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. Mary H