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Zhmud / Zmud

Zhmud / Zmud

Posted: 12 Jan 2009 12:03AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Zmud, Zhmud, Karasevich
We had our dna done. If any other people tied to the name do also please let us know. I think it's the only way we will know that we're related, with all the secrecy in most of our ancestor's pasts.

Re: Zhmud / Zmud

Posted: 1 Jan 2012 10:48PM GMT
Classification: Query
The name is Jewish and comes originally from Latvia (Lutzin) - and was styled as Zhmud, Zmood, which derives from the original "Zhmudze" - meaning "lowlander", as I understand it. The Zhmud family migrated with fellow members of the Latvian and Lithuanian Jewish communities to the Jewish agricultural settlements in the Ukraine and, from there, most left before WWII to the West. Almost all of those who remained perished in the war, with some still bearing the name in the Ukraine. Most migrated to Australia and remain Jewish to this day.
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