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Edgar E. Gojtan: Search of Relatives
Hello,
I´m searching for relatives .
I´m trying to build my family tree.
My father was born in Austria.
Thanks.
19/09/2003, 18:35:15
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Zlatica : Re: Search of Relatives
You will need to locate a name of a town for your ancestor in order to proceed with the research.
By saying born in Austria,meaning the historical/dual monarchy Austria-Hungary.

There were 12 GOJTANs that passed thru Ellis Island and they seem to be Croatian, Austrian, Magyar.
What language did your ancestor speak?

Croatia's and Slovenia's phone books are listing the surname GOJTAN.
19/09/2003, 21:32:48
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Edgar: Re: Search of Relatives
I don´t know, but i thing it´s one of these three languages.

German, english or croatian.
14/09/2004, 18:01:16
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Zlatica : Re: Search of Relatives
Edgar

You will have to narrow down to a precise language or better, a name of a village.
Do post on all the boards that apply to your surname. There is an Ancestry board and Genforum.

A map of Austria-Hungary empire :
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/austhung.htm
The old 1910 Hungarian megye map is at :
http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/maps/1910

www.rat.de/kuijsten/navigator
www.croatia-in-english.com
www.google.com
http://vivisimo.com
Take a look if your ancestor might have passed thru Ellis Island. You need to register to the EI site but no money is involved.
14/09/2004, 21:56:59
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karolina: Re: Search of Relatives
hi!
my last name is gojtan.
i am from croatia.
da you know any first names in your "gojtan family tree"?
21/04/2005, 12:17:55
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Zora: Re: Search of Relatives
Hi,

My name is also Gojtan, I live in Canda, however, my father was born in Istra, Croatia.
22/04/2005, 04:51:26
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karolina: Re: Search of Relatives
hey, im also from Istra.
Pazin is the name of town.
do you have any relatives here?
28/04/2005, 23:37:48
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Zora: Re: Search of Relatives
Hello Karolina,

Actually, my Father was born in Gracisce, Pazin, however his family moved to Novigrad when he was 7 years old, he still has all his family there. At 16 he left for Italy and eventually came to Canada. He was there on holidays two weeks ago and visited Gracisce while he was there.

Tko zna, forsi smo si nesto i u rodbini (ha! ha!)
29/04/2005, 04:58:17
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karolina: Re: Search of Relatives
Hello!!!
hehe... Pa ti pričaš Hrvatski.
Može i tako :-))
Ja sam iz Lindara. To je 5 km od Gračišća.
Pitat ću moju baku da li zna nešto o tvojoj rodbini.
Jesi kada bila u Istri?
29/04/2005, 22:12:00
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Zora: Re: Search of Relatives
Ciao,

Da, govorin, ma ne bas na Hrvatski, govorin Istarski dialekt. A ko pitas tvoju Nonu, pitaj je ako se domisli od Zakarija Gojtan, on mi je bi Nono i je zivi u Gojtanima.

U Istri vec sam bila okoli 15 puta. I mislimo doc opet ovo leto za dvi setimane.

Imas adresu email di te mozem pisati?

Se cujemo.
30/04/2005, 05:06:51
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karolina: Re: Search of Relatives
ciao i tebi...
ok, pitat ću
kgojtan -a-t- net -d-o-t- hr
nije bad, mozemo i dijalektom :-))
30/04/2005, 12:08:10
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Edgar E. Gojtan: Re: Search of Relatives
Hello Zora
Hello Karolina.

How are you ?

I´m from Brazil.

I´m searching for relatives for a long long time, and it isn´t a easy task ;).

I can only understand english, german and portuguese. But i can learn a new language :)

A big Hug

Edgar Erich Gojtan
02/05/2005, 13:59:24
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zora: Re: Search of Relatives
Hello Edgar,

Well, since I'm from Canada is not a problem for me. Like I was telling Karolina, my Dad is from Istria Croatia. The town's name is Gracisce (not far from Pazin). He left Croatia in approxiamtely 1958-59. How about your family, when did they arrive in Brazil? had they ever been to another country prior to Brazil? Looking forward to your response.

