice
IA Užice
Dimitrija Tucovića 52, 31000, Užice
http://arhivue.org.rs/

They should have all the information you are looking for, meaning birth records etc.