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Hryshchenko (Грищенко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Hrishchenko · Grishchenko · Hryszczenko. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 264 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: 9 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 5 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 18 placesDonetsk oblast: 11 placesZhytomyr oblast: 26 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 10 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 46 placesKyiv oblast: 46 placesKirovohrad oblast: 5 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 12 placesOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 4 placesRivne oblast: 1 placeSumy oblast: 21 placesTernopil oblast: 1 placeKharkiv oblast: 18 placesKherson oblast: 7 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 2 placesCherkasy oblast: 8 placesChernihiv oblast: 58 placesChernivtsi oblast: 1 place
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–2
  • 4–8
  • 9–12
  • 18–58

Selected oblast

Chernihiv oblast

58 places with the surname Грищенко

All 58 places →

Coverage: Chernihiv oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Chernihiv oblast 5822%
Kyiv oblast 4617%
Zhytomyr oblast 2610%
Sumy oblast 218%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 187%
Kharkiv oblast 187%
Mykolaiv oblast 125%
Donetsk oblast 114%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 104%
Vinnytsia oblast 93%
All 20 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Cherkasy oblast 83%
Kherson oblast 73%
Kirovohrad oblast 52%
Luhansk oblast 52%
Poltava oblast 42%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 21%
Odesa oblast 11%
Rivne oblast 11%
Ternopil oblast 11%
Chernivtsi 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

14 of 264 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Chernihiv oblast 5824 of 58

and 34 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 4613 of 46

and 33 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zhytomyr oblast 267 of 26

and 19 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Sumy oblast 216 of 21

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 185 of 18

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

Kharkiv oblast 185 of 18

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

Mykolaiv oblast 123 of 12

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

Donetsk oblast 113 of 11

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 103 of 10

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

Vinnytsia oblast 93 of 9

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

Cherkasy oblast 83 of 8

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

Kherson oblast 73 of 7

and 4 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 →

Poltava oblast 43 of 4

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 2All 2 places
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Rivne oblast 1All 1 place
Ternopil oblast 1All 1 place
Chernivtsi oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

136 entries in 15 regiments

  • Переяславський
  • Чигиринський
  • Корсунський
  • Уманський
  • Канівський
  • Київський
  • Полтавський
  • Білоцерківський
  • Кропивнянський
  • Миргородський
  • Черкаський
  • Кальницький
  • Брацлавський
  • Прилуцький
  • Ніжинський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Степанъ ГришченкоЧигиринський regimentp. 4
Жданъ Грышченкоsotnia ПетрашковаЧеркаський regimentp. 31
Андрей Гришченкоsotnia СтародубоваКанівський regimentp. 54
Семенъ Грищенкоsotnia ГоркушинаКорсунський regimentp. 81
Семенъ ГрищенкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 108

5 of 136 entries shown. 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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