Zora
02/05/2005, 18:33:30
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zora: Re: Search of Relatives

Oops! I meant since I'm from Canada, ENGLISH, is not a problem for me.

Sorry
02/05/2005, 18:36:32
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Edgar E. Gojtan: Re: Search of Relatives
Hi Zora

My father was born in Austria, and he came to Brazil in the second world war.
My grand father was also born in Austria.
my great grand father also born in Austria (Emmanuel Victor Gojtan)

I have other names too, but i must search them first

02/05/2005, 18:52:06
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Damir: Re: Search of Relatives
Hi all,

this is a very interesting topic, at least for me, since Gojtan is not a very common last name in Croatia...

My mother's maiden name was Gojtan. HEr father, the late Franjo Gojtan, used to live in Prilisce, a village some 15 kms from KArlovac, in Croatia (appx. 60 kms south of Zagreb). Franjo's family was quite big and some of his ancestors and descendants live/lived in the States and CAnada, too. The most interesing fact, I think: MY grandfather Franjo used to say that his family originally came "somewhere from Istria", though that must have been quite a few generations before him.

The connection, the reasons behind the move etc... sounds pretty interesting, and worth exploring a bit more, right?
05/06/2005, 23:22:48
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zora2002: Re: Search of Relatives
Hello Damir,

This is very interesting. What year was your grandfather born? Did he have any brothers or sisters?

My Dad was only sixteen when he left, however, I will ask him if he remembers something that might help. If not I will ask my aunts and uncles this summer when I am there.
06/06/2005, 05:23:42
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Damir: Re: Search of Relatives
Dear Zora,

my grandfather Franjo was born in 1906, while his father Leonard was born in 1862. Franjo had 3 brothers and 3 sisters, but only one of the brothers, Josip, born in 1896, seems to have had a son or sons, in Slovenia, so that practically the only Gojtans in the whole of Slovenia are related to "my" Gojtan-branch. Now I am almost positive that all of the existing Gojtans must have originally come form the central part of Istria and I would certainly like to get to know more about this, especially since I've long been really fascinated by IStria in general, spending all my summers there for the last 15 years.

I could also give you some info on my Gojtan-uncles and cousins etc. born and living in CAnada, but that should not be too interesting to you, since there can be no close connection.

Looking forward to hearing som emore about the topic,

sincerely,
Damir
06/06/2005, 17:29:41
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eegojtan: Re: Search of Relatives
Hi Zora, Hi Damir

I´m happy to see that the Gojtan´s are getting in contact.
I have started this search a long time ago. :)

Damir, it would be wonderful if you can exchange info about your family, so i can put all this in my family tree.

By the way, i live in Brazil.

A big Hug.
Edgar Erich Gojtan
08/06/2005, 16:44:23
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Damir: Re: Search of Relatives
Dear Edgar, thank you for your interest and sorry for not writing back sooner.

Unfortunately, I do not know all that much about the Gojtan side of my family. I know of LEonard Gojtan (b. NOv. 6 1862 in D. Prilisce, d. April 4, 1939) HE married Dora Boljkovac on Nov 24, 1885 and they had 4 sons (Niko, Janko, Josip and Franjo) and 3 daughters (MAgda, Kata and Ana). I could give you partial dates for some of them.

My maternal grandfather was their youngest son, Franjo (b. April 4 1906, d. 1977). HE married Amalija (LJubica) Staresinic) on Feb 2, 1930, and they had 2 sons (Nikola and Vilko) and 7 daughters (Anka, Franciska, MArica, Ljubica, Vilma /my mother/, VEronika and BArka). NIkola spent most of his life in St. Ste. MArie, CAnada, and died there in 1995. Anka is alive and well in Prilisce, Francisca died in 1966 in KArlovac, Croatia. MArica lived in Canada and died there, Ljubica, VIlko and BArka still live in Toronto with their families, while VEronika lives in MAribor, Slovenia, and my mother in Duga Resa, Croatia.

