Heritage & Identity
Genealogical research on the Shore and Saranduk families. Documents first, interpretation second. The gaps are often as interesting as the records.
A story about Shmariahu (Sam) Shore, his father, and a spear kept for self-defense in the Pale of Settlement.
A findings-focused guide to three years of Saranduk / Shore family research — what we now know, what was newly discovered, and what remains open.
Family recollections about a missing Rambach portrait by Fred Green, his early work with Boston police photography, and his boxing ties, recorded as oral history pending documentation.
A genealogical and family-history note on Fredrick Philip Green (Shraga Feivel), tracing his origins from Lithuania to Sweden and the United States, and distinguishing between documented records and family memory.
Some signage from my recent trip to Djerba
A source-driven reconstruction of Avrum Saranduk’s line, weighing Revision Lists from Talne and Torgovitsa and the open question of whether “Avrum Nikhem” is the same man.
Some comments on the methodology of my genealogy research.
A eulogy for a king! A god! A legend!
Remembering Taube (Tillie) Beresovsky Shore with family notes, migration records, and the tangled geography of her Ukrainian hometown.
סקירת מקורות ושושלת משפחת שור/סרנדוק מטולנה והעליות לארה"ב.
Tracing Philip (Pinhas) and Netty Shore from Katerynopil to Providence through passenger lists, naturalization records, and family oral history of their escape.
Marking Shmariahu (Sam) Shore’s 80th yahrtzeit with family recollections, community leadership, and sources on his Providence life and legacy.
Tracing Velvel (Wolf/Volko) Saranduk from Talne to Buffalo and California, this post examines how one close branch of the Saranduk family diverged from the Shore surname, highlighting the limits and contingencies of genealogical reconstruction.
New records added by JewishGen shed new light on the Saranduk’s in Talne.
A source-based sketch of Hyman and Sarah Shore, tracking census, manifest, and cemetery records while noting the inconsistencies in ages and dates across documents.
1836–1889 Saranduk census entries and Cherkasy church records tracing Mordko and Nakhman branches.
1818/1836 Torgovitsa revision lists mapping Leyb → Mordko/Avrum lines and migration to Talne.
Why Saranduk became Shore; matching the 1858 Talne census, 1904 Gerty manifest, and Lincoln Park burials.