[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Musziks

[Carol Jones]

A branch of my Wuerch ancestors were described as coming from "Mujikland", 
and since there is no such place, I guess it was meant that they came 'from 
the land of the Musziks'.  I wouldn't think they were describing themselves 
in a derogatory way.

Carol Jones researching "Which Wurch/Werch/Wuerch/Wirch/Wuirch is which"
www.whichwxxrchiswhich.info

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Miller" <dnmiller at whiz.to>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:28 PM
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Musziks


> My mother and father who immigrated to Canada from the Zhitomir region on 
> January 5, 1927 (before the "Communist louts" settled in) often talked 
> about the Musziks.  They referred to them as "socially backward' Russian 
> Ukrainians, who were not very motivated to work.  "All they did," my 
> father used to say "is drink and dance."
>
> don miller
>
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