I have more info on their families, dates etc., but maybe I could send you more details via e-mail. My address: damir.bilicic -a-t- ka.htnet.hr -d-o-t-

I would certainly be interested to learn more about your, Zora's and KArolina's families.

All the best,

Damir
27/06/2005, 22:26:34
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Katherine LeClerc: Re: Search of Relatives
Hi Damir!

It's your cousin Kathy (also a Gojtan!). Nice finding you here. I read thru all the 'Gojtan' messages - also looking for more info on our family and was excited to find you! I found a Josip Gojtan that was buried in the first Croatian church in the U.S. in Pittsburgh - could it be our great uncle (grandfather's brother)? I will have to recheck the site to confirm dates. Please e-mail me! mkleclerc -a-t- telus -d-o-t- net
hope you and your family are doing well.

kathy

15/09/2005, 04:26:11
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KARUC: Re: Search of Relatives
22/11/2005, 16:36:40
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spoke2rim: Re: Search of Relatives
Amazing where you find people these days...

Dave Lambert
24/05/2006, 16:14:57
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katherine LeClerc
Dave Lambert? Of Sault Ste. Marie? U of Waterloo? let me know!

25/05/2006, 01:53:55
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spoke2rim: The one and only

aye. You disappeared on me. Drop me a line at spoke2rim -a-t- yahoo.ca.. -d-o-t-
27/05/2006, 23:28:53
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ee.gojtan: Re: The one and only
Hello .

Do you have MSN , or email ?
So we can talk more and better !

hugs to all
06/07/2006, 13:34:00
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ee.gojtan: Re: The one and only
Hello .

Do you have MSN , or email ?
So we can talk more and better !

hugs to all
06/07/2006, 13:44:11
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smith: Re: Do you
Do you know what this statement mean? Tko zna hrvatski Jezik?
09/08/2006, 19:53:56
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fericzobor: Re: Do you
It means literally "Who knows Croatian language?"
10/08/2006, 08:34:10
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David Lambert: Re: The one and only
Use my spoke2rim -a-t- yahoo.ca -d-o-t- address (without .address).
18/08/2006, 20:04:02
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kika: Re: Search of Relatives
I think my father was your father's brother. I haven't seen my uncle for a while but I know he lived in Canada and had family there. Now he lives in Novigrad. My name is Kristina and my father's was Gino (Virgilio).
10/05/2007, 14:21:12
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wlgs: Re: Search of Relatives
Hi all. my Father Neil Nicholas Gojtan came to Canada in approx 1939 from Prilisce. His name was anglosized to Goytan. His Father was John and Mother Madeline. They settled in Winnipeg and have a son John and daughter Madeline He eventually settled in Elliot Lake, Ontario.
I was interested to see a reference to Gojtans in Sault Ste Marie. Any still there?

Wendy Goytan
12/02/2008, 00:34:56
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eegojtan: Re: Search of Relatives
Hello !

Long time that i doesn´t login here !

I´m starting over again the amily tree !
Until now i have about 127, from these 80 are gojtans.
I now that we all are related, we just don´t know where in history.
I´m working to find this out. My email is gojtan -a-t- gmail -d-o-t- com
Please, let´s get in contact again.

Thanks and big hugs for all of you !

Edgar Erich Gojtan
28/07/2008, 15:10:42
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Katherine (Gojtan) LeClerc: Re: Search of Relatives
Hi!
Haven't checked this site in a few years. Very interesting to see a Goytan from Elliot Lake. My family (father = Nikola Gojtan) was also from Prilisce and we grew up in Sault Ste. Marie. We have all sinced moved to Alberta, and father is deceased and only other male Gojtan, Uncle Vilko has moved back to Croatia.

Katherine LeClerc
08/09/2008, 03:37:36
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ladesic
14/01/2010, 11:54:55
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