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Sheremet (Шеремет): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 104 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: 6 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 2 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 7 placesDonetsk oblast: 3 placesZhytomyr oblast: 18 placesZakarpattia oblast: 1 placeZaporizhzhia oblast: 4 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 1 placeKyiv oblast: 13 placesKyiv oblast: 13 placesKirovohrad oblast: 4 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 2 placesMykolaiv oblastOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 3 placesRivne oblast: 2 placesSumy oblast: 5 placesTernopil oblast: 1 placeKharkiv oblast: 3 placesKherson oblast: 3 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 2 placesCherkasy oblast: 8 placesChernihiv oblast: 15 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 3–5
  • 6–18

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Zhytomyr oblast

18 places with the surname Шеремет

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Zhytomyr oblast 1817%
Chernihiv oblast 1514%
Kyiv oblast 1312%
Cherkasy oblast 88%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 77%
Vinnytsia oblast 66%
Sumy oblast 55%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 44%
Kirovohrad oblast 44%
Donetsk oblast 33%
All 21 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Poltava oblast 33%
Kharkiv oblast 33%
Kherson oblast 33%
Luhansk oblast 22%
Lviv oblast 22%
Rivne oblast 22%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 22%
Zakarpattia oblast 11%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 11%
Odesa oblast 11%
Ternopil 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

11 of 104 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Zhytomyr oblast 18All 18 places
Chernihiv oblast 1511 of 15

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

Kyiv oblast 1310 of 13

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

Cherkasy oblast 86 of 8

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 75 of 7

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

Vinnytsia oblast 64 of 6

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 →

Zaporizhzhia oblast 43 of 4

and 1 place 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
Poltava oblast 3All 3 places
Kharkiv oblast 3All 3 places
Kherson oblast 3All 3 places
Luhansk oblast 2All 2 places
Lviv oblast 2All 2 places
Rivne oblast 2All 2 places
Khmelnytskyi oblast 2All 2 places
Zakarpattia oblast 1All 1 place
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 1All 1 place
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Ternopil oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

9 entries in 5 regiments

  • Канівський
  • Уманський
  • Кальницький
  • Брацлавський
  • Прилуцький

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Иванъ Шереметъsotnia КулагинаКанівський regimentp. 59
Матвѣй Шереметъsotnia ЦибулевскаяУманський regimentp. 143
Матвѣй Шереметъsotnia ЧачалницкаяБрацлавський regimentp. 177
Федоръ Шереметъsotnia ВѣницкаяКальницький regimentp. 193
Савка Шереметъsotnia ПереволочинскаяПрилуцький regimentp. 312

5 of 9 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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