{"id":15790,"date":"2012-03-03T23:30:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T07:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=15790"},"modified":"2012-04-03T17:52:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T00:52:16","slug":"the-dymek-family-in-the-1940-worcester-city-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/15790","title":{"rendered":"The Dymek Family in the 1940 Worcester City Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of my Danko uncles married two Skowronski sisters, daughters of Franciszka Dymek .\u00a0 The\u00c2\u00a0Dymek families were listed in the 1940 edition of Polk&#8217;s Worcester (Worcester County, Mass.) City Directory .\u00a0 There are (at least) two family groups listed .\u00a0 The first consists of\u00c2\u00a0Stanislaw\u00c2\u00a0 and Frances Dymek and their children Chester, Henry R., Walter, and Wm (William) .\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if or how the other\u00c2\u00a0Dymeks in the directory fit into my family history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DWO-Dymek-1940-Crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15791\" title=\"1940 Worcester City Directory Entry for the Dymek Family. \" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DWO-Dymek-1940-Crop.jpg\" alt=\"1940 Worcester City Directory Entry for the Dymek Family. \" width=\"540\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DWO-Dymek-1940-Crop.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DWO-Dymek-1940-Crop-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DWO-Dymek-1940-Crop-1024x495.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\u00a0Dymek Family<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Massachusetts City Directories, Worcester 1940, p. 336, Dymek Families; digital image, Ancestry.com (http:\/\/www.ancestry.com : accessed 03 March 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DWO-Dymek-1940.pdf\">Dymek Family<\/a> .\u00a0 The brief record states the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Stanislaw Dymek, husband of Frances, worked as a moulder at Arcade Malleable Iron So and was head of household at 81 Endicott St<\/li>\n<li>Chester Dymek worked as a slsmn (salesman) and resided at 81 Endicott St<\/li>\n<li>Henry F. Dymek worked as a lab (laborer) and resided at 81 Endicott St<\/li>\n<li>Walter Dymek worked as a hlpr (helper) at Arcade Malleable Iron Co. and resided at 81 Endicott St<\/li>\n<li>Wm (William) worked as a shoe wkr (worker) and resided at 81 Endicott St<\/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 the\u00c2\u00a0Dymek family&#8217;s residence at 81 Endicott St\u00c2\u00a0in Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts, USA was located in the enumeration district 23-131\u00c2\u00a0in 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>Two of my Danko uncles married two Skowronski sisters, daughters of Franciszka Dymek .\u00a0 The\u00c2\u00a0Dymek families were listed in the 1940 edition of Polk&#8217;s Worcester (Worcester County, Mass.) 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