Tandara Family Genealogy

Introduction

This page focuses not on explaining the origin of the surname, but on relationships between people, generations and family branches. Its purpose is to make it clear from the genealogical presentation who belongs to whom, how each family line continues and where the available documentation ends.

The historical background of the surname is covered in the Origin section, while the migration of individual branches is presented on the Migration page. Genealogy therefore remains the central place for the family structure and verified relationships.

How to Read the Genealogy

Family trees are read from older to younger generations. Each person is placed within his or her family line, while the relationships between parents, children and spouses make it possible to follow the branching of the family without returning to general historical descriptions.

The accompanying text supplements the graphical presentation only where additional information or explanation is required. In this way the genealogy remains clear, while historical, migration and other contexts remain on the pages to which they belong.

Research Sources and Bibliography

The genealogy of the Tandara family is based on archival and published sources listed in the bibliography accompanying the research material. For clarity, the sources are divided into unpublished and published material.

A particularly important place in this research is held by the works of Milan Lažeta, Rodoslovlje plemena Tandara and Ričice u nama, as well as the publication by Viktor Vito Grabovac Ričice kroz vijekove. These valuable works laid the foundation for further study of the history and origins of our family and remain among the most important sources for understanding the heritage of the Tandara surname and family.

Cover of Rodoslovlje plemena Tandara by Milan Lažeta
Milan Lažeta – Rodoslovlje plemena Tandara
Cover of Ričice u nama by Milan Lažeta and Marko Rimac
Milan Lažeta and Marko Rimac – Ričice u nama
Cover of Ričice kroz vijekove by Viktor Vito Grabovac
Viktor Vito Grabovac – Ričice kroz vijekove

Unpublished Sources

Croatian State Archives

Parish of Ričice

  • Microfilm M – 3704: Register of births 1761–1784 and 1786–1827; Register of marriages 1787–1827; Register of deaths 1787–1827; Status Animarum for the year 1819.
  • Microfilm M – 3120: Register of births, Parice, 1817–1887.
  • Microfilm M – 2307: Register of births, Parice, 1849–1856.
  • CD reference 242: Register of births, Parice, 1857–1887 (ZM 34F – 935; M00532729 to M00533031).
  • Microfilm M – 3121: Register of births, Parice, 1888–1940 (years 1914, 1915, 1917 and 1918 are missing, as well as the period from 1922 to 1926); Register of marriages, Parice, 1817–1901 (the period from 1860 to 1868 is missing).
  • Microfilm M – 3122: Register of marriages, Parice, 1901–1940; Register of deaths, Parice, 1817–1920.
  • Microfilm M – 3123: Register of deaths 1920–1940.

Parish of Livno

  • Microfilm M – 3226: Register of baptisms 1849–1883, 1894–1912 and 1913–1925.
  • Microfilm M – 3227: Register of baptisms 1925–1933 and 1934–1946; Register of marriages 1849–1883, 1884–1919 and 1919–1946.

Parish of Čuklić near Livno

  • CD reference: Čuklić: Register of deaths 1884–1899 (M00141238 – M00141342); Register of deaths 1900–1914 (M00141344 – M00141478); Register of marriages 1884–1913 (M00142129 – M00142234); Register of marriages 1913–1942 (M00142236 – M00142400); Register of baptisms 1828–1883 (M00143296 – M00143567); Register of baptisms 1884–1893 (M00143574 – M00143690); Register of baptisms 1894–1910 (M00143693 – M00143…); Register of marriages 1828–1883 (M00147163 – M00147…); Register of confirmations for the years 1839, 1851, 1853, 1856, 1862, 1872 and 1879.

Archdiocesan Archives of Split

  • List of families in Ričice, 25 July 1739. File – M 67.
  • Visitation record of the Diocese of Makarska, list of persons confirmed in the parish of Ričice for the years 1779, 1786 and 1792. File – M 110.
  • Status Animarum of the parish of Ričice, 1806.

