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Lynn,
Are you saying that the JA sound like the J as in joy? J in Serbian sounds like Y... as in yoke.
Lynn said "It was probably spelled with the Y when he landed in New York." This never happened with any immigrant! The manifests were completed in Europe at the Port of Departure with info taken from the immigrants passport. The issue is that Serbian is written in Cyrillic (like Russian) and often times spellings will vary.
The ship manifest I am speaking of can be found in the Ellis Island Data Base (no charge to look) and contains the following info
Name: Yrakle Donovic
Arrival Date: 4 Jan 1923
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1897
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Occupation Worker
Former Residence Rescov
Next of Kin Mother Ana DONOVIC
Destination Rochester NY to brother DONOVIC at 117 Front St
Birthplace Resen Serbia
Port of Departure: Cherbourg
Place of Origin: Yugoslavia
Ship Name: Majestic
The manifest shows he had been in the US prior to this trip at Rochester... this concurs with the census info which states he arrived in the US 1912
There is notation in the physical description section which states "some of rt. little finger ???"
Over the occupation column the numbers 1-152298 2-18-34
1 is the INS District which was Boston and the date of the notation was Feb 18, 1934
The fact that his mother was listed as next of kin is a good indication that his father had passed away.
Robert Jerin
Croatian Heritage Museum
Cleveland Ohio
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