The Ellis Island Files
As a work in progress here is where I will put those names I have found through www.ellisisland.org.
There is a lot of gray area contained here as I have only included the Gerbic entries. From my experience I have found dealing with ship manifests to be amazing difficult to read. Everything was in script writing and sometimes impossible to read. Because of this I am not sure that all these entries are correct. Also as noted on my main page I am concerned that many of these immigrants that are actual ancestors of Gerbics will not be listed in the Ellis Island files because they are listed not as Gerbic on the ship manifest but some other spelling. And therefore many of the Gerbics listed here may actually be Gerbig, Gerbitz, Gerbtz or some such spelling. Another caution, Ellis Island was not the only port of entry for America.
I think the easiest way to use this site and the information listed here would be when you have the name of a ancestor and an approximant entry date, then you can use these entries to further understand their history. What may be more useful would be to see whom they traveled with, are there other family members traveling together? If you are so inclined you can (for a fee) get a copy of the ship manifest and also a picture of the vessel that brought them here.
The following as listed in the order they arrived in America. In this way it will be easy to see who came with whom. I am listing the oldest arrival first.
Note: received this letter, Jan 2006
Dear Susan,
I found you on the Message board at Rootsweb from July 2005. I have been
trying to find my great-grandmother's arrival to America from Rieg, Austria
and found the info I needed on your website. Thanks so much!!
I knew my gr-grandma Lena Gerbitz had come over in 1905 from the 1910
census, but I could never find her or her 2 sons John & Frank immigrating
that year through the Ellis Island site. But you put the travelers together
and I found them that way. Someone mistakenly transcribed Prena instead of
Lena, and Bieg instead of Rieg.
You can count these as found Gerbitz, not Gerbic. Good luck finding your
Gerbics. Thanks for hosting your site.
Sandra Hanley
Here is your info on your Ellis Island page:
Name: Prena Gerbic (should be Lena Gerbitz)
Ethnicity: Austria, German
Place of Residence: Bieg (She and her husband Josef lived in Rieg, according
to an old Gottschee publication)
Date of Arrival: July 3, 1905
Age on Arrival: 38 years (b. 1867~)
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Ship of Travel: Statendam
Port of Departure: Rotterdam, So. Holland
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Name: Marino Gerbic
Ethnicity: Austrian
Place of Residence:
Date of Arrival: Feb. 27, 1893
Age on Arrival: 18 years (b. 1875~)
Gender: Male
Marital Status:
Ship of Travel: La Gascogne
Port of Departure: Le Havre, Seine-Inferior, France
Name: Theresia Gerbic
Ethnicity: Austria
Place of Residence: Basel
Date of Arrival: May 1, 1898
Age on Arrival: 18 years (b. 1880~)
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Single
Ship of Travel: La Bourgogne
Port of Departure: Le Havre, Seine-Inferior, France
Name: Anton Gerbic
Ethnicity: Austrian
Place of Residence: Rusten
Date of Arrival: May 26, 1901
Age on Arrival: 29 years (b. 1872~)
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Ship of Travel: Statendam
Port of Departure: Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France
Name: Josef Gerbic
Ethnicity: Austria
Place of Residence: Roeing
Date of Arrival: June 11, 1902
Age on Arrival: 24 years (b. 1878~)
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Ship of Travel: Southwark
Port of Departure: Antwerp, Belgium
Name: Franz Gerbic
Ethnicity: Austria, Slovenian
Place of Residence: Krain
Date of Arrival: Aug 9, 1902
Age on Arrival: 37 years (b. 1865~)
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Ship of Travel: La Touraine
Port of Departure: Le Havre, Seine-Inferior, France
Name: Trivun Gerbic
Ethnicity: Hungary, Croatian
Place of Residence: Vrkovine
Date of Arrival: Sept. 29, 1903
Age on Arrival: 34 years (b. 1869~)
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Ship of Travel: S.S. La Champagne
Port of Departure: Le Havre, Seine-Inferior, France
Name: Anton Gerbic
Ethnicity: German
Place of Residence: Hrib
Date of Arrival: Aug. 13, 1904
Age on Arrival: 21 years (b. 1883~)
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Ship of Travel: La Touraine
Port of Departure: Le Havre, Seine-Inferior, France
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Name: Francesco Gerbic
Ethnicity: Austrian
Place of Residence: Kamlresko
Date of Arrival: Feb. 4, 1905
Age on Arrival: 24 years (b. 1881~)
