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Demchuk (Демчук): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Demczuk. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 168 towns and villages of 15 oblasts in the state memory books of 1917–1960. This is a count of places, not people or ancestors.

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Vinnytsia oblast: 19 placesVolyn oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 4 placesDnipropetrovsk oblastDonetsk oblast: 1 placeZhytomyr oblast: 17 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblastIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 8 placesKyiv oblast: 3 placesKyiv oblast: 3 placesKirovohrad oblast: 2 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 9 placesMykolaiv oblastOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblastRivne oblast: 39 placesSumy oblastTernopil oblast: 19 placesKharkiv oblastKherson oblastKhmelnytskyi oblast: 38 placesCherkasy oblast: 5 placesChernihiv oblastChernivtsi oblast: 2 places
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1
  • 2–4
  • 5–17
  • 19–39

Selected oblast

Rivne oblast

39 places with the surname Демчук

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Rivne oblast 3923%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 3823%
Vinnytsia oblast 1911%
Ternopil oblast 1911%
Zhytomyr oblast 1710%
Lviv oblast 95%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 85%
Cherkasy oblast 53%
Luhansk oblast 42%
Kyiv oblast 32%
All 15 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kirovohrad oblast 21%
Chernivtsi oblast 21%
Volyn oblast 11%
Donetsk oblast 11%
Odesa oblast 11%

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Years of the sources

These books concern 1917–1960. Families in the 19th century were recorded in parish registers. Those are what we read, with a frame number beside every name.

Memory books 1917–1960

  • “Rehabilitated by History” («Реабілітовані історією»)1917–1960
  • National Book of Memory of Holodomor Victims1932–1933

Places with a ready parish description

46 places with a ready parish description · 24 shown

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Places in the indexed books

Rivne oblast 3924 of 39

and 15 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Other oblasts14Show
Khmelnytskyi oblast 3818 of 38

and 20 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 199 of 19

and 10 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Ternopil oblast 199 of 19

and 10 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zhytomyr oblast 178 of 17

and 9 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Lviv oblast 94 of 9

and 5 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 83 of 8

and 5 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 53 of 5

and 2 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Luhansk oblast 43 of 4

and 1 place more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 3All 3 places
Kirovohrad oblast 2All 2 places
Chernivtsi oblast 2All 2 places
Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Donetsk oblast 1All 1 place
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place

Similar surnames in the index

Similar in spelling. That does not make the families related.

What these books can and cannot tell you

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  • Show the towns and villages where the surname was recorded in 1917–1960.
  • Suggest which oblast to start the search in.

They cannot

  • This is a count of places, not people or ancestors.
  • An absent place does not mean the surname was never used there.
  • A shared surname does not establish family origin or kinship.

The index covers only the source material processed so far. An absent place does not mean the surname was never used there; a shared surname does not establish family origin or kinship.

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Source: state memory books, «Реабілітовані історією» and the National Book of Memory of the Victims of the Holodomor. We publish surnames only: no first names, dates or fates.

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