Karen, Don't know if you found Vlasic Brdo on the map yet. It is a very small village about one kilometer due east of Kostanjevac. It's on the east side of the Kupcina River. Tony On Apr 3, 2007, at 10:20 PM, khorne@adelphia.net wrote: > Thank you for the information. I still haven't found Vlasic Brdo on > that map! > > If I understand correctly Vlasic Brdo, Kostajineca & Karlovac are > different villages? I received info from other family member as that > being his birth place. > > > ---- Robert Jerin <rjerin26@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Karen, >> >> See my response below >> >> Robert >> khorne@adelphia.net wrote: >> >> Through my notes I have a Tomas VLASIC b. 1880 married Elena >> LUBANOVIC. >> >> I show Thomas born in Vlasic B???, Kostajineca, Karlovac, Yugoslavia >> in 1880. >> >> 1920 & 1930 census shows immigration 1900. Have not found him in >> 1910. Tomas & Elena's first child was born 1913 in Fayette County, >> Pennsylvania, USA, so they may not have been married in 1910. But was >> told they were married in Europe. Elena died around 1919. >> >> >> Karen >> >> I know Thomas had a brother who immigrated, Charlie (Karlos), also. >> >> These are both common names in Kostanjevac, Croatia (Yugoslavia did >> not exist in 1880!) >> >> I had a couple on my tour to Croatia whose LJUBANOVIC ancestors >> came from that village. >> >> It is Karlo not Karlos... Karlo is the same as Charles... more >> commonly in Croatian this would be Dragutin or Drago. >> >> And it is probably not Tomas but would be Tomo, which translated is >> Thomas. >> >> There is a Karlo VLASIC who immigrated 1905 (manifest states he had >> been in the US prior from 1892 to 1900 former residence Kalje Croatia >> (just up the road from Kostanjevac) destination to brother Josip >> (Joseph) at Dawson, Connellsville PA age 29 through the Port of >> Baltimore >> >> There is a Karlo VLASIC arr at the Port of NY from Vlasic Brdo >> (brrdoh means hill) destination to father Mijo (meeyoh = Michael) at >> Braddock PA >> >> Seems as if many VLASIC from Kostanjevac, Kalje and Vlasic Brdo >> went to Connellsville PA >> >> Kostanjevac is about 25 miles WSW of the capital Zagreb it is >> located at the very edge of the Zumberak Mountains. >> >> Here is a link to a map of Zumberak area the area is now a >> protected Green Area, mountainous and sparsely populated. >> >> http://www.ppzsg.org/Karta_new1024.htm >> >> and....here is a map showing Vlasic Brdo! >> >> http://www.ppzsg.org/download/Karta_bike_staze.jpg >> >> The 2001 census shows Vlašiæ Brdo, as part of the municipality of >> Zumberak, population 2 ! >> >> Vlašiæ would be the original spelling which would sound like >> vlahshich. >> >> Aha... just remembered that on my trip to Croatia in 1999 I stopped >> at Kostanjevac and bought some fresh, live trout which we took back >> to our friends in Zagreb for dinner! >> >> My friend here in Cleveland is doing some research on Kostanjevac >> and has rented the microfilm parish records so many times at the >> Family History Center in Solon OH that they now have a copy here! >> >> Robert Jerin >> Croatian Heritage Museum >> Cleveland Ohio >> >> >> >> >> To learn about my October 2007 Heritage and History tour of Croatia >> http://www.croatia-in-english.com/rj/jerin2007.pdf >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> CROATIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CROATIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message