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Dovhan (Довгань): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Dovgan · Dowhan. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 106 towns and villages of 15 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

34 places with the surname Довгань

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 3432%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 2019%
Ternopil oblast 1312%
Cherkasy oblast 1110%
Mykolaiv oblast 55%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 44%
Kyiv oblast 33%
Odesa oblast 33%
Poltava oblast 33%
Kherson oblast 33%
All 15 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kirovohrad oblast 22%
Lviv oblast 22%
Rivne oblast 11%
Kharkiv oblast 11%
Chernihiv 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

36 of 106 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Vinnytsia oblast 3425 of 34

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 2015 of 20

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

Ternopil oblast 139 of 13

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

Cherkasy oblast 118 of 11

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

Mykolaiv oblast 53 of 5

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 43 of 4

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

Kyiv oblast 3All 3 places
Odesa oblast 3All 3 places
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Poltava oblast 3All 3 places
Kherson oblast 3All 3 places
Kirovohrad oblast 2All 2 places
Lviv oblast 2All 2 places
Rivne oblast 1All 1 place
Kharkiv oblast 1All 1 place
Chernihiv oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

4 entries in 3 regiments

  • Брацлавський
  • Корсунський
  • Уманський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Костя Довганьsotnia ЯсутинаКорсунський regimentp. 99
Довганьsotnia ДершадскаяУманський regimentp. 141
Педоръ Довганьsotnia КраснянскаяБрацлавський regimentp. 162
Лазарь Довганьsotnia ГорянкоцкаяБрацлавський regimentp. 165

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.

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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