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I have just discovered this site and I think a sticky problem may have been solved. My grandfather, from Galicia, was known as Alec. On an incoming Canadian passenger manifest in 1914, it is written Ilko. I have been told that Ilko was used as a form of Alec. I was able to find in Wolczkowce a birth record for an Alexius Ruryk in 1885 - so far, so good - but when my aunt was born in the same village 25 years later, the father is Elias Ruryk! I have now read in the string of comments here re Ilko that it may have been a version of Elias. Can anyone "confirm" that an Alexius/Ilko might be transformed into an Elias? If so, I would be thrilled!