Those who helped
Credits
This research was not done alone.
- Sherri Bobish
From the JewishGen community. Her answer to a query opened the first lead towards the documented branch in Ukraine.
- Daniel Smud
For access to family documents.
- Eric Dorster
For his contributions.
- Those who maintain the online trees
The people who uploaded and keep up the public family trees from which much of this search started.
A debt of recognition
Much of this work would not exist without a typed document that Rubén, son of Alejandro and grandson of Felix, wrote in October 1996. There were no digitised archives or online databases then: Rubén rebuilt the story by asking those who could still tell it, above all Alejandro and Aida.
What stands out is that he took care to separate what he knew for certain from what he only supposed. Thirty years later, when the original documents surfaced, almost everything he had written proved accurate: the arrival date, the name of the ship, the city where the family lived, Felix's trade, even the Baltic origin of the surname.
Read the whole document, scanned and transcribed (in Spanish)
How to cite
Smud, Mateo. La familia Smud (Zhmuydya · Zhmood · Zhmud · Zmud): de Ludza a Entre Ríos. [The Smud Family: From Ludza to Entre Ríos.] 2026. https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/
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