Antolic and Kasanak families
My wife's maternal grandparents immigrated from the Austria-Hungarian Empire to Pittsburgh, PA in the early 1900s. Trying to follow their lines back any further has proven to be difficult at best. Does anyone have any idea how to get more information?
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Hi,
Could you give a little more information about the grandparents? It will be easier to search with their first names or the names of their parents.
Kind regards
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Austria-Hungary in the early 1900s means basically half of mainland Europe, so it is completely insufficient information to work with. You'll need to do more research in U.S. records.
Have you found their arrival? Draft registrations? Did they naturalize? Are there any birth/marriage/death records for them or their children that identify a specific location of origin?
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Perhaps this is the family:https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/family/K8XV-WW4
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Christopher's find has edits by the person posting this question, so I think that's the family.
The birthdate on Andrew Antolic's profile (22 Mar 1885) doesn't match the one on the WWI draft registration that's attached (27 Jan 1885); I think it came from an index-only baptism entry from Regete-Ruszka (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KHC2-41S). However, neither one matches the 27 April 1885 date from the WWII draft registration that I think is also him (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DZHW-96?i=46), based on the very similar signature, so I don't think we can use this guy's birthdate as identification. I don't think he knew it himself, and made guesses when asked for it.
I just noticed that the attached 1940 census says Yugoslavia, meaning that the Regete-Ruszka birth is definitely not him. His birthdate should probably be changed to 27 January (if you're confident that the WWI draft registration is his).
The registers from places that were Yugoslavia in 1940 are only spottily online at all, never mind in a searchable form, but it may be possible to find something with a precise place. An arrival record (ship manifest) would be the most likely to provide that, but the 1910 arrival of a guy with the right name and age is such gawdawful handwriting that I'm not even sure of what it says for his occupation (line 24: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9T3-RCTT?i=569&cc=1368704). I'm pretty sure it says Slovak for his "race or people", but there were some towns in southern Hungary that were settled by Slovaks…. (Don't know if any of them ended up in Yugoslavia or not.)
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