The purpose of these fields is to enter language variants of person's name. To have them all in the default field (Croatian, Italian, English) is not the right thing to do.
Please use those fields, they are there for a reason.
Private User Thank you for pointing this out and for your assistance,
May I ask you a further question on the surname changes in the various languages.
1. Do you know why the baptismal records at the catholic church in Vis would have been recorded in Italian? Here the surname is recorded in Italian as Vojcovich.
2. Why would the spelling of the birth surname change when written in Croatian?
3. I was not aware that in English the 'c' was replaced with the 'k' . I knew some spelling was altered in English and assumed it was only the ending 'ch'.
Unfortunately, I have no knowledge of Italian or Croatian. Once again your knowledge and assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Private User
5/17/2022 at 6:33 PM
1) it all depended on individual priest background and education. Some were pro-Italian some not You have neighbouring villages with records completely different, for example Blato on Korcula is all in Croatian, while city of Korcula is mostly Italian.
Private User
5/17/2022 at 6:35 PM
2) because the priest wrotte it in Italian - Croatian is a fonetic language (every sound has a unique symbol) while Italian is not, they wrote what they think it should be, brcause of it, you will often see variations in spelling
Private User
5/17/2022 at 8:01 PM
C and K sound completely different in Croatian K sounds like in word ‘key’ C sound from Croatian does not exist in English, it is betweeen z and s
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