My great grandfather was called Nathan Abrahams and he came to Manchester, UK in 1867 from Suwalki town in NE Poland. He was born Chackiel Ceglarski but dropped the Ceglarski in favour of his patronymic Abraham or Abram (his father's name).  He was also known as Casper by his family (a variation of Chackiel ) in Britain and Charles by his brothers in the USA. His Hebrew name was Ezekiel. He called his first son Abraham Abrahams or Abrams after his father. 

I have no idea where the name Nathan came from, but it only appeared when he came to Britain (as far as I am aware), but he had nine children (8 born in Manchester), and his eldest grandsons were variously called Nathan or Neville, but several had the middle name Casper.

A lot of first sons were called Abraham by different parts of my family, but they were often known by their second name e.g. Abraham Harris,  or these Abraham's became variously Arthur, Albert or Arnold.

Jill Whitehead, Surrey, UK

Carl,
You asked "When did the practice start for using the first letter of a deceased relative's name for a child, rather than the whole name? Example being naming a child Carl, after his grandfather Charles?"
You picked a curious example, since they are the same name, one being the German version, the other the French. This was brought home to me when I saw Karl Marx's registration papers from his stay in Brussels in 1846 - his name is clearly shown as Charles Marx. Karl was born in 1818. The family surname came from his grandfather, who was named Mordechai, not Marx.

My great-grandfather's brother William, was born in Bamberg, Germany in 1837. He was either named after William IV who died the same year, or after his grandfather Wolf, who died in 1832.

The answer to your question will depend on where the grandparent died, where the grandchild was born, and the level of cultural assimilation of the parents.

I hope this helps,
Rodney Eisfelder
Melbourne, Australia

Hi Ava
If you write their names, people can search for them, in other forms as well.
IGRA and other sites has many documents other than these censuses.
Shana Tova
Yariv Timna

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GILINSKY was a prevalent name in Svencionys, Lithuania and there are many listings for the name
In the LitvakSIG All Lithuania Database, which you can search at www.litvaksig.org

Judy Baston

I would be most appreciative if they could check for Lupinsky/Lupinskij in these censuses.

Many thanks,
Georgia Lupinsky

Gesher Galicia is pleased to update readers on the progress in
indexing Jewish Galician records. Since the end of January 2020 the
following records have been indexed and uploaded to our All Galicia
Database, freely available for all at:
https://search.geshergalicia.org.

A. Vital records

a) Kopyczynce
- Jewish births (certificates) 1842, 1877-1911; also a handful of
Jewish death certificates (1875, 1895) and marriage certificates
(1912-1914, 1929).
- Jewish births (index book) 1895-1942

b) Kosow
- Jewish births 1842-1868

c) Kroscienko
- Jewish births 1919-1926, 1931, 1937-1938
- Jewish deaths 1930-1938; death certificates 1902, 1935-1938

d) Lezajsk
- Jewish deaths 1827-1866

e) Mosciska
- Jewish births 1925-1937
- Jewish deaths 1899-1926

f) Nawaria
- Jewish births 1876-1877, 1879-1882, 1896-1897
- Jewish deaths 1879-1887

g) Podhajce
- Jewish births 1853-1881, 1884, 1886-1889
- Jewish deaths 1878-1880, 1882-1884, 1892-1895

h) Stanislawow
- Jewish births 1933, 1934, 1938
- Jewish marriages 1938
- Jewish deaths 1934-1935, 1937-1938

i) Stanislawow province
A small number of assorted Jewish birth certificates, marriage
certificates and death certificates, from the period 1870-1934.

j) Strusow
- Jewish births 1837-1870
- Jewish marriages 1853-1859, 1862, 1870

k) Tarnopol
- Jewish deaths 1834-1845

l) Tyszkowce
- Jewish residents 1922

Many of the above records are held in the Ukrainian state archives, in
Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk. So far this year, we have completed the
indexing of all the Jewish vital record sets held in the Ukrainian
state archives from Kosow, Mosciska, Podhajce, and Stanislawow.

Vital records coming soon:
- Strusow D 1837-1838, 1840-1870; D (index book) 1934-1938
- Kopyczynce M (index book, grooms only) 1920-1938
- Tarnopol B (index book) 1816-1860

Gesher Galicia thanks Slawomir Postek and Paulina Postek for all their
indexing work, and Piotr Gumola and Pawel Malinowski for further
processing and uploading the spreadsheets.

B. School records
- Brzozow Jewish pupils 1920-1939
- Gorlice Jewish pupils 1893-1925
- Przemysl Jewish pupils and teachers 1938-1939

Gesher Galicia is grateful to the following people for sourcing,
indexing and donating to us the spreadsheets of the above records:
Suzan Wynne (Brzozow), Russ Maurer (Gorlice), and Lukasz Biedka (Przemysl).

C. Jewish taxpayer records
The following record sets, all from the former Tarnopol province, have
been uploaded to the All Galicia Database in the past seven months:

Narajow (1937), Olesko (1936), Uscieczko (1936), Zbaraz (1936), and
Zloczow (1936).
Thanks to Eddy Mitelsbach and Mark Jacobson for their help with these records.

Taxpayer records from the 1930s coming soon: Podkamien (Tarnopol
province), Sasow, and Sokolowka.

D. Holocaust-period records
Gesher Galicia has two new spreadsheets from the Holocaust period -
one of Lwow ghetto residents, 1941-1943 (over 10,000 entries), and the
other of Krakow Jewish residents, July-August 1940 (over 19,000
entries).

