Hi Greg,

I need to ask, did you read through the FAQ section etc? I need to know which religion. Do you still have family there?

We believe Roman Catholic. She marries into Roman Catholic.
Thanks

Anna and my great grandfather Jakob Herber married in Dolatz and moved to Canada around 1905. No close family stayed there as far as we know.

Ok, do you have immigration records stating their info as they entered Canada? Could you perhaps attach a scan here?

Dolatz is in what we refer to as historically the Banat region, it encompasses parts of Croatia, Hungary, Serbia and Romania. There was a large German population there referred to as Donauschwaben. Most of them came there during the Austro-Hungarian wars with the Ottoman Empire. Dolatz is close to Zitiste and they fall under the same Catholic eparchy.

Anna declared she was born in B. Szt. Gyorgy, Hungary on the mannifest when she arrived in NY in 1908. I can't figure out how to copy that manifest here as a scan.

You should see a Attach File below the texdt field and the notification box for new emails in this post. I attached a screenshot.

Here is the 1908 ship Manifest.
Anna Herber is on line 5.
She declares that her father was Daniel Meissner, but we believe this was her step-father.
The second page shows her birthplace as B. Szt. Gyorgy

Sorry for the late reply, I somehow missed your post. I will get back to it later this week.

At the moment the whole municipality only knows 13 households that are identified as German in the last census. There are efforts to let German families return though.

You should contact the eparchy; more info here: http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dzren.html and here http://www.catholic-zr.org.rs/

Also the historical archives are an option: http://www.arhivzrenjanin.org.rs/index.php/kontakt
We have a letter template in the download section (see left hand menu).

I am checking out the phonebooks for you to see if I can get a match of people with the same surname. Perhaps some stayed and still live there. Are Meissner en Bortscheller the only family names you have from there?

Thanks for your time and help Sergej,
Actually Meissner was from Dolatz, Romania. Barbara Bortscheller moved to Dolatz with her daughter, Anna Bortscheller when she married Daniel Meissner.

The Diocese doesn't necessarily stick to one country due to the changing borders over the past 100 years. You can also try this: http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dlugj.html
Since they are in the EU now they are more accessible then their Serbian counterparts.