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Am searching for my grandfather Frank KOLJER, who emmigrated to United States about 1900 at the age of 13 (family tradition) with an uncle and half brother (names unknown). His U.S. records indicate he was from Austria-Hungary or Germany, mother Romanian. I cannot find his place of origin, or entry to U.S. Is anyone familiar with the name or the area he might have come from. Thank you for any help you can give me.
Posted : 18/04/2003 3:07 pm
Hi,
Did he come thru EllisIsland? You need to have some documents where it says from where he was. A lot of surnames have one place of origin but genealogy work is based on facts and guessing can be lethal in this trade.
The Austro-Hungarian was pretty big. I held the Banat region and Croatia at times. but Koljer sounds like a Donauschwaben name to me. Either way try to see if you can find a place on any immigration document from g.fathers or g.mothers side. Most of the time families lived and migrated together from the same place, including married family.
Any documents you have with places, postcards, letters etc?
Regards,
Regards,
Sergej
Posted : 18/04/2003 3:10 pm