To: @PIKHOLZ.PML Subject: Genealogy #47 Reply-to: IsraelP@pikholz.org Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 22:07:13 +0200 Dear Pikholz descendants, Most of what appears in this summary is not(!) follow-up to the previous summary. Except the rapid development of the RISS family, the rest of the items from last time are just marking time, waiting for records to arrive etc. But we have enough new matters that I thought I'd bring you up to date. First, a mazal tov to Jacob Laor and family on the birth of a grandaughter (Jacob's first), Yuval, sister of the twins Eden and Ori. Yuval was born on 7 Nisan, 28 March. We are putting together an order of records from Warsaw based on several newly available indecies. In Zydachow we have one new family - the children of Pinkas Pikholz and his wife Esther Neuman. Needless to say, we don't know who this Pinkas is - we have so many. In Podwoloczysk we have a birth of a Pikholz woman, whom we hope to identify by the birth record. In Budanow we have the family of Sam from Erie and his brother and sister Harry and Etta from Newark. Turns out there were at least ten children and all we know are the three in the US and two who died young. The parents were Schama Pikholz and Minnie/Miriam Fried and the children were born 1879-1896. The five missing children may have died young or may have gone by the mother's name, Fried. The only clue we have as to Schama's parents are that the eldest daughter was named Sarah-Kresel and that may mean that Schama's parents were Aryeh-Leib and Sarah-Kreisel of the MATI family. We also have some new Lwow records to look at - most importantly the family that we call VIENNA. I am quite sure that when we see these records, we will find that the head of the VIENNA family, Scheindel-Pesche Pikholz - who married Solomon Strix - is the daughter of David P and Serka Kawa of the IF4 family. For the time being, I want to order a total of eight records from the sources I just mentioned and if someone wants to sponsor all or part of that eighty dollar expense, please let me know and I'll tell you how to proceed. A couple of years ago, I reported that Jerry P and I were discussing the given names in his father's family (YITZHAK) and came to the conclusion that his great-grandfather Yitzhak was likely the son of the same David and Serka whom I mentioned above (IF4). However, we had no evidence, so I did not set this as fact in the database and website. With the new material that may come available on the Kawa family, I am considering binding Yitzhak to IF4. I will probably have to do a KAWA analysis that is similar to what Jacob Laor did with his RECHELs and which I told you abit about last time. A few new discoveries. A February 1990 death notice in the NY Times reads (in its entirety) as follows. "PICKHOLZ-JOHANNES - Salome Mme, died peacefully in her sleep on February 2, 1990 in her beloved Vevey Switzerland. " I was about to write that I have no idea who this is, but I recall that that is not precisely correct. Someone doing a different family mentioned this woman to me last year and I hope that this death notice will help both them and us to make a full identity. From the information we received last year, it appears that there are living descendants. In the old days, many books were financed by subscriptions solicited in advance and a list of subscribers appeared at the end of the book itself, arranged by towns. This can be a useful resource, as we have seen once or twice before. Last week, a Rozdol researcher unrelated to us sent me three such references from a book published about 1870. The three were Yitzhak of Drohobycz (almost certainly Yitzhak-David, the shokhet, although I had thought him a bit younger), Pinkas of Rozdol (who could be anyone) and Mendel of Rozdol. This last is interesting because we have no Pikholz descendant of any sort named Mendel born before 1883 and none from the Rozdol area before 1890. So this man is completely new and of course, we know nothing about him except that he was an adult in Rozdol in the late 1860's. And speaking of Mendel. Awhile back, we learned from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum that in 1946, there were two refugees in the Polish city Bytom, named Josef and Marian Pikholz, sons of Mendel of Podwoloczysk. We had no idea who they were or what became of them, but since they were born in 1929 and 1930, they could well be alive somewhere. Recently, Jacob and I kicked this around a bit and I now believe that their father was Mendel, the son of Sure-Beile Pikholz and Moshe Liebergal of the TONKA family. We are now considering that they may have gone on with their lives using the name Liebergal rather than Pikholz and we are trying to figure out how to proceed to locate them or possible descendants. Additions to the web site. There is a new page recording those Pikholz descendants who received citizenship from the British Mandatory Government from 1933 until the establishment of the state in 1948. There are earlier records, but they seem to be lost. We have some of those files in hand, but for the most part, they contain information which is more personal than genealogical. The town of Grimaylow (near Skalat) is mentioned in records of other towns, but there are no records for Grimaylow itself. I have put together a page with the Grimaylow references and have had some discussion about how to proceed with other Grimaylow researchers. We have several families with Grimaylow connections and we don't know that they connect to one another. See this at http://www.pikholz.org/Volunteer/Puzzles/Grimaylow.html I had made a bit of a mess of the RITA family on the website and I think that is now under control, with a bit more to clarify with Rita herself. The RISS family is still a work in progress, but we have made contact with branches of that family in both North and South America. One family was in Bolivia and I am in touch with a man who knew them, who will get us grave photos. A question coming from the RISS family is if there is any kind of "bent toe" that appears in other Pikholz families, particularly from the Skalat side. Next Sunday is the annual memorial for Skalat, at the monument in the Holon cemetery, near Tel-Aviv. The International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will soon be upon us, here in Jerusalem. My nineteen year old daughter Hadas will be participating along with me. That's all for now. More as it happens. (And you are welcome to reread the fourth paragraph, above.) Israel P.