X-cs: R From: IsraelP X-RS-ID: X-RS-Flags: 0,0,1,1,0,0,0 X-RS-Sigset: -1 To: @PIKHOLZ.PML Subject: Genealogy #24 Bcc: Ruth (husband) Reply-to: zach4v6@actcom.co.il MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/enriched; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 01:31:30 +0200 0000,0000,0000For those of you who thought I had disappeared somewhere - no such luck. It has been a combination of not much earthshaking to say and the intrusion of "real life." I was contacted a month or so ago by a Pickholz descendant in Paris. He is the great-grandson of Leib Pickholz of Turka - a line which we had thought was lost in the Holocaust. Turns out that in addition to the four sons we knew about, there was also a daughter we didn't know about and this daughter was the grandmother of our new member (whose name is Francis). The family now has representatives in Israel as well as in France. I suspect that this Leib was born to Pinchas and Rachel (of the family of the same name) in Rozdol in 1865. If we can prove that, then Francis' mother will have four living second cousins she never knew about - three here and one in Brooklyn. Jacob Laor visited Galicia a few weeks ago and went to Zbarazh and Klimkowce, where his grandfather and great-grandfather lived. Photos are being scanned and I hope they will be available on-line by the end of next week. The AGAD archives reported back with a large number of Zbarazh records, mostly of non-Pikholz who financed most of that search. From the search results, we ordered the Pikholz records, from the Laor and Irene families. We are pretty sure that Jacob's great- grandfather Josef Pikholz and Getzel Pikholz of the Getzel family are brothers. (The Getzel family in New York has a researcher checking out a few more New York records as well.) And I am fairly sure that the families Irene and Barney are closely connected as well. AGAD reports that they should complete our Skalat search in the next few weeks. That should include death and marriage records, which contain a different kind of information from the birth records. (Birth records have - at best - the mother's parents, but not the father's parents. So the death and marriage records are a way to connect the fathers to earlier generations.) The search we did yielded records based on the fathers' names and we now have a way to improve on that. For instance, in 1859-1883 we have 46 birth records, almost all based on the fathers. From another source (which I cannot discuss yet) we have found forty-four more records, mostly based on the mothers. Those records have been ordered and should give our great-grandfathers some hitherto unknown sisters. One curiosity from those records was the birth of Jachiel Frankel, to David Lazel Frankel and Basie Pikholz. She is my great-grandfather's sister, whose family went largely to Denver as a result of the 0000,0000,0000tuberculosis of a son named Jake, who died in 1904. We knew little about this Jake, but we now know that his name was Jachiel. (This same Basie had a brother Yehiel, as well, so there may be more history to this name than we had thought.) The new Skalat source has also confirmed another instance of Pikholz being recorded as Pik. More as it happens. Israel P.7F00,0000,0000 -- End --