I believe that what you are looking at is an old name for Kriz, which is located to the east of Zagreb. This town was a township seat when that area was part of the Military Borderland, an area set up by the Austrians to defend against the Ottoman Turks who still occupied Bosnia. While the old 1910 Austrian maps do not show that name my guess is that it has to do with this history as a defensive town against Turkish invasion as I mentioned Vojna refers to army or military... Since you did not indicate who the brother in law was I had to search around those manifests indicating former residence as Prnjarovec and found on one for a Barcievic what appears to be Vojni Kriz. And there were simply too many Josef DOLEZAL for me to take more time to view each manifest. Just because the records are typed is no indication of accuracy... far from it in fact! As I have noticed many more errors in typed vs handwritten ship manifests... maybe this indicates the typing skills of the shipping line agents at the Ports of Departure who were the ones who created these manifests :) Also it is not Prnjarovec but it is either Gornji (upper) or Donji (lower) Prnjarovec, as both are adjacent to Kriz. http://www.tzzz.hr/engleski/kriz/ Robert Jan Hermann <gjherm@wi.rr.com> wrote: Robert, My grandmother's name is Anna Dolezal. I found the name of this city on the Naturalization papers of her brother-in-law. On his Declaration of Intent papers, he lists his wife's (Anna's sister) place of birth as Vojm Kriz, Yugoslavia. On the petition for Naturalization, it is listed as Vojna Kriz, Yugoslavia. These are both typed in, not hand written. When Anna's father, Josef came to the US, the ship manifest lists his last address as Prnjarovac, Vojm Kriz, Croatia. Thanks again for helping to sort this out. Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Jerin" To: Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [CROATIA] Vojm Kriz, Croatia > Jan > > Vojna means army... Kriz" means cross there are several places where this > is part of the place name but none with vojna or vojm.... > > Where are you find this placename? > > What was your Grandmother's name? > > Robert > > Jan Hermann wrote: > Dear List, > > I found out my grandmother was born in Vojm Kriz, Croatia or Vojna Kriz, > Croatia. I can only find the city of Kriz in Croatia. Would that be the > same? Can anyone tell me what Vojm and Vojna mean? She was born in 1902. > Thanks in advance for your help. > > Jan > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > > "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts", Sen. > Daniel Patrick Moynihan > > ------------------------------- > 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