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From: "Jerome Buza" <>
Subject: Re: [DVHH] Donauschwaben families to Wisconsin
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:05:23 -0700
References: <20070319150006.cck2d2disiaeko4c@webmail.frontiernet.net><004701c76a3d$299505d0$0a00a8c0@Rosie><002901c76a4d$27eb8140$6401a8c0@Susan>


I'm a bit late in this conversation as we went up to our mountain cabin for
4 days. Recently I had a chance to talk to a fellow who may be related to
my maternal great grandmother and he mentioned a name of a man that was a
friend of his dad's when his dad came to America. Well, when I read the
Ellis Island manifest, my grandfather was going to a man with the same last
name. Grandpa listed his hometown as Dalj, even though he was born and
raised in Apatin. Dalj was my grandmother's hometown. Anyway, I am not
wondering if all the people that left Dalj at that same time may have listed
this same person in order to get over here. I am going to go back and check
the Dalj manifests and see if I can find that name in several places.

My grandfather went to this man in Philadelphia and when my grandmother
came, she ran a rooming house as others have stated. I am now wondering if
this man put them into a place on that condition. Grandma arrived in 1905
and in 1917 or so, they headed to Detroit and I don't know by what means. I
have a 94 year old aunt that I will have to question about this when I see
her this summer. Grandpa headed to Detroit to try and get a job with
Ford's. Instead, he got a job with Hupmobile Corp. and worked there until
1939.

Margaret
----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Williams" <>
To: "Rose Mary K Hughes" <>;
<>; <>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: [DVHH] Donauschwaben families to Wisconsin


> RoseMary -- I wondered the same thing as I read Ellis Island manifests
> regarding people who arrived in College Point, NY from Glogowatz.
> So many of them listed the same address. I think it also could have meant
> that the people found their own housing very quickly -- they just used
> that
> address for information purposes.
>
> I also learned about Czech boarding houses on the Lower East Side for the
> people arriving from Bohemia -- I know that this is a separate subject
> from
> our lists --- but the common thread is where they went they arrived in the
> New Country. Susan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rose Mary K Hughes" <>
> To: <>; <>
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 11:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [DVHH] Donauschwaben families to Wisconsin
>
>
>> Hi June,
>>
>> I wish I could remember where I read this . . . but in many cases there
>> were travel company agents (shipping lines, trains, etc.) who came to
>> villages and arranged travel to specific places in the US for those
>> emigrating from the old country. I can't help but believe that was the
>> case in Semlak since so many of them went to Harrisburg, PA. As the
>> first
>> ones arrived, they, of course, wrote home and then others left the
>> villages with the same destination since they knew they would find
>> someone
>> who could help them in America. On the manifests for Semlak villagers,
>> you would find they went mainly to two streets in Harrisburg (Cameron and
>> Herr) and so many would go to the same address on those two streets.
>> Now,
>> did they all crowd in one house or were they using a known address when
>> questioned about their destination? I know that for at least two years
>> my
>> grandmother ran a boarding house on one of those streets (probably meant
>> she was renting out rooms to incoming immigrants !
>> for my grandparents didn't own property in Harrisburg).
>>
>> Rose Mary
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From:
>> To:
>> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 11:00 AM
>> Subject: [DVHH] Donauschwaben families to Wisconsin
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello all,
>> I have been reading with interest about the people who came to
>> Wisconsin after arriving in Ellis Island. My husband's grandparents
>> came to Wi in 1902 and 1904. My question is why so many migrated
>> here, and how did they get here from New York? I cannot trace them
>> from NY to here (WI). I wonder if there was some incentive that we
>> never heard about? (His ancestors arrived in Central Wisconsin on
>> some wooded land to which they were not accustomed and had to eke out
>> a living on it.) Maybe someone can enlighten me.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> June Abt (in SW Wisconsin)
>>
>>
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