{"id":15761,"date":"2012-02-26T23:30:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T07:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=15761"},"modified":"2012-03-28T22:24:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T05:24:17","slug":"the-meleski-families-in-the-1940-worcester-city-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/15761","title":{"rendered":"The Meleski Families in the 1940 Worcester City Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Meleski (Chmielewski) cousins were listed in the 1940 edition of Polk&#8217;s Worcester (Worcester County, Mass) City Directory .\u00a0 Rita A. Meleski, Francis J. Meleski, and Harry J. Meleski are\u00c2\u00a0the children of my maternal grandmother&#8217;s half-brother, Joseph Chmielewski .\u00a0 Stephanie B. Meleski is the half-sister of my maternal grandmother.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DWO-Meleski-1940-Crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15762\" title=\"1940 Worcester City Directory Entry for the Meleski Families\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DWO-Meleski-1940-Crop.jpg\" alt=\"1940 Worcester City Directory Entry for the Meleski Families\" width=\"540\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DWO-Meleski-1940-Crop.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DWO-Meleski-1940-Crop-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DWO-Meleski-1940-Crop-1024x392.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>1940 Worcester City Directory Entry for the\u00c2\u00a0Meleski Families<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Massachusetts City Directories, Worcester 1940, p. 659, Meleski Families; digital image, Ancestry.com (http:\/\/www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 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 Entry for the\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DWO-Meleski-1940.pdf\">Meleski Families<\/a>. The brief record states the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Rita A. Meleski was a social case worker for the Board of Public Welfare and resided at 36 Clifton St<\/li>\n<li>Francis J. Meleski, husband of Evelyn M., was an eng (engineer) in charge of the city incinerator in Albany near Casco and resided at 120 Endicott St<\/li>\n<li>Harry J. Meleski was a lawyer at 390 Main rm (room) 640 and was head of household at 139 Endicott St<\/li>\n<li>Stephanie B. Meleski was head of household at 15 Charlton<\/li>\n<li>The other\u00c2\u00a0Meleski&#8217;s named in this entry are, as far as I know, not related to me<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\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 Rita A. Meleski&#8217;s residence at 36 Clifton St, Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts was located in enumeration district 23-175 in the 1940 United States Federal Census .\u00a0 I also learned that the residence of Francis J. Meleski and Harry J. Meleski\u00c2\u00a0at 139 Endicott St in Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts was located in enumeration district 23-126 in the 1940 United States Federal Census .\u00a0 Finally, Stephanie B. Meleski&#8217;s residence at 15 Charlton was located in enumeration district 23-181 in the 1940 United States Federal Census.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2012 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Meleski (Chmielewski) cousins were listed in the 1940 edition of Polk&#8217;s Worcester (Worcester County, Mass) City Directory .\u00a0 Rita A. Meleski, Francis J. Meleski, and Harry J. Meleski are\u00c2\u00a0the children of my maternal grandmother&#8217;s half-brother, Joseph Chmielewski .\u00a0 Stephanie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/15761\">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":[19],"tags":[251],"class_list":["post-15761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chmielewskimeleski","tag-worcester-massachusetts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-46d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15761","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=15761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15765,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15761\/revisions\/15765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}