From: IsraelP Subject: Genealogy (#1) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 12:17:10 +0300 I have decided to start numbering these. There were several people who said they had not received any updates during May (there were four), although others had acknowledged. I don't know what happened on the way, but at least if they are numbered, you will know if you missed one. Awile back I mentioned some Russian records available from Alexander Beider for $21. My mother bankrolled that project (thank you) and we now have an entry from the Duma voter rolls of 1906 for Israel Grigorevich (probably son of Hirsch) from Lugansk. (Sometimes you get only a little for your money!) Another missing person looking for an identity is Harry Pickholz, who shows up on a Red Cross card dated 1950 with the notation "Prob. now living in New York / USA" All the Harrys we have would have been in the US long before WWII. Anyone? (Inquiries to the Red Cross take years, I'm told.) We have determined that the Sam who was in Erie PA in the 1920 census died there around 1950. The Erie Genealogical Society charges for their time etc and my aunt in Pittsburgh has picked up that one. We hope to have results in the next few weeks. Rita was recently contacted by one Shuki Ecker here in Israel, whose great-uncle Leib ROTH married Feige Pickholz, who was supposedly a (great?-)granddaughter of Rabbi Yehudah Zvi Shteg which would put her in the Rav Yuda Gershon Pickholz line (or more likely, that of his brother Meshullam Zusia). This may be the same Feige that Dina Ostrower has referred to. Shuki says that Feige and Leib Roth had the following children: 1. Rivka Lea b. 1885 2. Herman (Yehudah zvi) b.1887. m. Mina Lorberbaum. Lived in Stryj. Had: a. Pepa, Perl b. 1912. m. Peczenik b. Balka b. 1920 c. Moshe b. 1923 3. Genia (Gitl, Tova) b. 1889 m. rabbi Menachem Mendel Landau of Bolechow. Had: a. Efrayim Fischl Landau 4. Yosef b. 1892 5. Moshe b.1895 d. 1917 6. Albert (Avraham) b. 1900 d. 1967. Lived in Belgium. 7. Esther b. 1905. m. Semmel. Descendants live in Israel, USA and France. We'll see what we can find from the descendants, but in case any of this sounds familiar to anyone, there it is. (I'm abit disorganized just now about my list of things to do as I am without a printer for awhile and depend on the hardcopy to remind me what I need to do.) When I interviewed Rozdol-born Tamar Dominitz in Jerusalem back in November, she told me all she knew about her mother's family and their descendants. She phoned me recently and in the course of out conversation I asked if she had filled out pages of testimony (for Yad Vasjem) for her family. She said that she had done her mother's whole family and her own older brother too. Turns out that since I hadn't asked specifically, she hadn't thought to mention him. There is a lesson here for all of us - whether as interviewers or as interviewees. I am sure you all join in wishing mazal tov to Jacob and Ofra Laor (Jacob's mother is a Pikholz and he is one of our most active researchers) on the recent marriage of their son Ofir. Finally, for our Pittsburgh family, we have determined that the Wachs family to whom "everyone" knows we are related, have a definite and close connection to our Braun cousins. I expect there is a Wachs-Pickholtz connection as well, as the Podkamen-Zalosce families married each other every which way. Israel P. -- End --