{"id":14241,"date":"2011-07-12T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T07:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=14241"},"modified":"2011-07-14T23:16:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T06:16:34","slug":"the-birth-of-nellie-magdalene-dusavage-%e2%80%93-1905","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/14241","title":{"rendered":"The Birth of Nellie Magdalene Dusavage &#8211; 1905"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nellie Magdalene Dusavage, daughter of Michailas Dusevi\u00c4\u008dius and Marija Gri\u00c5\u00a1i\u016bt\u00c4\u2014, was born on 10 May 1905 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA .\u00a0 Her 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\/07\/VRB-Dusavage-Nellie-1905-Crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14242\" title=\"The Birth Record of Nellie Magdalene Dusavage - 1905\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/VRB-Dusavage-Nellie-1905-Crop.jpg\" alt=\"The Birth Record of Nellie Magdalene Dusavage - 1905\" width=\"630\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/VRB-Dusavage-Nellie-1905-Crop.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/VRB-Dusavage-Nellie-1905-Crop-300x51.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/VRB-Dusavage-Nellie-1905-Crop-1024x176.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Birth Record of Nellie Magdalene Dusavage &#8211; 1905<\/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 12 July 2011), Birth of Nellie Dusewicz, vol. 552, page 490, no. 988, Worcester, Massachusetts, 10 May 1905; 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\/07\/VRB-Dusavage-Nellie-1905.pdf\">Nellie Magdalene Dusavage<\/a> .\u00a0 The ledger states:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nellie Magdalene Dusavage&#8217;s birth is recorded in Vol. 552, Page 490, No. 988 in the ledger for the city of Worcester,<\/li>\n<li>Her name was recorded as Nellie Dusevicz, a female child born in Worcester,<\/li>\n<li>She was born on 10 May 1905 and her birth was recorded in January 1906,<\/li>\n<li>Her father was Mike Dusevicz [Michael Dusavage], a wireworker from Lithuania Russia residing in Worcester,<\/li>\n<li>Her mother was Mary Griskutiscz [Maria Grishiute] from Lithuania Russia, residing in Worcester.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This family was Lithuanian and Lithuanian names were often misspelled in the vital records ledgers from this time period .\u00a0 Lithuanian immigrants also changed their names after arriving in the United States, so the names listed here were not likely to be those used in Lithuania .\u00a0 The father&#8217;s name may have been Michailas Dusevi\u00c4\u008dius and the mother&#8217;s name may have been Marija Gri\u00c5\u00a1i\u016bt\u00c4\u2014.<\/p>\n<p>Nellie Magdalene Dusavage later married John Napoleon Peter Izbicki.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nellie Magdalene Dusavage, daughter of Michailas Dusevi\u00c4\u008dius and Marija Gri\u00c5\u00a1i\u016bt\u00c4\u2014, was born on 10 May 1905 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA .\u00a0 Her birth was recorded in a ledger for the city of Worcester. 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