Emigres from Udbina, Croatia (Lika Province), Part 2: The Path They Traveled to get to America

The information I collected also allows us to look a bit into the emigres' path.

Here is a list of the last foreign part that a large number of emigres passed through before coming to the United States:

1. Bremen, Germany (1,069 people)
2. Southampton, England (98)
3. Havre, France (16)
4. Antwerp, Belgium (12)

The vast majority of them entered the U.S. in one of the following ports:

1. Baltimore, MD (908 people)
2. New York, NY (224)
3. Galveston, TX (52)
4. Philadelphia, PA (29)

And here is the map of places that they said they were headed to

And here are the top destinations (states to where 10 or more people traveled):

1. Illinois (753 people)
• Chicago (660)
• South Chicago (73)
2. Pennsylvania (153) 
• Johnstown (58)
• Alleghany (27)
• Steelton (24)
3. Colorado (85)
• Pueblo (42)
• Leadville (23)
• Denver (16)
4. Nevada - 47
• Reno (35)
• Ely/McGill (12)
5. Michigan (41)
• Norway (25)
• Iron Mountain (9)
6. Washington (35)
• Seattle (28)
7. California (16)
• Floristan (16)

The following graph shows how the destination to these states varied over time.

One thing relevant for the Kljaić line is that Nevada became a destination later in the period.  Early on people were going to Chicago and Colorado.  As more people settled in Nevada, many moved there.  Jandre was someone who did not come to Nevada in the beginning.  Instead he moved there later.  His record says that he was headed to his uncle in St. Louis.  However, he and many others ended up in Nevada.  In fact, we have the WWI draft cards for 124 men in Nevada who said they were born in Udbina (this includes Jandre Kljaić).  The majority of these men (108) were located in White Pine County (the location of Ely and McGill).

Here's some more information on the Slavic community in White Pine County:

Source: Kosso, Lenore M. 1985. "Yugoslavs in Nevada After 1900: The White Pine Community." Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 28 (3): 158-174.

As this article points out elsewhere, the Slavic immigrants (from Udbina and elsewhere) were drawn to Nevada for work in the mines.