While reading for a paper I'm delivering at a conference tomorrow I sumbled on an interesting entry (well, interesting to me that is
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Apparently there was a member of my "clan," so to speak, since I can't possibly trace or even claim direct descent, in the 17th century, in 1660 to be precise, who was the "Herald of his August Majesty, Emperor Leopolod I of Habsburg." His name was Lorenzo de Churelichz and he was from the province of Istria, where my dad is from too and the last name is the same, although spelled a bit differently.
It seems I've found the ancient Dosiere of my family
Edit: Sorry to bother you with this but its not something one finds every day and it has such a wonderful parallel with Birthright
