{"id":14109,"date":"2011-06-28T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T07:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=14109"},"modified":"2011-07-04T23:47:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T06:47:47","slug":"the-birth-of-helene-rita-meleski-%e2%80%93-1904","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/14109","title":{"rendered":"The Birth of Helene Rita Meleski &#8211; 1904"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Helene Rita Meleski, daughter of J\u00f3zef Chmielewski and Katarzyna Warchol, was born on 02 December 1904 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA .\u00a0 The birth was recorded in a ledger for the city of Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/VRB-Meleski-Helene-Rita-1904-Crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14110\" title=\"The Birth Record of Helene Rita Meleski - 1904\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/VRB-Meleski-Helene-Rita-1904-Crop.jpg\" alt=\"The Birth Record of Helene Rita Meleski - 1904\" width=\"630\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/VRB-Meleski-Helene-Rita-1904-Crop.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/VRB-Meleski-Helene-Rita-1904-Crop-300x53.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/VRB-Meleski-Helene-Rita-1904-Crop-1024x182.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Birth Record of Helene Rita Meleski &#8211; 1904<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910,\u201d digital images, American Ancestors (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanancestors.org\">http:\/\/www.americanancestors.org<\/a> : accessed 27 June 2011), Birth of Francis Chmielewski, vol. 510, page 424, no. 519, Worcester, Massachusetts, 04 October 1901; 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 couple .\u00a0 Click on the link for a PDF copy of the birth record of <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/VRB-Meleski-Helene-Rita-1904.pdf\">Helene Rita Meleski<\/a> .\u00a0 The ledger states:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Helene Rita Meleski&#8217;s birth is recorded in Vol. 544, Page 503, No. 2362 in the ledger for the city of Worcester,<\/li>\n<li>Her name was recorded as Helen Meleski, a female child born in Worcester,<\/li>\n<li>She was born on 02 December 1904, and her birth was recorded in January 1905,<\/li>\n<li>Her father was Joseph Meleski [J\u00f3zef Chmielewski], a laborer from Russia residing in Worcester,<\/li>\n<li>Her mother was Katie Wakit [Katarzyna Warchol] from Austria, residing in Worcester.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Helene Rita Meleski was my half first cousin, once removed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helene Rita Meleski, daughter of J\u00f3zef Chmielewski and Katarzyna Warchol, was born on 02 December 1904 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA .\u00a0 The birth was recorded in a ledger for the city of Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA. 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