SC - Names (OT)

[Sharon R. Saroff]

My husband tells a story about his maternal great grandfather when he came
to this country from somewhere Russia or Poland concerning how he got his
last name.  When he came through Ellis Island they asked him what was his
name and he said Shmutzgavitch (I have no idea of the spelling).  Where are
you from? To which he responded Lisocki Litovsk (Again forgive my poor
spelling).  The immigration official then reponded "Welcome to America Mr.
Bernstein".

My father had a similar tale about his father who came here at age 18 from
Lithuiania.  My maiden name is May.  My grandfather's original name was
Mayefeski (Again I am not sure of the spelling).  Oh those wonderful
immigration officials.

Sindara



At 10:25 AM 3/10/99 -0600, you wrote:
>My mother's maiden name is Kueschewskiev.  Pronounced KA-she(flat e like er
>in emergency)-z-ski.  Great on income tax forms and higher education forms.
>Great Lakes Higher Irritation gets really mad when they ask for my mother's
>maiden name and I make them spell it on the phone to be certain they have
>the right spelling.  hehe. And it's Czech by the way, explaining why I look
>like the tall slavic people(?)Ok, maybe the Norse took over somewhere . . .
>.
>
>As for me, you can't really mispronouce Sharon Lynne Burnham, unless you say
>"Burn-ham" instead of "Burn-hum".  So that explains the Roman British
>Profile, including the ski slope on the face.  (But the British spouse-woah!
>Alpine skiing!)
>
>But leading back to a food topic, out of curiousity, how many medieval
>recipes have been found with the cook's name in them?  You know, like "Paul
>Newman's spaghetti sauce recipe" or was that just not done? Any found for,
>say, "Socrates great and wonderful mixer for parties"?
>
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