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My mother was from Azanja, Serbia, and I would like some help researching information on her parents. Their surname is Talijan.
I suggest that you use the social networks like facebook to track down younger relatives with same surname from same village - they will be able to communicate in English and can translate for you the detailed genealogy research two older members of the family have done - one of them is even the village municipal office clerk, and the family history was interesting enough to be featured in one of most popular newspapers in Serbia :
http://www.politika.rs/rubrike/Drustvo/Stablo-Talijana-chuva-korene.lt.html
Photo in this article is from the fourth annual gathering of TALIJAN family in Azanja.
Another article from year later :
http://www.vesti-online.com/Stampano-izdanje/13-08-2010/Reportaza/74220/Susret-carske-porodice
and from Serbian TV report on heritage exhibition on Azanja that was organised in town of Kragujevac in 2011 :
http://www.rts.rs/page/stories/sr/story/57/Srbija+danas/1015572/Azanjci+u+celoj+Srbiji.html