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<p>Cousins,</p>
<p>It has been awhile since I communicated. There has been slow but
steady progress on the family. As I still do not have an actual
birth date nor village for Joe Kosak, we have not been able to
start the search in the Slovenian records for him. There are
issues related to this with the Rogelj side also.</p>
<p>There were some records very recently indexed and added to the
FamilySearch.org site that I just found today though.</p>
<p>I found the birth of another of the Kosak kids. You may recall,
in the 1910 census, it states Joe and Anna had 8 children but only
5 are surviving. The 5 are in the census and include the kids
except Mary "Mitzi" who is not yet born. I had previously found
one of the children via a death certificate indicating death at
birth for a Frances Kosak (29 Apr 1906). Well, just added to the
online archives in March 2018, a new birth record has come about.
It is indexed as the birth of a "Joe Kosar, Male" in 16 Sep 1905.
But the record image clearly shows a "Marrey Kosar, Girl". The
parents are Annie and Joe Kosar with Annie's maiden name as
Rogal. Their ages are correct for the birth time. Clearly a poor
speller filling out this record. I am taking this to mean it
describes a Mary Kosak is born who dies before the 1910 census.
Note this predates Mary / Mitzi's birth by 6 years.<br>
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<p>This leaves one child left to find. Birth records only started
becoming more regular around 1906 so finding an earlier one is
very sketchy. There is a gap in ages of kids in late 1900 / early
1901 or another in 1903. Oddly, I still do not have an exact
birth date for Rose Zabukovec nee Kosak. It may possibly be on
her detailed death certificate which I have not retrieved yet.
There is a third gap around Aug 1908 where another child could
have been born as well.</p>
<p>Also found a reference to a Joe Kosak who was naturalized in 1904
in Cleveland. Joe lists himself as still "Alien" in the 1910
census which would imply he was not naturalized. Another key issue
is the index states he emigrated from Bohemia (current Czech
Republic or possibly South Eastern Poland). There is a Joe Kosar,
born 1868, from Bohemia, in Cleveland. (note: our Joe Kosak was
born 1868.) But he naturalized in 1894 and appears with his
mother in the 1900 census (both from Bohemia). But maybe this 1904
record is our Joe. Need to go to the Cleveland Courthouse to see
the actual record. It is usually the Naturalization document that
tells us more formally where their birth village is and exact
birth date.<br>
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<p>Below is what I now have for the Kosak kids (not including the
Zele girls in this depiction); as taken from <a
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href="http://old.modiharr.com/gen/family.php?famid=F12&GED=Kosak">http://old.modiharr.com/gen/family.php?famid=F12&GED=Kosak</a>.
Below that is the newly found birth record on a Mary Kosak born
1905.</p>
<p>I am finding it odd that Kosak could appear as Kosar in the
records. But this birth record as Kosar makes me really question
how the name was pronounced back then. Spelling it Koshak or
Kozhac or similar, I can understand. But Kosar? So maybe Joe
Kosak was mistakenly record on the index card as Bohemia instead
of Austria also?<br>
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<p>Randy<br>
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