Subject: Genealogy #58
Reply-to: IsraelP@pikholz.org
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:11:37 +0200

This will be a quick one.  Two mazal tovs that I forgot to include last
time, one brief update and one new idea, which is what brings me to
write this now. 

Mazel tov to the Strickoff family (IF2) of New York on the marriage of 
Avery to Rivki Bench. Avery and his mother Carol Pickholz Strickoff are 
both members of this list.

Mazal tov to the Seigel family (BREZDOWICZ) of Efrat on the marriage of 
Dina Shoshana, daughter of Tova and the late Sheldon, on her marriage to 
Shimon Weiss.  Tova (now Ben Yaacov) and elder daughter Rivka are members 
of this list.

I had mentioned several times that we had lost contact with a researcher
in Budapest who was going to go through some municipal vital records to
try to identify some Pikholz women who had turned up elsewhere.  Well,
we finally got that back on track and he found three of them.  Two are
daughters of Moshe Pikholz and his wife Lipsche Kornberg of the IF3
family.  We had birth records for them, but the given names are
different enough that we didn't recognize them - Stefania instead of
Sara-Rivka and Viola instead of Frida.  The third one showed up but with 
a surname that was not Pikholz, so I don't know what to make of our other 
source, for now.  The researcher is going to do a bit more. 

The idea I wanted to bring up concerns the 27th IAJGS International
Conference on Jewish Genealogy, which is planned for Salt Lake City in
July.  (See http://www.slc2007.org/  )  I plan on being there, as I was 
last year in New York.  In addition to the local resources (which I 
didn't take advantage of) and the Conference itself, it was great to meet 
some of you while I was in New York.  Salt Lake City, on the other hand, 
has the huge inventory of genealogy records, but there aren't any living 
relatives to look up in the area.  And I was thinking that it would be 
really nice if others of you might consider participation.

Particularly some of the younger ones.  And I am thinking that it might
be a nice thing for some of the older among you to send some of the
younger ones - whether from among your own children (or grandchildren) or 
a niece or nephew or cousin.  (I'm not talking about fifteen year olds 
here, but young adults.)
 
 And then I'm thinking further that perhaps we can match up some of you
who have the wherewithal but not the time and inclination with others
(not necessarily younger) who are interested, but cannot find room in
their budgets.  Perhaps someone might sponsor a Conference participant
from among the family.  The Conference fee if you register before May is
$230 and the special rate at the Conference hotel is $119 per night
(which you can split with a roommate), so with a few lunches thrown in
we are talking about the $500 range per person (aside from getting
there). 

I am merely the public face of the Pikholz Project.  The participation
of others has been invaluable, whether as donors, researchers, idea
people or simply another point of view.  Perhaps we can transfer that
same teamwork to a Conference, particularly where the research itself
should play such an important role.  And if we can get some younger
family members involved, so much the better. 

I'd like to hear your comments. 

Israel P.