{"id":2134,"date":"2008-01-06T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T07:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/06\/the-year-was-1908\/"},"modified":"2008-01-06T00:01:57","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T07:01:57","slug":"the-year-was-1908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2134","title":{"rendered":"The Year Was 1908"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lisa at 100 Years in America<\/a> wrote about where her ancestors were in 1908 – 100 years ago. She then challenged others to do the same. In 1908, only one of my ancestors was in America. The rest were still in Europe.<\/p>\n

My paternal grandfather, Micha\u0142 Da\u0144ko<\/strong>,\u00a0was in America, exactly where I’m not certain. He immigrated from Nienadowa, Galicia (now Poland)\u00c2\u00a0on 07 Mar\u00c2\u00a01905 and apparently lived in New York City with a Jewish umbrella maker who had, himself, emigrated from Galicia some years earlier .\u00a0By 1908, I suppose he had found his way to Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts because he sent for his wife to join him there in 1909. He did not appear in the Worcester City Directory until 1910, the first written record in America\u00c2\u00a0I found for him since his immigration.<\/p>\n

Micha\u0142’s wife, my paternal grandmother Maryanna Dziurzy\u0144ska<\/strong>, was still in Galicia with either two or three children in 1908. Zofia had been born on 12 Jan 1901 and Jan had been born on 02\u00c2\u00a0May 1905. My grandfather had left for America several months before Jan’s birth. Another child, Karol, had been born in Galicia but died before Maryanna left for America on May 15, 1909. No one\u00c2\u00a0remembers when Karol was born or when he died, but he may have been born between 1902-1904 and died before 1909. I don’t know for certain where Maryanna was living in 1908, but\u00c2\u00a0I suspect\u00c2\u00a0she may have been\u00c2\u00a0living\u00c2\u00a0with her parents in either Sielnica, Nienadowa, or \u015aliwnica, all in Powiat Przemy\u015bki, Galicia (Austria-Poland).<\/p>\n

Most likely, my\u00c2\u00a0maternal grandfather, Kostanty Niedzia\u0142kowski<\/strong>, was living with his parents in Pomaski, Powiat Makowski, Gubernia Lom\u017cy\u0144skiej, Congress Kingdom of Poland (Russia-Poland). He left for America on 14 May 1910. In 1908 he was 16 years old and probably working on his father’s farm.<\/p>\n

My maternal grandmother, Helena Chmielewska<\/strong>, was living with her parents in Likiszki (now Liki\u00c5\u00a1k\u00c4\u2014s),\u00a0Gubernia Wilenska, Russian Empire (now Lithuania). She was 11 years old in 1908, probably with no idea that she would immigrate to America on 04 Jan 1913. She was living on the family farm in a small village\u00c2\u00a0which, in 1866, included\u00c2\u00a0only\u00c2\u00a0five houses and 42 residents. The photograph below is the farm where my grandmother lived in 1908. The\u00c2\u00a0structures in thes photo were probably all built after my grandmother left the farm and\u00c2\u00a0came to America.<\/p>\n

\"Buildings<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Buildings on the Chmielewski Farm -2<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

SOURCE: Buildings on the Chmielewski Farm – 2. Photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 24 October 2007.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2008 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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