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Hrytsai (Грицай): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Hritsai · Gritsai · Hrycai. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 125 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: 1 placeVolyn oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 3 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 9 placesDonetsk oblast: 4 placesZhytomyr oblast: 3 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 3 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 3 placesKyiv oblast: 9 placesKyiv oblast: 9 placesKirovohrad oblast: 2 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 14 placesMykolaiv oblast: 2 placesOdesa oblastPoltava oblast: 10 placesRivne oblast: 1 placeSumy oblast: 14 placesTernopil oblast: 8 placesKharkiv oblast: 13 placesKherson oblast: 1 placeKhmelnytskyi oblast: 8 placesCherkasy oblast: 11 placesChernihiv oblast: 5 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1
  • 2–3
  • 4–8
  • 9–14

Selected oblast

Lviv oblast

14 places with the surname Грицай

All 14 places →

Coverage: Lviv oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Lviv oblast 1411%
Sumy oblast 1411%
Kharkiv oblast 1310%
Cherkasy oblast 119%
Poltava oblast 108%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 97%
Kyiv oblast 97%
Ternopil oblast 86%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 86%
Chernihiv oblast 54%
All 21 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Donetsk oblast 43%
Zhytomyr oblast 32%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 32%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 32%
Luhansk oblast 32%
Kirovohrad oblast 22%
Mykolaiv oblast 22%
Vinnytsia oblast 11%
Volyn oblast 11%
Rivne 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

17 of 125 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Lviv oblast 14All 14 places
Sumy oblast 148 of 14

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

Kharkiv oblast 138 of 13

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

Cherkasy oblast 117 of 11

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

Poltava oblast 106 of 10

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 95 of 9

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

Kyiv oblast 95 of 9

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

Ternopil oblast 85 of 8

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 85 of 8

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

Chernihiv oblast 53 of 5

and 2 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 →

Zhytomyr oblast 3All 3 places
Zaporizhzhia oblast 3All 3 places
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 3All 3 places
Luhansk oblast 3All 3 places
Kirovohrad oblast 2All 2 places
Mykolaiv oblast 2All 2 places
Vinnytsia oblast 1All 1 place
Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Rivne 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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