Immigrants to New York City and Vicinity

There are two books written by Anton Bozanić from Krk (Veglia), the brother of the current archbishop of Zagreb, Cardinal Josip Bozanić, while he was a pastor at Most Precious Blood Roman Catholic Church in Astoria, Queens, one of the five boroughs of New York York City in the State of New York, USA where a large number of Istrians from the peninsula and the islands of Cres (Cherso) and Lošinj (Lussino) settled in the 20th century. Bozanić completed his religious studies in 1989 from the Theology faculty at the University of Zagreb in 1989 and is today with the parish church in Mali Losinj, Croatia.

• Istarski iseljenici u New Yorku i okolici, "Josip Turčinović", publisher (Pazin - New York, 1999).

  [Note: The data in this book consists primarily of information culled from interviews the author conducted with people who are actively involved in the Istrian social clubs and is not intended as a thorough or authoritative investigation. There are notable omissions of entire families and groups of Istrian immigrants of the 20th century, especially those who came in the immediate aftermath of the two World Wars and those who never had or did not retain ties with the York City Istrian social clubs.]

• Isljenici cresko-losinjskog otocja u New Yorku i okolici: Jedno stoljece organiziranog drustvenog zivota nasih otocana u New Yorkuu (Immigrants from the islands of Cres and Losinj to New York and vicinity: one hundred years of societal organized life of our islanders in New York),  Katedra Cakavskog sabora (Cres-Losinj, Mali Losinj & Cres, 1997). This work contains the history of 19th and 20th century immigrants from the Croatian islands of Cres, Losinj, Ilovik, Susak, and Srakane.

  Bozanic not only shows the history of the islanders to New York City and vicinity, but also lists the present day families in the New York area from these island arranged alphabetically under their ancestral town [presumably gathered from information provided by the social clubs, so not likely to be authoritative]. The New York families listed are from

Sources:

• Grant Karcich's "How to do Croatian Genealogy" - Newsletter # 3
• Marisa Ciceran

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