This photo is the beginning of the story

 

Than my grand father, Baron Eduard von Tomaschek, died in 1963, I got the totality of the family documents as heritage. The reason was, that I've been the only male descendant in my generation.

 

Several years later I found this photography in one of the four big travel cases from the 19th century, filled up with photos, letters, and other stuff. Asking my grandmother what that picture is about, she told me for the first time about the Lucovich family from Kotor. Two years later she organized a visit of uncle Marko and aunt Ena in Pricanj. We went where with my mother, my elder sister, Ursula, and a friend of our family, Franz Higatzberger, a roman-catholic priest. I should have some photos from this travel too.

 

This, rather bad, photo of the original family tree in Prcanj, has been offered by Marko, the Count of Lucovich, to my grand father, as son of Louise de Lucovich. As I know today, he did so for several other descendants of the clan. So today the exactly same photo has been identified by at least four other members in the USA, in Great Britain and in France.

 

Since I meat Marko in the age of 12, I decided to interest myself in our family story. But I didn't know where to begin in that time: the family of my grandmother, von Steinbach (from 1264) or grandfather’s one, von Tomaschek? Lucky I’m that my father’s family left no old roots and fascinating personalities in his heritage.

 

I started to investigate in a serious way only than the civil war brake up in Ex-Yugoslavia and I understood that there would be damage to the Lucovich memory and the person of uncle Marko. And wright I was, unfortunately. He died during war and with him a huge part of our memory is lost.