[Sergej]

Hi,

Do you also have months and more precise dates? I don’t know if you live in the region or not?

[Sergej]

Just following up to see if everything worked out after our last post?

[Sergej]

You should contact them: http://www.dacg.me/
You can use Google Translate via translate.google.com to translate the site to English. You can try first by email and than by snail mail if they don’t react.

[Sergej]

Hello Thomas,

I dont know how far you are with your research, if you have exact dates or not. You could write the archives of Montenegro with a request, we have a letter template in the member section for that. Also I’d recommend going through the FAQ and other articles for info. There are no digital records FYI.

[Sergej]

Hi Thomas,

Do you have some more specifics?

[Sergej]

I advice this thread to be kept in the SGS Member forum for privacy purposes. In Serbia there are strict privacy laws, so before we share info we need to verify some data. Can you update your name and address info in your member account?

[Sergej]

As she is still alive, she would need to sign a letter and ask the municipality for a copy. You could draft her a letter and ask her to sign it?

[Sergej]

Hi Walt,

I am on the road in Serbia for the coming 3 weeks so I will not be able to reply until the 10th of August. Do you have any cards or other items with dates and names on it? If so you can attach them to this post as an attachment and I can check it out. The trick with Ellis Island is that back in the day most immigration officials were of English heritage, meaning they often wrote down the names the way they deemed correct. So its kind of a puzzle to locate the correct person in the records of Ellis Island. A lot of Serbs were/are Orthodox, which means that they used the old calendar. So there is a discrepancy in dates of birth because they used those a lot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Old_Calendarists

Another thing to keep is mind that the geopolitical map these days looks different. The Austro-Hungarian Empire is not more so a lot of places are now located in either Croatia, Serbia or even Hungary. Let me know if you have any cards or pictures that you could scan in. I will check them for sure in 3 weeks from now, or Yugoslava might even earlier all depending on where we are

Regards,

[Sergej]

Hello Walter,

The data that you listed, did you get that via Ellis Island?

[Sergej]

To all, due to the summer holidays we will not be able to reply properly during the months of July and August.

Please also note that the forums will be redesigned further to allow better postings in August.

[Sergej]

I just replied in the SGS Section. It would be best if we continue there.

[Sergej]

Hi,

I dont know if you read my other post with regard to the differences in dates. They are being caused because the Serbian Orthodox Church still uses the Julian Calendar, but the State uses the new Gregorian calendar.

As for the camps. There were internment camps in Europe prior to World War II. Petrovac has been hit heavily during the last civil war: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Petrovac,+Bosnia+and+Herzegovina/@44.1884181,16.8493857,8z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x47608c9728827be3:0xaf5919fa055b5138

Did you request already documents from Ellis Islands? If so did you get the data above from those documents?

[Sergej]

Hi,

I just reacted to your other post. The calendar differences may come from the old Orthodox calender that is still being used in the region. Its wise to record both of them because they are used in records. Do you have any records or documents from the army?

[Sergej]

Hello and welcome,

I would advice you at first to read through the FAQ and Learning Center articles. Also check out the other posts. Bosnia has been war torn and still lags behind. Research is slow and will take time, so if you have that mindset you wont be disappointed.

When did the family come to the US? Did you already check with Ellis Island?

[Sergej]

Hi,

This forum is for the living, please post your question in the general forum.

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