To: @PIKHOLZ.PML Subject: Genealogy #38 Reply-to: Israel@pikholz.org Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 16:40:18 +0200 Here in the Jerusalem area we have been snowed in since Tuesday morning, so I have been able to catch up on a few things. Unfortunately our Internet connection is down, probably due to lightning, so I don't know when this will actually go out to you. Fixing it will require a visit by the phone company when the roads are eventually cleared. I am writing on Wednesday afternoon. Mazal tov to the family of Michelle Strickoff on her 30 December marriage to Jason Herbst. Michelle's grandfather Isak Pickholz lived in Stryj until the War and has been in the US since 1946. (IF2 family) Herbst, by the way, is a name found frequently in Rozdol. Condolences to the family of Max (Pikholz) Allon of Herzeliyya, who died 3 February (Rosh Hodesh Adar) in his eighty-ninth year. His daughter Daphne lives in the US and is on our emailing list and her two brothers are in the US as well. Not all of what Max contributed to the early days of the State of Israel has been told and I hope that Daphne will write up something for us and for her own family. (CHONE family - we haven't figured how they attach to anyone else yet.) I finally finished updating the list of Pikholz Holocaust victims, as best I can. There are four hundred fifty-six Pikholz descendants and spouses listed, but there are surely many more. They are listed on two separate web pages - one by town of residence and one by family group. You can get there via the main page on the Pikholz Project web-site www.pikholz.org . The link is the first one on the left side. There are four other new or revised links highlighted at the top of the homepage. The first refers to the JRI-Poland indexing project as it affects us. The second is a brief analysis of the Pikholz descendants named David-Samuel. The third is a revision of the Izak-Feige problem, which I have discussed at length before and won't bore you with now, except to say that it goes to the early members of the Rozdol families. Finally (for now) is a web page dedicated to those Pikholz Pioneers who left Europe before the Holocaust. That page is not to be considered comprehensive, but I'm getting a start on it. When I last wrote, I told you that we were ordering a new batch of records from the AGAD archives, mostly from Stryj, Boryslaw and Drohobycz, which have recently become available. We ordered thirty-six records in all. Twenty-eight are in the mail to us now. The other eight (four births and four deaths, all from Stryj) have been delayed for technical reasons and we hope they will be released soon. After we receive these records and I get them processed, I'll summarize what we have learned. I received a reference for a shareware program called "Mailwasher" which previews email before downloading. I have tried it out and it seems to do a good job. I mention this in case anyone else plans to use it. It has a standard package of subject lines which are rejected, including anything with the word "genealogy" in it. If you ever find yourself using this program (or perhaps others like it), please check the package of standard rejects. We wouldn't want any of you to accidentally put these gen summaries on auto-delete. <;-) Finally, one interesting story in progress. A non-Pikholz gen researcher found me a New York City 1912 marriage record between Roza Pikholz and Samuel Greenberg, both of Skalat. I know that this Roza was the sister of the grandfather of Judge Ruth Pickholz (BARNEY family), but we have no idea what became of the Greenbergs. Looking for Sam and Rose Greenberg somewhere in the US (or even somewhere in NY) is an impossible task, even if we have birth dates (which may or may not be what appear on later documents). But it occurred to me that since they were both from Skalat, they may be buried in one of the several Skalat burial society plots in the NY area. Most of these old societies no longer function, but I had a brief exchange of letters a few years ago with a woman named Frankel who has the records for the Independent Skalater Society. (This was back when I didn't even realize the importance of Skalat in Pikholz history.) So I wrote and asked about Sam and Rose Greenberg and just to make conversation, I mentioned that we had two Frankel men who married Pikholz women in Skalat, both of whom had children in the 1880's. Her reply didn't help regarding the Greenbergs, but she told me that her grandfather was Yitzchok-Yosef Frankel and that his father was Samuel Frankel. As it happens we have a 1879 Skalat birth record for Yosef, the first-born son of Samuel Frankel and Rachel Pikholz. Rachel was Pikholz from both parents. One of Rachel's grandfathers was Itzig-Josef Pikholz (d. 1862), but he was commonly known as Josef, so it is quite possible that his grandson might have been given both names, but registered just as Yosef. This Yosef Frankel was the first of ten children and we have no evidence that any of them died in childhood. I wrote all this to Ms Frankel and am awaiting more from her. If she knew the families of her grandfather's brothers and sisters, we may have a long list of "new" family members. More as it happens. Israel P.