Name: Joseph Hasak

Address: 365 W. 13th Avenue, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

Age: 22 -- Date of Birth: Sept. 12, 1896

Not a citizen of United States, Alien, Citizen of Hungary

Occupation: Mill worker

Employer: Carnegie Steel Co., Homestead Works, Munhall, Allegheny County, PA

Nearest relative: John Hasak, 21st Street, Homestead, PA

White, Medium height and build, Dark brown eyes, brown hair.

Signed Sept. 12, 1918 -- Joseph Hasak

Serial Number: 815, Order 965

Jozsef Hasak, 17, male, single, farm laborer, Magyar, arrived Ellis Island, Dec. 5, 1912. He sailed on the ship Main, from Bremen, Germany. He had been in Pittsburgh, PA before this trip.

The original manifest shows he came from his father Janos Hasak, in Doboruszka, Ung Megye, Hungary. He was born in Doboruszka, Hungary. He went to his sponsor, his brother, John Hasak, 938 Ravine Street, Homestead, PA. (Dobouszka is now Ruska, Slovakia.)

In the transcribed Ellis Island records, he is recorded as:

KASAK Josef, from Vobornacka, 1912, 17, 1895

KISS Rosalia arrived Ellis Island April 6, 1910 on the ship Pannonia from the Port of Fuime. She was 10, female, single from the village of Nagyszelmencz, Hungary. She came from her grandmother CSUPRAK Mihalyne in Nagyszelmencz. She went to her sponsor, her father, Istvan Kiss, 3rd Avenue, Homestead, PA.

Traveling with her from Nagyszelmencz were:

NAGY Julianna, 36, and daughter Margit, 6, going to Cleveland, Ohio
KELENY Maria, 11, and KELENY Erzsebet, 9, going to New York.

The 1910 Census, taken April 26, 1910 in Homestead , PA shows Rosaie is in the home of her parents, Stephen and Juliann Kish, 472 West 3rd Avenue, with her sisters Juliann, 5, born Hungary, and Elizabeth, 2, born PA. Also in the home is a boarder named CUPRAK Peter.

The village Nagyszelmencz, Ung Megye, Hungary is today called Velke Slemence, Slovakia. A border crossing was opened Dec. 2005 allowing the residends to visit their relatives, only a few feet away in the village that was known as Kisszelmencz, Hungary. It is in the Ukraine, today.

KISS Julianna (Mrs. Istvan), 28, married, Magyar, arrived Ellis Island Nov. 21, 1907 on the ship Carpathia, out of Fiume. She had been in N. Szelemcz, Hungary with her father SZUTZAK (Sutak ?) Mihaly. She and her daughter, Johanna, age 2, were going to their sponsor (husband/father), KIS Istvan in Homestead, PA. Julianna had been in Middletown, PA 1899-0?.

Traveling with her from N. Szelmencz were:

STEFAN Erzebet, 20, married, Magyar, from father BELLIK Peter, to her sponsor, husband STEFAN Andras in Uniontown, PA. Her infant son, Imre, was traveling with her. Erzebet had been in Brownsville, PA 1901/05.

Nagyszelmencz, Hungary is now Velke Slemence, Slovak Republic.