Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 06:37:57 +0300


Five kids of Nathan & Fannie:
I heard from Phyllis Seavey, who paid care for the graves
of Nathan, Fannie & George at Mt. Zion.  She confirmed
what I had suspected - that this is the same couple who
appear in the 1920 census with four daughters, one of whom
was her mother.  George lived elsewhere at the time.  She 
knows nothing further back, but will be pleased to be kept 
informed of our progress.  Her "inventory" plus what we 
knew gave us twenty-six descendants in six generations.

Four Surnames:
We have a little Pittsburgh puzzle revolving aroud the names
Shapiro-Wachs-Braun-Pickholtz.  I've explained it to the 
Pgh'ers, but if these other names mean anything to the rest
of you, I'll surely be pleased to hear about it. (The 
Shapiros may be from Podkamen.)

Three Williams:
There was definitely a third William Pickholz, in addition
to the one living in Florida and the late dentist.  In all
three instances the spelling is the same.  This third William 
- actually the first since, being born in 1907, he was the 
oldest - lived in Brooklyn, tho he lived in New Jersey at 
some point and died in Florida.  He died in December 1986 
and we have nothing else about him.

Three Leviim:
We also have a third Levi, this one here in Israel.  Yaffa 
Derori found her parents' ketuba and it indicated that her
father (Eliezer ben Moshe Pickholz of Kolomyya) was a Levi, 
something she had never realized.  I am waiting for a reaction
to this from her newfound second cousin, Eliezer Senderovitz.

(Which reminds me.  Eliezer Senderovitz says that his mother
Etil bat Eliezer Pickholz had an aunt Devorah who went "to
America" and married one Kopel Brumer.  Or maybe she married 
him and then they went to America.  Anyway this would be well
before WWII.  Kopel had a grocery business.  They had a son 
and a daughter.  Eliezer says his mother thinks the son had
no children.  If any of this sounds familiar, I'd be pleased
to hear.)

Two Zygmunts:
We had a Zygmunt in the Red Cross records, who died in Teheran
in 1942 at age 29, while in General Anders' Polish exile army.
We just received a copy of his death certificate from the British
Ministry of Defence (who gave auspices to General Anders).  They 
said that they have records of service of another Zygmunt - this
one from Stryj.  This one was still alive in 1985 and they cannot
give me anything further without checking first with the family.
I have also asked them if they have any Pickholz named something
other than Zygmunt.

One Roman Catholic?
Jacob Laor translated Zygmunt's death certificate from Polish,
and it says that he was a Roman Catholic.  His mother's name
was Maria.  Zygmunt came from a small town where Jacob's own 
grandfather came from as well.  Zygmunt's father Leon doesn't
show up anywhere in Jacob's family, but that could certainly be
explained by his having "married out."

Israel P.


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