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From: Mary Hegarty <>
Subject: [CROATIA-L] Fanta/Pavlekovic
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:00:32 -0500


Hi List!
I've been looking through films at LDS and it's been pretty discouraging.
I'm not finished yet so maybe something will show up. My grandfather's name
was Emil Fanta and his son, my uncle, was Charles Fanta. Emil would have
been born probably in the 1870s and Charles would have been born around 1901
in Croatia. It is not a very common name but in the death index I did find
an Emil and Charles Fanta who appear to be brothers. Their DOBs don't fit
with my grandfather and uncle but because the names are the same I'm
wondering if they might be relatives. My question is how do I find out about
these two people from death records? Can I get their birthplaces and other
family information?
Through a google search Ifound an Emil Fanta on a holocaust list and on an
insurance list. On the holocaust list his DOB was not there (the only one!)
On the insurance list the DOB was 1878. This is possible. The records are in
Vienna but I'm not sure how to contact these people.
My other question is that on my grandmother's and my two aunts' ship
manifest it shows their birthplaces as Virovitica but on the passenger
record they show Verovitica. I ordered everything for Virovitica but I
realize that there is also a Verovitica.
Mary Hegarty

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