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<p>Cousins,</p>
<p>So one last item I had not mentioned in the previous emails is
now given here. Maria has likely found the passenger arrival list
for Josef Košak. He landed at Castle Garden, NY (pre-dates Ellis
Island) on 1 Nov 1887 on the ship named Werra. Based on feedback
from a Slovenian Genealogy Facebook group, it appears the village
is Malo Globoko (written in the German name Kleingoboko in the
manifest). This along with the approximate birth date given in the
1900 census supplied yesterday is enough to start researching in
Slovenia for the family.</p>
<p>This may seem like a finish line, but it is now just a start. A
major find, if it proves to be true, but one that simply opens the
pandora's box of searching in Slovenia for records, relatives and
such. We will call it a feather in the cap for now. <br>
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<p>Randy</p>
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<p>I did not confirm this at first. There are many Joe Kosaks
arriving and living in Cleveland and elsewhere around the same
time period. Most from Bohemia as mentioned before. This record
had the age off by 3 years from what we had from other records.
And a village was not available in it that we could see. Now that
the 1900 census confirms this age, and we see the village is near
Žužemberk (the family lore origin recalled by my mother), I am now
inclined to believe this record is correct. With the date of
birth from the 1900 census, and this village name, it is enough to
write to the Archives outside Ljubljana to find his record of
birth and Status Animarium for his family. And start the process
of learning the Slovenian roots.</p>
<p>Malo Globoko is in the Zagradec parish and within the Ivančna
Gorica municipality now. But slightly closer to the town and
municipality of Žužemberk. Villages like Malo Globoko are more
like what we would call subdivisions or neighborhoods. In this
case, only 175 acres large. There is much found online if you
search for the names given here. For comparison, Žužemberk city
has 5,000 people and Malo Globoko 50. Ivančna Gorica was built
after WWII by clearing a forest and has around 14,000 people
today. So it is much larger than the older. more ancient
Žužemberk. This explains why they would have said from Žužemberk
120+ years ago as this newer municipality the village exists in
did not exist.<br>
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<p>There were 10 from that village together on the passenger list. A
Perko a Fink, and numerous others. All young, single males.
Captured below is that group of 10. Josef is line 451 and the
youngest. I brought the title row down to the top of the 10 and
added the banner from the first page of the manifest across the
top. This creates a keepsake for you all. There are 11 pages of
passengers with 60 passengers per page. It was a large vessel.
There may be more from the same village in the manifest. Just
these 10 were clustered together around Josef. The ellipses for
the first 5 are below a line above that says M for sex and Laborer
for calling. Basically, look at line 449 below as it is the same
for the ones above. Enjoy.<br>
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