{"id":13971,"date":"2011-06-07T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T07:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=13971"},"modified":"2011-06-08T23:36:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T06:36:03","slug":"the-birth-of-john-julius-kupstas-%e2%80%93-1908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/13971","title":{"rendered":"The Birth of John (Julius) Kupstas &#8211; 1908"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John (Julius) Kupstas, son of Jacob Kupstas and Veronika Surakauskute was born on 17 December 1908 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA .\u00a0 His birth was recorded in a ledger for the city of Worcester.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/VRB-Kupstas-Jacob-1908-Crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13972\" title=\"The Birth Record of John (Julius) Kupstas - 1908\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/VRB-Kupstas-Jacob-1908-Crop.jpg\" alt=\"The Birth Record of John (Julius) Kupstas - 1908\" width=\"630\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/VRB-Kupstas-Jacob-1908-Crop.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/VRB-Kupstas-Jacob-1908-Crop-300x65.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/VRB-Kupstas-Jacob-1908-Crop-1024x222.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Birth Record of John (Julius) Kupstas &#8211; 1908<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911-1915,\u201d digital images, American Ancestors (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanancestors.org\">http:\/\/www.americanancestors.org<\/a> : accessed 07 June 2011), Birth of Julius Kupstas, vol. 576, page 516, no. 2037, Worcester, Massachusetts, 17 December 1908; citing Vital Records: 1841-1915, Massachusetts State Archives, Boston, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>The image above is a composite image from the ledger, cropped to emphasize the information for this child .\u00a0 Click on the link for a PDF copy of the birth record of <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/VRB-Kupstas-Julius-1908-R.pdf\">John (Julius) Kupstas<\/a> .\u00a0 The ledger states:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Kupstas&#8217;s birth is recorded as Vol. 576, Page 516, No. 2037 in the ledger for the city of Worcester,<\/li>\n<li>His name was recorded as Julius Kupstas, a male child born in Worcester<\/li>\n<li>He was born on 17 December 1908 and his birth was recorded in January 1909,<\/li>\n<li>His father was Jacob Kupstas, a laborer from Lithuania residing in Worcester,<\/li>\n<li>His mother was Weronika [Veronika] Shurakauskuta [Shurakauskute?]\u00c2\u00a0from Lithuania, residing in Worcester.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The maiden name of the mother is probably not correctly spelled Shurakauskuta, but I do not know the correct spelling of the surname.<\/p>\n<p>John Kupstas would later marry Agnes H. Skowronski.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John (Julius) Kupstas, son of Jacob Kupstas and Veronika Surakauskute was born on 17 December 1908 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA .\u00a0 His birth was recorded in a ledger for the city of Worcester. 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