To: @PIKHOLZ.PML Subject: Genealogy #37 Reply-to: Israel@pikholz.org Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:11:21 +0200 In the last few weeks, we have received several new index files for records that are now available from Warsaw. In some cases, these are the first records made available from these cities and in other cases, these are newer records which have only now been released. (The AGAD archives holds records over one hundred years old, so the period 1900-1901 is now becoming available.) I have chosen thirty-two records to order, for the time being. Most of that is funded already, but if someone would like to take on the last sixty-six dollars, I'd be pleased. (Don't send anything without telling me. The ordering procedure has changed.) Here is a summary or what is included in each index. Some of the material has given us valuable information about the earlier generations of some of the families, particularly in Rozdol-Stryj. We have nine new Skalat births of Pikholz descendants from 1900-01. In all cases, the mother is the Pikholz. We know four of them and I am ordering the other five. We have fourteen Skalat deaths for 1898-1901. We pretty much know who they are and do not expect to learn anything from the records themselves. I have ordered one, though – Leib Pikholz, who died in 1901 at age seventy-two. This is Jacob Laor's grandfather's grandfather. We were particularly surprised to find his death record in Skalat, as the other records relating to that family (who lived in the small town of Klimkowce) are in the Zbarazh records. There is one new death record and one new birth record from Tarnopol and I ordered both. The death is a twenty-five year old Josef, who seems to be part of Rita's family, but we don't know him from other sources. The birth is Gittel, whom we later saw in Vienna and in Italy, having been sent from there to her death by the Germans. We don't know who her father Majer Pikholz is and I am hoping that the birth record lists witnesses, whom we can assume to be family members. I have also ordered four of the Mensch family records from the Lwow file which we received a few months ago. We have index files for Boryslaw and Drohobycz (neighboring cities in the western part of East Galicia) and I have ordered a few of the records from those files. Couples included in those files are Isak and Sara Pikholz of the IF2 family, Josef P and Raisel Langenauer of the RavJG family, Aron (ben Pinkas) and his wife Chaya with two "new" children born around 1840, Shimshon and Perla Tanne (she is the daughter of Rav JG's brother Moshe) and a few we don't recognize. New surnames for men in these cities, who married Pikholz daughters are Hauptman, Gluckman and Apfeldorf. We also have a collection of records here relating to the Pikholz-Thalenberg couple, but I want to check out some other information before deciding which of them to order. The biggest batch of new records is from Stryj. There we have over thirty Pikholz births, eleven deaths and two marriages. Most of these are people we know, in one way or another, but just from the index alone, we are able to put together some new connections. For instance, we have known that Feige Pikholz (wife of Leib Roth) was part of the RavJG family, but we didn't have the precise connection since we didn't know her parents' names. We now know that her father was Fischel Pikholz (brother of Perla Tanne) of Synowodsko, Feige is from Fischel's first wife Gittel and is therefore a sister of Josef (husband of Raisel Langenauer), Rebecca (wife of Jos. Rappaport in Philadelphia) and others whom we know only from Holocaust records. But we do have a list of Roth descendants and I am now attaching that family to the main RavJG family. The other major find regards the DINA family. This is the maternal family of Dina Ostrower who lives in Ramat Gan and who is a Pikholz descendant from three of her grandparents. Her mother's father was David- Samuel who lived in Stryj and died in 1937. Dina knows that he had four children from his first wife and after she died, had seven more from the second wife – Taube Kostman. Dina's mother is from the second wife. Dina has no idea what her grandfather's parents names are, but we recently found a reference to a Stryjer named David-Samuel Pikholz ben Zvi, so it would be reasonable to assume that this is the same man and that his father would be listed as Zvi or more likely Hersch. (There is another David-Samuel the same age, who came to Stryj sometime later. His parents are Pinkas Pikholz and Rachel Borek of the Rozdol family we call PINCHAS/RACHEL. Some of you are descendants of that family. Dina says that the two David-Samuels are first cousins, but doesn't know how.) The new Stryj records add several children to each of David-Samuel's wives, children who died young. More important, they identify his parents Hersch Pikholz and Libe Taub. (Libe was the name of Dina's older sister, named for her great-grandmother.) Hersch is the son of Dawid Pikholz and Gittel Kraut of Rozdol and we have his 1835 birth record from our earlier research. Hersch and Libe had children in Stryj from around 1850 until 1878 – none of whom we know anything about, aside from David- Samuel. Both Hersch and Libe seem to be living as of 1901. This new material has enabled us to turn the DINA family from a five-generation entry to a seven-generation entry. I assume that Dawid (who may have been Dawid-Samuel, even though he is not referred to that way in the records) is a son of "Original Pinkas" and his wife Sara-Rivka. This new family structure leads me to believe that Pinkas (of Pinchas/Rachel) is also a son of Dawid P and Gittel Kraut and I am adjusting the "conjecture" page to reflect that. Since that Pinkas died before 1904 (when we first see a grandson named for him), I expect that we will be able to prove this theory when newer death records from Rozdol become available. (Anyone who wants further information on this should "speak" with me privately.) Interestingly enough, there are also two Dawid-Samuels in the Drohobycz index. We must now consider how they may be connected to each other and to the Stryjers. So that is where we are now. There will be more to follow, I expect before long. And, again, anyone who wants to cover the last sixty-six dollars of this order should let me know. More as it happens. Israel P.