Margiefogleman@aol.com wrote: > > Petar Jovanovich is my great-grandfather. I found his registration from > Ellis Island that says he entered this country at the age of 19, in 1906. > His ethnicity is listed as Montenegrean, but I've always been told he was > Croatian. He was born in 1887, and died in St. Louis, MO in 1941. > > Any information about his parents is appreciated. Thank You! Petar's Last Residence, not birth place, was Bjilopavlice ? The image copy of the ship manifest would not let me view Petar's place of birth ? Bjilo looks like Bijel or Bjelo = white. There is a Bjelopavlici plain (agricultural region) located in Montenegro (Crna gora) The surname Jovanovic does appear in both Serbia and Montenegro (Crna gora) http://www.montenegro.org/