{"id":1170,"date":"2007-03-15T22:30:08","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T05:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/15\/the-birth-of-joseph-danko\/"},"modified":"2015-06-21T22:24:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T05:24:38","slug":"the-birth-of-joseph-danko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/1170","title":{"rendered":"The Birth of Joseph Danko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00c2\u00a0ninth child of\u00c2\u00a0Michael Da\u0144ko and Marianna Dziurzy\u0144ska\u00c2\u00a0was named Joseph .\u00a0 He was born in\u00c2\u00a0Worcester, Worcester\u00c2\u00a0County, Massachusetts .\u00a0 His birth is recorded on\u00c2\u00a0page\u00c2\u00a0430\u00c2\u00a0of the Birth Register for the City of Worcester for the year 1919, a copy of which I obtained from the <a title=\"Massachusetts Department of Vital Records and Statistics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/eohhs\/gov\/departments\/dph\/programs\/admin\/dmoa\/vitals\/\"><span style=\"color: #5c6c7d;\">Massachusetts\u00c2\u00a0Registry of Vital Records<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Canvassers Return of a Birth for Joseph Danko\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/VRB-Danko-Joseph-1919.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1168\" style=\"width: 455px; height: 461px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/VRB-Danko-Joseph-1919.jpg\" alt=\"Canvassers Return of a Birth for Joseph Danko\" width=\"455\" height=\"461\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Canvasser&#8217;s Return of a Birth for Joseph Danko<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>SOURCE: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Return of a Birth. City of Worcester. 1919. Joseph Danko. Volume Unknown, Page 430, Registered Number 3183. Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records And Statistics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Click on the link for a <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/VRB-Danko-Joseph-1919.pdf\">PDF Copy<\/a> of the Canvasser&#8217;s Return of a Birth for Joseph Danko .\u00a0 The record states that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Joseph\u00c2\u00a0Danko was a male child born alive at 19 Prescott Place, Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts on\u00c2\u00a002 Sep\u00c2\u00a01919<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">His father was Michael Danko, a\u00c2\u00a043 year-old, white\u00c2\u00a0wiredrawer born in Poland and residing at 19 Prescott Place, Worcester<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">His mother was Mary Guginski, a\u00c2\u00a038 year-old, white\u00c2\u00a0woman, no\u00c2\u00a0occupation listed,\u00a0born in Poland and residing at 19 Prescott Place, Worcester<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Katie Tutudar\u00c2\u00a0personally attended the birth, no further information provided<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">The name of the canvasser and the date the return was obtained were not provided<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">The Canvasser&#8217;s Return of a Birth was filed\u00c2\u00a0in Jan 1920\u00c2\u00a0as attested by W. Henry Towne, Registrar<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\">The Canvasser&#8217;s Return of a Birth was used to record Joseph Danko&#8217;s birth because he was born at home and the birth had not been previously recorded.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The name of Joseph&#8217;s mother is listed as Mary Guginski .\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Nearly every\u00c2\u00a0document\u00c2\u00a0spells Mary&#8217;s name differently .\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Other documents list her first name as Maria, Marya or Marianna, and list her surname as Dziura, Dziurzynski, Dziurzy\u0144ska, Dziurznska, Ginsky, Dzevirzynska, Jusuka, Dzuizynski, Dziwrzynski, Durzinski, and Dzinski .\u00a0 Whew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00c2\u00a0ninth child of\u00c2\u00a0Michael Da\u0144ko and Marianna Dziurzy\u0144ska\u00c2\u00a0was named Joseph .\u00a0 He was born in\u00c2\u00a0Worcester, Worcester\u00c2\u00a0County, Massachusetts .\u00a0 His birth is recorded on\u00c2\u00a0page\u00c2\u00a0430\u00c2\u00a0of the Birth Register for the City of Worcester for the year 1919, a copy of which I obtained &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/1170\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[283,250],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danko","tag-massachusetts","tag-worcester"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-iS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18379,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/18379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}