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title: "Yehuda Zhmuydya"
url: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/yehuda-zhmuydya/
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: "Published trees give his birth as 1748 and his death as 1806. Where he lived depends on the version consulted: some place him in Salantai, others in Ludza."
---
# Yehuda Zhmuydya

**Evidence status: unverified.** Published trees give his birth as 1748 and his death as 1806. Where he lived depends on the version consulted: some place him in Salantai, others in Ludza.

1748 – 1806 · Second proposed generation

## Summary

- Born: 1748
- Died: 1806
- Place: Salantai, Telšiai uyezd, Kovno governorate —according to other versions, Ludza—
- Status: Undocumented

## Family

- Father: Leizer Zhmuydya — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/leizer-zhmuydya/
- Children: Alexander Zhmuydya — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/alexander-zhmuydya/

## What is known

Those trees list him as Leizer's son and Alexander's father.

Dates and places vary with the version consulted: some sources place Yehuda in Salantai —Telšiai uyezd, Kovno governorate, then in the Russian Empire— and others in Ludza.

Like the other two generations in this block, it is a reconstruction with no document to support it.

## Surname variants

- Zhmuydya — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/name-variants/zhmuydya/

## Where this comes from

- Family trees published online (unverified) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/sources/#arboles-en-linea

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

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/PX8K-9YJ

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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