[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Understanding Names

[Spaghettitree at aol.com]

To all of you, thank you for your name-stories and Otto, for your in-depth 
historical analysis!  

It would have been nice, all things considered, if, like some of you, my name 
had been translated on arrival in Baltimore - then I would not have had to 
listen to all the sneezes - I would be Maureen Beautiful - but Maureen Handsome 
would be okay too..................... and I hope all those ignoramuses who 
take potshots at our Germanic names would go look in the mirror and judge 
themselves - though they wouldn't likely understand why.   

We in America tend to lump all things German together as one, but the Germans 
separate themselves into the Badenisch from the Bavarisch and the Austrian 
and all the others and the dress and the customs and the language and the food 
too.  And now my curiousity is aroused once again to more culture, more names 
and more recipes, the Polish and the Prussian (besides the Königsberger Klops). 
 Of course, other countries sometimes lump everything American together too, 
but we have dozens of incomprehensible dialects and all the rest too - The 
Bronx, Cajun country, Montana/Idaho/Wyoming cowboy country, and most difficult of 
all (to me) is TEAXUS - 3 syllables.  Not meant to stir up any hornet's nest, 
please, Texans.   Each place has its slang, its patois, its shorthand, and 
each person some individual version of those - which often do not translate to 
any other place.

This is just a genealogical message board, and now we can get back to the 
business at hand, hunting ancestors, wherever they lead us.

Maureen


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