There just weren't that many Podjazds. At JRI-Poland, the earliest record of a Podjazd (or the interchangeable spelling Podiazd) is 1844. Kehilalinks has one record from 1823, plus a "Podiazdowsly" from 1805. A couple of family trees I've seen online have one or two Podjazds in the late 1700s.
The latest Podjazds showing up in the research were those who perished in the Holocaust (about a dozen), plus one or two who showed up in survivors lists.
I am sure that somewhere in the world there remain Podjazds living today, but I am equally sure the number is extremely small. I've identified less than 100 Podjazds who lived between 1800 and 1945. Of that number, about 10 (that I know of) emigrated to America and changed their surname to Marcus. Their community in Poland, Ciechanow, was decimated during WWII. There had been something like 8,000 Jews living there and less than 200 survived. As noted above, I've only seen evidence of one or two survivors named Podjazd.
Unfortunately, I don't have good sources for searching current populations in Poland, Israel, or France, three places where Podjazds might have wound up. Searches in the U.S. come up empty -- but that's no surprise, since Podjazds tend to change their name to Marcus once they hit U.S. soil.
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