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Palii (Палій): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Recorded in 114 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: 19 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblastDnipropetrovsk oblast: 5 placesDonetsk oblast: 3 placesZhytomyr oblast: 9 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 2 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 3 placesKyiv oblast: 1 placeKyiv oblast: 1 placeKirovohrad oblast: 4 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 13 placesMykolaiv oblast: 6 placesOdesa oblast: 3 placesPoltava oblast: 5 placesRivne oblast: 3 placesSumy oblast: 1 placeTernopil oblast: 11 placesKharkiv oblast: 2 placesKherson oblastKhmelnytskyi oblast: 10 placesCherkasy oblast: 8 placesChernihiv oblast: 5 placesChernivtsi oblast: 1 place
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Selected oblast

Vinnytsia oblast

19 places with the surname Палій

All 19 places →

Coverage: Vinnytsia oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 1917%
Lviv oblast 1311%
Ternopil oblast 1110%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 109%
Zhytomyr oblast 98%
Cherkasy oblast 87%
Mykolaiv oblast 65%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 54%
Poltava oblast 54%
Chernihiv oblast 54%
All 20 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kirovohrad oblast 44%
Donetsk oblast 33%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 33%
Odesa oblast 33%
Rivne oblast 33%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 22%
Kharkiv oblast 22%
Kyiv oblast 11%
Sumy 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

32 of 114 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Vinnytsia oblast 19All 19 places
Lviv oblast 139 of 13

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

Ternopil oblast 117 of 11

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 107 of 10

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

Zhytomyr oblast 96 of 9

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

Cherkasy oblast 85 of 8

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

Mykolaiv oblast 64 of 6

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 53 of 5

and 2 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 →

Chernihiv oblast 53 of 5

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

Kirovohrad oblast 43 of 4

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

Donetsk oblast 3All 3 places
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 3All 3 places
Odesa oblast 3All 3 places
Rivne oblast 3All 3 places
Zaporizhzhia oblast 2All 2 places
Kharkiv oblast 2All 2 places
Kyiv oblast 1All 1 place
Sumy oblast 1All 1 place
Chernivtsi 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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