Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 07:44:24 +0200 Genealogy (#11) Mazal tov to Shuli Fischer Strikovsky (IZY family) on the birth of a daughter. She weighs about 600 grams and has not yet been named. Mazal tov to Estie and Naftali Solomon on the marriage of their daughter. Estie's late father Yitzhak was Pickholz on both sides (IZY and SR/Nachman families). I was at the wedding and met Pickholz descendants from several different branches, including "the other" Israel Pickholz, Cyla Fischer, Haya Hakak and Jay Weiss. All of these are from Rozdol-area families. We have succeeded in locating a US-born eighty-nine year old member of the Brezdowitz family and he is helping us straighten out some of our questions regarding that family. He has also referred us to another member of that family who actually grew up in Brezdowitz. Ray has gotten copies of "first papers" filed by four Pickholz immigrants to the US in the early 1920's. My brother ordered birth records for three people from Zalosce (where my father's father was born) and we now have those. They came in the form of ledger pages and quite a few of the other twenty-four entries were also relevant to our work. There is never any knowing just what these old documents will give us. Steve (from the Phila area) was looking for records of his great-grandfather's immigration in Baltimore records and found that the only two Pickholz who came via Baltimore were MY great-grandfather and one of his sons, in 1903. In addition to the date and the ship, it also told us where they had last been living (near his mother-in-law) and that his wife and younger children had not yet arrived in the US. Fresh off the press is a message from Robert in Connecticut who paid a researcher to find his grandfather's birth record. Here too, it didn't turn up, but quite a few other records did and we will have a look at the names and dates over the next few days. We have continued clarifications with Vienna regarding their records and have determined that Nissen and Bassie Ruchel Pickholz (who were killed by the Nazis at Maly Trostinez, along with their six children) were both from Pickholz mothers. His father was a Brandes and hers was a Kornberg. We are working on some addi- tional leads regarding this family. Nissen was from Tarnopol and Bassie Ruchel was from Skalat. I expect that we will find that the elderly Bluma who was sent to Theresienstadt was Nissen's mother. She was born in Skalat. We have not found what happened to her. We have not received the Vienna documents themselves, only summaries. The documents will cost ten dollars each. I hope that where we have known descendants, that cost will be covered. The remainder will appear on our "projects" page until someone picks them up. Also new on the "projects" page is a payment to the caretaker at the cemetery in Vienna, who is willing to photograph the graves there. Those photographs should add some parents' names and perhaps birth dates and birth places. And speaking of cemeteries, I added a page (accessible from "projects" and from the cemetery guide) which lists additional US cemeteries where we know we have graves. Anyone who can get to any of these cemeteries is invited to take a camera. We still have some NY-area addresses which have not been identified. I have no idea how current they are. Do the following mean anything to you? S.Pickholz, 914 44th Street, Brooklyn R.Pickholz, 501 Surf Avenue, Brooklyn J.Pickholz, 30 Nassau Drive, Great Neck NY Rose Pickholz, 3 Avenue A, Manhattan Finally, a few of us have begun talking about going to Galicia in late May for a week or so. We are in touch with the genealogy guide Alex Dunai, about engaging his services for that period. I would like to think that we will visit some hometowns as well as do some formal research. This is very preliminary, so I cannot say anything about costs, itinerary etc just yet. So as not to bore or frustrate those for whom this is not relevant, I suggest that we have a separate mailing list for those interested in hearing more as it develops. Let me know if you are interested. (My apologies in advance to those who are tied to the school year.) More as it happens. Israel P.