Tree version · Reconstruction · febrero de 2020

Chaim Freedman, February 2020

The Komisaruk family report that replaces Eliyahu's Branches. It goes up through the women like FamilySearch's tree, calls Khana's father Berel, and puts in Felix's branch details the documents contradict: it gives him children named Moshe and Katya, leaves out Alejandro and makes Aida the daughter of an Avraham.

It is Freedman’s fullest version on the Komisaruks: 236 pages, with notes saying where each fact comes from, and Lithuanian and Ukrainian records the 1997 book did not have. For the Komisaruks themselves it is the best source there is.

For the two women through whom this family would enter the other branches, however, it repeats the earlier version, because it did not yet have the full patronymics of the 1858 census. And Felix’s branch reached it, almost certainly, through the oral tradition of other branches: it gives Felix children no document names, leaves out Alejandro and makes Aida the daughter of an Avraham of whom there is no trace. Aida is also given as dying in 1990; the family gives 1992.

The tree as a diagram

  • 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.

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
David Zmudfather: Falk Zhmood
mother: Ester
Unverified

Son of Falk, as the census says, and of an Ester no document of this research names.

The Komisaruk family, according to Freedman (February 2020)

Falk Zhmoodfather: not namedUnverified

The report does not go above Falk.

The Komisaruk family, according to Freedman (February 2020)

Khana Reizelfather: Dov-Ber (Berel) Komisaruk
mother: Esther Leib
Contradicted

Daughter of Berel and Ester, sister of Shlomo-Zalmen. The 1858 census calls her a daughter of Zalka, and Freedman himself corrected it eight months later.

The 1858 census

Dvorkafather: Mordechai Yovel
mother: Ita
Contradicted

“Deverah Yovel, born c.1830 in Plunge, daughter of Mordekhai (Marek) Yovel [1788–1831] and Ita”. The 1858 census calls her daughter of Aba, and gives her age as 20.

The 1858 census

Avraham Zhmood/Smudfather: Koppel Zhmood
mother: Dvorka
Unverified

“Avraham Zhmood/Smud”, Koppel's son, with no details at all. He appears in no other source.

The Komisaruk family, according to Freedman (February 2020)

Aida Smudfather: Avraham Zhmood/Smud
mother: not named
Contradicted

Daughter of that Avraham, died 1990. She travelled in 1904 with Malke and her brothers, Felix's sons.

The 1904 immigration register

Moshe (Misha) Zhmoodfather: Felix Smud
mother: Malke Noel
Unverified

“Moshe (Misha) Zhmood”, with no date, place or source. He may be Alejandro remembered under another name.

The Komisaruk family, according to Freedman (February 2020)

Katya Zhmoodfather: Felix Smud
mother: Malke Noel
Unverified

“Katya Zhmood”, with no date, place or source. She may be Aida remembered under another name.

The Komisaruk family, according to Freedman (February 2020)

Alejandro Smudfather: not named
mother: not named
Contradicted

The report does not name him. He travelled with Malke in 1904.

The 1904 immigration register

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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