{"id":15748,"date":"2012-02-24T23:30:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T07:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=15748"},"modified":"2012-03-28T00:08:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T07:08:17","slug":"the-danko-family-in-the-1940-worcester-city-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/15748","title":{"rendered":"The Danko Family in the 1940 Worcester City Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Danko grandparents and several of my aunts and uncles were listed in the 1940 edition of Polk&#8217;s Worcester (Worcester County, Mass) City Directory at 15 Henchman Street in Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DWO-Danko-1940-Crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15749\" title=\"1940 Worcester City Directory Entry for the Michael J. Danko Family\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DWO-Danko-1940-Crop.jpg\" alt=\"1940 Worcester City Directory Entry for the Michael J. Danko Family\" width=\"540\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DWO-Danko-1940-Crop.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DWO-Danko-1940-Crop-300x73.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DWO-Danko-1940-Crop-1024x251.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>1940 Worcester City Directory Entry for the Michael J. Danko Family<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Massachusetts City Directories, Worcester 1940, p. 290, Michael J. Danko Family; digital image, Ancestry.com (http:\/\/www.ancestry.com : accessed 24 February 2012); citing Polk&#8217;s Worcester (Worcester County, Mass.) City Directory Vol. 1940 XCVII, Boston MA: R. L. Polk &amp; Co.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the link for a PDF copy of the 1940 Worcester City Directory\u00c2\u00a0Entry for the <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DWO-Danko-1940.pdf\">Michael J. Danko Family<\/a>. The brief record states the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Helen A. Danko was a domestic who resided at 15 Henchman<\/li>\n<li>Jos (Joseph) J. Danko was a laborer who resided at 15 Henchman<\/li>\n<li>Mary T. Danko resided at 15 Henchman<\/li>\n<li>Michl (Michal), husband of Mary D Danko was a wire wkr (worker) who resided at 15 Henchman<\/li>\n<li>Michl jr (Michael Jr.) was a carp (carpenter) who resided at 15 Henchman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not certain, but I believe the notation of &#8220;h&#8221; indicates the head of household and the notation of &#8220;r&#8221; indicates a resident.<\/p>\n<p>Using <a title=\"Steve Morse's One-Step Webpages\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stevemorse.org\/\">Steve Morse&#8217;s One-Step Webpages<\/a>, I learned that 15 Henchman Street in Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts was located in enumeration district 23-45 in the 1940 United States Federal Census.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Copyright \u00a9 2012 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Danko grandparents and several of my aunts and uncles were listed in the 1940 edition of Polk&#8217;s Worcester (Worcester County, Mass) City Directory at 15 Henchman Street in Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts. 1940 Worcester City Directory Entry for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/15748\">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":[251],"class_list":["post-15748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danko","tag-worcester-massachusetts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-460","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15748","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=15748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15751,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15748\/revisions\/15751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}