Aleksandra,
Thank you for your response.
This is very interesting, because my father's family last name is Ljubicic and they, as well as my gandmother, hail from the village of Gardinovci, near Titel. When I was born, they already lived in Novi Sad.
My grandma's (Draginja) maiden name was Gardinovacki. She had a brother in the village of Zabalj, whom we called "deda Nova", and he had wife Djurdjinka, plus two children. At the time, when I was at the age of 5, my grandpa, Stevan, used to take me there every year durng the wheat collection season ("moba" or "vrsidba").
Our "slava" is still on October 9, "Sveti Jovan Zlatousti" (St.John Goldenmouth). I married my wife on that day too.
My grandpa Stevan had two brothers, Svetislav (Cveta) and Milan (emigrated in Hungary, Budapest, before WWII). Stevan and Cveta moved to Novi Sad before the WWII and set up a fashion shop-saloon there, (for fine gentlemen, as they used to say), just accros the Orthodox church in the centre of the town (accross Vladika's residence), today str. Jovana Jovanovica-Zmaja 25. They were both tailors and at the time emloyed some 5-6 people.
My father's name was also Stevan. He was a civil engineer, schooled in Novi Sad. So, I cannot recall anyone in my family by the name Petar. However, this should not mean that we are not related. We just may not know enough to come up to a conlusion on this.
I was born in Novi Sad and attended elementary school there until grade 4. After my father died, my mother took me to Belgrade where I completed schooling. From there, I was frequenting between Africa and YU, Switzerlad, Germany and France, finally to settle in Canada.
I do not know if this info helps you any. I still have a bunch of my great and grand parents (very old) photos (and their families), some of them dating back to before 1900. So, if you are interested in seeing them, I could scan and email to you. You or someone in your family may recognize the people on them.
Otherwise, I speak Serbian (Croatian and Bosnian too) and use both cyrilic and latin alphabet.
I would appreciate hearing back from you.
Best regards,
Milan