Subject: Genealogy #10 Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 Let's begin this update with a mazal tov to Rita Margolies and her husband Louis Poncze on the arrival of Gabrielle. We recently found some old Rozdol census-type data, which Jacob Laor read for items of interest. You will be happy to know that there are no Pikholz listed on a list of poor residents of Rozdol in 1801. It would be nice to assume that this means our Rozdol ancestors were not poor, but since in the following two records, there are very few Pikholz at all, it may mean that they were not yet in Rozdol at the time. Or that the surname had not yet been adopted. The other two were 1819 and 1826. In 1819 we find only Samuel and in 1826 we find Samuel, Pinkas and Jcyk (which is Yitzhak). I am beginning to sense a migration from Skalat to Rozdol in the 1830's and 40's. But that is still speculation. The Yahrzeit calendar has a key at the top to locate the dates according the current Gregorian dates. That should help those less fluent in the Jewish calendar. As we are getting up to large numbers of people in the cemetery and yahrzeit indecies, I have created a new index of people for whom we have either a cemetery or a yahrzeit date. You can look up people in this index to find that information, which is in alphabetical order. (Actually, it is in two parts - people named Pickholz by whatever spelling are in alphabetical order by FIRST name and all the others are in alphabetical order by surname.) You can get to this index from the cemetery and yahrzeit pages. I hope that people look at that new index, among other things to see what information is missing. We have many people for whom we have neither a cemetery nor a yahrzeit date and are, therefore, absent from this new index. If anyone cares to spend some time at one of the Regional Offices of the US National Archives, there is some donkey- work that can be done there. We have something finally on Samuel Pickholtz (1890-1950) who lived in Erie PA. His Hebrew name is Shneur and that's the first of these we have in our database. On his grave, his father is called Shimon (as opposed to Solomon on his death certificate) and his mother was Mania Fried. Birthplace is "Austria" which is almost surely Galicia, tho he gives his native language as German, not Yiddish. Sam and his wife Eva had one son, with the unlikely first name Sabin. The son changed his name to William Sabin and I cannot find him, as of this writing. More as it happens. Israel P. -- End --