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Subject: Re: [CROATIA-L] Found our Croatia hometowns - Thanks
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 11:19:17 -0500
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Joan,

My Slovenian ancestors settled in Thomas/Coketon area in the early 1900s.
The county is Tucker County and the people there are very helpful.

The local Catholic church is St. Thomas Aquinas, Thomas, WV Tel:
304-463-4488. The Church is located at: Brown and Third Sts., Thomas, WV
26292. All mail to: St. Thomas Rectory, P.O. Box 300, Thomas, WV 26292-0300
Pastor: Rev. Lino P. Ebejer

I've been to Thomas many times and will be happy to answer any questions
that I can.

I'll be talking to my mother tonight (she was born in Thomas in 1920) and
see if your family name "rings a bell".

Kathy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Debus, Joan" <>
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Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 10:54 AM
Subject: RE: [CROATIA-L] Found our Croatia hometowns - Thanks


> Hi Fellow Croatians: My grandfather came from Austria (town unknown) and
> for awhile settled in Thomas, West Virginia, and worked in the coal mines
> there. Does anyone have family from Thomas, W.VA. My grandfather's last
> name was Crist Boljfar, a/k/a Christoforo Bolfar, born in 1875. My aunt
> (Frances Bolfar) was supposed to have been born in Thomas, W.VA but I
don't
> know the County. I wrote Vital Statistics of W. VA for a copy of her
birth
> certificate but none was available and I don't know the area well enough
to
> search the Catholic churches that would have been there back in 1910.
> Thanks for any information you can provide.
>
> Joan Debus
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Donaldson [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 10:26 AM
> To:
> Subject: [CROATIA-L] Found our Croatia hometowns - Thanks
>
>
> Hello lists..
> Thank you to the many helpful folks on this list.
> We have tracked down the ancestral home and the surrounding area that
> shows the other towns that were home to other family branches.
>
> Kostel, Pribic, and Dragonic, are all small villages that are near the
> town Krasic. The nearest larger towns are Jastrbarsko and Karlovac. I
> have posted a map of that area on my website, at:
>
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pamonval/croatia/krasic.html
>
> The site deals with the Monongahela River Valley in Pennsylvania, USA
> where many Croatian immigrants came to to work in the many mines of the
> area. Our family settled near the small town of Fayette City. My
> mother in law tells me that another reason (other than the available
> work) that they came to this area was that the topography reminded them
> of their home in Croatia, which at the time (late 1800s to early 1900s)
> was a part of Austria Hungary.
>
> To Croatia list members:
> I am anxious to find out more about this area in Croatia, its history,
> and current goings on. There is little about this area on the Croatian
> Website, as it seems that these towns are still quite small.
>
> To PAMONVAL listers, if your families were Croatian decent, there are
> many fine , helpful folks on the croatian-l list.
>
> (Special thanks go to Jim and Karen Schaberl, Tom Marvar and Frank
> Kurcina (Webmaster, CroatiaGenWeb)
> My gedcom can be found at http://www.my-ged.com/donldson
> --
> Thanks
> Mike Donaldson, Bentleyville, PA ()
>
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