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In April of 2002 I made my second trip to Slovenia and again visited with Bostjan and Sasa Zrimsek, my wonderful hosts.  This trip was more about finding my family roots than my first trip and I was able to locate, with the help of a few folks, the birth place of my Great-Great Grandfather Martin Zrimsek.

This village is located on the eastern edge of Slovenia, very near Croatia.

The village is named:

To convert this to English, you add an "h" after each letter with the accent. This village name would be pronounced something like Chadrazhe.

My friends took me to the exact location of Martin's birth home. The original structure is gone and the land sold but the land looks like this:

Zrimsek Homestead.jpg (60582 bytes)    Zrimsek Homestead2.jpg (43752 bytes)    Zrimsek Homestead3.jpg (42319 bytes)

Nearby is a church with a Zrimsek family burial Plot,

Zrimsek Church.jpg (25772 bytes)    Zrimsek Grave2.jpg (42636 bytes)    Zrimsek Grave.jpg (34031 bytes)    Zrimsek Grave with Brian.jpg (42061 bytes)

The person most responsible for my finding this information is Ivan Divjak (pictured below)

Ivan.jpg (30932 bytes)

Based on what he tells me, he is a Grandson of Martin Zrimsek, my Great-Great-Grand Father.  I've also made a rough family tree.