Subject: Pikholz Genealogy #68 Reply-to: IsraelP@pikholz.org Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:40:24 +0300 Dear Cousins, One new birth to report since last time - Hannah Brooke Scharf, on 9 March. That would be the IRENE family. Hannah's father David has been participating in our project for several years. Mazal tov to two Pikholz brides and their families, Amy Nathanson and Lisa Pickholtz. Lisa is a Cleveland Pickholtz descendant, which would be the IF1 & IF4 families. Amy belongs to an as yet unidentified line. Her great-grandmother Yetta Pickholz (married to Joseph Schaffer) lived in Stryj, but we haven't yet found anything to take us back another generation. I am working on it, however. Condolences to the family of Irwin Seigel of the BREZDOWICZ family, who died last Friday. Condolences to the family of Bill Pickholz of Boca Raton Florida, of the IF4 family. Bill has been a close follower of the Pikholz Project since its early days. Anyone interested in maps of where we come from might want to have a look at http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/digkonyv/topo/3felmeres.htm . Each quadrant there leads to a detailed map from the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The quadrants of particular interest to us are Huszjatin and Ivano-Frankivsk, as Skalat and Rozdol are in the upper left corners of those two. We have also found a few new individuals and family groups of note. Nine years ago, I asked the Jewish Community of Vienna what records they have for people named Pikholz. One of the records they reported was the 1920 marriage of Nathan Karp-Hundert and Szeindel (nee Kramer) who had been divorced since 1912 from some unnamed Pickholz. This was kind of a "loose end," since all I wanted to know who was the Pickholz ex-husband. That information has been sitting on our website ever since and none of my inquiries had been successful. I mentioned this to you in our last summary, after Steve found the couple sailing to Canada, together with Szeindel's daughter from her first husband. That daughter - a Pickholz descendant - died nearly nine years ago, but we have made contact with her daughter. That daughter - whom we welcome to the family, even though at this time she prefers not to have her name published - knew just enough about her Pickholz grandfather to enable us to identify him. He would have been Chaim Pickholz from Turka, the son of Leib Pickholz of the Pinchas/Rachel family from Rozdol. We have a few couples for whom we have births back in the 1880s but have no idea what happened to any of their children. So they sit on our website, waiting for someone to find them. That is what happened to the family of Feige-Minke Pikholz and her husband Moses Hubel of the IF1 family. Feige-Minke is the (first-born?) daughter of Hersch Leib Pikholz and her brothers include Pinkas, Samuel, Avraham and Solomon - all of whom have descendants reading (I hope!) this summary. A few weeks ago, I received an email from a woman in Paris who told me that her grandfather Israel Leib Hubel was a son of this couple. (I indeed had recorded his 1882 birth.) Israel Leib, his brothers and their families and his wife and four daughters were killed in Stryj and I found most of their names in the Stryj memorial sources. But a son Isak had survived and brought his family from Poland to Paris in 1958. She also told me that Israel Leib's other two sons Munio and David had come to Israel before the War. While doing an internet search for Munio, I found his great-grandson Dor, who had posted a family page as part of a seventh grade family project. Dor had posted that only five days earlier, so I was very fortunate to find him. From his point of view, the miracle of the internet was clear - he posted a family story online and five days later someone sends him a set of Galician records that give him three more generations! So we also welcome the Hubels to the family and look forward to filling out their branch before long. A similar case was in the MATI family from Skalat, where eldest daughter Rivke-Reisel Pikholz and her husband Markus Schapira's children (also from the 1880's) sat undisturbed on the website. This time, however, the initiative was partly mine and I found that two of their children - Asriel-Chajm and Jenta-Marjem went to the US, where they married a brother and sister of the Goldring family, also from Skalat. Here too, I am in contact with two descendants and we qare in the process of putting together a picture of that whole branch. Welcome to the family. Back in summary #50, four years ago, I mentioned a Pikholc father and daughter (Josef and Dorota) in Krakow at least as recently as 1974 and of our efforts to locate and identify them. Well, they turned up, in Australia. Jacob Laor has been in contact with them (in Polish), although we are still at the early stage of discussions. Welcome to the family. Recently, I ran across some 1920s references to two Pickholz brothers in Rzeszow, with more information that we had previously. We knew the names but not that they had been brothers. We had one without identified parents and the other with the wrong parents, so that is now straightened out and they are both where they belong - in the IF2 family. Both were killed. So that is everything for now. Let me wish you all a happy and kasher Passover. Israel P.