I'm looking for some of my relatives that came from the Austrian-Hungarian Empire (Croatia) in the early 1900's. They came to Mayville Wisconsin. Rade Rutalj born 12 Feb 1889 in Ruduc. I don't know when he came to the US but he may of came in 1905. Mike Panjkovich born 15 March 1892 in either Ruduc or Gospich. Mike came to the US in 1911. Anna Rukavina born 25 Jul 1891 in Gospich. She came to the US on 12 Apr 1912 aboard the SS La Touraline from Le Havre. She married Rade Rutalj in 1914 in Mayville Wisconsin. Rade died on 29 Jun 1921 and on 20 Jan 1923 Anna married Mike Panjkovich. Thank You Bill H. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. Ask your question on www.Answers.yahoo.com
You are correct about Rade's year of arrival. Below is info from the Port of Departure records from Hamburg Germany, which gives his former residence as Medak Rade RUTALJ Departed 2 Dec 1905 birthdate about 1889 ports visited by the ship Dover, Bologne, New York Ship Pretoria Using Stephen Morse's One Step Ellis Island search for anyone arriving 1905 aboard the Pretoria finds his name mistranscribed as Rade BUTALY The manifest almost looks like a B instead of a R... he is traveling with Marko CELIC age 48 who was from Rudac... so Rudac may be where the parish was located but it would appear he was from Medak. Destination to an Uncle DEJANOVIC at Jolliet, IL In regards to Morse's web page... it is the ONLY way to go! Very user friendly and allows a plethera of ways to search. http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/eidb/ellis.html Mike would not be a name found in Croatia, perhaps he was Mihalj, Mile, Milan, Milos, etc. There are a few Mile (mistranscribed as Male in a couple of cases) who had approximate birthdates close to your "suspected" birth year for Mike... and none listed neither Rudac nor Gospic as their former residence But there is someone found at Ellis Island listed as Jso (Iso) PANJKVIC arr Apr 1911 from Raduc, age 17... destination Joliett, IL his next of kin at Rudac is listed as his mother Smiljana... which probably meant that his father had died. Have you looked at the manifest for Anna RUKAVINA that you mentioned? It states that she was from Kuniza. There are 2 places by that name near Gospic, one to the SW of Gospic and one to the NE of Gospic. However I believe she may be from the one located SW of Gospic which is called Kania Gospiæka where the phone book lists RUKAVINA ... which is a common name in that part of Croatia... the root of the name is ruka.... meaning arm. http://www.tportal.hr/imenik/map.dll/image?l=4&x=2409092&y=4932730&cx=2409092&cy=4932730&w=640&h=410 LDS Church Family History Center has microfilm church records for Gospic both Roman Catholic and Orhodox and for Medak and Raduc they have Orthodox records... only problem is they only go to 1850s. Note, they came from Croatia which was a Kingdom under the old Habsburg Empire aka Austria Hungary. Robert Jerin Croatian Heritage Museum Cleveland Ohio william herman <waherman61@yahoo.com> wrote: I'm looking for some of my relatives that came from the Austrian-Hungarian Empire (Croatia) in the early 1900's. They came to Mayville Wisconsin. Rade Rutalj born 12 Feb 1889 in Ruduc. I don't know when he came to the US but he may of came in 1905. Mike Panjkovich born 15 March 1892 in either Ruduc or Gospich. Mike came to the US in 1911. Anna Rukavina born 25 Jul 1891 in Gospich. She came to the US on 12 Apr 1912 aboard the SS La Touraline from Le Havre. She married Rade Rutalj in 1914 in Mayville Wisconsin. Rade died on 29 Jun 1921 and on 20 Jan 1923 Anna married Mike Panjkovich. Thank You Bill H. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. Ask your question on www.Answers.yahoo.com ------------------------------- 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 "Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men." Ayn Rand 1905-1982