All My Foreparents

But First Things First   This is Pittsburgh.  Yet, evenso, somehow we always come back to the yellow Star of David. (When my parents b...

I got a phone call a few days ago from a woman whose father is named Pikholz -. or at least he had been until he changed his name at age twe...

Josef Pikholz was the estate manager in Klimkowce, a town a dozen miles from Skalat and 15 miles from Zbarazh. We know he was alive in 191...

For several years, we have seen the identical Y-DNA results for the three Pikholz descendants from Skalat. First at 37 markers and later at ...

We all know that records can be wrong. Census records are based on self-reporting and depend on proper recording by the census taker, not to...

Alta Rosenbloom's husband Berl Kaplan It's been about twenty months since my friend and colleague Galit Aviv found my Kaplan  cous...

Early Pikholz families in Tarnopol We know that there were Pikholz families in Skalat - about 19 miles or 30 km ESE of the provincial capit...

Last month, I posted the results of my Y-111 upgrade which showed that my Y-67 matches that were a genetic distance of zero or one had grow...

Searching for the Fuchs couple Four months ago, I was contacted by a woman in Efrat who wanted to find her possible relatives Sigmund (Chai...

I recently upgraded the Y-DNA of one of my Gordon cousins to Y-111. This is my mother;s paternal family. Results came in this morning. H...

I took advantage of the ongoing sale at Family Tree DNA to upgrade my Y-DNA test from 67 markers to 111 markers. (I have already done Big-Y....

Well, of course we don't know our ancestors. That's why we are doing genealogy - at least most of us. But I am getting at something ...

Background I last wrote about the family of Mordecai Pikholz (~1805-1864) and his relationship to Izak Fischel Pikholz, my second-great-gra...