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Ship of Travel: La Lorraine
Port of Departure: Le Havre, Seine-Inferior, France
Name: Guiseppe Gerbic
Ethnicity: Austrian
Place of Residence: Brdo
Date of Arrival: Feb. 4, 1905
Age on Arrival: 25 years (b. 1880~)
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Ship of Travel: La Lorraine
Port of Departure: Le Havre, Seine-Inferior, France
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Name: Prena Gerbic See email above - all three of these people claimed as Gerbitzs
Ethnicity: Austria, German
Place of Residence: Bieg
Date of Arrival: July 3, 1905
Age on Arrival: 38 years (b. 1867~)
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Ship of Travel: Statendam
Port of Departure: Rotterdam, So. Holland
Name: Franc Gerbic
Ethnicity: Austria, German
Place of Residence: Bieg
Date of Arrival: July 3, 1905
Age on Arrival:11 months (b. 1904)
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Ship of Travel: Statendam
Port of Departure: Rotterdam, So. Holland
Name: Johan Gerbic
Ethnicity: Austria, German
Place of Residence: Bieg
Date of Arrival: July 3, 1905
Age on Arrival: 2 years (b. 1903~)
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Ship of Travel: Statendam
Port of Departure: Rotterdam, So. Holland
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Name: Johann Gerbic
Ethnicity: Korean, Kovenian
Place of Residence: Rodica, Korean
Date of Arrival: Aug. 22, 1905
Age on Arrival: 26 years (b. 1879~)
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Ship of Travel: Kronprinz, Wilhelm
Port of Departure: Bremen, Germany
Name: Valentina Gerbic
Ethnicity: Austria, Slovenian
Place of Residence: Damzale
Date of Arrival: Sept. 1, 1906
Age on Arrival: 29 years (b. 1877~)
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Ship of Travel: Philadelphia
Port of Departure: Southampton
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Name: Maria Gerbic
Ethnicity: Austria, Slovenian
Place of Residence: Sipseny
Date of Arrival: Dec. 2, 1906
Age on Arrival: 34 years (b. 1872~)
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Male
Ship of Travel: St. Paul
Port of Departure: Southampton
Name: Johann Gerbic
Ethnicity: Austria, Slovenian
Place of Residence: Gottsck
Date of Arrival: Dec. 2, 1906
Age on Arrival: 6 years (b. 1900~)
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Ship of Travel: St. Paul
Port of Departure: Southampton
Name: Franz Gerbic
Ethnicity: Austria, Slovenian
Place of Residence: Bez
Date of Arrival: Dec. 2, 1906
Age on Arrival: 8 years (b. 1898~)
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Ship of Travel: St. Paul
Port of Departure: Southampton, Southhamtonshire, England
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Name: Martin Gerbic
Ethnicity: Austrian, Croatian
Place of Residence: Gorisia
Date of Arrival: Feb. 12, 1907
Age on Arrival: 20 years (b. 1887~)
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Ship of Travel: Antonio Lopez
Port of Departure: Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Name: Jure Gerbic
Ethnicity: Austrian, Dalmation
Place of Residence: Livagosic
Date of Arrival: May 10, 1907
Age on Arrival: 48 years (b. 1859~)
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Ship of Travel: Sofia Hohenberg
Port of Departure: Trieste, Austria, Austria-Hungary
Name: Marija Gerbic
Ethnicity: Austria, Slovenian
Place of Residence: Rocisy, Austria
Date of Arrival: March 1, 1911
Age on Arrival: 17 years (b. 1894~)
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Single
Ship of Travel: Alice
Port of Departure: Trieste, Austria
Name: Anton Gerbic
Ethnicity: U.S. Citizen
Place of Residence: Curzola, Austria
Date of Arrival: April 26, 1912
Age on Arrival: 38 years (b. 1874~)
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Ship of Travel: Pannonia
Port of Departure: Trieste, Austria-Hungary
Name: Marjie Gerbic
Ethnicity: Austrian, Dalmacian
Place of Residence: Curzola, Austria
Date of Arrival: April 2, 1912
Age on Arrival: 21 years (b. 1891~)
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Single
Ship of Travel: Pannonia
Port of Departure: Trieste, Austria
Name: Huka Gerbic
Ethnicity: Austrian
Place of Residence: Pisajnaca, Austria
Date of Arrival: Feb. 20, 1913
Age on Arrival: 25 years (b. 1888~)
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Ship of Travel: Southampton
Port of Departure: Southamptonshire, England
Name: Luxa Gerbic
Ethnicity: Hungarian, Croatian
Place of Residence: Ramljan, Hungary
Date of Arrival: Aug. 26, 1913
Age on Arrival: 15 years (b. 1898~)
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Ship of Travel: Alice
Port of Departure: Trieste, Austria