The Smud FamilyAsk

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The tree that can be followed on FamilySearch and in other published trees, which take their lines from Eliyahu's Branches (1997): Khana daughter of Dov-Ber (Berel) Komisaruk and Ester, a granddaughter of the Gaon; Dvorka daughter of Mordechai Yovel and Ita; three generations above Falk. It is the one this site drew until now, and two of its filiations are contradicted by the 1858 census.

FamilySearch is a tree anyone can edit. For this family it follows, in essence, Chaim Freedman’s reconstruction in Eliyahu’s Branches, of 1997: the book is attached to the entry for Yehuda Leib, the Gaon’s son. Other published trees repeat the same, adding the three generations before Falk (Alexander, Yehuda and Leizer Zhmuydya), with no documents attached.

Until the 1858 census was read with the women’s patronymics, this was this site’s tree. Two of its filiations, precisely those that go up through the women, are contradicted by that census: they are drawn with the background for what has been disproved.

  • Documented
  • Proposed, unverified
  • Contradicted by a document
  • Direct line to Entre Ríos
  • = Marriage

The colour bar on each box shows which stage of the journey that person lived in. Selecting a box opens a short summary without leaving this page. Boxes with a striped pattern are in this version only because of a filiation a document contradicts.

LEIZER ZHMUYDYAc. 1725YEHUDA ZHMUYDYA1748 – 1806ALEXANDERZHMUYDYA1778 – 1834FALK ZHMOODc. 1797 – 1840DAVID ZMUDc. 1818 – 1880Khana Reizelc. 1820 – 1885KOPPEL ZHMOODc. 1838 – c. 1900Dvorkac. 1838FELIX SMUDc. 1860/68 – c. 1909Malke Noelc. 1874 – c. 1915ALEJANDRO SMUD1897 – 1959Isabel LoyberMARCOS SMUD1899 – 1951Esther KlaiserburdAIDA SMUD1904 – 1992Pablo FreibergMoshe ZhmoodPesach ZhmoodHinda Ana ZhmoodManyik ZhmoodTybel ZhmoodFalk Zhmoodc. 1840 – 1904Leyzer Zhmoods. XIXDov-Ber (Berel)Komisaruk1776 – 1843Esther Leib1785 – 1860David Komisaruk1747 – 1816Khana Serhei– 1785Meir JoselowiczHalevy1720 – 1765Beyla1720Yosef HaLevyc. 1695 – before 1765Esther Jaffe1738Rabbi Avraham ofSerhei1735Yekhezekel Lazdeic. 1710 – c. 1782Liba Serdek1766 – 1816Rabbi Yehuda LeibVilner Kramer1764 – 1816Chana bat YehudahLeib1724 – 1782Eliyahu ben ShlomoZalman1720 – 1797Treina Ginzberg1700 – 1778Shlomo ZalmanKremerc. 1695 – 1758Ita1784Mordechai Yovel1788 – 1831Rabbi Eliyahu-ZevRouzaYovel Yovel1745BlumeZalman Yovel1725Mark Yovel1705Yovel1690EsterMeyer

Filiation by filiation

What this version says about each person's parents, and how that stands against the documents.

PersonFather and mother, in this versionAgainst the documents
Khana Reizelfather: Dov-Ber (Berel) Komisaruk
mother: Esther Leib		Contradicted

The 1858 census calls her “Хана Залкова”, daughter of Zalka: she cannot have been the daughter of a Berel or a Velvel.

The 1858 census

Dvorkafather: Mordechai Yovel
mother: Ita		Contradicted

The 1858 census calls her “Дворка Абова”, daughter of Aba. Besides, Mordechai would have died in 1831, seven years before the birth her ages give.

The 1858 census

The same tree, as a list

Each indent is one more generation. Names in capitals are the direct line from Ludza to Entre Ríos, those preceded by = are marriages, and the colour bar shows which stage of the journey each person lived in. Under each woman who brings her own ancestry there is a panel that opens it. What a document contradicts is shown with a striped pattern.

  1. Leizer Zhmuydyac. 1725The oldest name in the published tree

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