{"id":16043,"date":"2012-05-18T23:30:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T06:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=16043"},"modified":"2012-06-06T13:48:34","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T20:48:34","slug":"the-george-card-household-in-the-1940-united-states-federal-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/16043","title":{"rendered":"The George Card Household in the 1940 United States Federal Census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George W. Card was enumerated in the 1940 US Federal Census with\u00c2\u00a0his wife\u00c2\u00a0Victoria (n\u00e9e Izbicki)\u00c2\u00a0Card, his daughter and his mother\u00c2\u00a0at 106 Piedmont St, Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts, USA .\u00a0 Victoria&#8217;s brother Bernard would later marry my cousin Anastasia Rita Meleski.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CUS-Card-George-1940-Left.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-16044\" title=\"1940 US Federal Census Record for the George Card Household (Left)\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CUS-Card-George-1940-Left.jpg\" alt=\"1940 US Federal Census Record for the George Card Household (Left)\" width=\"540\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CUS-Card-George-1940-Left.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CUS-Card-George-1940-Left-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CUS-Card-George-1940-Left-1024x521.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The 1940 US Federal Census Record for the Card Household (Left)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CUS-Card-George-1940-Right.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-16045\" title=\"1940 US Federal Census Record for the George Card Household (Right)\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CUS-Card-George-1940-Right.jpg\" alt=\"1940 US Federal Census Record for the George Card Household (Right)\" width=\"540\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CUS-Card-George-1940-Right.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CUS-Card-George-1940-Right-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CUS-Card-George-1940-Right-1024x521.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The 1940 US Federal Census Record for the\u00c2\u00a0Card Household (Right)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE: 1940 U.S. Census, Worcester County, Massachusetts, population schedule, Worcester, enumeration district (ED) 23-200, sheet 9A, household 54, George Card; digital image, Ancestry.com (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/\">http:\/\/www.ancestry.com<\/a> : accessed 18 May 2012); citing National Archives microfilm publication T627 roll 01719.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the link for a PDF copy of the 1940 US Federal Census Record for the <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CUS-Card-George-1940.pdf\">George Card Household<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The record states that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00c2\u00a0Cards lived at 106 Piedmont St, Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts, USA on 01 April 1940, they were household\u00c2\u00a054 in order of visitation, they rented their dwelling for $24 per month, they lived in the same place (meaning that they lived in Worcester but not the same\u00c2\u00a0house) on 01 April 1935, and they did not live on a farm<\/li>\n<li>George W. Card was head of household, was a white male, 32 years old, married, was not attending school, had completed 1 year of high school, was born in Connecticut, was working the week of March 24-30, was not doing public emergency work, was not seeking work,\u00a0had a job or business, worked\u00c2\u00a035 hours the week of March 24-30, 1940 as a clerk in a grocery store,\u00a0worked 52 weeks in 1939, earned $780, and did not earn more than $50 from sources other than wages<\/li>\n<li>Victoria Card was the wife of George, provided the information for the census, was a white female, 32 years old, married, was not attending school, had completed 1 year of high school, was born in Massachusetts, was not working the week of March 24-30, was not doing public emergency work, was not seeking work,\u00a0did not have\u00c2\u00a0a job or business, was keeping house, earned $0, and did not earn more than $50 from sources other than wages<\/li>\n<li>Mary E. Card\u00c2\u00a0was the daughter of George, was a white female,\u00a01 year old, single, was not attending school,\u00a0and was born in Massachusetts<\/li>\n<li>Mary E. Card was the mother of George, was a white female, 71 years old, widowed, was not\u00c2\u00a0attending school, had completed\u00c2\u00a05 years of school, was born in Eire [Ireland, UK], was not working the week of March 24-30, was not doing public emergency work, was not seeking work, did not have a job or business, was keeping house, earned $0, and did not earn more than $50 from sources other than wages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The occupation for Walter was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153clerk in a grocery store\u201d .\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 His occupational code recorded in column F was 220-61-1 which is defined as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Clerks in stores<\/p>\n<p>Food stores, except dairy products<\/p>\n<p>Wage or salary worker in private work (PW)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2012 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George W. Card was enumerated in the 1940 US Federal Census with\u00c2\u00a0his wife\u00c2\u00a0Victoria (n\u00e9e Izbicki)\u00c2\u00a0Card, his daughter and his mother\u00c2\u00a0at 106 Piedmont St, Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts, USA .\u00a0 Victoria&#8217;s brother Bernard would later marry my cousin Anastasia Rita Meleski. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/16043\">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":[359],"tags":[251],"class_list":["post-16043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-card","tag-worcester-massachusetts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-4aL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16043","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=16043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16163,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16043\/revisions\/16163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}