Benkovich-Zic Family and Related
Genealogy of the Benkovich - Zic family and related families.
Welcome all family members, Benkovich, Zic, Orlich, Kraljic, Nardoza, Brusic and all others. See the family cloud below.
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We are the chosen. In each family there there are those who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again. To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve.
Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before.
We are the story tellers of the tribe. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves.
This is just one of our reunion photos. Look through the photos to find shots of you and your loved ones.
The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh.
It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us.
It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are.
So, we tell the story of our family. It is up to us called in the next generation to answer the call and take a place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why we do family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before. 'It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us.
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