--- title: "Alejandro Smud" url: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/alejandro-smud/ 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: "The eldest of the three siblings. Born in Berdyansk on 11 March 1897, he reached Buenos Aires at the age of seven. He settled in Maciá, Entre Ríos, with his own store opposite the railway station." --- # Alejandro Smud **Evidence status: documented.** The eldest of the three siblings. Born in Berdyansk on 11 March 1897, he reached Buenos Aires at the age of seven. He settled in Maciá, Entre Ríos, with his own store opposite the railway station. 1897 – 1959 · Bookkeeper · general store in Maciá ## Other spellings Alex, Alexander ## Summary - Born: 11 March 1897, Berdyansk - Died: 1959, aged sixty-two - Education: Antonio Bermejo School of Commerce · bookkeeper - Married: Isabel Loyber, mid-1920 - Town: Maciá, Rosario Tala department ## Family - Father: Felix Smud — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/felix-smud/ - Mother: Malke Noel — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/malke-noel/ - Married: Isabel Loyber ## What is known He went to primary school in Buenos Aires and later completed his studies at the Antonio Bermejo School of Commerce, where he qualified as a bookkeeper. With that qualification in hand he found work in rural Entre Ríos. In Entre Ríos he worked in Maciá, Rosario Tala department, in Elías Loyber's general store. There he met Isabel Loyber, the owner's niece, who was in Maciá on holiday. They married in mid-1920. Around 1926 he left the Loyber firm and set up on his own, with a general store and grain-collecting business, and a house of his own, opposite the railway station. He died in 1959, aged sixty-two. ## Photographs ![Head-and-shoulders portrait of Alejandro Smud: bald, with a trimmed moustache, a dark jacket, white shirt and tie. On the left of the print there is a row of round perforations.](https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/fotos/alejandro-smud-retrato.jpg) **Portrait of Alejandro Smud.** Alejandro Smud, the eldest of the three siblings. The perforations on the left are those of an identity document. Undated. (documented.) ![Studio portrait of the Smud family: Ester Malka seated, in a dark dress with a lace front; beside her Aida, in a light dress; Marcos and Alejandro in short suits and bows, one of them holding a cane; and Felix standing, his hand on one of his sons' shoulder.](https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/fotos/felix-smud-ester-malka-y-familia.jpg) **Felix Smud and Ester Malka with their children.** Felix Smud and Ester Malka with their three children: the girl is Aida; the two boys are Alejandro and Marcos (Meyer), though it is not known which is which. Undated. (documented.) ## Parentage, version by version - What the documents show (https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/family-tree/documents/) — mother: Malke Noel — documented. Alex, aged 7, travels with “Malke Noel de Smud” and the other children. - What the documents show (https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/family-tree/documents/) — father: Felix Smud — compatible with the documents. The register does not name the father: Malke travels as “de Smud”, Felix's wife, and the family always gave him as the father. - Chaim Freedman, February 2020 (https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/family-tree/freedman-february-2020/) — father: not named; mother: not named — CONTRADICTED by a document. The report does not name him. He travelled with Malke in 1904. ## Surname variants - Smud — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/name-variants/smud/ ## In the timeline - 1897 — Alejandro is born - August 1904 — Malke leaves Berdyansk with the three children - 23 December 1904 — The ship docks in Buenos Aires - c. 1915 — Malke dies and the siblings move to Entre Ríos - 1920 — Alejandro marries Isabel Loyber - 1926 — The store opposite the station - 1959 — Alejandro dies - 1996 — Rubén types three pages ## Places - Berdyansk — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/places/berdyansk/ - Buenos Aires — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/places/buenos-aires/ - Maciá — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/places/macia/ - Bremen — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/places/bremen/ ## Where this comes from - The 1904 immigration register (documented) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/sources/#registro-inmigracion-1904 - Rubén's document, October 1996 (family memory) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/sources/ruben-1996/ ## In FamilySearch's collaborative tree (not a source) https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GLQK-HCQ --- The Smud Family · genealogical research by Mateo Smud, published under CC0 1.0. Machine index: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/llms.txt