To: @PIKHOLZ.PML Subject: Records from AGAD archives - sneak prevue Reply-to: zach4v6@actcom.co.il Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 22:06:24 +0300 When Jacob Laor returned from vacation a few days ago, he found a package of records from the Warsaw archives, the fruits of our most recent searches. It will take some time to go through all the material, but here is a sneak prevue based on a look at a summary and without having seen the records themselves. Bear in mind that the pages with the records often contain more records of interest, so this is just the "official" list, ie the ones we pay for. Skalat birth records 1880-1890: Eighteen Pikholz records, most of which I cannot identify from the list itself. (They only gave us name and date, so identification will wait till Jacob sends me the records themselves, which will have parents' names.) In addition, there are records of the STEVE family which appear under the mother's name, Bernstein. Rozdol death records 1877-1884: Ten Pickholz records, a few of which we already know. The most interesting one here is Israel Yoel Pickholz, the father of Rav Juda Gershon. (My own theory was that he didn't actually live in Rozdol itself.) There is also one which may be the "original" Hersch Leib. Rozdol birth records 1880-1896: Forty-eight Pickholz births! Allowing for similar names, they seem to belong to eighteen couples. Among them: Five children of Yitzhak and Frimet (four who died and Beresz=Berisch) Four children of Pinkas and Witie Beile (including Golda) Three children of Salomon and Alta Mindl (including Golda) Four children of Avraham and Ester Jtta (both sides Pickholz) Four children of Avraham and Yehudit of Pinchas/Rachel. Three children who seem to be of the Weiss branch of the SR/Nachman family. Children of several couples who are probably part of RavJG. There are also some with the father listed as "David." I expect that some of those are actually the two David Shemuels. I was surprised that these records did not include the Brezdowitz Pikholz family, as this is a suburb of Rozdol. I was also surprised to find no children of Shemuel ben Hersch Leib - the family which ended up in Argentina and South Africa. There is probably a logical explanation, but I have no idea what it is. Maybe the children were born in the wife's hometown, for instance. (The Rozdol summary includes parents' names, so they were easier to identify than the Skalat records.) After we get this better identified, I will ask for your participation for these records. (As opposed to the search, which we paid for earlier.) I hope that your participation will take into account that about half the records are for families not yet connected to others and families for whom there may not be living descendants. More as it happens. Israel P.