Mate Brljevich was born in Momići, village near Metkovic but it was under a different parish
Hello...
Thanks for the info regarding Metković being the wrong parish. In my defence, it was an easy mistake to make as the distance between Momići and Metković would be little more than two miles.
So I'm hoping you know the right parish. Which one of the other eight hundred-ish Croatian parishes on Family Search should we be looking at.
If you're unsure you could maybe email the Archives in Metković and ask for suggestions
Sabirni arhivski centar Metković-Opuzen-Ploče http://www.dad.hr/kontakt.php-----
The 2011 Census of Croatia gives the population of Momići as only 205 people. Have you considered writing a letter to one or two of the ten BRLJEVIĆs the Croatian White Pages currently list as living in Momići. There's a fairly good chance that at least one of the ten shares a common ancestor with the people you seek.
Hrvatski Telekomhttp://imenik.tportal.hr/?lang=en-----
One of the Momići BRLJEVIĆs is quite active on Facebook. He seems to be in his late twenties or thirties so probably a bit too young to be interested in genealogy but if you make contact he may well pass on your contact details to an older relative.
I'll PM you his Facebook contact details.
You've nothing to lose by trying the Facebook route. As long as your message is short, polite and (I'm guessing) in Croatian you should receive an equally short but hopefully helpful reply.
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Mate came back to Europe
I'm trying to find out as much as possible about his life in New Zealand...
I hope I'm proven wrong but I don't think you're going to find too much more other than that which has already been mentioned in this thread. Mate seems to have left a very small paper trail.
Hopefully Filip might turn up somewhere. He seems a bit more find-able.
But if you want info on their parents/siblings/offspring I think you need to go back to the source, namely Croatia.
Regards
Beg