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.

Hi Jim I know about the "old handwriting" problem. I downloaded examples of this handwriting. For some strange reason, I did not save the URL. I can upload and send them to you, if you want. I have Norton's Antivirus 2002. There is also another way to enter Ellis Island, other than through their specific site. I do not know if the URL still works, but you can try it: http://home.pacbell.net/spmorse/ellis/ellis.html One of the values of the site was that you could ask for a name that "sounds like", "is exact" or "begins with". I had searched for a name for months. I could not make out the fourth or sixth letters. I only knew it began with DiDi followed by three more letters. I used this alternate site and found the name - DiDiego. Hope this helps. Let me know if you want the examples. Marie Joan Huntley Ottawa Ontario daughter of Vincenzo Jamic DiPacio ----- 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. > >