State Archives in Zadar

  • Venetian Cadastre of the 17th and 18th centuries, No. 41, sheets 6, 7 and 8, and 12–16. Records on the distribution of land to families in the village of Ričice in 1725.
  • Records of the Governor-General (1754–1756), Fascicle 1. Bn. Pušić – Village of Ričice.
  • Austrian Cadastre of Ričice. Collection of cadastral maps of the village of Ričice and the Register of Houses of the cadastral municipality of Ričice, 2 November 1835.

State Archives in Split

  • Map Archives for Istria and Dalmatia, Cadastre of Dalmatia 1823–1975.
  • Register of building plots in the cadastral municipality of Ričice from 1835.
  • List of all landowners in the cadastral municipality of Ričice, 1877.
  • Statement of landholdings of all landowners, including a list of all plots of land and buildings, from 1883 in the cadastral municipality of Ričice.

Municipality of Imotski

  • Register of births of the parish of Ričice, 1940–2011.
  • Register of marriages of the parish of Ričice, 1941–2011.
  • Register of deaths of the parish of Ričice, 1921–2011.

Published Sources

  • P. Dominicus Mandić, o.f.m., Chroati catholici Bosnae et Hercegovinae in descriptionibus annis 1743 et 1768 exaratis.
  • Imotski zbornik 1, Imotski 1992; Slavko Kovačić, Obitelji iz imotskih i radobiljskih sela u zbjegu u selima ispod Zadvarja god. 1686.
  • Zov rodnih ognjišta, parish newspaper of St Luke – Kučiće, Year IX, 2003, No. 2 (17); Rev. Slavko Kovačić, Bantulovići, Bilići i Bošnjaci u Kučićima.
  • Milan Lažeta, Izlet u prošlost obitelji Lažeta.
  • Milan Lažeta, Rodoslovlje ričićkih Kneževića.
  • Tomislav Perković, Stanovništvo livanjskog polja u 18. i 19. stoljeću.

This list represents the documentary basis of the genealogical research. Individual genealogical claims are additionally compared with family records, photographs and oral testimony, but such supplementary information is distinguished from the archival and published sources listed above.

Reliability and Limitations of the Sources

The reliability of the information is not the same for every historical period. Fewer direct records have survived for the earliest generations, while parish registers and later documents allow people and family relationships to be connected with considerably greater certainty.

When different sources do not agree, or when direct confirmation is missing, the information is not treated in the same way as a fully documented fact. Such cases remain open for further verification and future additions.

Development of the Family Branches

As the number of family members increased, individual households gradually developed into separate family units. From one original family, different branches emerged while remaining connected through their common origin.

Although they lived in different parts of the village, and later in different places altogether, awareness of belonging to the same family was preserved through many generations.

Family and Everyday Life

During most of the 18th and 19th centuries, members of the family lived primarily from agriculture and livestock farming, as was common among the population of the Imotski region. Family households often included several generations living under the same roof. This way of life contributed to the preservation of family relationships, customs and oral tradition.

Family Trees

Family trees form the central part of this genealogy. They provide an overview of all known generations and clearly show the connections between the individual branches of the family.

For each person, where the information was available, the following details are provided:

  • year of birth,
  • year of death,
  • name of spouse,
  • children,
  • place of residence.

In this way, the development of the family through time can be followed easily.

Photographs and Family Heritage

Photographs, old family documents and other historical material give genealogy particular value. Such materials supplement written sources and help preserve not only names and dates, but also traces of the everyday lives of earlier generations.

Every new photograph or document represents a valuable contribution to the further development of this project.

Corrections and Additions

Genealogical information is changed only when a new document, photograph or reliable family information provides data that can be connected with an existing person or family branch. A new claim does not automatically replace an existing record; it is first compared with the sources already collected.

In this way, every addition remains part of the same genealogical structure, while possible errors can be corrected without losing previously established relationships.

Conclusion

The value of this genealogy does not lie in the quantity of repeated historical descriptions, but in the clarity of family relationships. Its purpose is to show the continuity of generations, the branching of the family and the places where the documentation is still incomplete.

The genealogy therefore serves as the central map of the family, while historical, geographical and linguistic explanations remain in separate thematic sections.