Saw your very old (1999) message and thought I would put my tqwo cents in The Vidas family was large but they all seemed to come from Dalmatia in Croatia. That's the coast of Croatia. Zagreb is the capital, which mey be why you have that city. But it in the mountains and not near the Dalmatia region. Let me know how your search is going. My grandfather came fromn just below Ryzeka,a ship building center in northern Dalmatia.