To: @PIKROZDL.PML Subject: Genealogy # 83. Reply-to: IsraelP@pikholz.org Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2015 00:05:41 +0300 Dear Cousins , It has been what, eight-nine months since I last sent out a summary. But I have an excuse - which I'll get to in a minute. But first of all, we have a new family. Sarah Pikholz married Eisig Baar and they had a dozen children beginning in 1865. The first three were born in Jagielnica, not far from Skalat. The others were born in Czechoslovakia. Milton, a great-grandson, put a tree on Ancestry.com which is where I found him. I have determined that Sarah Baar is a younger sister of Breine Riss, the daughter of Gabriel Riss and Ryfka Pikholz. You can read more at http://allmyforeparents.blogspot.co.il/2014/11/pikholz-in-land-of-czechs.html and that is not the whole story. DNA testing points to an additional breakthrough regarding this family. I have finally made some progress locating Max Greenberg (b.1915), the son of Rose Pikholz. Rose is the sister of Barney (Peretz) Pickholtz, Yetta Margel and others. Rose's husband Sam died in the 1920s (not sure exactly when) and she married a widower named Morris Gross in 1937. All this in New York. Sometime after the 1940 census, Max became Martin and like several others in this family, was an attorney. Rose, Martin and Martin's first wife are buried in Montefiore Cemetery in New York. (He died in 1991. Rose in 1965.) Martin had one daughter 1946-2002, who lived in Montgomery County Maryland. She has one son and I have been trying to make contact with him. I am way behind on updating parts of the website. My excuse for all this procrastination is the DNA project. We now have nearly fifty Skalat Pikholz descendants and twelve from Rozdol who have tested. And it has begat a book. Some of you have asked for years if I was planning to write a book, but it was never in the cards. "Meet my family" is boring for me as a reader and I cannot imagine why it would interest anyone else. And besides, how do you know when you are finished with the research? But the DNA is a different matter. Jewish DNA is very very difficult because we have been marrying within the tribe for hundreds of years. We are therefore all related to each other, multiple times. I took a DNA course last summer in Pittsburgh and the consensus was that no one knows how to do DNA for Jews and other endogamous societies. My book changes that. It's not about "how to..." but rather "how I did..." and since it uses the examples from my own families - particularly the greater Pikholz family from Skalat - it serves to document parts of our family in a non-traditional narrative. The book is called "ENDOGAMY: One Family, One People" and it is now available for pre-order at http://www.endogamy-one-family.com/ There will be a small discount for those who tested for the project. Use your kit number as a coupon code. Release is scheduled for 16 August, when I am to be speaking at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Maryland. In the subsequent two weeks, I am scheduled to speak in Wayne NJ, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Long Island, with some others under consideration. I'd love to see some of you there, especially those who tested for the project. There is also a program scheduled at the JGS of New York, but it is invitation-only due to space limitations. By early August, we should know if the NY talk has space for some of our people. The details of these programs are on the book's website. Meantime the research goes on, including the genetic research, so I will continue to let you know when the testing company runs sales. I would love to see more of you testing. A couple of other things. Steve Pickholtz found a site in the US which leads to some unclaimed money in the US with some Pikholz names attached. See http://www.missingmoney.com If you look at http://www.geshergalicia.org/inventory/cadastral-maps-and-records/ you can fins lots of record sets and maps, including cadastral maps which show individual parcels of land. There is such a map for Rozdol, for instance. Israel P.