Our Family Name in Croatia:
Kovacic-Raguzelj (Croation) / Kovacic-Ragusello (Italian)







Kovacich (American), Kovacic (Croation)

This site is dedicated to all of our Kovacich / Kovacic / Kovacic-Raguzelj / Kovacic-Ragusello family worldwide. Our family originated in Dubrovnik (Ragusa in Italian)  and migrated sometime before the 20th century to Split, onto the Island of Hvar (Lesina in Italian) Croatia. In1905, my Grandfather John Kovacich (Ivan Kovacic-Raguzelj in Croation) (Giovanni Kovacic-Ragusello in Italian) arrived in San Francisco, California USA from Hvar, Croatia. My grandfather raised his family in the cities of Fresno, California USA and Oakland, CaliforniaUSA.


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