----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Hegarty" <mhegarty@cybertron.com> To: <CROATIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 9:18 AM Subject: Re: [CROATIA-L] Virovitica on 3/17/02 7:37 AM, Frank Kurchina at frankur@worldnet.att.net wrote: > > > Mary Hegarty wrote: >> >> What a difference a letter makes. I started to search under Fanta instead of >> Fonta and I found my grandmother's passenger record! Marie Fanta arrived >> with two of the children on Mar. 3, 1909 from Virovitica. She was going to >> join her husband Emil in White Plains, NY. On the map of Croatia I noticed >> that Virovitica is close to Hungary and it looks like a relatively large >> town or city. The one thing that's puzzling though is I still can't find >> Emil's passenger record. >> Mary Hegarty > > Yes. > The ship manifest listed Last Residence as Virovitica, but more > important it also listed her place of birth as Virovitica. > > > The LDS-Mormons filmed the R.C. parish church records (1686-1900) > for Veröcze (also known as Veroviditz, Verovicza, or Veroviticza), > Slavonien, Austria; later Verocze, Verocze megye (county), Hungary; > now Virovitica, Croatia. > Text in Latin and Croatian. > > film # > 1738864 > 1738865 > 1738866 > 1738867 > 1738878 > 1738879 > 1738880 > 2120511 > 2120512 > > > These microfilm reels are available for rental and viewing > at any Family History Center (FHC) worldwide. > 90% of patrons are non-Mormons doing surname research. > > LDS - Mormon FHCs - LOCATIONS > http://www.familysearch.org/Search/searchfhc2.asp > > Virovitica > http://www.ring.net/virovitica/eng/ Yes, I'm going to get into those records asap. But what happened after 1900? I also noticed that on the manifest her mother is listed as maybe Cath ? looks like Pavkolovic. Hello Mary, Did you notice that there is citizenship info (numbers and dates) for Mathilde and Jula written on the ship manifest? That should help you in finding their citizenship paperwork. I would almost agree that it is Pavkolovic however that surname is not found anywhere in Croatia, in the current online phone books. Nor are there any listings at Ellis Island for that surname. However the surname PAVLEKOVIC is found in Croatia and also in Virovitca area. Perhaps the surname is from the male given name Pavle=Paul, the IC ending means son of. As far as Emil's ship manifest, I looked and looked under various sp and found none. A few possiblities exist why you can not find him listed: 1) his name has been grossly mis-transcribed 2) he did not arrive through Ellis Island 3) he came on someone else's passport! Here is another immigrant listing, where you can search. http://istg.rootsweb.com/ Robert Jerin