Croatia Emigration and Immigration

Passenger Lists in the Port of Trieste by Aleksej Kalc

Trieste, the main Austrian port, assumed the function of the port of emigration in 1904.The number of people who emigrated via the Port of Trieste was for a long time recorded only in the form of summary reports according to gender as well as province or country of origin. Inly in 1912 di the trieste port authorities begin compiling detailed passenger records that included name and surname, age, marital status, profession, last pladce of residence, citizenship, port of destination as well as the ship and the date of departure for each steerage passenger.

Drevesa (FHL serial 949.73 D25d copy 2,L.8, s.3, Nov 2001)