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Subject: I am from Lussin
Posted by:Marina <Mareblue42@aol.com> on Wed, 29 Nov 2006, in response to Lussin Geneology, posted by Thomas Poserina on Thu, 04 May 2006
I am from Lussinpiccolo, in the island of Lussino.
There are a family there by the name Poserina. I know a lady by the name Poserina and her first name is Giannina. She lives in Astoria, NY. I don't know her address.
Yes, S. Martin is the name of the Cemetery in that small town.
I knew that many of our people came to Philadelphia.
Being an island, most of the men were either shipbuilders, sailors and captains.
It is a shame that now that is Croatia, a lot of the informations may be changed in the books regarding the names. I just give you a small exemple: About four years ago, I had to do a Citizenship for inheritance purposes. The Croatian Goverment gave me a last name that i never saw before. My last name is Nicolich and the Croatians gave me Niccoli. On my mother citizenship (she always lived there)her last name was written Nikolic.
The dialect that has been spoken for century, is now almost lost as the old people are gone.
Is too bad that when another country take over, part of the history is gone.
I hope you are having luck in finding your ancestry.
By the way, I live in Allentown, PA.
Marina.

Subject: Lussin Piccolo
Posted by:Tom Poserina <Captainpos@Comcast.net> on Tue, 19 Dec 2006, in response to I am from Lussin, posted by Marina on Wed, 29 Nov 2006
Marina,
Thanks for responding. I have discovered another generation of Poserina's beyond my great grandfather Mark who emigrated to America in 1888. He died falling off a ships mast while working. His wife Catherine and their 5 children were already enroute to America and did not know that he had died. Our family married into the Martinolich and Blasinich families while living in Lussin. One of the great arguments in our family is our nationality. My grandfather John Poserina said we were Austrian and would get angry if people asked him if we were of Italian descent. Yet I find many Poserina first names that are very Roman or Italian. Our last name even sounds Italian yet we are fair-skinned and blonde in our younger days. And what type of dialect did we speak? By the way I live one hour south of where you live and attended college at DeSales University in Center Valley. Small world.
- Subject: Lussignani's origin
  Posted by:Gianfranco Raffa <jraffa1@aol.com> on Sat, 29 Nov 2008, in response to Lussin Piccolo, posted by Tom Poserina on Tue, 19 Dec 2006
  Tom:
  Many Lussignani's origin go back to the period of the "Republica di Venezia". I know that my grandfather who was born in the late 1800, during the Austro Hungarian occupation, considered himself Austrian, but the origin was definetly Italian.
  - Subject: Lussignani's origin
    Posted by:Tom Poserina <Captainpos@Comcast.net> on Sun, 30 Nov 2008, in response to Lussignani's origin, posted by Gianfranco Raffa on Sat, 29 Nov 2008
    Gianfranco,
    My grandfather John Poserina swore that we were Austrian descent and would get indignant if someone inquired if he was Italian. However, ee have traced our family origin to the 12th Century and believe our family root name comes from "Passerini" which is a bunting/sparrow unique to Italy. Our family ran the lighthouses in Lussin Piccolo for generations as well as family whose trade was shipbuilding. My great grandfather and his brothers and sisters emigrated to the United States and Canada as wooden shipbuilding was coming to a close and the Cosulich family who was the largest shipbuilder in Lussin moved their family shipbuilding business to Trieste I believe. I sincerely wish to visit Lussino someday and visit the family cemetery.
Subject: Lussin and the Poserinas
Posted by:Elisabetta Nutter <ENutter91@hotmail.com> on Sun, 10 Aug 2008, in response to I am from Lussin, posted by Marina on Wed, 29 Nov 2006
Hello there Marina ...
I don't know if this email will reach you, but I happened to be on the web just "surfing" and I came upon your note from November 2006.
I was born in Trieste but my Mamma was born in Lussinpiccolo, and my maternal grandfather was Giovanni Poserina. He was the lighthouse keeper there for 40 years.
I miss speaking the "Lussignano" dialect ... now my Mamma is dead and there's no one here (New Hampshire) with whom I can converse in my native dialect.
Take care ...
Elisabetta
- Subject: Nato a Lussinpiccolo
  Posted by:Gianfranco Raffa <jraffa1@aol.com> on Sat, 29 Nov 2008, in response to Lussin and the Poserinas, posted by Elisabetta Nutter on Sun, 10 Aug 2008
  Elizabetta:
  Mi son nato a Lussin e parlo il nostro dialetto locale. Se la se vol far sentir, me faria tanto piacer.
  - Subject: Guiseppe Cattarinich
    Posted by:Paul Doré <papachate@gmail.com> on Mon, 09 Mar 2009, in response to Nato a Lussinpiccolo, posted by Gianfranco Raffa on Sat, 29 Nov 2008
    I beleive yor message was indicated that you spoke the dialect to which the correspondant referred.
    I cannot. Mais ... si vous pouvez échanger un peu en français, ça irait pour moi.
    Je cherche des moyens pour obtenir des informations sur la famille Cattarinich et serais reconnaissant si vous aviez des suggestions.
    Merci

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