Many of the people who came to Iowa, Minn, Wisc and Illinois were miners, many were hire for coal mining, etc. Dave On Mon, 20 May 2002 10:30:26 -0500 "Birkholz, James" <James.Birkholz@usa.okmetic.com> writes: > Many of the Ellis Island immigrants whose name we are researching, > all from > the Lokve, Ravna Gora area, immigrated to McKeesport, PA (and Mc > Kees Rocks, > Ambridge and Pittsburg itself) as well as St. Louis and the east St. > Louis > area in Illinois. > > Does anyone have specific knowledge of the probable > industry/employer for > these locations? I presume the Pittsburg area would be steel mills. > >