The Sojourn began with a family question and grew into something much larger: an attempt to follow one paternal lineage as far back through time as the evidence would allow.
The trail begins in the documented world of family names, villages, church records, migration, and memory. From there, it reaches beyond the paper record into genetics—Y-DNA, autosomal DNA, ancient samples, and the patterns left behind by populations that moved across Anatolia, the Caucasus, the Eurasian steppe, the Carpathian Basin, and the Balkans over thousands of years.
This is not a claim of an unbroken written pedigree stretching into antiquity. It is an effort to bring different kinds of evidence into conversation with one another: genealogy, genetics, archaeology, geography, historical records, and the accumulated clues preserved in living descendants. Some connections are documented. Others are genetic. Still others remain hypotheses, weighed against what is known and revised when new evidence appears.
The result is both a family history and a wider historical journey. The story eventually narrows again—through Korjenići and Maleševci traditions, the Kordun frontier, and the Maćešić family—until the long movement of populations becomes the story of identifiable people, houses, places, and descendants.
TheSojournHistory.com was created to make that work freely accessible. The site contains the complete book in PDF form and is being expanded into an online edition organized by its original Parts, sections, and chapters. It also provides a place for supporting material, later discoveries, and revisions that could not easily be accommodated within a finished printed volume.
The Sojourn is therefore not only a record of where the research has led. It is also a record of where the evidence stands now—one stage in a journey that is still continuing.