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Korzh (Корж): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 128 towns and villages of 22 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: 12 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 4 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 3 placesDonetsk oblast: 7 placesZhytomyr oblast: 4 placesZakarpattia oblast: 1 placeZaporizhzhia oblast: 7 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 4 placesKyiv oblast: 19 placesKyiv oblast: 19 placesKirovohrad oblast: 6 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 1 placeMykolaiv oblast: 2 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblast: 5 placesRivne oblast: 2 placesSumy oblast: 5 placesTernopil oblast: 1 placeKharkiv oblast: 11 placesKherson oblast: 5 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 2 placesCherkasy oblast: 1 placeChernihiv oblast: 24 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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Chernihiv oblast

24 places with the surname Корж

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Chernihiv oblast 2419%
Kyiv oblast 1915%
Vinnytsia oblast 129%
Kharkiv oblast 119%
Donetsk oblast 75%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 75%
Kirovohrad oblast 65%
Poltava oblast 54%
Sumy oblast 54%
Kherson oblast 54%
All 22 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Zhytomyr oblast 43%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 43%
Luhansk oblast 43%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 32%
Mykolaiv oblast 22%
Odesa oblast 22%
Rivne oblast 22%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 22%
Zakarpattia oblast 11%
Lviv oblast 11%
Ternopil oblast 11%
Cherkasy 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 128 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Chernihiv oblast 24All 24 places
Kyiv oblast 1911 of 19

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

Vinnytsia oblast 127 of 12

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

Kharkiv oblast 116 of 11

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

Donetsk oblast 74 of 7

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 74 of 7

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

Kirovohrad oblast 63 of 6

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

Poltava oblast 53 of 5

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

Sumy 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 →

Zhytomyr oblast 43 of 4

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

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 43 of 4

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

Luhansk oblast 43 of 4

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 3All 3 places
Mykolaiv oblast 2All 2 places
Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Rivne oblast 2All 2 places
Khmelnytskyi oblast 2All 2 places
Zakarpattia oblast 1All 1 place
Lviv oblast 1All 1 place
Ternopil oblast 1All 1 place
Cherkasy oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

13 entries in 9 regiments

  • Брацлавський
  • Київський
  • Миргородський
  • Черкаський
  • Канівський
  • Корсунський
  • Білоцерківський
  • Кропивнянський
  • Прилуцький

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Микита Коржъsotnia СтародубоваКанівський regimentp. 56
Олешко КоржъКорсунський regimentp. 79
Трохимъ КоржъБілоцерківський regimentp. 109
Иванъ Коржъsotnia КраснянскаяБрацлавський regimentp. 162
Мисько Коржъsotnia МакаровскаяКиївський regimentp. 210

5 of 13 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.

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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