my husband's fathers family were all born in germany including his father Rajko I am having such a hard time finding anything except their usa death records and phone records i know very little about them what I do know is is grandfather is Milos Veskovic from Yugoslavia and his grandmother was Ingeborg maiden name was winter they had three kids danilo I think is how you spell one of them and then his father Rajko Veskovic and a daughter named Nada Veskovic who I htink was born in the usa I know the sons were been in germany I think his grandfather might have lived in serbia and the grandmother had three siblings one was elsa winter any help as to how to get the info on these

They arrived in the US aboard the old TWA airlines, likely under the Displaced Persons Act which allowed about a half million displaced people to settle in the US after WW II. I have several friends (Croatians) who lived in DP camps until the early 1960s before they came to the US.

Arrival Date: 13 Mar 1957
Port of Depaturue Hamburg Germany

Milos age (not legible)
Ingeborg age (not legible)
Rajko age not legible
Danilo age not legible

Under the column on the manifest for Nation, are the letters STL, which means stateless.

Rajko (sounds like rye koh, thus the change he made to Riko) is from the word raj, which means heavan, KO is a dimnutive.

It is hard to say where they came from in Yugoslavia (which was a short lived country 1920-1991) as Serbs lived in Serbia proper, Bosnia, Croatia and Montenegro.

But from what I see of earlier immigration of VEŠKOVIĆ (sounds like veshkohvich) to the US they were coming from Dalmatian Croatia, part of which is now Montenegro.

There are about a dozen listings in the current online Croatia phone book, most in the Dalmatian region.

http://imenik.tportal.hr/show?action=pretraga&type=bijel...

The Serbia phone book is also online but a bit more involved as you must search county by county

http://www.telekom.rs/whitepages/searchpage.asp

2 other VESKOVIC families arrived in the 1950s from Bremen Germany aboard US troop ships (the normal mode of travel for DPs in those days), with one family going to Cincinnati the other to NYC

A record is found at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp for the death of Radovan VESKOVIC DOB 1922, DOD 1943

Perhaps the best place for your query is at the Serbia based genealogy web page

http://www.rodoslovlje.com/

Robert Jerin
Croatian Heritage Museum
Cleveland Ohio

The manifest showing the family's arrival in the US is attached

Robert

thanks I have that but I do appreciate all your help I did post on the other forum like you suggested and hopefully can get help there I can not find anything from before they came to the U.S there are tones of record from were they lived here like ingeborg lived in C.A for awhile I also know they lived in M.A and that Rajko was in the army but no records of that the funny thing there is also no records of his children Sarah, Michael, and Steve and they were all born here in the U.S

The ITS in Bad Arolsen/Germany has records of the
Displaced Persons from Yugoslavia. You can try it:
Fax is: +49-5691-629501 or email@its-arolsen.org
Their Homepage is: www.its-arolsen.org/de

VESKOVIĆ and VEŠKOVIĆ are two completely different surnames.

RADOVAN VESKOVIĆ who died in concentration camp was from Serbia, village of TEOČIN.

VESKOVIĆ family was at the time MILOŠ was born mostly from central Serbia.

Also there were VESKOVIĆ families found in northern province of Serbia called Vojvodina, they are of Montenegrin origin.


Royalist movement members ended up as displaced persons and emigrating after the WWII ended, and central Serbia is where they had strongest support. Ethnic Serbs from Croatia and other places in largest number were members of partisan liberation movement, so most of them had no need to emigrate and stay in the displaced persons camps after the war.

VEŠKOVIĆ surname from Dalmatia is the last option you should consider.



Contacting local news portals in Serbia with the story of your husbands ancestor and names could help with finding living relatives. But without place of birth for MILOŠ, it is going to be almost impossible.

You need to obtain documents from Germany that give the name of his place of origin, as team at SGS directed you before.

att: partial listing of WWII victims VESKOVIĆ, with places of origin.




Serbian Genealogy Society SGS "Rodoslovlje"
http://www.rodoslovlje.com/en

The email address, as given by previous poster, did not work.

Correct web address is

http://www.its-arolsen.org/en/homepage/index.html

Robert

Oh sorry. The ITS gave me many informations about my father
who came as a DP after WWII to Germany from Oraovac/Donji
Lapac. From this documents I know now that he had a brother
in the USA.

so here is what I do know about them milos was I think from yugoslavia october 16 1922 and died june 8th 1995 on his grave stone it state he is from serbia. Ingeborg Winter was born Osnabruck, Niedersachsen, Germany August 24 1934 I know that according to records migrated over here in 1957 when Rajko was 2 years old I also know that Rajko and his brother Danilo was both born prior to migrating and that there sister Nada was the only one born in the USA

so here is what I do know about them milos was I think from yugoslavia october 16 1922 and died june 8th 1995 on his grave stone it state he is from serbia. Ingeborg Winter was born Osnabruck, Niedersachsen, Germany August 24 1934 I know that according to records migrated over here in 1957 when Rajko was 2 years old I also know that Rajko and his brother Danilo was both born prior to migrating and that there sister Nada was the only one born in the USA