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

Did I enjoy this book?  Well, let’s just say when I finished reading it (staying up way later than I should have), I read it a second time to make sure I caught everything.

Pickholtz approaches DNA differently than many genealogists do.  Rather than using DNA in a more self-centered way to find relatives, he uses it to connect distinct branches.  He uses DNA from known cousins to both add additional ammunition to posited relationships as well as to completely destroy hypotheses.  He has particular goals and clearly lays out his thought process allowing the reader to utilize these methods as well.

Lara Diamond
Lara’s Family Search http://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com
December 30, 2015