This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hdC.2ACI/463.443.448.1 Message Board Post: well nice try again because our family in western ny pronounces it may-jack the virginia half uses my-shock and the southern ones pronounce it Muh-cry-zik. The spelling I have on official polish documents from the churches in Tulce Poznan Poland is Majchrzak on one Majszak on one and Majchrszak on another and through our tree there is also Majchrsak and Majkszak basically I dont think I'll ever know the true speling of it in our family I think someones bosses out there spelled it how they thought it should be spelled because someone in our family couldnt write or speak english well it got so bad somewhere during the 1800's my gg grandfather dropped it all together and used his middle name Michaels as his last name and is burried that way but all his kids except two that changed it legally to Michaels are Majchrzaks except the one that ran way to canada he thought Majkszak looked best.