I'm researching a Duratin family line, namely, a Anna Duratin and her father, Andreas or Andrew Duratin.
On the manifest of Anna's passage from Slovakia in 1910, at 21 years old she was coming to visit her father, who was in Spencer, WV at the time, trying to earn enough money to send for the rest of their family.
I'm not familiar with West Virginia, Spencer or Roane County, and need to know what work an immigrant might have been doing at that time (1910).
Prior to 1910, Andreas made a proposition with a young man that was working with him there, a George Pavlik, (born 1884) also an immigrant from Slovakia, that if he helped him make enough money to send for his family, he would give his daughter's hand in marriage to him. Anna was sent for and arrived in 1910 according to her manifest. Their first three children were born in West Virginia, so I can only assume it was in Spencer, WV. They were George, Mary and Paul Pavlik. Later in Ohio, there were Celia, Margaret, Robert, John, Rudolph, Leslie, Harry and June.
I have so little information about this family such as date of marriage and dates of birth for their children prior to thier settling in Hocking County, OH in 1913.
If anyone has any censuses for Roane County for 1900, I would greatly appreciate a look up for either George Pavlik or Andreas (Andrew) Duratin.
A look up for the marriage of George Pavlik to Anna Duratin would be icing on the cake.
Any help at all would be a blessing!
Thank you.

Becki beckiblair@hotmail.com