Subject: Genealogy #12
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 18:31:15 +0200

JewishGen has reorganized some of its functions
and will no longer be able to support web sites
such as ours.  I have therefore moved it more or
less as-is to www.geocities.com/pikholz.  Those
who requested the password for the detailed trees
can get the new one from me or can check the
signpost at the old site.

Please report any broken links, typographical errors
or other flaws.

One of the pages that has been completely revamped
is the Projects page, the one subtitled "things to
do that cost money - and who will do them."  Please
take a look.  We feel that we have done very well
until now gathering material from the easy sources,
but that much of the real progress from hereon will
be from archives in Warsaw and Lwow.  (In fact, Jacob
Laor - to remind you, his mother is a Pikholz and
he speaks Polish - has spent quite a bit of money
on archival research, but it is only the beginning.)

Jacob is willing to continue handling the technical
aspects of the archival research, but there is a limit
to what we can expect one or two people to carry
financially.  There are also some smaller items listed
that are waiting for volunteers.  I don't like to
ask for money (nor do I do it well), so I hope the
"Projects" page speaks for itself.  Thank you.

A new page on the site is the "Affiliated East Galician
Surnames" page, primarily for non-Pikholz visitors who
might connect to our material.  There are two categories
of affiliated surnames.  The first is names which occur
in more than one Pikholz marriage or which resulted in
significant lines of descendants.  The second is for
more tangential names in for the more common of these,
I have indicated the town involved.  I hope I didn't
forget any surnames from these lists.  (But I emphasize,
I am talking about connections that go back to East
Galicia.)

So far we have half a dozen people tentatively signed
up for our trip to Galicia.  Almost all of them from
this side of the ocean.  Plans are still very vague,
but we are working on it.

Does anyone recognize M. Pickholtz at 58 Rutgers Lane,
Parsippany New Jersey?  This may be ten or more years
old.  I believe this person is female.

Developments on three fronts since I last reported.

LEONARD and SELMA PICKHOLTZ -PHILADELPHIA
We had previously found these two people in the 1920
Federal Census, living in separate Philadelphia
orphanages.  Leonard was listed as age 23, born PA.
Selma was listed age 16, born Pittsburgh!

Carole Feinberg, who is so generous with her time,
checked the 1910 census and came up with these same
two people (Leonard listed at age 4, so the 1920 age
must have been wrong), spelled Picultz.  The rest
of the family group consisted of a brother Samuel,
age 9, a mother Sophie age 25 and a grandfather named
Jacob Smith.  Not a clue who the father was. And if
we assume that the two were in an orphanage in 1920
because Sophie and Jacob died, we still don't know
what happened to Samuel.  Maybe he had died too.

We should be able to find birth and death certificates,
but I'm not yet sure how to go about it without more
specific dates.  Anyone want to check with Harrisburg?

AVRAHAM BROWN
Avraham Brown lives in London and his mother-in-law
is a Pickholz.  Contact with him is I write and he
phones.  His mother-in-law's father was Avraham ben
Yosef Pickholz and Yosef's father was Yeroham Fischel,
the brother-in-law and nephew of Rav Juda Gershon
Pickholz.  The mother-in-law's mother was a Lange-
nauer, a name that has come up from time to time with
no specific context.  Following this up with Dina
Ostrower here, I learned that the family of Yeroham
Fischel reported by Chana Dukas to Yad VaShem is in
fact the same family.

I am waiting for is next call to see where we go from
here.

PICKHOLZ from NURNBERG GERMANY
We have now established contact with Doris Pickholz in
Nurnberg, the daughter of the late Sigmund (Samuel)
and Sabine (lives in Nurnberg). Sigmund is the "missing"
brother of the late Dr. Ephraim Fischel Pickholz Ilan
of Tel-Aviv, who never told anyone anything about his
family.  His only daughter was surprised and pleased to
learn for the first time that she has a living first
cousin.

That's all for now.  More as it happens.

Israel P.