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This web – site explains the history of an anonymous Catalan family that holds a peculiar surname: OROBITG. Being specially interested in a legend transmitted through generations according to which this surname was brought to Catalonia by a Russian soldier, we started investigating so as to confirm if it was true or not.

Below you will find the results of a research carried out since 1977. The information sources used are the following: National Historical Archive of Madrid (ANHM - sources of the Monastery of the Virgin Mary of Poblet, Catalonia), University of Barcelona (‘Fogatges’ – ancient census), local archives (sources of ancient public notaries), ancient original documents kept by our family (wills, marriage contracts, …) and bibliography.

 
 
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a) Participate at the Orobitg Forum and help us to keep up with the track of the Orobitg
 

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b) Common e-mail address of the Orobitg and other people interested in this research. In order to contact them all, send a message to: forum@orobitg.net


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We invite you to travel back to the XIII century, thus discovering how our ancestors lived. Though historical books do not relay on their daily fights, we should thank our existence to their day-to-day ‘small’ achievements.

The outcome of the legend and the origin of the OROBITG surname will provide us with the opportunity to revive a common unknown past for most of you

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OROBITG FROM CATALONIA
OROBITG FROM AMERICA
WHERE DO THEY LIVE
   
 
ORIGIN OF THE SURNAME
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