on 3/5/02 7:47 PM, Robert Jerin at rjerin@adelphia.net wrote: > Hello Mary, > > Checking Ellis Island for FONTA and variations I found a Paraska FONDA arr > 1907 from Austria listed Race of People (ethnicity) as Ruthenian. Uncanily > close to PARASKOVICH! Could they mistakenly have recorded a maiden name as > a first name on this manifest? Ruthenians are generally Eastern or > Byzantine Rite Catholics. Were Emil and Maria Byzantine Rite Catholics? > What language did the speak? > > http://www.ellisislandrecords.org > > She is listed as coming from Mikoljow which is perhaps MIKOLOW Poland 170.1 > miles SSW of Warsaw which may have been an area that was part of the old > Austro-Hungarian Empire. > > Robert Jerin > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mary Hegarty" <mhegarty@cybertron.com> > To: <CROATIA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 7:01 PM > Subject: [CROATIA-L] Fonta/Pavskovic > > >> Hi! I am new to the list. I am trying to research my grandparents Emil and >> Maria Fonta. My grandmother's name was Pavskovic or Paraskovich. The only >> information I have on them is that they came to New York from Austria > around >> 1904. After doing some research I came to the conclusion that they must > have >> come from Austria-Croatia. My mother who died in 1985, was their fourth >> child and was separated from her parents at birth and never knew them. I >> only recently found out their names and would like to know where to go > from >> here. If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated! >> Mary Hegarty >> Robert, I don't have the ship's manifest. I've never been able to find it. The documents that I have are my mother's birth certificate and the records from the NY Foundling Hospital that list them as Roman Catholics and my grandmother's first name as Maria. It looks like Paraskovich on the birth certificate (unclearly written) and Pavskovic (clearly written) on the Foundling record. However, there were other last names on later records such as Fania, Farnia, and Fanid. Also, my mother was born in 1909 and the record states that the family had been in the country for five years. Unfortunately, I don't know what language they spoke. But I have to admit Paraska Fonda sounds like someone I should look into. Mary