JimTedrick@aol.com wrote: > > I had help from another kind reader of this site. He made out the brother in > law's name on Gajo's ship record. His response was as follows: > Hello Jim, > > >I will graciously except your offer to decipher the name on the manifest. > My great grandfather's name is > > Did you notice that he had been in the US prior to this trip, 1902-1904 in > Lebanon, PA? Looks like the person is brother in law, Jovan Malakovic. > If you look at other capital M and lower case k you can see the similarities > of those with the first and 5th letter in that name. After some searching I > found a Jovan Maljkovic arr 1912 destination Lebanon, PA. Do you know > which Gorica he was from? I don't believe I've followed your entire message > thread. > > >Gajo Kukic' who is line # 14 on the Oceania passenger list that came in to > New York on Feb. 27 1913 >from Trieste. Do you think he could have been > traveling with the man above him on line #13? I could not >make out the city > he came from > > The place is Mlaka which is along the Sava River about 62 miles SE of > Zagreb. Difficult to say if they were traveling together or not, #13 was > going to Conway, PA. > Sense so many of these people left the US after coming here I wonder what > records exist for their return trip? None. Records are for U.S. ports of entry, not for departures from the U.S. to Europe. That would depend at which European port the ship docked. Jim The given name Jovan I also had deciphered , but that was all. But, believe have located Lucanip and Majki. 1) Luscanip and Majki are not Hungarian word spellings , so they must be Croatian place names. 2) Assume both places were located near your surname's Goric^ka. 3) Ship manifests are known for misspelled and poorly transcribed place names. A Luscani is located near Jabukovac and 15 miles distant from Goric^ka. And Majki is probably Maja which is located 36 miles SSE of Zagreb and 4 miles from Glina and 13 miles from Goric^ka. v Frank Kurcina