---
title: "Koppel Zhmood"
url: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/koppel-zhmood/
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: "Born in Ludza, he came to the colonies as a boy with his parents. In the 1858 census he is 20 and already married. His name reappears in 1899, in his grandson's birth record."
---
# Koppel Zhmood

**Evidence status: documented.** Born in Ludza, he came to the colonies as a boy with his parents. In the 1858 census he is 20 and already married. His name reappears in 1899, in his grandson's birth record.

c. 1838 – c. 1900 · Felix's father

## Other spellings

Kopel, Kópel, Копель

## Summary

- Born: around 1838, Ludza
- Died: around 1900, Andreyevka
- Documented in: 1858 census · Mariupol birth record, 1899

## Family

- Father: David Zmud — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/david-zhmuydya/
- Mother: Khana Reizel — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/khana-reizel-komisaruk/
- Married: Dvorka — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/dvorka-yovel/
- Children: Moshe Zhmood
- Children: Pesach Zhmood
- Children: Hinda Ana Zhmood
- Children: Manyik Zhmood
- Children: Tybel Zhmood
- Children: Felix Smud — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/felix-smud/

## What is known

In the 1858 census he is 20 and already married to Dvorka, Aba's daughter, of the same age. He died around 1900, in Andreyevka.

There he is written Koppel; in the 1899 Mariupol birth record, which names him as the paternal grandfather of the registered child, he appears as Kopel. That second mention, forty-one years after the first, is what made it possible to join the Russian branch to the Argentine one.

Koppel and Dvorka had several children: Moshe, Pesach, Hinda Ana, Manyik, Tybel and Yerakhmiel Falik. The last of them is Felix.

## Parentage, version by version

- What the documents show (https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/family-tree/documents/) — father: David Zmud — documented. “Его сыновья 1. Копель”: Kopel, David's son, aged 20.
- What the documents show (https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/family-tree/documents/) — mother: Khana Reizel — compatible with the documents. Khana is David's wife in the same household. The census does not say “son of Khana”: that she is his mother fits the ages.

## Surname variants

- Zmud — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/name-variants/zmud/
- Zhmood — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/name-variants/zhmood/
- Zhmud — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/name-variants/zhmud/

## In the timeline

- c. 1850 — The family settles in the colony
- 1858 — The colony census
- 1899 — The Mariupol birth record
- c. 1900 — Koppel dies

## Places

- Ludza — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/places/ludza/
- Novy Zlatopol — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/places/novy-zlatopol/
- Andreyevka — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/places/andreyevka/
- Aleksandrovsk
- Mariupol — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/places/mariupol/

## Where this comes from

- The 1858 census (documented) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/sources/#censo-1858
- Marcos's birth record (documented) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/sources/#partida-1899

## In FamilySearch's collaborative tree (not a source)

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/PX8V-91T

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The Smud Family · genealogical research by Mateo Smud, published under CC0 1.0. Machine index: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/llms.txt