---
title: "Mark Yovel"
url: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/mark-yovel/
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 Plungė, in Samogitia, like the rest of the Yovels of this branch."
---
# Mark Yovel

**Evidence status: documented.** Born in Plungė, in Samogitia, like the rest of the Yovels of this branch.

1705 · Father of Zalman Yovel

## Summary

- Born: 1705, Plungė

## Family

- Father: Yovel — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/yovel-1690/
- Mother: Ester — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/ester-madre-de-mark/
- Children: Zalman Yovel — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/zalman-yovel/

## What is known

His father, Yovel, was born in 1690: fifteen years between them. A very young father, but that is how the Yovel dates run, and there is nothing impossible about them.

## Where this comes from

- Chaim Freedman's work (documented) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/sources/#freedman
- FamilySearch (documented) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/sources/#familysearch

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

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/PX82-VBS

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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