--- title: "The JewishGen trees" url: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/family-tree/jewishgen/ lang: en work: "The Smud Family: A Jewish Family History from Ludza, Latvia to Entre Ríos, Argentina" author: "Mateo Smud" licence: CC0-1.0 summary: "What researchers upload to the Family Tree of the Jewish People. Chaim Freedman's file, from 2017, already had the household of Aba that the 1858 census confirms —with his daughter Dofka, of 1838— and gives the generations before Falk with death years. Other trees repeat the version that census contradicts." --- # The JewishGen trees What researchers upload to the Family Tree of the Jewish People. Chaim Freedman's file, from 2017, already had the household of Aba that the 1858 census confirms —with his daughter Dofka, of 1838— and gives the generations before Falk with death years. Other trees repeat the version that census contradicts. The Family Tree of the Jewish People is a database of trees uploaded by their authors. Every entry says who submitted it and when, so it is possible to see which version each researcher holds, and since when. The most interesting part is in Chaim Freedman's own file, updated in March 2017: there the Ludza family appears as Zhmuydya, with Aleksander (1778–1834) and his sons Falk (1797–1840) and Aba (1802), and with Aba's two daughters, Khaska and “Dofka”, born in 1838. That Dofka is the Dvorka the 1858 census records as Koppel's wife and Aba's daughter: the same person his February 2020 report, three years later, would call Deverah Yovel. The correction Freedman published in October 2020 brings him back to what his own tree already said. The death years of those generations —1834 for Aleksander, 1840 for Falk— have the shape of those that come from the Ludza revision lists, held in the National Historical Archive of Belarus. The tree does not say which document each comes from, so here they stand as unverified: they are the most concrete lead there is for what is missing above Falk. ## Filiation by filiation - **Dvorka** — father: Aba Senderov Zmudya — documented. “Dofka Zhmuydya, 1838, daughter of Aba (Abel ?) Zhmuydya and Khana”. It matches the 1858 census, which calls her Aba's daughter and gives her age as 20. (The JewishGen trees (Family Tree of the Jewish People)) - **Aba Senderov Zmudya** — father: Alexander Zhmuydya — compatible with the documents. “Aba (Abel ?) Zhmuydya, 1802, son of Aleksander Zhmuydya and Dvorka”. The census patronymic, Senderov, says his father was called Sender, the usual form of Aleksander. (The JewishGen trees (Family Tree of the Jewish People)) - **Falk Zhmood** — father: Alexander Zhmuydya; mother: not named — unverified. “Falk Zhmuydya, 1797–1840, son of Aleksander Zhmuydya and Dvorka, married to Ester”. No document of this research gives Falk's patronymic. (The JewishGen trees (Family Tree of the Jewish People)) - **Khana Reizel** — father: Dov-Ber (Berel) Komisaruk; mother: Esther Leib — CONTRADICTED by a document. Lior Gradstein's tree and others still give David as the husband of “Chanah Reizel Komisaruk”. The 1858 census calls her a daughter of Zalka. (The 1858 census) ## The tree in this version - Leizer Zhmuydya (c. 1725) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/leizer-zhmuydya/ - Yehuda Zhmuydya (1748 – 1806) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/yehuda-zhmuydya/ - Alexander Zhmuydya (1778 – 1834) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/alexander-zhmuydya/ - Falk Zhmood (c. 1797 – 1840) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/falk-zhmood/ - David Zmud (c. 1818 – 1880) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/david-zhmuydya/ - married to Khana Reizel (child of Dov-Ber (Berel) Komisaruk [contradicted] and Esther Leib [contradicted]) - Koppel Zhmood (c. 1838 – c. 1900) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/koppel-zhmood/ - married to Dvorka (child of Aba Senderov Zmudya and Chana) - Moshe Zhmood - Pesach Zhmood - Hinda Ana Zhmood - Manyik Zhmood - Tybel Zhmood - Felix Smud (c. 1860/68 – c. 1909) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/felix-smud/ - married to Malke Noel (child of Meyer) - Alejandro Smud (1897 – 1959) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/alejandro-smud/ - married to Isabel Loyber - Marcos Smud (1899 – 1951) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/marcos-smud/ - married to Esther Klaiserburd - Aida Smud (1904 – 1992) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/aida-smud/ - married to Pablo Freiberg - Falk Zhmood, the Nogaysk merchant (c. 1840 – 1904) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/falk-zhmood-nogaysk/ - Leyzer Zhmood (s. XIX) - Aba Senderov Zmudya (c. 1802) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/aba-senderov-zmudya/ - married to Chana - Dvorka (c. 1838) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/dvorka-yovel/ - married to Koppel Zhmood (child of David Zmud and Khana Reizel) - Moshe Zhmood - Pesach Zhmood - Hinda Ana Zhmood - Manyik Zhmood - Tybel Zhmood - Felix Smud (c. 1860/68 – c. 1909) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/felix-smud/ - married to Malke Noel (child of Meyer) - Alejandro Smud (1897 – 1959) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/alejandro-smud/ - married to Isabel Loyber - Marcos Smud (1899 – 1951) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/marcos-smud/ - married to Esther Klaiserburd - Aida Smud (1904 – 1992) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/aida-smud/ - married to Pablo Freiberg ## The other versions - This research — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/family-tree/ - What the documents show — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/family-tree/documents/ - FamilySearch's collaborative tree — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/family-tree/familysearch/ - Chaim Freedman, February 2020 — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/family-tree/freedman-february-2020/ - Chaim Freedman, October 2020 — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/family-tree/freedman-october-2020/ - Oral tradition — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/family-tree/oral-tradition/ --- The Smud Family · genealogical research by Mateo Smud, published under CC0 1.0. Machine index: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/llms.txt