Expert: Igor Karasi - 1/22/2008

Question
Hi! My mother is half Croatian (she says Yugoslavian) from her father's side who immigrated from the former Yugoslavia - their paperwork from Ellis Island says it was in the early 1900s.  We know they were from Nasice, close to Osijek and on the Hungarian border.
The family name is Tribuljak (turned into Tribulak in the US) and I would have to look up a few of the other maiden names of the women.  But I do have them.
In 2004 my husband & I visited Nasice to get info on the Tribuljak family and were told some of them were still living there!  The woman in the museum did not believe my family was originally Yugoslavian....she thought maybe from the old Czechoslovakia.  ???  We were told to go to Osijek for the legal court records but we didn't have time to do that.  So now I want to find that family in Nasice, but have no way to speak to the person at the hotel (very broken English there) that told us about the family still in the town.  My husband speaks pretty good German, which helped us in Croatia.  So how could I get more info on this family & where we are from originally??

Answer
Hello,
First of all I send you list of all Tribuljak's in Croatia.
If you want to call any of thouse familiys you dial
+385  (examp: +385 31 215 158)

01.  TRIBULJAK VLADIMIR, ured ovlaštenog inženjera geodezije Osijek, Europska avenija 10 (031) 215 158
02.  Tribuljak Anðelko  Josipovac Punitovaèki, Braæe Banas 75A (031) 861 637
03.  Tribuljak Antonija  Markovac Našièki, Zrinska 20 (031) 699 490
04.  Tribuljak Drago  Našice, Jakova Gotovca 11 (031) 614 022
05.  Tribuljak Ivan  Našice, Miroslava Krleže 32 (031) 612 539
06.  Tribuljak Ivanka  Josipovac Punitovaèki, Kolodvorska (098) 9801 386
07.  Tribuljak Jelica  Našice, Ivana Zajca 14 (031) 617 587
08.  Tribuljak Josip  Osijek, Plivska 46 (031) 272 043
09.  Tribuljak Jozo  Josipovac Punitovaèki, Kolodvorska 8 (031) 861 243
10.  Tribuljak Ljiljana  Vrsar, Dalmatinska 62 (052) 441 194
11.  Tribuljak Marina  Donja Motièina, Braæe Radiæ 79 (031) 606 277
12.  Tribuljak Milica  Zagreb, Slavka Batušiæa 6 (01) 3894 433
13.  Tribuljak Mirko  Jelisavac, Ivana Brnjika Slovaka 115 (031) 605 350
14.  Tribuljak Petar  Jelisavac, Ivana Brnjika Slovaka 3 (031) 605 062
15.  Tribuljak Renata  Opatija, Davorina Trinajstiæa 2 (051) 712 240
16.  Tribuljak Stjepan  Valenovac, Braæe Radiæ 64 (031) 603 585
17.  Tribuljak Štefica  Markovac Našièki, Zrinska 2 (031) 699 470
18.  Tribuljak Tomislav  Karanac, Ive Lole Ribara 18 (031) 720 063
19.  Tribuljak Vladimir  Osijek, Mrežnièka 31 (031) 271 259
20.  Tribuljak Zvjezdan  Našice, Adolfa Waldingera 7 (031) 611 321