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 Vlaiæ Brdo, as part of the municipality of Zumberak, population 2 ! > > Vlaiæ 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