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Chernysh (Черниш): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Chernish · Czernysz. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 154 towns and villages of 21 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: 29 placesVolyn oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 4 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 7 placesDonetsk oblast: 4 placesZhytomyr oblast: 25 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 6 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 1 placeKyiv oblast: 13 placesKyiv oblast: 13 placesKirovohrad oblast: 3 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 1 placeOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblast: 11 placesRivne oblast: 4 placesSumy oblast: 4 placesTernopil oblast: 3 placesKharkiv oblast: 10 placesKherson oblast: 1 placeKhmelnytskyi oblast: 11 placesCherkasy oblast: 12 placesChernihiv oblast: 2 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 1
  • 2–3
  • 4–10
  • 11–29

Selected oblast

Vinnytsia oblast

29 places with the surname Черниш

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 2919%
Zhytomyr oblast 2516%
Kyiv oblast 138%
Cherkasy oblast 128%
Poltava oblast 117%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 117%
Kharkiv oblast 106%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 75%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 64%
Donetsk oblast 43%
All 21 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Luhansk oblast 43%
Rivne oblast 43%
Sumy oblast 43%
Kirovohrad oblast 32%
Ternopil oblast 32%
Odesa oblast 21%
Chernihiv oblast 21%
Volyn oblast 11%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 11%
Mykolaiv oblast 11%
Kherson 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

29 of 154 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Vinnytsia oblast 2924 of 29

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

Zhytomyr oblast 2512 of 25

and 13 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 136 of 13

and 7 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 126 of 12

and 6 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Poltava oblast 115 of 11

and 6 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Khmelnytskyi oblast 115 of 11

and 6 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kharkiv oblast 105 of 10

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 73 of 7

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 63 of 6

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

Donetsk oblast 43 of 4

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

Luhansk oblast 43 of 4

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

Rivne oblast 43 of 4

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

Sumy oblast 43 of 4

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

Kirovohrad oblast 3All 3 places
Ternopil oblast 3All 3 places
Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Chernihiv oblast 2All 2 places
Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 1All 1 place
Mykolaiv oblast 1All 1 place
Kherson 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

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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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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