I know of a few other Brasics that can't be fit into these three lines. These Brasics are either related to Janko Brasic, the Serbian Naive Folkart painter from Oparèi, or from a few other lines I have recently contacted that also came from the Pribic area. More information will be posted in the next few weeks regarding these lines. I believe we are all related, however distantly, and it may be that all Brasics originally came from the Oparèi area where Janko Brasics ancestors lived.

Ivan Kuharic Brasic married a woman named Ljubica Siljevinac and they had six kids. They were Ivan Brasic, Ljubica, Zlata, Stefica, Josip Brasic, and Zvonimir Brasic. Ivan Sr. passed away in Croatia in 1985. All three boys have emigrated to the USA in the 1970's. They live in Chicago, and Wisconson. Josip Brasic married Suzanne and they have two kids: Toni Brasic, and Christine Brasic.

Mijo Brasic married a woman named Vera. Mijo was a builder. Together they had 5 kids: Dragutin Brasic, Branko Brasic, Mato Brasic, Vlado Brasic, and a daughter Vesna Brasic. I know little about his brothers and sister other than they live around Chicago.

Jakov (Jack) Brasic married a woman named Mary, and they came to the USA in 1972. They have no children.

Their brother Nicholas Paul Brasic settled in Gary, IN but later moved with his wife Irma Marie Amidei to Chase, MI and lived on a farm. They had 6 children: Nicholas Paul Jr., Myrna Pauline(Perkins), Henry Joel (known as Bud), Karl Harold, Nieta Marie(Irick), and Jon Julian.

Nicholas Paul Jr. has one son I have heard of named Victor Dillon, but Nicholas Paul Brasic, Jr. never married that I know of.

Myrna Pauline Brasic married William Wayne Perkins and thery resettled back to the Gary, IN area raising two boys William Wayne Perkins, Jr. (Billy) and Jeffrey David Perkins. Billy married Sandra Joy Langer and they have 3 children Nichole Lynne Perkins, Julie Diane Perkins, and William Michael Perkins. Billys brother Jeffrey married Jeanne Murphy.

Henry Joel Brasic (Bud) married Joanne Margaret Grinczel. They settled in Grand Rapids, MI and raised 3 kids: Lynne Marie Brasic, Daniel John Brasic, and Michael David Brasic. Lynne married Cesar Martin Salmeron, and they have two kids: Jenna Grae Salmeron and a new baby. Michael David Brasic married a woman named Maria and they have two kids I think. Mike and Dan both live in Arizona now. Lynne is in Grand Rapids, MI.

Karl Harold Brasic married Shirley Devra Shineldecker and they had 2 kids: Gregory Lee Brasic (me), and Melanie DeAnne Brasic. Gregory married Lori Ann Saltman and they have a son and a daughter: Logan Alexander Brasic, and Linden Saltman Brasic. We live in the area of Lansing, MI. Naeda Marie Brasic married John Astell Irick. They have 2 kids: Alyssa Astell Irick, and John Stockton Irick. They live in California.

Jon Julian Brasic has five kids: Larry Brasic, Christine Brasic, Rebecca Brasic, Matthew Brasic, and Joseph Brasic. They live in Grand Rapids, MI.

Michael Brasic married and has a daughter named Diana Brasic, and Paul Brasic married and has a daughter named Linda Brasic who is herself married and has kids.

Peter went to Main Township High School in Des Plains, Ill. and then, at the age of 18, went to college and earned his B.Sc. Peter then joined the Army Air Corps. and was assigned to a bomber as a belly-gunner/ radioman. On their first assignment, they were shot down. Peter was the sole survivor. He didn't remember going down, but awoke on the ground with his parachute deployed and Germans all around him. From May 14th, 1943 to May 11th, 1945 he was a POW. He helped with hiding pilots under the concentration camp where they were tunneling to freedom. They received packages from home; Peter received vitamins, and donated them to the pilots under the camp. Peter Radavonivich was another prisoner at the camp and orchestrated the escape of the pilots and was to became a friend of Peter Brasics. He refused to escape with Peter Brasic saying that should he (Peter Radavonivich) make his way to Croatia, his name would get him shot as a Croat, and should Peter Brasic make his way to Serbia, he would be shot as a Croat. Upon returning from the war, Peter Brasic got his masters in Physical Therapy and was offered a position as Head of Corrective Therapy in Wisconsin. He moved there and met his wife, married, and remained there. Peter had a son named William Brasic who joined the Navy and lived in Alaska. His two sons are Mathew Brasic, and James Brasic. Mathew and his wife Gerelyn are at the University of Wisconson. James and his wife Erica live in Ohio and have three kids, a daughter Sydney, a son Ben, and a son Nate. (This information is an excerpt provided to me by James Brasic, son of William).