Nekots@aol.com wrote: > > My Croatian grandparents were Emery Michael Stoken (15 Oct 1881) and Frances > Galinac Stoken (?/?/1884). According to the 1920 census, Frances came to > America in 1902. An ink mark covers the year Emery arrived in America. Family > history, what little I've learned, has them both coming from the same village > but not knowing each other until they met on the way to America. They married > in November of 1903 in Fayette County, Uniontown Pennsylvania. > > According to his Social Security Application in 1936, Emery was born in Jaska > or Jasko, Austria Hungary. His parents were listed as Matthew Stoken & > Katherine (no last name). > > According to the children's baptism certificates after 1904, both were from > Vivodina on some and Jaskovo on others. In church baptism records of the > children Stoken is also spelled Stokan. > > I've not been able to find Emery Stoken or Frances Galinac in the Ellis > Island web site. Emery does not sound like a Croatian first name. > > I did find Frances Galinac's brother Joseph Galinac (5 Jan 1887) in the Ellis > Island records. He's listed as Josip Galinac, age 16, arriving May 12, 1903, > from Jaska, Austria-Croatian. He was in route to his sister Francisco Galinac > in the Uniontown Pennsylvania area. Joseph's Social Security application > listed his parents as Joseph & Katherine Popovic or Popovich. Joseph's first > wife was Bara (Barbara) Doljac who he married in 1906. She was from Vivodina > also. Her parents were listed as George Doljac & Catherine Pecanich. > > What should be my next step with the information I have? > Vivodina & Jaska must be close to each other? > > Henry Stoken, Cleveland Ohio > I'm interested in joining any Croatian (my father's side) and Slovenian (my > mother's side) groups in the Cleveland, Ohio area. Vivodina is located 30 miles WSW of Zagreb. Jaska (Jastrebarsko) is located 20 miles WSW of Zagreb, Croatia. Jas^kovo is located 29.7 miles WSW of Zagreb. Parish of Vivodina, Croatia lies in the county of Ozalj. Ozalj wraps itself around the Slovenian city of Metlika, separated by the Kupa river border of the two countries. Many of the surnames of Vivodina ocurr on both sides of the Croatia/Slovenia border. Surnames Doljac and PecaRich are associated with Vivodina. http://www.feefhs.org/cro/vs/surnames.html Croatian telephone directory lists 11 surname S^tokan under Karlovac county, including 3 surnames listed under Jas^kovo. Directory also lists 21 surname Galinac under Karlovac county, including 3 surnames listed under Ozalj. Ozalj is located 27.9 miles WSW of Zagreb. Fayette CO and Westmoreland CO PA and Uniontown were in the coal mining region of SW PA near Pittsburgh. Emery (E) Imre (H) Emerik (C) ? The Slovenian telephone directory lists the surname Galinac under Metlika. Probably 160 surname Stoken bearers just in the U.S. Perhaps 120 surname Stokan bearers just in the U.S.