The history of these spreadsheets is similar and in each case goes
back some 15-20 years. The Krakow material is held at the Jewish
Historical Institute (JHI) in Warsaw. Originally, JHI microfilmed the
material for USHMM in Washington, DC. Volunteers from USHMM and Gesher
Galicia then indexed the documents, and the spreadsheet was presented
to Gesher Galicia. At the time, Gesher Galicia had no online search
engine, and so gave the spreadsheet to JewishGen. Recently, JewishGen
returned the spreadsheet to Gesher Galicia, so that it could also be
uploaded to our database.

The Lwow ghetto material, from a range of different files, is held at
the State Archive of Lviv Oblast (DALO). Many years ago, USHMM
microfilmed and indexed the documents. The subsequent story of this
spreadsheet, which recently came back to Gesher Galicia, is similar to
that of the Krakow spreadsheet.

Both USHMM and JewishGen also have these two spreadsheets on their
online databases. Gesher Galicia is grateful to all the organizations
involved (JHI Warsaw, DALO, USHMM, and JewishGen) and to the
volunteers who worked on indexing the records. Thanks, too, to Pawel
Malinowski for a significant amount of work on both spreadsheets,
before uploading them to the database.

E. Przemysl Identification Project

Finally, an update on the Przemysl Identification Project.
Our public notice explains the project and lists all those involved in
it. Please see:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/projects/przemysl-id/

To date, 250 of the 577 index books in the project (43%) have been
identified. Of these, 228 books have so far been verified. Gesher
Galicia members can view the table, which is regularly updated, of all
the books whose identification has been verified, along with the scans
of the books themselves, in the members-only area of Gesher Galicia's
website.

We thank all those who are involved with or supporting this project in
a range of ways, including the project coordinator, Piotr Gumola. We
also want to mention the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical
Society for its generosity.

If you are not already familiar with them, you may want to look into
Gesher Galicia's:

- GlobalSearch facility: https://inventories.geshergalicia.org/#/
- Inventories: https://www.geshergalicia.org/inventories/
- Research projects: https://www.geshergalicia.org/projects-overview/

To join Gesher Galicia, please go to: https://www.geshergalicia.org/membership/

Tony Kahane
Research Coordinator, Gesher Galicia
https://www.geshergalicia.org/

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The Gilinskys had 5 girls, Chaya Riva, Shayla, Sora Feigel, Yudis, and Fruma Devasha (B.1884). Gertie died when she was in her 30s and Rafuel died when he was in his 40s. Their daughter Chaya Riva raised the children. She married a man named Harry Grimm. 
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A small thing about changing borders, citizenships, living mobile or staying put in Eastern Europe.

Living in today’s Ukranian Zakarpatska Oblast, formerly Ruthenia, Kárpátalja, etc. meant that born in 1918 by 1991 you could be the citizen of many different countries—the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, the Ruszka Krajna Autonom Territory, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, the Soviet Union and the Ukraine—even without leaving your house.

Klara Majoros

Thank you for responding and sorry about my failure to include the link. I got confused when posting-forgetting that I had to post the image, get it approved, and then put out the request!! The links were the following:https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM86535
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM86536

Thank you for responding and sorry about my failure to include the link. I got confused when posting-forgetting that I had to post the image, get it approved, and then put out the request!! The links were the following:https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM86535
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM86536

BS'D I am looking for help with a mazeva of the Warsaw cemetery. I know the name's person buried there, but for some reason in the picture I have it is not possible to see the name of his father, neither the exactly date of his death. I wrote to the Jewish Museum in Warsaw but they did not answer, so maybe you can help me to find someone who can take a better picture of the mazeva or someone who has the record. The ubication of the grave is sector 37, row 2 number 27, and belongs to Mordechai Rotenberg Z'L

Thank you to all the replies to my inquiry regarding Yaakov Rotem's testimonies on Yad Vashem regarding Wilder family from Lwow.
The replies have helped me further my research regarding this family branch.
NTalbot

VM86555
In Russian:

 

41.

 

Состоялось в городе Петриков 29-го апреля (11-го мая) 1898 года в 9 часов утра.  Явился лично Юдель Якубович, рабочий, житель города Люблин, 27-и лет.  В присутствии свидетелей Лейзера Розенблюма, Писаря синагоги, 44-х лет и Пинкуса Райтбергера, торговца, 34-х лет, оба жители города Петриков и предъявили нам младенца мужского пола, который родился в городе Петриков 22-го апреля (4-го мая) текущего года в 4 часа дня,  от законной жены Суры урожденной Розенкранц, 26-и лет.  Младенцу при обрезании было дано имя Ицек.  Акт сей присутствующим прочитан и кроме отца неграмотного, ими подписан.

 

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Translate into English:

 

41.

 

It took place in the city of Petrikov on April 29 (May 11) 1898 at 9 am. Yudel Yakubovich, a worker, a resident of the city of Lublin, 27 years old, appeared in person. In the presence of witnesses Leiser Rosenblum, a clerk of the synagogue, 44 years old, and Pinkus Reitberger, a merchant, 34 years old, both residents of the city of Petrikov presented us with a male baby who was born in the city of Petrikov on April 22 (May 4) this year at 4 pm, from the legal wife of Sura, nee Rosencrantz, 26 years old. The baby was given the name Itzek during the circumcision. This act was read to those present and, apart from the illiterate father, they signed it.

 

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Translated by Michael Ryabinky

Comment:
VM86555 is in Russian, not in Polish, VM86504 is in Hebrew, maybe in Yiddish.  I'm translated Russian part.