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Shmidt (Шмідт): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 139 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: 6 placesVolyn oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 12 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 4 placesDonetsk oblast: 28 placesZhytomyr oblast: 11 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 34 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblastKyiv oblastKirovohrad oblast: 1 placeCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 3 placesMykolaiv oblast: 11 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblast: 1 placeRivne oblast: 3 placesSumy oblast: 5 placesTernopil oblast: 2 placesKharkiv oblast: 2 placesKherson oblast: 3 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 8 placesCherkasy oblast: 1 placeChernihiv oblastChernivtsi oblast: 1 place
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3–8
  • 11–34

Selected oblast

Zaporizhzhia oblast

34 places with the surname Шмідт

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 3424%
Donetsk oblast 2820%
Luhansk oblast 129%
Zhytomyr oblast 118%
Mykolaiv oblast 118%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 86%
Vinnytsia oblast 64%
Sumy oblast 54%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 43%
Lviv oblast 32%
All 20 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Rivne oblast 32%
Kherson oblast 32%
Odesa oblast 21%
Ternopil oblast 21%
Kharkiv oblast 21%
Volyn oblast 11%
Kirovohrad oblast 11%
Poltava oblast 11%
Cherkasy 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

16 of 139 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Zaporizhzhia oblast 3424 of 34

and 10 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Donetsk oblast 2816 of 28

and 12 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Luhansk oblast 126 of 12

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

Zhytomyr oblast 116 of 11

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

Mykolaiv oblast 116 of 11

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 84 of 8

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

Vinnytsia oblast 63 of 6

and 3 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 →

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 43 of 4

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

Lviv oblast 3All 3 places
Rivne oblast 3All 3 places
Kherson oblast 3All 3 places
Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Ternopil oblast 2All 2 places
Kharkiv oblast 2All 2 places
Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Kirovohrad oblast 1All 1 place
Poltava oblast 1All 1 place
Cherkasy 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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