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One life classified differently across over fifty years of institutional records

A longitudinal archive for studying how administrative identity is produced.

A longitudinal archive for studying how administrative identity is produced.

The same person appears as Milivoj Miletić, Milan Vasić and Milan Petrović across birth, divorce, probate, adoption and later court records. Researchers can compare how institutions describe parentage, care and legal status at successive moments, then test those classifications against the actual sources rather than reconstructing the case from a single retrospective narrative.

Evidence to examine first

The original birth extract records Miletić Milivoj; the operative 1979 adoption record assigns Vasić Milan, and the 1984 adoption record assigns Petrović Milan. All three records give 28 June 1974 as the birth date. These are successive records of the same person, with the changes traceable to the acts themselves.

Original birth entry: Miletić Milivoj · 1979: Vasić Milan · 1984: Petrović Milan

The extract issued on 26 September 1984 names the child Petrović Milan while retaining Vasić Milorad and Gospava in the parent fields. Compare this document with the second-adoption record rather than inferring parentage from the child’s surname. The mixed entries are directly visible in the register extract.

1984 extract: child’s name · 1984 extract: parent fields · Second adoption: name-change order

The cited birth extract names a different parental pair

The first-instance judgment says it established the 1984 adoption by Periša and Georgina Petrović from birth-register extract 2463/1979. That extract names the child Petrović Milan but retains Milorad and Gospava Vasić in the parent fields. The Petrović couple is identified in the separate 1984 adoption record. Read the three documents together to check the mismatch between the fact stated and the particular document cited as its proof.

2026: the court’s evidentiary explanation · Birth extract: number 2463/1979 · Extract: Petrović child name · Extract: Vasić parent entries · 1984 record: the Petrović adopters

Questions to examine

  1. How do recorded family relationships become different legal classifications across parallel proceedings?
  2. Which distinctions between an original document, later transcription and retrospective author commentary change the interpretation?
  3. How do identity entries and restrictions on kinship affect the subsequent inheritance and documentary trail?

Start with these documents

Use the archive as a traceable research corpus. Preserve source variants and chronology, and keep the author’s interpretation identifiable while examining the institutional mechanism it challenges.

Current archive coverage: Court record through 29 May 2026; institutional correspondence through 7 September 2026.

PDF edition: 9 October 2026

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