https://dewofyouryouth.com/A blog by Jacob Shore about genealogy, language learning, faith, and software — tracing family history, studying Arabic, and thinking carefully about things that matter.enTue, 26 May 2026 13:44:54 UTChttps://dewofyouryouth.com/post/sam-shores-82-yahrzeit-a-tale-of-a-spear-and-emigration/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/sam-shores-82-yahrzeit-a-tale-of-a-spear-and-emigration/Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:11:34 +0300 A story about Shmariahu (Sam) Shore, his father, and a spear kept for self-defense in the Pale of Settlement.https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/the-saranduk-/-shore-family-an-overview/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/the-saranduk-/-shore-family-an-overview/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0300 A findings-focused guide to three years of Saranduk / Shore family research — what we now know, what was newly discovered, and what remains open.https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/fred-green-and-the-rambach-photograph/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/fred-green-and-the-rambach-photograph/Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:13:45 +0200 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.https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/fredrick-philip-green/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/fredrick-philip-green/Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC 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.https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/judeo-arabic-signage-in-djerba/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/judeo-arabic-signage-in-djerba/Thu, 06 Nov 2025 09:08:10 +0200 Some signage from my recent trip to Djerbahttps://dewofyouryouth.com/post/avrum-saranduk-a-central-figure-in-the-shoresaranduk-lineage/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/avrum-saranduk-a-central-figure-in-the-shoresaranduk-lineage/Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:56:04 +0300 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.https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/how-we-reconstructed-the-sarandukshore-family-line/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/how-we-reconstructed-the-sarandukshore-family-line/Mon, 12 May 2025 13:00:00 +0300 Some comments on the methodology of my genealogy research.https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/remembering-poseidon/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/remembering-poseidon/Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:39:03 +0200 A eulogy for a king! A god! A legend!https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/tillie-beresovsky-shore-71st-yahrzeit/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/tillie-beresovsky-shore-71st-yahrzeit/Fri, 07 Feb 2025 11:04:39 +0200 Remembering Taube (Tillie) Beresovsky Shore with family notes, migration records, and the tangled geography of her Ukrainian hometown.https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%93%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A4%D7%97%D7%AA-%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%A8-%D7%A1%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A7/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%93%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A4%D7%97%D7%AA-%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%A8-%D7%A1%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A7/Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:34:39 +0300 סקירת מקורות ושושלת משפחת שור/סרנדוק מטולנה והעליות לארה"ב.https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/philip-netty-shore/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/philip-netty-shore/Fri, 24 May 2024 15:07:25 +0300 Tracing Philip (Pinhas) and Netty Shore from Katerynopil to Providence through passenger lists, naturalization records, and family oral history of their escape.https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/the-80th-yahrtzeit-of-shmariahu-shore/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/the-80th-yahrtzeit-of-shmariahu-shore/Tue, 14 May 2024 12:27:47 +0300 Marking Shmariahu (Sam) Shore’s 80th yahrtzeit with family recollections, community leadership, and sources on his Providence life and legacy.https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/a-wolf-who-did-not-become-shore/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/a-wolf-who-did-not-become-shore/Sun, 12 May 2024 22:31:34 +0300 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.https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/new-talne-saranduk-records/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/new-talne-saranduk-records/Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:00:40 +0200 New records added by JewishGen shed new light on the Saranduk’s in Talne.https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/hyman-sarah/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/hyman-sarah/Sun, 10 Dec 2023 08:38:40 +0200 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.https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/shore-/-saranduk-family-part-iii/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/shore-/-saranduk-family-part-iii/Thu, 09 Nov 2023 14:47:49 +0200 1836–1889 Saranduk census entries and Cherkasy church records tracing Mordko and Nakhman branches.https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/shore-/-saranduk-family-part-ii/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/shore-/-saranduk-family-part-ii/Wed, 08 Nov 2023 10:00:38 +0200 1818/1836 Torgovitsa revision lists mapping Leyb → Mordko/Avrum lines and migration to Talne.https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/shore-/-saranduk-family-part-i/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/shore-/-saranduk-family-part-i/Wed, 13 Sep 2023 12:33:32 +0300 Why Saranduk became Shore; matching the 1858 Talne census, 1904 Gerty manifest, and Lincoln Park burials.