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Bilan (Білан): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Recorded in 129 towns and villages of 19 oblasts in the state memory books of 1917–1960. This is a count of places, not people or ancestors.

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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Vinnytsia oblast: 5 placesVolyn oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 5 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 1 placeDonetsk oblast: 6 placesZhytomyr oblast: 5 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 10 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 4 placesKyiv oblast: 7 placesKyiv oblast: 7 placesKirovohrad oblast: 5 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 10 placesMykolaiv oblast: 3 placesOdesa oblastPoltava oblast: 11 placesRivne oblastSumy oblast: 11 placesTernopil oblast: 5 placesKharkiv oblast: 3 placesKherson oblastKhmelnytskyi oblast: 6 placesCherkasy oblast: 19 placesChernihiv oblast: 12 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–3
  • 4
  • 5–7
  • 10–19

Selected oblast

Cherkasy oblast

19 places with the surname Білан

All 19 places →

Coverage: Cherkasy oblast →

Or choose from the list

The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Cherkasy oblast 1915%
Chernihiv oblast 129%
Poltava oblast 119%
Sumy oblast 119%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 108%
Lviv oblast 108%
Kyiv oblast 75%
Donetsk oblast 65%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 65%
Vinnytsia oblast 54%
All 19 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Zhytomyr oblast 54%
Kirovohrad oblast 54%
Luhansk oblast 54%
Ternopil oblast 54%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 43%
Mykolaiv oblast 32%
Kharkiv oblast 32%
Volyn oblast 11%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 11%

Each oblast name opens its coverage page: parishes, books and what has been digitized.

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

22 of 129 places

Parish, books and what has been digitized: open a place.

Places in the indexed books

Cherkasy oblast 19All 19 places
Chernihiv oblast 127 of 12

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

Poltava oblast 116 of 11

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

Sumy oblast 116 of 11

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 106 of 10

and 4 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Lviv oblast 106 of 10

and 4 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 74 of 7

and 3 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Donetsk oblast 63 of 6

and 3 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Khmelnytskyi oblast 63 of 6

and 3 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 53 of 5

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

Zhytomyr oblast 53 of 5

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

Kirovohrad oblast 53 of 5

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

Luhansk oblast 53 of 5

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

Ternopil oblast 53 of 5

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

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 43 of 4

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

Mykolaiv oblast 3All 3 places
Kharkiv oblast 3All 3 places
Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

1 entry in 1 regiment

  • Миргородський

The same surname in 1649 does not by itself mean this was your ancestor.

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Петро Бѣланъsotnia Кирика ПоповскогоМиргородський regimentp. 263

Names and sotnias as spelled in the 1875 edition of the register (Moscow, edited by O. M. Bodianskyi); "p." is the page of that edition.

What these books can and cannot tell you

They can

  • 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.

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Give us the surname and the village; we reply by email whether the parish books survive. It is free. Next is the search: a letter on where your family’s books are kept.

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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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