To: @PIKHOLZ.PML
Subject: Genealogy #23
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:07:33 +0200

It's been over two months since genealogy #22, but I have spent 
some of that offline.

Mazal tov to Alejandro Pikholtz and his wife Miriam of Buenos Aires on 
the birth of Alan on 2 November.  This family is dscended from Hersch 
Leib, of the family now known as IF1, which has over 180 identified 
descendants.

Condolences to Herb Braun of North Miami on the death of his wife of 
sixty years, Bess.  Herb is a descendant of the Pittsburgh family.

The International Tracing Service (Red Cross) in Arolsen Germany 
came back to me regarding ten people I had asked about eighteen 
months ago.  They wanted to know how I was related or to get 
permission from next of kin.  As it happens, in six of the ten cases, we 
had close relatives who sent letters of permission (in one case, the 
person who gave permission was the person in the file), so in only 
four was I forced to say "cousin of my grandfather."  This is the second 
batch of requests for files and now we have to wait for further 
developments.

We have uncovered some new documents regarding the family we 
call Getzel.  Our earliest NY records until now had been from the 1920 
census, but we came upon a 1901 birth record which gave an 
address that turned out to be valid both in 1900 and 1910.  (That was 
good luck, as people in the Lower East Side of Manhattan didn't 
usually stay put for so long.)  We checked both those census records 
and found them via the address, learning that they were listed as 
Bikholz and Puckholz.  (That's why we never found them in the 
alphabetical index for the census.)  The census records have also 
shown us that the father immigrated in 1896 and the mother and two 
daughters in 1900.  One of the descendants of that family will be 
following up passenger lists and the 1905 NY State census and we 
look forward to seeing what else turns up.

Steve came up with two birth records for his Philadelphia family - in 
Odessa.  We had seen that recorded elsewhere, but it seemed really 
unlikely.  These documents support the theory that the immigrant 
family was in fact two half-families who were melded into one in the 
US.

Nothing new from the AGAD Archives in Warsaw, but we expect to 
receive some new information soon.

Not much else for now.  More as it happens.

A happy Hanucca to all of your families.

Israel P.

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