viernes, 14 de enero de 2011

MY CROATIAN DESCENT

By Guillermo Cleti

In this text I want to write about my Croatian descent.
This is simply my family history.

MY GREAT-GREAT GRANDPARENTS IN CROATIA

• JUAN STANSICH – CATALINA REGOVICH

They lived in Trogir.
They had four children: María, Pedro, Nicolás and my great grandmother Margarita Reparata (Margarita Stančić in Croatian).

Margarita was born in 1893 in Trogir and she died in 1976 in Pergamino, Buenos Aires, Argentina.











• ANTONIO ROSICH - CATALINA BARTULIZA

They were my great-great grandparents too.
They lived in Trogir.
They had seven children: Felicia, Ana, Pedro, Juan, Filomena, Jorge and my great grandfather Spiro Juan (Spiro Rožić in Croatian).



ACLARATION: In those moments Trogir was a part of the Austro Hungarian Empire later know as Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
Today, Trogir is a town of Croatia.



Spiro was born in 1885 in Čiovo and he died in 1954 in Pergamino, Buenos Aires, Argentina.












MY GREAT GRANDPARENTS IN ARGENTINA

Margarita and Spiro arrived to Argentina in 1910. They married in Argentina and had seven children: Catalina, Antonio, Juan, María, Nicolás, Margarita Neba and my grandmother Ana.






Ana was born in 1919 in Chabás, Santa Fe and she died in 2006. She was married to my grandfather Pedro Cleti and they had two children: Antonio and my father José María.









MY PARENTS

Norma Gonzalez and José María Cleti are my parents. She was born in 1938 in Pergamino, Buenos Aires. He was born in 1938 in Chabás, Santa Fe.
They had two children: my sister Susana and I, Guillermo.

MY CROATIAN CITIZENSHIP

In 2010, I started applying for my Croatian citizenship.
First, I went to the Croatian Consulate in Rosario to learn about the requirements. Then, I handed in all the papers to the Croatian Embassy in Buenos Aires.
I will get my Croatian citizenship because my great grandfather was born in Croatia.
I hope this day comes soon.

I want to be Croatian as a tribute to my dear grandmother, Ana.


August 2011: and finally, I am Croatian citizen!