TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART I — What’s in a Name

• Return to Kordun
• Gordan and Mark
• Korjenići, Maleševći, Maćešići
• What’s in a Name?

PART II — Beyond the Records

• Where the Paper Trail Ends
• Follow the Genes
• First Y-DNA Foray
• Beyond the Family Tree

PART III — The Origin Question

• In the Beginning …
• Steeped in Ambiguity
• One Lineage, Two Worlds
• The Meeting Place

PART IV — Tracing the Genetic Trail

PART V — The Black Sea Frontier

• The Edge of Tomorrow
• The Trypillia Outlier
• The Heart of the Steppe
• The Language Question
• The Carpathian Divide
• Steppe Integration Scenario

PART VI — The Devil in the Details

PART VII — The Other Inheritance

PART VIII — The Alan Question

• Rise of the Alans
• Riding With the ‘Barbarians’
• A Corridor Leads West
• Alans at the Crossroads
• Land of the Jasz
• Why the Alans?

PART IX — The Balkans Pathway

PART X — Kordun and Beyond

• The House at Rijeka 20
• The Fragile Tree
• Bridge to a New Frontier
• A Place at the Table
• Where We Are Today

PART XI — Where the Story Leads

• A Possible Pathway
• Putting It All Together

EPILOGUE — The Sojourn Continues

• The Next Generation

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APPENDICES

• Appendix 1: Top MyTrueAncestry Matches
• Appendix 2: Chronology of MTA Matches
• Appendix 3: Matching Avar Samples
• Appendix 4: Gepid Matches
• Appendix 5: King Ladislaus Matches
• Appendix 6: Scythian/Sarmatian Timeline
• Appendix 7: Origins of South Slavs
• Appendix 8: Maleševći Families
• Appendix 9: Korjenići Families
• Appendix 10: The Karlovac Passage
• Appendix 11: Maćešić Y-DNA Certificates