Table of Contents

Dedication
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: How Did I Get Here?
Chapter 0: DNA Testing 101
Chapter 1: Immediate and Stunning Results
Chapter 2: “No” Is Also An Answer
Chapter 3: The Kwoczkas or “What Do You Want To Prove?”
Chapter 4: Rozdol
Chapter 5: Filip, Jacob and Rita
Chapter 6: Moshe Hersch
Chapter 7: Uncle Selig and the Traffic Light
Chapter 8: Nachman, Gabriel and Moshe
Chapter 9: Too Good To Be True
Chapter 10: Small Segments: Gold or Fool’s Gold?
Chapter 11: “I’m a Pikholz Too”
Chapter 12: Sarah Baar and Breine Riss
Chapter 13: Simon and Barbara
Chapter 14: What Does This Prove?
Chapter 15: Genes From My Father
Chapter 16: Recreation of the Great-Grandparents
Chapter 17: Cousins of Hersch
Chapter 18: Lessons in Endogamy
Chapter 19: Imperfect Triangulation: Amos and Pawel, Ira and Steve
Chapter 20: Peretz
Chapter 21: Ron and Craig and Maybe Someone Else
Chapter 22: Extreme Ancestors
Chapter 23: Chromosome Twenty-Three
A Stopping Place
Curtain Call

Appendix A: My Personal Family – Pikholz & Kwoczka
Appendix B: My Personal Family – Rosenzweig & Zelinka, Bauer & Stern
Appendix C: My Personal Family – Rosenbloom, Gordon & Kugel
Appendix D: The Rozdol Pikholz Families
Appendix E: Town Coordinates and Index
Appendix F: Given Names

Israel Pickholtz Websites:

All My Foreparents
Pikholz Project

What people are saying

There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who detail the many reasons why they can’t do something. And then there is Israel Pickholtz. He simply ignored the naysayers and did it anyway – and quite well. If you think your genetic genealogy is too interwoven, too endogamous or too difficult, then by all means, read how Israel approached the multiple challenges he faced. While you’re reading, you’ll enjoy many interesting success stories. A very encouraging book about solutions, not just about Jewish genetic genealogy.

Roberta Estes
www.DNAeXplain.com
author of the blog www.dna-explained.com
June 30, 2015