On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 04:33 AM, Michele Lock wrote:

A distant relative Alex Locke of Chicago, on his grave has the Hebrew name Elihu.

You can't tell from the Hebrew on a gravestone how a name was pronounced.
Elihu and Eliyahu look identical in Hebrew.
אליהו
The biblical prophet, the prophet we mention in the Seder is Eliyahu.  Elihu is rare, and (relatively) modern.


--
Odeda Zlotnick
Jerusalem, Israel.

A distant relative Alex Locke of Chicago, on his grave has the Hebrew name Elihu. On Jewishgen, his 1876 birth record has his Yiddish name transcribed as Ilia. His 1891 ship passenger list has his Yiddish name down as Elias. 

Jewishgen's Given Names database has many Yiddish equivalents to Eliyahu. Elias and Eliash are the chief ones, as well as Elia. 
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Michele Lock

Lak/Lok/Liak/Lock and Kalon/Kolon in Zagare/Joniskis/Gruzdziai, Lithuania
Lak/Lok/Liak/Lock in Plunge/Telsiai in Lithuania
Rabinowitz in Papile, Lithuania and Riga, Latvia
Trisinsky/Trushinsky/Sturisky and Leybman in Dotnuva, Lithuania
Olitsky in Alytus, Suwalki, Poland/Lithuania
Gutman/Goodman in Czestochowa, Poland
Lavine/Lev/Lew in Trenton, New Jersey and Lida/Vilna gub., Belarus

Hi Joanne

These names are patronymics - our ancestors were known by these names e.g. Joseph ben Mordecai or Sora bat David, until surnames were introduced, which in Lithuania was about 1820 to 1830. Even so, many opted to keep their patronyms (or sometimes matronyms where mother's names were used)  when surnames became compulsory in the Pale of Settlement, or they reverted to them on migration to get rid of a surname they did not like which had been given them by others.

Jill Whitehead, Surrey, UK

Hello
I see this post is quite old but recognise some people in this post.
My gt gt grandmother came from Vilna, Lithuanian and on some revision list records it states Sora David Eliash( her name married name being Sora Bober).
Would I take it that her father was David and grandfather Eliash (Elijah).
On a birth record I have come across which was sent  in 1995 from Lithuania  it states  Sora bat David-Eliash. Would the hyphen signify that David -Eliash was Sora's fathers first and surname or  her grandfather's  name?
I am desperately  trying  to find  my gt gt grandmother's  surname, does anyone have any ideas? 
Thank you in advance 
Joanne Bober, UK
Researching Bober, Vilna

My great-great grandfather in Ariogala, Lithuania, was sometimes referred
to as Elias in the records in Scotland, and Eliash in Lithuania. His Hebrew
name, however, was Eliyohu Eliezer. Elias could be >from either of these 2
names.

Harvey Kaplan

Glasgow, Scotland

Andee < msscuba@... > wrote

Andrea,
I am not an expert on names, but my feeling is that Elias could be a
Yiddish nickname for the Hebrew Eliyahu (Elijah in English). Hope this
helps.

Howie Zakai
Staten Island, NY

Does anyone know the Yiddish or Jewish name for Elias???? My great
grandfather's tombstone reads Elias son of Dov. There is nobody alive
in the family who remembers his Yiddish/Jewish name.

The family came >from the Bialystok region in Poland. The last name is
Bloom. I cannot seem to get anywhere in searching for that name or any
name similar. Now what do I do??? I am new to genealogy and really
need some help. I've looked at JPI indexing, JewishGen ( where a long
lost branch of the family found us) and now to the new Ellis Island
page.

I am researching the following families:

Sall/Zubowski - Bialystok
Bloom? - Bialystok
Weinberg
Spector - Balta, Illinois, Indiana, etc.
Sadock
Shafer - Belarus

A joyous and happy Passover to all!

Andrea Weinberg
msscuba@...