Captain James "Jim" Radja, USN passed away on 8 April 2018 in Vienna, Virginia at the age of 88 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery (Section 57, Grave 1145) along with his beloved wife of 64 years, Caroline. In later life, he worked tirelessly on this genealogical research website. It is archived here as a snapshot in time by his family so that the wealth of information it contains is not lost to the ages.
Jim Radja's Genealogy Research
Researching CASTERLINE, DILWORTH, FOSSA, FROST, GOULD, GRANI�, JONES, LaFAVE, KOVA�EVI�, MARASOVI�, McCurdy, MILES, QUIRKE, RADJA, RA�A, SCOTT and SLOMOVITZ. Click on the "Charts" button to take you to the surname charts for the various family lines or click on the "Surnames" button to see our whole listing.
Croatian Alphabet
The Croatian language consists of the following alphabet characters which are pronounced as shown below. Note that there is no Q, W, X, or Y. Note that some characters have diacritical accent marks on top or side or are peculiar to the Croatian language. These are shown in the color red. In the Croatian language every letter is pronounced; there are no silent letters as in English.
A: Like the 'a' in 'father'
B: Like the 'b' in 'book'.
C: Like the 'ts' in 'cats'.
�: Like the 'ch' in 'cheap'.
�: Like the 'ch' in 'cheap'. It is hard to distinguish � and �.
D: Like the 'd' in 'day'.
D� Like the 'j' in 'jam'.
�: Like the 'dg' in 'bridge'.
E: Like the 'e' in 'bed' or 'men'.
F: Like the 'f' in 'father'.
G: Like the 'g' in 'get'.
H: Like the 'h' in 'hot'.
I: Like the 'e' in 'she' or 'we'.
J: Like the 'y' in 'yellow'.
K: Like the 'k' in 'king'.
L: Like the 'l' in 'look'.
LJ Like the 'll' in 'million'.
M: Like the 'm' in 'most'.
N: Like the 'n' in 'night'.
NJ: Like the 'n' in 'news'.
O: Like the 'o' in 'know'.
P: Like the 'p' in 'pit'.
R: Like the 'r' in 'run' with some vibration as in Spanish.
S: Like the 's' in 'sir'.
�: Like the 'sh' in 'shoe'.
T: Like the 't' in 'to'.
U: Like the 'oo' in 'room'.
V: Like the 'v' in 'vast'.
Z: Like the 'z' in 'zip'.
�: Like the 's' in 'measure'.
The foregoing was adopted from source #249: "Croatia, The Country and the Language" by Nasja Bo�kovi� Meyer & Jasna Meyer.
Researcher::
Jim Radja
Vienna, Virginia, US of A