From: Israel P Subject: Pikholz Progress Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:09:42 +0200 Dear Sylvia and Yair, cc- descendants of Yitzhak and Frimet We just received our most recent order of records from Warsaw and it includes a birth record for one of the children of (Scheindel)-Pesche Pikholz and her husband Solomon Strix, of Lwow. As expected, the record identified Scheindel-Pesche's parents as David and Szerka Pikholz of Rozdol, the family which we call IF4. (For an explanantion of the "IF" families, see http://pikholz.org/Volunteer/Puzzles/IzakFeige.html ) A diagram of he revised IF4 family can now be seen at http://pikholz.org/Families/IF4.html . Scheindel-Pesche is your (Sylvia and Yair) great-grandmother. I am including the descendants of Yitzhak and Frimet in this summary because I am quite convinced that Yitzhak Pikholz is a brother of Scheindel-Pesche and therefore a part of this family as well. This conclusion is a result of some brainstorming that Jerry and I did a couple of years ago, based on naming patterns, including the fact that Yitzhak's son (Chaim) Abraham had children named David and Szerka. Fortunately Yitzhak seems to have lived into the 1920's so unfortunately we don't have access to his death record, which should give proof of this hypotheses. But we are patient. David and Szerka had three other children that we know of - Pinkas (b. 1953), Kalman (b. 1856) and Samuel (b. 1862). We know nothing more on Pinkas and Samuel, but we have people by those names who might in fact be these two. In particular, Pinkas might be the same Pinkas who married Feige Nestel and who heads the family we call Petah-Tiqva. Kalman was married to Feige Lerikstein and they had two children in 1879- 80 who died in childhood. I don't know if they had others who survived. Yair's father Ernst was also David, so we now know where that name came from. We have death records for both David (1882) and Szerka (1888) and hers tells us that her father's name was Chaim-Abraham Kawa. It is interesting that Yitzhak's son was originally called Abraham, but the Chaim was added when he was ill - which in fact reflected the name of his apparent namesake. My guess is that Chaim-Avraham Kawa was himself originally just Abraham (with the Chaim added later), because Sylvia's father Otto was plain Abraham without the Chaim. The name Scheindel-Pesche itself appears in additional Lwow records for a different person - Scheindel Pesche Kawa married to a man named Wosk. My best guess is that the two Schendel-Pesche's were first cousins, a fact which tells us that this name came to "our" Scheindel-Pesche from her Kawa side, not her Pikholz side. Note that in some of the records, she goes just by Pesche or Pesia - maybe to tell the cousins apart. So going back to the first half of the 1800's, you are all descendants of the Kawa family. I am not going to get into serious research on that family, myself, but if any of you are interested, I'll be happy to show you what is readily available. (The Kawas seem to be from Szczerzec.) Israel P. -- End --