From: IsraelP <zach4v6@actcom.co.il>
Subject: Genealogy  (#5)
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 17:47:54 +0200

I have put off this summary, because there were some
more things I had hoped to include - both from research-
type sources and from some of our new "members" about
their families.  (If the shoe fits...)  But the new year
is upon us and we will go with what we have. Which is
also of significance.

The grave of Steve's great-grandfather in Philadelphia
gives us HIS father's name, taking us another generation
back.  This family has some interesting puzzles, not the
least of which is that we have a 1837 birth, but still no
home town or area.  Steve is now going after immigration
and naturalization records, having gotten nowhere to speak
of on obits.  This family has been in the US since about
1890.

In the course of his foray into immigration, Steve came
upon a nineteen year old spinster named Rochel Pickholz
who arrived in NY in 1890.  I have no idea who this is.
Does anyone else?  (I expect that when we find her, it
will be Rose, with a married name.) Her port of departure
was Liverpool.

Izak in Flushing has given us some more on his Stryj
family, which I reported in detail to those who are
probably connected. One story worth repeating for everyone
is that of Izak's uncle Itchie. When the Nazis came for
him, this nearly eighty year old man pulled out an axe
from under his talis bag and split open the head of one
of them.  They shot him on the spot.  (He had one son who
survived - Shemuel - and you can see his Netanya grave on
the web site.)

The Erie PA genealogy society has completed a report on Sam 
Pickholtz who lived there.  We haven't received the results yet, but 
something is on the way.  The one thing they haven't check yet is 
probate, but they say they will.

Then there is the Kiwetz family, from Skalat.  There are
some intertwined connections between Pickholz and Kiwetz
(most of whom were killed in the Holocaust) and the one
Kiwetz descendant I've spoken to here "knows" of connect-
ions with several Pickholz families here, from her youth.

The source for the Kiwetz connection was Pages of Testimony
submitted by Yitzhak Kiwetz.  His mother was a Pikholz
and the birth of one of his sisters appears among the records
that Jacob and Ephraim have been gathering from archives
in Europe.

The cemetery pages are growing - most recently in Israel
and in Philadelphia.  In addition, we have seventeen more
Israeli graves in the camera and they should be on line in
the next few weeks.  More cemetery information (who is buried
where), yahrzeits and photos are welcome.

I am in the process of adding a list of yahrzeits and ceme-
teries on each family page.  The central yahrzeit page will
remain, but it is becoming unwieldy.  Although the web site
is developing and being updated with new names and numbers,
I am disappointed that no one has submitted bios of their
ancestors. Perhaps the holiday season will put some of you
in the mood.

And with that I shall wish all of you a very good new year
and may you and your families be written and sealed in the
Book of Life and good health.

Israel P.


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