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However, for Vučković family from Dabar, there is no tradition of the origin from Dalmatia (apart from a short stay in Skradin), but, according to what was written by Gavro Vučković, the awareness of the common origin with the Vučković family from Bjelaj/Dalmatia was preserved. For the Runjo/ Runjić family in Grahovo and Unac is said to have originated from the Vučković family from Polača. From their original area in Grahovo, they migrated to Unac, Bjelajsko Polje, Sanica.

The only Vučković family from Polača have done Y-DNA genetic tests. The connections between various branches of Vučković family and related surnames, for which there is a basis in tradition and sources, can only be confirmed through genetic testing.

Certainly the most vivid personality among the members of this family was Gavro Vučković Krajišnik (1830 - 1875), a merchant and representative of the Bosnian Serbs in Constantinople, man of a resourceful and restless nature, in an eternal opposition to the Serbian Sarajevo city circles and Phanariot bishops, attacked by Prečani Serbs correspondents as Turkish friend and tax collector, on the other hand, the savior of many Serbs from Turkish dungeons, renovator of monasteries and churches, and a tireless fighter for the national cause. He left several works, which are, in fact, polemical writings, his defense and a autobiography, in which his living, rebellious character comes out to the forefront. When the intrigues of the Phanariots became successful, and when Gavro from Sarajevo was sent to Asia imprisonment, we see him how, even in faraway Beirut, finds out his old friends, Turkish sipahis, who trying to soften the inconvenient position in which he found himself. Using this position, Gavro managed to escape to the Russian consulate in Alexandria, and then through the Russian ships come to Belgrade. With the outbreak of the uprising in 1875, Gavro attempted to reach the Krajina through Gradiška, but fails, and the same year he dies. Ivo Andrić and Petar Kočić wrote a lot about Gavro Vučković, as well as a large number of contemporary authors.