{"id":550,"date":"2006-09-06T23:55:30","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T06:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/06\/is-that-great-aunt-stephania-in-the-1930-census\/"},"modified":"2016-05-22T19:46:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T02:46:28","slug":"is-that-great-aunt-stephania-in-the-1930-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/550","title":{"rendered":"Is That Great Aunt Stephania in the 1930 Census?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drew Smith (one of the <a title=\"Genealogy Guys\" href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogyguys.com\">Genealogy Guys<\/a>) wrote to tell me that he may have found my Great Aunt Stephania in the 1930 Census .\u00a0 Recently I found that in <a title=\"1910\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/30\/great-aunt-stefania-in-the-convent\/\">1910<\/a>, Stephania (or Stefania) was living in a convent in Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania .\u00a0 Drew found someone\u00c2\u00a0who seems to match her stats in the 1930 Census in Coal Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"1930 Census Record for Stephania Chmielewski\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/CUS-1930-Chmielewski-Stepha.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image548\" style=\"width: 457px; height: 340px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/CUS-1930-Chmielewski-Stepha.jpg\" alt=\"1930 Census Record for Stephania Chmielewski\" width=\"457\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Stephania Chmielewski in the 1930 Census<\/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\/09\/CUS-Chmielewski-Stephania-1930.pdf\"> US Federal Census Record for Stephania Chmielewski &#8211; 1930<\/a> .\u00a0 The census record shows that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Stephania was listed on line 65 of Sheet No. 13B, Supervisor&#8217;s District No. 9, Enumeration District No. 49-10 in (part of) Coal Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Stephania was a lodger in a house on 851 Chestnut Street where the head of household was Emelia Florek<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">All of the lodgers in the household were either teachers in a parochial school or domestics performing housework<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">A priest and a clergyman live in the next household enumerated<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Stephania is listed as a single, white, female, 44 years old<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">She was not attending school, and could read and write<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">She was from Poland, as were her parents, and her native tongue was Polish<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">She immigrated in 1900, was an alien, and could speak English<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">She was employed as a domestic performing housework<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\">The information provided in the census matches up well with the information I have on Great Aunt Stephania .\u00a0 The Ancestry.com index has her listed as Stephania Chmielinski, but the actual census record could be interpreted as Chmielewski .\u00a0 Her age is right on the money; since she was born on <a title=\"January 7, 1886\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/25\/the-triplicate-copy-of-the-declaration-of-intention\/\">January 7, 1886<\/a> her age should be 44 .\u00a0 Stephania immigrated in 1901, but the census record looks like either 1900 or 1910 .\u00a0 If it actually says 1900, it&#8217;s not far off.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The census lists Stephania&#8217;s occupation as a domestic performing housework in a house full of teachers .\u00a0 The house was apparently near a house with a priest and a clergyman .\u00a0 This is consistent with what I know about Stephania, since I know that\u00c2\u00a0she was very religious, was living in a convent in 1910, and later worked as a housekeeper in a rooming house in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I know Stephania was living in Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania in 1910 .\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Coal Township is adjacent to Shamokin .\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Moreover,\u00a0 I know from her naturalization records that Stephania was not living continuously in Massachusetts until 1933 .\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Thus, Coal Township is a reasonable location, based on information in other sources.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This looks like it&#8217;s the correct census record for Great Aunt Stephania.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Now, it looks like I should search religious records and school records for the Roman Catholic Diocese\u00c2\u00a0to which Northumberland County belonged (the Harrisburg\u00c2\u00a0Diocese) .\u00a0 Perhaps I can learn more about Stephania in those records.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\">Copyright \u00a9 2006 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drew Smith (one of the Genealogy Guys) wrote to tell me that he may have found my Great Aunt Stephania in the 1930 Census .\u00a0 Recently I found that in 1910, Stephania (or Stefania) was living in a convent in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/550\">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":[403],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chmielewskimeleski","tag-pennsylvania"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-8S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","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=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19208,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/19208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}