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

Israeli genealogy researchers who are not yet confident using DNA testing will be convinced of its importance as a research tool after reading this book. For those of us wrestling to identify our surnameless grandmothers and great-grandmothers, the explanations and examples which Pickholtz brings leave no doubt that if we choose our test-takers wisely, there are results to be had.

Dr. Lea Haber Gedalia
Past-President Israel Genealogical Society
March 15, 2015