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Hudz (Гудзь): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Gudz. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 101 towns and villages of 16 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: 19 placesVolyn oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 2 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 1 placeDonetsk oblast: 1 placeZhytomyr oblast: 14 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblastIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 2 placesKyiv oblast: 8 placesKyiv oblast: 8 placesKirovohrad oblast: 2 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 7 placesMykolaiv oblastOdesa oblast: 5 placesPoltava oblast: 2 placesRivne oblastSumy oblastTernopil oblast: 10 placesKharkiv oblastKherson oblastKhmelnytskyi oblast: 16 placesCherkasy oblast: 10 placesChernihiv oblast: 1 placeChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 5–8
  • 10–19

Selected oblast

Vinnytsia oblast

19 places with the surname Гудзь

All 19 places →

Coverage: Vinnytsia oblast →

The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 1919%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 1616%
Zhytomyr oblast 1414%
Ternopil oblast 1010%
Cherkasy oblast 1010%
Kyiv oblast 88%
Lviv oblast 77%
Odesa oblast 55%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 22%
Kirovohrad oblast 22%
All 16 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Luhansk oblast 22%
Poltava oblast 22%
Volyn oblast 11%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 11%
Donetsk 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

32 of 101 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Vinnytsia oblast 19All 19 places
Khmelnytskyi oblast 1612 of 16

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

Zhytomyr oblast 1411 of 14

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

Ternopil oblast 107 of 10

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

Cherkasy oblast 107 of 10

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

Kyiv 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 →

Odesa oblast 53 of 5

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

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 2All 2 places
Kirovohrad oblast 2All 2 places
Luhansk oblast 2All 2 places
Poltava oblast 2All 2 places
Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 1All 1 place
Donetsk oblast 1All 1 place
Chernihiv oblast 1All 1 place

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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