Subject: Genealogy #14
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 04:11:01 +0200

Claire Kadin (RITA's family) passed away at the
end of January.  Her mother Mina was Pikholz on
both sides.  Condolences to her family.

Nitzan Zayit the Pickholz great-great-grandaughter
who was hospitalized a few months ago has been
released to home care.  This does not indicate
an improvement.  She is not yet a year old.
(Nitzan bat Shelomit Pinia)

To United States residents - the census is being
taken this year and the forms you are filling out
will not be accessible even to your immediate family
for seventy-two years.  Do your descendants a favor -
make a photocopy and put it with your personal papers.
If you'd like, send me a copy.

The results of the Yosef Pikholz signature poll are
in and they are both interesting and inconclusive.
Eighty percent of those offering an opinion were
flat wrong.  See the results together with the
signatures: http://www.geocities.com/pikholz/josef.htm

Less than two weeks ago, our web site got a mention in
the daily email of ancestry.com, the leading force in
the field.  (General - not Jewish.)  As a result of
this mention, the web site had four hundred visits in
forty-eight hours.  We had a mention a few days later
in Dick Eastman's email column on genealogy-computing.
Between these two mentions, we have had 950 visits to
the web site in eleven days.

Dick Eastman said that it would be polite of us to
link to his site from ours, so we now have a page of
"resource links."  You can get there from our main
page.  I put three types or links - Jewish genealogy,
other genealogy and general Jewish.  I tried to keep
the references to general Jewish sources both infor-
mative and non-controversial and I hope that no one
has a problem either with what I included or what I
didn't.

To more important matters.  We have confirmed that
the family we called "GOLDE" is part of the family we
called "IZY" (Israel Zvi Yehudah).  The merged family
is called after the patriarch HerschLeib. He and his
wife Sara (and in fact we don't know which of the two
was the Pickholz) had children in period 1860-1873.

We feel very close on the linking of the families LAOR
and ROSA - with marriage links (at least) between the
ROSA family and the ORENSTEIN and KIWETZ families.

The State of New York is no longer providing certain
vital information (death certificates etc) by mail,
even for a fee.  That creates a need for some on the
spot research, that is supposedly not very complicated.
Volunteers are welcome.

The contributions received thusfar for archives research
in Warsaw and Lwow have been sent to Europe.  We hope that
more of you will participate.  And thank you to those
who have so far.

We have the eight Vienna cemetery photos up on the web
site.  Some have no stones; most have stones which are
illegible - but perhaps someone visiting might do better
than the caretaker.

The study of given names which I mentioned last time is
now up to forty-two different given names.  There are
just a few more to do.

That's everything on my list for now.  More as it
happens.

Israel P.



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