To: @PIKHOLZ.PML Subject: Genealogy #27 Reply-to: zach4v6@actcom.co.il Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 11:13:18 +0200 I am going to be offline most of this week and again most of next week, so I figure it's a good time to touch base with everyone. Condolences to the family of Zohar Marbach who died six weeks ago at age sixty-one in Netanya. Zohar (whom I never met) was the son of Shemuel and the late Sarah Marbach, of Stryj and Jerusalem. Sarah's mother Amalia Wohlman was the daughter of Pinkas Pikholz and Feige Nestel, who are atop what we call the Petah Tiqva family. As it happened, I was in the area and attended the funeral. Condolences to the family of Julio (Yehudah) Laufer of Buenos Aires, husband of Aida (Yetka) Pikholz of Grimaylow. I met with Yetka's sisters last year and told you about the period they spent hiding in the forests around Skalat during the Nazi occupation. Yetka and Yehudah had what was most surely the last Jewish wedding in Grimaylow, on the site of the Pikholz home after the area was liberated. Mazal tov to Jerry (my youngest first cousin) and Marcia Pickholtz of Baltimore on the birth of Jacob, their first-born, a month ago. As I mentioned Grimaylow, we have a noteworthyl find regarding Pikholz in that town in the Ellis Island database. We know that Izrael Pikholz (the father of Yetka mentioned above) went to the US for a brief period in 1905, before returning home and marrying. (Actually, I learned just today that he made two such visits.) We have an additional Ellis Island record of a young woman named named Leike (Lea?) Pikholz from Grimaylow going to New York to see her sister Liba Pikholz. Leike cited her closest relative in her country of origin as her brother Izrael. Problem is that Yetka and both of her sisters are adamant that that their father had only one sister who was named neither Liba nor Leike. We do have some birth records for another Pikholz family in Grimaylow, so these "new" people may belong with them. but one would think that two Pikholz families in such a small town (it's a satellite of Skalat) would have known one another. Nor do we have any idea what happened to Leike and Liba in the US. Another curiosity to show up in Ellis Island is Max Pickholz, US citizen returning to the US in 1900 with his Brooklyn born wife Buna and daughter Chana. No idea whatever who this is. A third Ellis Island story has allowed us to identify Sam Pikholtz of Erie Pennsylvania as the brother of Harry (Ascher) Pickholz of Newark. (They also had a sister named Etta Rubinstein, who had a daughter I can't find.) Since Ascher is the equivalent of Selig, I suspect that this Ascher is a grandson of my ggf's uncle Selig. Both those names are unique in our database. A final Ellis Island story for now is that of the Kostman sisters (their mother was a Pikholz and their brother was the father of Ephraim, whom I roomed with last year in Lwow). We have located their Ellis Island records and with the help of Ephraim's nephew, we also found the grandson of one of those sisters. He is an attorney in Manhattan and I wrote him two weeks ago. New photos in the virtual cemetery include over a dozen each from Pittsburgh and from Iselin New Jersey. There are still some in my camera and some others in the mail from Argentina. The Jewish Records Indexing project is progressing and we found several children of Chaim Pikholz and Menie Finkelstein in Tarnopol. This is from the Eliezer family. Problem here is that three of the four children we knew of previously are not listed there. Who says it has to be simple. A while ago, I found two California deaths (deaths and births from california are in an online index, searchable in all kinds of ways) for people we never heard of, but with Pickholz mothers. One was a Kaplan (mother Minnie P.), born 1893 in Omaha, the other a Rochester (I wonder what that was "before" - Rosenberg?? Rothschild??) in Kansas City, 1911. We are making slow but definite progress towards locating descendants, but so far no success in finding which families the original Pickholz women belong to. Jacob Laor has been away for several weeks, but tells me that he received Zbarazh records from AGAD in Warsaw and is sending them on. I still have some of the last batch on my table, waiting for me to get all the information into the web site. That's enough. More as it happens. Israel P. -- End --