The Smud FamilyAsk

Recorded variant, no documentary date

Zhmood

The form used by English-language genealogical reconstructions —starting with Chaim Freedman's— for the family in the southern Ukrainian colonies. On this site it is the surname of that generation's entries, but it is not written this way in any of this research's archival documents.

No document of this research shows it

Where it appears

Not in an archival document of this research, but in the reconstructions. Chaim Freedman, the Australian genealogist who reconstructed the Komisaruk and Zhmood families of the Ekaterinoslav farming colonies, spells the surname this way, and the collaborative trees built on his work repeat it.

That is why this site’s entries for that generation —Koppel, his brothers and his children— carry the surname Zhmood: it is the name under which they are found when searching. The oldest document that names them, the 1858 census, says Zmud, and the 1899 birth record says Zhmud.

Zmood

According to this research’s account, in the early twentieth century several members of the family emigrated to Australia, New Zealand and the United States, and some branches kept earlier forms of the surname. Hence there are people named Zmood in Melbourne. Much of what is known about the older generations was preserved thanks to that branch.

This research has no document of its own showing the form Zmood.

Zhmoot

Another recorded form of the same word. This research does not date it in any document.

People in this research under this form