Slovenian Home Land

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Work in progress. Please pardon the dust and inaccuracy.

General Area

These four families all hail from Eastern Slovenia nestled between Zagreb (capital of Croatia) and Liblijuana (capital of Slovenia). Near Zagreb, which is down river, and the Croatian border to the south and west. The towns of our ancestors in Eastern Slovenia are only 10 km from the border with what is now Croatia and less than 100 km from Trieste and the Adriatic Sea.

Šentjernej is the home of the Jordan and Baznik families and sits right in the middle between two capitals. The other towns of interest are within 20 to 30 km of this point. After the death of the parents, the kids were scattered to the grandmothers farm outside Šentjernej and to other relatives in Zagreb and Ljubljana. Eventually, four of the six Jordan girls were sent to America over a 6 year period but Karel and Marija settling near Trieste and Novo Mesto as their joint business grew.

Krško is the general area from where the Kosak clan came from we believe; just a little North East of Šentjernej and not more than 30 km away. Rogelj appears to have come from Novo Mesto. Šentjernej, Novo Mesto, and Krško are in the foothills of the southern Alps that comprise a majority of the Slovenian territory. The map shown can be right clicked to see it full screen.{DIV}

Most reading this will not have had the opportunity to visit the homeland; either on their own or with the relatives born there. So I will try to bring in photos, maps and the like from visits to the area by relatives and myself. Some, like Karel Jordan and his family, visited almost every year once they were allowed back in. Betty Jordan Kosak went about once a decade with various groups — sisters, her kids and the like. I was a grand kid with her on one of those trips.

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Šentjernej

We had always been told by Elizabeth "Betty Kosak" Jordan that they were from Šentjernej. The town is fairly definable and was visited in the 1980's on the two trips with her kids. It is here where the family graves of Franciska Baznik and her mother Anna Turk are; as well now her son Karel, his wife Mela, and his son Eddo. Shown is a series of topological map shots zooming further into the town. Although Antonia Jordan declares her home town as Brevica, this name appears often associated with many villages in the area, including one within a kilometer of Šentjernej. It is not clear what she was referring to. In the close-in topo map of Šentjernej, one can see

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Trebnje

For many years, we have heard of the large family house in Trebnje. Betty clearly remembered being there a year before she emigrated and took us there in 1985 to see. And the family photo from the 1940's of Karel and Maria's families clearly depicted it in the background as shown here. It is so large that it is clearly visible from the satellite photos as well as depicted in structure on the topological map of the area. Using the Geopedia.si site again, we show you the general topo map of the area depicting the edge of Trebnje the town and the house. We also then zoom in and show the satellite view with the various directions the photos below are shown. But according to Vlad Rus, the "castle" in Trebnje is simply a historical and well known destination for tourists and was never the home of Karel nor Frank and their families. They had the house in the smaller town xxxx nearby but in fact both families spent most of their time near Trieste and the coast in Rijeka. Ends up. Lilian's mother is from Trebnje. She says it has always been an apartment building. And that her father Karel put his brother Ignac and family up in there for a few years. Betty was stayed with them for a few months before she left for America as she tells us. Guess maybe it was while they were living there. As Betty left when she was 11, and was shuffled from her grandmothers house to different places, she could have easily been confused by this..

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Sevni Name History

Some have asked how I came up with the name Sevni for my business venture of the '00s. The answer lies in this page as well.