Hi everyone, I'm new to this forum.

I wonder if anyone has any connection to the Mihajlovic family, my mother's family. My grandfather, Vladimir Mihajlovic, was born on 8 August 1908 in a region called Srem, which I think was in Serbia. He was Serbian, spoke Serbian, was Serbian Orthodox, etc. He was the eldest of 14 and his father was also called Vladimir. I think his mother's name was Katharina (like me) but I don't know her maiden name. There were a lot of sisters in the family, and I have been told that some children died young - one girl apparently rolled into the fire while she was alseep and was burned to death (sorry, it's very gruesome, but might help jog someone's memory!)!!

Vladimir left home at a young age when his mother died and his father gambled and drank away all the money (or so I've been told). He became a boot maker/ leather worker and was very good with his hands. He married my grandmother Elisabeth Reidl (b 1912 in a German village in Serbia, Lutheran religion, spoke a Bavarian dialect of German) in about 1934. She rescued him from a work camp sometime around then. They lived in Belgrade and their eldest son Michael was born there. They had 10 children: Michael, Elisabeth, Martin, Katharina, Rosina (Rouzhitsa), Peter, Ivan, Nada (Nadezhda), Dora (Draghitsa), Mira (Miroslava).

They then lived in Germany for some time, where my mother (Rosina) was born in Augsburg in December 1948.

In 1950 they emigrated to Australia, and the family has been in Sydney ever since. Vladimir died in 1980, and Elisabeth in 1994.

I know Mihajlovic is a very common name, but does anyone recognise the story above or have any ideas about how I can find out what happened to Vladimir's brothers and sisters? I know that one of his cousins is here in Australia (Adelaide), but that's the closest connection we have.

I don't speak Serbian, but my mother does, so even if there are Serbian websites or information in cyrillic that you have, I would like that.

Thanks!!

Katharina