[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Name translations

[Rose Ingram]

I would agree with what Paul wrote
"I believe that Yakovleva is the Russian form of the patronymic name that 
Russians use.  It means "daughter of Yakov".  Or in other words, her 
father's given name was Jakob (in German)."

In the September 2004 SGGEE Journal an article by Gerhard Koenig/Don Miller 
about 1892 Baptist Birth Certificate of Tutschin gives many examples of the 
patronymic name.

The KGB files being translated by SGGEE also give the patronymic name of 
most individuals.

Rose Ingram.


From: <PnSWork at aol.com>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 7:39 PM


> Hi Dan,
>
>>    My grandmothers name on a Russian document is given  as
>> Emilia Yakovleva Mayert.  Can anyone tell me the German  or
>> English version of Yakovleva?
>
> I believe that Yakovleva is the Russian form of the patronymic
> name that Russians use.  It means "daughter of Yakov".  Or
> in other words, her father's given name was Jakob (in German).
>
> Germans did not use the patronymic naming convention, so any
> birth record for her will probably not list the name of Yakovleva.
>
>> And is Adolph the Russianized version of Adolf, or are they
>> fully interchangeable?
>
> The Cyrillic alphabet has not combination of letters like English
> or German.  The Russian form of Adolph would have the Cyrillic
> equivalent of the letter 'F'.  Adolph would be the German or  English
> equivalent of the Russian Adolf.  Germans, however use both
> spellings.
>
> Take care,
>
>    -Paul