> >Message: 2 >Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:56:40 -0800 >From: "L. Novasel" <nimbler@mindspring.com> >Subject: Re: [CROATIA] NOVOSEL in Karlovac >To: Andrija <hrvat@earthlink.net>, croatia@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <3EAE692A-C12D-11DB-97E5-000A95D1E4BE@mindspring.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > >Andrija, >As a newcomer to Croatian research I'm only assuming that the same >context applies there as elsewhere in Europe. >Le Havre was a pivotal trading center in the years our ancestors filed >for emigration. I understand there was a circular route, making optimum >use of the ships. Cotton leaving from New Orleans for instance was >routed to London where the cargo was unloaded. The ship then loaded >trade goods destined for Le Havre, unloaded again, and took aboard >human cargo bound for America, completing the trade circle for the >shipping company. > >The contractor or travel organizer went into the villages, signed up >our emigrating great grandmothers and grandfathers, then escorted them >to the shipper's home port, with whom he in turn had contracted. My >guess is that they traveled up the rivers avoiding trouble spots in the >years preceding the war. Interesting Trieste wasn't utilized, but >hazarding another guess, there was most likely not trade material in >sufficient quantity to make the route profitable. Presumably the >political- economic instability would have guaranteed that. Just >speculation though. > >Nina Actually, Trieste was a port of embarkation. I just don't think it had anywhere the tonnage that came in and out of Le Havre. My father and his family arrived at Ellis Island on the SS Martha Washington, which was operated out of Trieste by Unione Austriaca from 1908 to 1914. After WW1, she transferred to the Italian owned Cosulich Lines, also of Trieste, and continued the New York run through the 20's. Incidentally, the Cosulich family originated in Mali Losinj. Don