Subject: Genealogy #13
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 21:04:54 +0200

Let's start with a mazal tov to the Allon family on the birth of 
Zachary (Avraham Elkhanan).

Two new additions of note on the web site.  One is a summary of 
connections that we think exist between particular families, based 
either on our own research or on the traditions of those families.  
this can be found on the same page as the index to the individual 
trees.

the second addition is a whole department which looks at given 
names.  For instance, there is a page of all Pikholz descendants 
up till 1922 (or 1940 in Europe) named Avraham - all twenty-nine 
of them - and another on Joseph etc etc.  It allows us to get a 
better handle on what we have in front of us and has helped us 
recognize connections.  This department is not yet complete.  
Thusfar we have fifteen men's names and twelve women's names 
and some common names like Yitzhak, Sara and Moshe are not 
yet done.  You can get to this department by clicking on "given 
names" on the main page.

It was exactly that kind of analysis that showed me that Pinchas 
Pickholz - the father of Golde - was almost certainly the brother of 
Avvraham, Solomon and Shemuel the sons Israel Zvi Yehudah, all 
of whom had daughters named Golde.  We even have birth and 
death dates for a Pinchas ben Hersch Leib (=Zvi Yehudah) that 
should fit perfectly.  All we need now is confirmation from the 
family of Golde bat Pinchas that their Pinchas indeed died in 
August 1927 (29 or 30 Av).

On another subject, the immigration papers that Ray sent for 
included the surprising information the Hersch Pickholz of Pitt 
Street, New York, had two sons who lived in Stryj, whereas 
everyone knew him to be childless.  That fact was also confirmed 
by a nephew of Hersch, who says that they were from an earlier 
marriage.  The two sons - Nathan and Marcus - were killed in the 
Holocaust, so the statement on Hersch's grave that he left 
"nothing behind him except his good works which are his 
memorial" is in fact still correct.

One of our "bounty hunters" has discovered another family of 
Pickholz descendants from the Phildelphia area.  The heads of 
that family are Rebecca Pickholz and her husband Joseph 
Rappaport who came from Europe in 1928.  Rebecca died at age 
48 in 1930.  We are working on getting the descendants of that 
couple, as well as figuring out what family Rebecca came from.

Finally after a month of keeping my mouth shut, let me remind you 
that we have a page devoted to schnorring.  We are particularly 
interested in raising some hundreds of dollars to get moving on 
archives in Warsaw and Lwow.  Because unless someone has 
an old family tree written by someone from a generation or two 
back, the archives will be the only way to make real progress.

Israel P.

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