http://home.pacbell.net/spmorse/ellis/ellis.html If you are not aware of the above web site, it is a wonderful took provided by Steve Morse who deserves our thanks. I encourage you to try the above "Ellis Island Records One Step" web site by Steve Morse when searching this online database. It may help you locate hard to find records due to spelling and transcription errors. For instance, it provides an easy way to pull out all names beginning with "St" in 1902. So if they misspelled the name with the wrong next vowel or mistook the handwritten ending "n" for a "w" as they did with my name, it will appear on the list. Good luck. Jim Castellan ----- Original Message ----- From: <JimTedrick@aol.com> To: <CROATIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 7:28 AM Subject: Re: [CROATIA-L] Austrian draft pre-WW1 > Dr. Prpic may have a point in his observation that the people came to get > money and return home. My gr. grand father Gajo stated on the manifest in Feb > of 1913 that he had been in the USA in from 02/04 and he was headed to > Lebanon Pa. to see a brother in-law whose name I can't make out. It drives me > crazy that I can't make out the name or find a manifest for Gajo coming in > about 1902 hence my question about searching the Ellis data base by last > address to see if his name was butchered in the transcribing. > > My grand father Stojsa said he came here so he could own land (which he did > own a beautiful farm) and Mom said she saw a letter as a child, in a foreign > language, from his parents asking him to come home, because he was the eldest > and it included some strange currency. > > ______________________________