Helena Ilijic was born in Omisalj, Croatia in 1879 on the island of Krk. She immigrated to America in about 1905. Her husband Anton Negric immigrated shortly before she did, he was also born in Omisalj in about 1877. (They were married in Croatia.) They first lived in Brooklyn, NY. Then sometime after 1910 they moved to Connecticut. Helena died in Connecticut in 1961. Anton died in Connecticut in 1957. Helena's mother's surname was Suic.