To: @PIKHOLZ.PML Subject: Genealogy #30 Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:50:17 +0200 Mazal tov to Rosalyn Meadow (RavJG family) on the recent births of two grandsons - Asher to her son Barry and Joshua Isaac to her daughter Martha. Mazal tov to Javier Pikholtz (the Buenos Aires branch of "IF1") on the birth of Lucas. Speaking of Buenos Aires, three of the four Pikholz families in Argentina have responded that the current unrest there has not endangered them personally. I have not had a response from the fourth. The unveiling ceremony for the slain soldier Yaron Pickholz was held Sunday. (I was not able to attend.) Our web site has the Jerusalem POST article and will connect to the Israel Defense Forces memorial site when it is fully available. The JRI-Poland project for indexing records in the AGAD archives has produced some new results of interest to us in the last couple of weeks, particularly for the towns of Rozdol and Kopicienice. The Kopicienice index has nineteen births and fourteen deaths in five Pikholz families, in addition to an assortment of Pik who may or may not be Pikholz. This would be for the period up to 1896. (Kopicienice is south and west of Skalat, towards Buczacz and Stanislawow.) We found the birth record for Leisor Pikholz, who was the first Pikholz to live in Israel. He was known here as Eliezer Haniel. Eliezer said that his mother (who died when he was very young - she was the Pikholz, not his father) was named Rivka, but the new file has her as Gittel. Perhaps she had a double name that he wasn't aware of. In any case, we have confirmation that she was from Skalat and when we order the record itself, we will learn who her Pikholz parents were. We also found nine birth records for Lea Pikholz and Berl Pfeffer. We had previously known of a son Leo Wolf Pikholz who lived in New York and died in 1971, but we know nothing of any family he might have had. Leo entered the US from Vienna, where his parents lived and in 1962 was looking for a sister we had never heard of. So we now have a list of his siblings (four of whom died in childhood), but we aren't sure if they went by Pikholz or Pfeffer nor do we have any idea where they would have lived. Here too, we see that the mother Lea came from Skalat, and we hope to identify her parents from the actual records. (If this Lea and Eliezer's mother Gittel were sisters - which would make sense - it wasn't anything that Eliezer ever mentioned to his daughters.) A third family is Ester Pikholz of Skalat who married Uscher Rosenblatt. We have births for their three children and deaths for all three plus Uscher (age 25) and no idea what happened to Ester afterwards. Here too, the actual birth records will tell us who Ester's parents were. The other two families are both ones we have met in later Vienna records and we hope the actual records from Kopicienice will help fit them all together. (Relevant surnames here are Gottlieb, Riss and Tenenbaum.) We would like to think that ordering seven records of the thirty-odd listed, will give us enough information to identify all these families. The new Rozdol index has thirty-eight new births and fifty-five new deaths. Many of those are not of major consequence but some are quite significant. Examples of each: We have two more names of the children (who died in childhood) of Isak Pikholz and Frimet Gelb. We also found supporting evidence to the theory that this Isak was the son of David and Serka (the IF4 family). We also learned that Serka's maiden name was Kawa. We learned of six additional Kostman children (IF3 family), where we had only three before. Of the six new ones, four have death records, so it seems that two sisters (Sime and Judith) may have lived to adulthood. Several new births for the couples Berl Fuchs-Beile Pickholz and Szulim Oberlander-Sara Rifka Pikholz (both of the Pinchas/Rachel family). Our living connection in the Fuchs family will ask his father what he remembers of these new aunts and uncles. I am not sure how to follow up the Oberlanders at this time. We have a 1886 Brezdowicz death for seven month old Isak Szechter, son of Wolf Szechter and Beile Pikholz. It would be very interesting to find the associated birth record, but we have had a problem locating Brezdowicz birth records. We have six children born to Samuel Haber and Szeindel Jente Engel/Pikholz. I believe that Szeindel Jente is the daughter of the sister of Rav Juda Gerson Pikholz. (We know he had a sister who married an Engel.) A look at the birth records should tell us more. We have five births to Moses Hubel (or Hybel or Hubil or Huber - they didn't care much for spelling back then) and Feige Minke Pikholz. Here too, we need to see the records themselves. Finally, we have some individual births to Pikholz women and men named Adler, Gottlieb and Damm, which will become clearer after we see the records themselves. I expect that fifteen-eighteen actual records will be sufficient to tell us whatever there is to know from this new batch. So between Kopicienice and Rozdol and a few other loose end records, we are looking at about four hundred dollars. Anyone who wishes to help out with this expense can send a US dollar check (made out to Jacob Laor) to Jacob Laor, 11 Arazim Street, Kefar Sava 44456, ISRAEL More as it happens. Israel P. -- End --