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Horbach (Горбач): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Gorbach · Horbacz. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 105 towns and villages of 20 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: 1 placeVolyn oblast: 3 placesLuhansk oblast: 2 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 1 placeDonetsk oblast: 1 placeZhytomyr oblast: 8 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 3 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 14 placesKyiv oblast: 14 placesKirovohrad oblastCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 7 placesMykolaiv oblast: 2 placesOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 2 placesRivne oblast: 5 placesSumy oblast: 3 placesTernopil oblast: 3 placesKharkiv oblast: 5 placesKherson oblast: 5 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 4 placesCherkasy oblast: 3 placesChernihiv oblast: 32 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 3–4
  • 5–32

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Chernihiv oblast

32 places with the surname Горбач

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Chernihiv oblast 3230%
Kyiv oblast 1413%
Zhytomyr oblast 88%
Lviv oblast 77%
Rivne oblast 55%
Kharkiv oblast 55%
Kherson oblast 55%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 44%
Volyn oblast 33%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 33%
All 20 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Sumy oblast 33%
Ternopil oblast 33%
Cherkasy oblast 33%
Luhansk oblast 22%
Mykolaiv oblast 22%
Poltava oblast 22%
Vinnytsia oblast 11%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 11%
Donetsk oblast 11%
Odesa 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

15 of 105 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Chernihiv oblast 3224 of 32

and 8 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 1410 of 14

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

Zhytomyr oblast 86 of 8

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

Lviv oblast 75 of 7

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

Rivne oblast 53 of 5

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

Kharkiv oblast 53 of 5

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

Kherson oblast 53 of 5

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 43 of 4

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

Volyn oblast 3All 3 places
Zaporizhzhia oblast 3All 3 places
Sumy oblast 3All 3 places
Ternopil oblast 3All 3 places
Cherkasy oblast 3All 3 places
Luhansk oblast 2All 2 places
Mykolaiv oblast 2All 2 places
Poltava oblast 2All 2 places
Vinnytsia oblast 1All 1 place
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 1All 1 place
Donetsk oblast 1All 1 place
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

5 entries in 5 regiments

  • Канівський
  • Київський
  • Кропивнянський
  • Ніжинський
  • Чернігівський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Васько Горбачъsotnia РосченковаКанівський regimentp. 65
Яцько Горбачъsotnia БроварскаяКиївський regimentp. 209
Мисько Горбачъsotnia ПиратинскаяКропивнянський regimentp. 250
Иванъ Горбачъsotnia НежинскаяНіжинський regimentp. 327
Ваеько Горбачъsotnia КонотопскаяЧернігівський regimentp. 335

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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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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