{"id":510,"date":"2006-08-23T22:17:08","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T05:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/23\/the-surprise-a-change-of-name\/"},"modified":"2016-05-22T16:41:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T23:41:51","slug":"the-surprise-a-change-of-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/510","title":{"rendered":"The Surprise &#8211; A Change of Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While looking for the Naturalization Index Card for my great aunt Stephania Meleski, I happened to look at the very next card after the Naturalization Index Card and found the following card:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Change of Name for Stefania Chmielewski\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/NAI-Meleski-Stephania-Name-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image508\" style=\"width: 457px; height: 285px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/NAI-Meleski-Stephania-Name-.jpg\" alt=\"Change of Name for Stefania Chmielewski\" width=\"457\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Change of Name for Stefania Chmielewski<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Click on the link for a PDF copy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/IMI-Meleski-Stephania-1944-Name-Change.pdf\">Change of Name for Stefania Chmielewski &#8211; 1944<\/a> .\u00a0 I had always thought that my great aunt&#8217;s name was Stephanie Meleski .\u00a0 Her Naturalization Index Card showed that her name was Stephania Meleski .\u00a0 Now, this card shows that she changed her name from Stefania Chmielewska as part of the naturalization process.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">In the past, I had not been able to find Stephania in the census records .\u00a0 Now that I have some alternate names, perhaps I&#8217;ll have better luck!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\">Copyright \u00a9 2006 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While looking for the Naturalization Index Card for my great aunt Stephania Meleski, I happened to look at the very next card after the Naturalization Index Card and found the following card: Change of Name for Stefania Chmielewski Click on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/510\">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":[214],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chmielewskimeleski","tag-naturalization"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-8e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","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=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19138,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/19138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}