My name is Marko Lozancic. I started doing genealogical research, as already mentioned in the introduction, after I tried to make a family tree of the Masnov family from Brbinj, to which my late grandmother belonged.

After the genealogy of the Masnov family, I made genealogies of other Brbinj families and now I am continuing to research the genealogy of old Dugi otok families from other villages on Dugi otok, primarily from the northern end of the island. I wrote more about the methodology and the way I made these genealogies on the page Methodology and sources

In order to be able to make these genealogies at all, I had to learn to read the cursive Glagolitic script in which the oldest registers of the Brbinj parish and other Dugi otok parishes were written. These registers were written in Glagolitic script until about 1825, when standardized registers began to be used, in Latin script and in Croatian or Italian language. Although Glagolitic is a special topic that can be written about a lot, here I will try to write something about Glagolitic script on Dugi otok, because it is a topic that is interesting at least as much as genealogical research.

By profession, I am a lawyer, so genealogical research has been my hobby for the last few years. For conclusions or assumptions about the genealogy of individual families, I will try to present on this blog as much evidence or clues that I managed to obtain during the research, especially since most of these facts are today unknown details from the history of individual families. Asked whether my conclusions or assumptions are correct, each reader will be able to answer for himself because I will present a large amount of data for each genealogy processed.

I limited the research to the period from the beginning of the first Glagolitic registers on Dugi otok, which is the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century, until the middle of the 19th century, when standardized Latin script registers were introduced. These Latin script records today can be explored without much effort.

On the topic of genealogical research, I published a short article entitled "Godfathers from Veli and Mali Lošinj in the Glagolitic register of births of the parish of Brbinj" in the magazine "Slovo rogovsko", number 8, year 2020, published by the Association of Glagolitics Zadar, and have one more detailed article on the origin of the surname Masnov accepted for publication in the magazine "Bašćina".