From: Israel P To: @PIKHOLZ.PML Subject: Genealogy #53 Reply-to: IsraelP@pikholz.org Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 22:50:19 +0200 Dear Pikholz Cousins, Things have been piling up a bit, so I am writing earlier than usual rather than waiting until Passover. Births since last time: In November, Eva to Boris Sokalski (Eliezer, Rosa and Orenstein families). In November Sophie to Bruce Scharf (Irene family). In October (I think) Omri to Alex Kaplan (Buczacz family) One marriage reported since last time: In October, Moti Bohm son of Haim and Judith (Pittsburgh family) to Davina. Two recent deaths reported: In January Esther, widow of Israel Dov (Pickholz) Etzion (RavJG family) In February Bertold Pickholz, of Brooklyn, buried in Israel. (Pinchas/Rachel family) Also Roza Pikolcz Kereszturi of the Gentile Hungarian family, died in September at age 80, in the US. Her son-in-law has been following our research as a member of this list, since we first made contact four and a half years ago. We also note the passing of several family members some time ago, but we only learned of them recently: Binyamin and Etel Senderovitz (Eliezer family) and David Pickholtz (RavJG family) On to other things. I am in the process of registering for the International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, to be held 13-18 August in NY. A few details to complete, but that should work out in the next few days I expect. I got a lot out of the Conference I attended here two years ago and am looking forward to this one. A couple of weeks ago, I asked you to have a look at a 1901 photograph of fifteen boys and to tell me if anyone looked familiar. Several people - all from the same family - recognized the correct boy and the search has gone off in an interesting direction. See the whole story at http://www.pikholz.org/Volunteer/Puzzles/JacobResults.html This has also gotten us to re-examining some of the other UK Pikholz sightings from the years around 1900. The Jewish Chronicle has now put its index online, going back to 1841. You can't get the actual articles online, but there are microfilms in the university libraries here in Israel. We found one person we were looking for - Dora Pickholtz, who died in London in 1948 at age seventy-three. Her husband Morris died at age forty in 1933 and we haven't a clue who his parents were. Morris and Dora are not in the same cemetery. They had no children, but we know that Dora's arrangements were handled by her brother-in-law "L. Shupeck" and we are looking for that family, just in case someone can help identify Morris. A few months ago, Steve found a 1992 reference to Rhonda Pickholtz at 527 Sheridan Road in Highland. (That is probably Highland Park, as there is no Sheridan Rd in Highland Illinois.) We haven't been able to determine who this is. The reference was on the website of the Illinois State Treasurer and apparently the state owes her money. Steve also found a 1920 census record in North Carolina for Marcus Pickholtz, 18, born in NY to NY-born parents; occupation = private - that is, he was in the army. I assume this is someone we know, so I haven't put much effort into finding him, but perhaps one of you knows who this is. In December, a woman in the US contacted me with the following message. "My mother was born in Trnava, Hungary in l905. She used to mention The Pickholtz boys all the time. I think they were cousins. My mother's maiden name was HUNVALD or HUNWALD. Her first name was Ilona and she was one of 8 children. Unfortunately only 3 survived the war. We came to Chicago in 1939. I think mom said that some of the Pickholtz family got to Israel. " I would have assumed that this was the family of Moshe and Lipshe Pickholz of Budapest, who had four daughters and two sons born in the early 1900's. (IF3 family) But the woman mentioned that her grandmother's maiden name was Herlinger and we in fact have an unidentified Janka Pickholcz who married a Herlinger and they had a son Sandor in Budapest in 1905. So perhaps that is the connection to my new correspondent - who has since disappeared. Following that up will probably involve engaging the Budapest researcher whom we have used very successfully before. We have had some on and off contact with a Josef Kornweitz in Germany who seems to have a Pikholz interest, but I have not been able to learne anything from him. This is interesting because Kornweitz is a Skalat family and two Kornweitz women had Pikholz-related marriages - one to a Pikholz widower and one to the husband of a Pikholz woman who died. We don't know the connection between these two Pikholz families. The two Kornweitz women had children with identical names, but they are not sisters. More likely first cousins. Finally, one Pickholz on this list recently asked me about some rabbinic connections. He wrote "Did we ever resolve the lineage back to the taz and bach? the choseh of lublin? the maharal m'prague? I have heard all of them, and actually saw the tree of the taz and bach from a Pickholz staying at the Sheraton Jerusalem a few years back from NY." I told him that this sounds unlikely, simply because it this were true, then our one good rabbinic source - Rav Juda Gershon Pickholz - would have cited it. But I mention it here in case anyone else has ever heard of such an ancestry. I was asked to join the steering committee of Gesher Galicia, the Galician genealogy group. An article I published in their magazine The Galizianer, about the Pikholz families who spent time in Odessa, can be found at http://www.pikholz.org/Articles/GGOdessa.html I expect to write again briefly before the holiday, so I shan't offer holiday greetings now. One administrative item. We have lost a few people lately because of inactuive email addresses. Please drop me a note if you change addresses or if others in your family have done so. Thank you. More as it happens. Israel P.